Author: Amanda Seitz
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More Black women say abortion is their top issue in the 2024 election, a survey finds
More than a quarter of female Black voters describe abortion as their top issue in this year’s presidential election
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Biden administration failed to vet adults housing migrant children, federal watchdog says
The Biden administration struggled to properly vet and monitor the homes where they placed a surge of migrant children who arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2021
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Cyberattacks on hospitals are likely to increase, putting lives at risk, experts warn
Cybersecurity experts are warning that hospitals around the United States are at risk for attacks such as the one that’s crippling operations at a premier Midwestern children’s hospital
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Post-Roe v. Wade, more patients rely on early prenatal testing as states toughen abortion laws
Doctors in states with strict abortion restrictions say an increasing number of pregnant women are seeking early prenatal testing
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Post-Roe v. Wade, more patients rely on early prenatal testing as states toughen abortion laws
Doctors in states with strict abortion restrictions say an increasing number of pregnant women are seeking early prenatal testing
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Report: Feds wrote $128M in duplicate checks to docs
WASHINGTON • The federal government wrote duplicate checks to doctors who provided care for veterans, costing taxpayers as much as $128 million in extra payments, according to a new watchdog report out this week. In nearly 300,000 cases, private doctors were paid twice – once by the Veterans Health Administration and another time by Medicare…
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16.3 million seek health coverage through ‘Obamacare’
WASHINGTON • A record 16.3 million people sought health insurance through the Affordable Care Act this year, double the number covered when the marketplaces first launched a decade ago, the Biden administration announced Wednesday. Over 3 million new members joined the marketplace, also known as “Obamacare,” according to the Department of Health and Human Services.…
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Russian media campaign falsely claims Bucha deaths are fakes
WASHINGTON • As gruesome videos and photos of bodies emerge from the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, Kremlin-backed media are denouncing them as an elaborate hoax — a narrative that journalists in Ukraine have shown to be false. Denouncing news as fake or spreading false reports to sow confusion and undermine its adversaries are tactics that…
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U.S., Ukraine quietly try to pierce Putin’s propaganda bubble
WASHINGTON • The U.S. and Ukraine have knocked back Russian President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to falsely frame the narrative of his brutal war, but they are struggling to get a more accurate view of the Kremlin’s invasion in front of the Russian people. While the Russian military suffers thousands of deaths and fails to capture…
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Pro-China network use fake accounts to mock U.S.
NEW YORK (AP) A pro-China network of fake and impostor accounts found a global audience on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to mock the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the deadly riot in Washington that left five dead, new research published Thursday found. Messages posted by the network, which also praised China,…