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Medicaid enrollment is at an all

Medicaid coverage swelled during the COVID-19 pandemic, with almost one in four Americans now covered by the health insurance plan for low-income people. But as many as 15 million people may be at risk of losing coverage this year as a pandemic rule winds down.  Before the public health crisis, …

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DNA links woman’s killing 40 years ago in an Iowa hotel to a man who was found shot to death months later

Investigators in Iowa used genealogical data to link the 1982 fatal stabbing of a woman to an Illinois trucker who was found shot to death in a shallow grave months later, authorities announced Friday. Police in Council Bluffs, which sits on Iowa’s western border across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebraska, …

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Texas state agencies ordered to investigate gender

Governor Greg Abbott ordered the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate any reported instances of children undergoing “abusive” gender-transitioning procedures. The announcement comes days after the state’s attorney general said that state law characterizes the procedures as child abuse.  “To protect Texas children from abuse, DFPS and all …

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