"Cutting back on meds. Cutting back on doctor visits. Losing your home. Cutting back on food—these are not things that we want to believe happen to people with cancer in this country." That's the deep type of financial stress that radiation oncologist Dr. Reshma Jagsi tells the Wall Street Journal that more and more Americans are being saddled with after receiving cancer diagnoses. The Journal says that this reality is becoming increasingly common in the US for two reasons: people are getting cancer at younger ages, and the cost of treatments are going up. Medical costs: More than half of new ...
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A top defense official said North Korea will "temporarily halt dropping trash over the border" in balloonos after South Korea promised "unendurable measures" in retaliation. "We've let the South Koreans experience enough of how dirty it feels and how much joint effort it takes to clean up spread-out rubbish," Kim Kang Il, vice-defense minister, said in a statement released Sunday, CNN reports. South Korea's presidential office said that its next move will be detailed later but that it "will not rule out the issue of resuming [playing] loudspeakers" that blared propaganda across the demilitariz...
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The story was so sensational, it inspired a Lifetime television movie called Deadly Cheer Mom—but what was the truth behind the sordid tabloid tales? Raffaella Spone has come forward for the first time to tell her side of the story to the Guardian, and she insists almost none of what we all heard and read about her was true. Spone is the Pennsylvania mom, now 50, who in 2020 was accused of sending deepfake videos of girls on her then-teenage daughter's cheerleading squad to the girls' parents and coaches, in what authorities initially described as an attempt to get the cheerleaders kicked off ...
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Both Canada and the United States appear on a top 10 list of wealthy nations that accept the most number of permanent immigrants. But there's been a big shift in those moving from the former to the latter: Per data from CBC News, emigration out of the Great White North to its southern neighbor has hit a high not seen in a decade, with a survey from the US Census Bureau showing that in 2022, 126,340 people ditched Canada for the US—a 70% spike from the 75,752 individuals who came to the US from there in 2012. Breakdown: The CBC parses things further, noting that of those 126,340 emigrants, 53,3...
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Not too long ago, "butter board" recipes and how-tos were all the rage on social media. Not surprisingly, the dairy industry was pretty happy about this sudden love of butter. What may be a bit more surprising is that the industry itself played a big role in helping butter boards capture the zeitgeist, writes H. Claire Brown at Grist. The marketing group Dairy Management Inc.—which is funded by mandated fees collected from farmers—has even been boasting about its strategy of paying chefs and influencers to push boards in industry press. The story takes a broader look not just at this campaign ...
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Dr. Anthony Fauci is scheduled on Monday to provide his first congressional testimony since leaving government, with Republicans and Democrats planning different lines of questioning. GOP members of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic expect to ask about allegations of misconduct on his watch at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Hill reports. A Democratic member said she wants to hear about lessons from the coronavirus pandemic. "I don't think it's worthwhile to attack a public health official who did everything that he could at the time with ...
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The number of executions carried out around the world jumped to an eight-year high in 2023, largely due to a single country, according to Amnesty International. Though the number of countries delivering death penalties fell to an all-time low of 16, Amnesty logged at least 1,153 executions last year, for a 30% increase over 2022, reports the BBC. Of those executions, 853—that's 74%—were carried out by the government of Iran. "The Iranian authorities showed complete disregard for human life and ramped up executions for drug-related offenses, further highlighting the discriminatory impact of the...
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Which states can residents just not quit? The "sticky" ones, according to the Independent, which takes a look at an analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas of the states with the fewest outward-bound residents. Warm weather is a top indicator of a sticky state (sweat jokes aside), along with sizable populations, large cities, and vast boundaries. Here are the top five stickiest states in the US, followed by the ones with the most uprooting: Stickiest states Texas (82% of people stay)North Carolina (75.5%)Georgia (74.2%)California (73%)Utah (72.9%)Least sticky states Wyoming (45.2%)North...
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A poll conducted the day after Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts in New York found majority support for the verdict, with almost half of independent voters wanting the former president to drop out of the presidential race. The Morning Consult poll measured sentiment among registered voters on Friday, Axios reports. The results: The campaign: 49% of independents, as well as 15% of Republicans, said Trump should leave the presidential race because of his conviction.The verdict: 54% "strongly" or "somewhat" approve of the verdict, with 34% "strongly or "somewhat" disapproving.The sen...
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When artist Mark Smith pitched the idea of commissioning original work to Taco Bell executives in the early aughts, the expensive project seemed like a longshot. But they commissioned three of his abstract, Basquiat-style paintings, and prints of them began appearing in stores in 2003. Twenty years on, this story should be a blip on the chain's long branding and design history, but SFGate delves into an interesting twist: The prints have begun popping up on the black market—some to the tune of thousands of dollars. The first major incident involving the art came in 2015, when a theft occurred ...
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