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Taliban Active in Pakistan as Dead and Wounded Militants Arrive from Afghanistan | Voice of America
WASHINGTON - Afghan Taliban and their local associates are active in Pakistan’s border regions, local sources told VOA, as Pakistan has acknowledged that bodies of militants killed in Afghanistan arrive in Pakistan, and wounded Taliban are…
As Congress Wrestles With Plans to Expand Medicare, Becerra Says Any One Will Do
The Biden administration will support whatever expansions to Medicare Congress is willing to make, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Tuesday.
Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill are working on plans both…
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Becerra Urges Congress to Expand Medicare, Address Rx Prices
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The Biden administration stands ready to work with Congress to…
California Takes a Nibble at Offering Food Stamps to Undocumented Immigrants
SANTA ANA, Calif. — One week the food pantry had frozen crabmeat; other weeks, deli meat or plant-based “meat.” The week before the Fourth of July, there was no meat at all, and a reminder that the pantry would be closed the next…
Teen Volunteers Get a Foot in the Door for Nursing Home Careers
Jasmine De Moya, 17, has dreamed for years of working in the medical field, and she yearned to spend time with older people, missing her grandparents, who live in the Dominican Republic. A program sponsored by the New Jewish Home…
Why We May Never Know Whether the $56,000-a-Year Alzheimer’s Drug Actually Works
Elisabeth Rosenthal
The Food and Drug Administration’s approval in June of a drug purporting to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease was widely celebrated, but it also touched off alarms. There were worries in the scientific…
Biden Is Caught in the Middle of Polarizing Abortion Politics
It took five months for the Biden administration to make a substantive policy change to advance abortion rights. And even that change was buried in a 61-page regulation setting rules for 2022’s Affordable Care Act enrollment.…
Government Oversight of Covid Air Cleaners Leaves Gaping Holes
Lauren Weber and Christina Jewett
Stephen Matthew Shumaker counted on in-home, in-person demonstrations to drive his water filtration business, which serves the Atlanta area. So when covid-19 hit and no one was inviting people indoors,…
Journalists Tackle Delta Variant, Hospital Prices and Public Health Spending
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US Voting Rights | Voice of America
Host Carol Castiel and assistant producer at the Current Affairs Desk, Sydney Sherry, talk with Eliza Sweren-Becker, counsel in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, about the impact of the…