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MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) – Community activists pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges on Friday for spray-painted messages on a street outside the Alabama Capitol urging the state to expand Medicaid. The four activists of the SaveOurSelves justice and democracy movement were arrested last summer after painting “Expand Medicaid: and“ Black …

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Biden administration is investigating a recent wave of mysterious health incidents reported by U.S. diplomats and other government employees in Vienna, Austria, U.S. officials said on Friday. Some of the symptoms are similar to those first reported by US diplomats and spies in Havana, Cuba, in …

KIRTLAND AIR BASE, NM (AFNS) – Five current and former airmen recently completed the climb of a 20,310-foot climb to Denali, Alaska, the highest point in North America, on June 19. Ascents are done primarily in the name of resilience, but without the extensive use of risk management before and …

The Covid-19 pandemic has put enormous stress on the US workforce. Unemployment topped 14 million last spring as businesses and communities shut down. With so many people out of work, you would expect to see an increase in the number of people without health insurance. However, the number of people …

WASHINGTON DC – US Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) reintroduced a bicameral bill to expand health insurance coverage for infertility treatments and services. the Access to Infertility Treatment and Care Act would require more health insurers to provide coverage for infertility treatment, as well as fertility …

Misty Rebik, a native of Iowa who led Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ 2020 Iowa Caucus campaign, presents the senator at a campaign event. (Submitted) Misty Rebik walks with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders outside of a 2019 Iowa Caucus campaign event in Des Moines. Rebik, who campaigned in Iowa, is now …

Animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said they photographed this chinchilla, with apparently chewed fur, at Moulton Chinchilla Ranch in October 2020. People for the ethical treatment of animals By Meredith WadmanJul 16, 2021, 5:30 PM A rare court hearing later this month – the first …

LETTER | With full support and agreement to the letter “Covid-19: The Army has spoken” issued by Malaysiakini, it is important that we, the rakyat, realize that we are indeed at war. We are at war against this pandemic, at war against the death toll, at war against the basic …

As home care helps drive Congress to understand the need for increased funding for Medicaid, providers on Thursday made two key Medicare-related demands. They called on Senate leaders to oppose an extension of mandatory Medicare sequestration as a payment in any infrastructure package and to block the use of Medicare …

Preventing the spread of disinformation about COVID-19 is a matter of life and death, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA said Thursday. “Health disinformation has cost us lives,” Murthy said during a White House press briefing. “While it often appears harmless on social media apps, retail sites, or search engines, …