Donald Trump Takes Aim at Pre-Existing Conditions
Jim West via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump administration’s desperate desire to deprive Americans of health care entered a new phase tonight when Donald Trump personally approved a decision by the Justice Department not to defend Obamacare against state lawsuits: In a brief filed in a Texas…
It’s Not Just the US Where Suicide Rates Are on the Rise
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Every newspaper in America seems to be highlighting the current issue of Vital Signs, in which the CDC announced that suicide rates have gone up by more than 30 percent in half of all states since 1999: The biggest increases are in small-population states in…
The Omani Rial Mystery — Solved!
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Responding to my bank mystery earlier today, a reader with lots of currency trading experience emails with an explanation for why Iran’s $5.7 billion in Oman had to go through a 3-step transfer (rials —> dollars —> euros) to be converted into euros. Here’s the…
Today I Bring You a Mini Health Care Mystery Starring . . . Tylenol!
Vince Talotta/The Toronto Star/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s a peculiar health care story. It is extremely non-momentous, but entertaining in its own way. I’m not sure if there are any lessons to be drawn from it. Every Thursday I go to my local infusion center for chemotherapy. However,…
North Carolina Republicans Want a Constitutional Amendment to Require ID to Vote
Voter ID rules posted at a polling place in Greensboro, N.C. News & Record via AP/Andrew Krech Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. North Carolina Republicans are resurrecting their efforts to require voters to present specific forms of identification in order to cast a ballot, after an earlier voter ID law was…
Here Are All the Emails the FCC Received From People Complaining About “Roseanne” Being Canceled.
Richard B. Levine/Levine Roberts/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last month ABC cancelled Roseanne Barr’s sitcom, “Roseanne,” after the comedian sent a racist tweet about former Obama White House aide Valerie Jarrett. Although Barr’s Twitter feed had been a bog of right-wing conspiracy theories for months, conservatives rallied…