Israeli airstrike kills Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil
Rescue workers were fired on by Israeli forces so they were forced to halt attempts to reach Khalil, Lebanon's health ministry said
Khalil’s body was retrieved at least six hours after the strike
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"...real estate investment trusts have bought thousands of buildings that house nursing homes, hospitals, assisted living facilities+medical offices."
Public records show "these landlords have more influence than the health care facilities publicly acknowledge"
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Breaking News: President Trump is said to be in talks to send Afghans who helped the U.S. war effort to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
With this story I completed my (self-assigned) goal of reporting on-the-ground in every state that borders Western South Dakota!
Those states are Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota.
A man fatally shot eight children in a domestic violence episode that spanned at least three locations in Shreveport, Louisiana, on Sunday morning, the authorities said. Officers shot and killed the gunman during a chase, according to the police.
Grimly shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe. Diabetes, hypertension, and resulting kidney disease are more common in rural. And RHTP $$ are simply insufficient.
#PowerOfRuralCata
On multiple occasions Patel’s security detail had difficulty waking him because he was seemingly intoxicated, according to info supplied to DOJ and White House officials. A request for “breaching equipment”was made because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors
Using facial recognition tech, the Knicks surveilled a trans woman, tracking her every move out of fear she'd show up on MSG's tv broadcast
And they can do it to any "enemy" of Jim Dolan, who's built his own deep state. From @noahshachtman.bsky.social & me @wired.com www.wired.com/story/madiso...
Last fall, I was told about a burgeoning world of apps offering AI therapy.
I took a look: all over the app store, there are products for kids as young as 4. Many seem to use your data for advertising.
What's it mean to have AI therapy? For @kffhealthnews.org: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
CPJ calls on Kuwaiti authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Kuwaiti-American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, detained under new security and fake news laws.
Read more: cpj.org/2026/04/cpj-...
#FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedEldin
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"Some patients have moved to live closer to care, including several nursing home residents. Their new facilities may be farther from their families."
www.npr.org/2026/04/15/n... @ajzionts.bsky.social
Thousands of women and girls in Sudan have sought treatment after surviving sexual violence in the country’s civil war, Doctors Without Borders has found, in what it called “a pattern of deliberate tactics designed to humiliate and terrorize.”
Multiple people I interviewed brought up the Rural Health Transformation Program. Can that be used to save the dialysis unit, they asked? Probably not because the $50 billion program is aimed at exploring new, creative ways to improve rural health, not to help existing services stay afloat.
"I guess I'll just bloat up and die in a month," Mark Pieper remembered thinking when he learned his dialysis center was closing, eliminating the only option near his home in rural Nebraska.
Thank you!
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"I guess I'll just bloat up and die in a month," Mark Pieper remembered thinking when he learned his dialysis center was closing, eliminating the only option near his home in rural Nebraska.
Meet some of the people whose lives were upended after their rural dialysis center closed. Some moved to be closer to care. One is living in a rental in another city on weekdays. Another drives 4+ hours roundtrip for care, three times a week.
Read and listen: www.npr.org/2026/04/15/n...
A white, middle-aged man with a gray goatee, silver glasses, and a chocolate-brown cowbow hat sits in a pickup with a black and wine-colored interior. He has a slight, closed smile on his face. He has a black puffy vest on and a dark red, blue, green, black, and white striped long-sleeve shirt.
A photo of a hospital with a sunny, cloudless sky in the background and a flagpole and sign in front that says "Chadron Community Hospital & Health Services." The hospital is mostly medium brown with a dark reddish brown section on one part of the second floor.
A white man with a white goatee in his early 80s stands next to a pile of moving boxes inside a small home. The man wears dark sunglasses, a dark green baseball cap, jeans, blue shirt, red fleece pullover, and a black back brace.
A white woman in her 70s or 780s reads from a typed letter. The woman has short, brown hair and red tortoiseshell glasses. She has a gray and blue fleece zip-up on.
I'll have a story on All Things Considered today about the Rural Health Transformation Program + the fallout from the closure of a dialysis clinic in rural Nebraska.
It's expected to air around 5:44 pm (all time zones). Listen at npr.org or on your local station.
The incoming health minister of the future Magyar government, upon learning of the election results last night
(From Instagram)
Exclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists.
The Trump administration's immigration crackdown in Minneapolis forced some families into hiding and catalyzed informal medical networks to deliver critical health care services inside homes. n.pr/3P1dyNP
🚨 Israel's killing of three journalists in Gaza and Lebanon today is not incidental — it is part of a broader assault on press freedom. The international community must act now to stop it. cpj.org?p=579439
CPJ condemns in the strongest terms the killing of at least three journalists in Lebanon and Gaza by Israel in one day, at least one of which was in a targeted attack. These are their names:
⚪ Mohammed Samir Washah
⚪ Ghada Dayekh
⚪ Suzan Khalil
Read more: cpj.org?p=579439
SCOOP: The Trump administration wants insurers to hand over information about federal workers’ medical visits, their pharmacy claims, and more.
A woman testified about her alleged rape; then ICE showed up. @rosesheinerman.bsky.social on the effects of ICE arrests at sensitive places like family court:
“Since 2014, more than 28,209 children have been voluntarily turned over to foster care by parents who report they cannot manage their children at home.”
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