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Year: 2024

White House announces rule that would cut insurance red tape over mental health and substance use disorder care

By Carma Hassan and Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration announced a final rule on Monday meant to expand access and lower costs for care for mental health and substance use disorders. Most provisions in the rule will apply to group health plans and health insurance issuers for plan years starting January 1 or

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UN rights chief urges voters to beware ‘strongman’ politicians who ‘throw glitter in our eyes’

Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief is urging voters to be wary of “strongman” politicians and personalities “that throw glitter in our eyes” as more elections loom in a busy electoral calendar this year. Volker Türk didn’t mention leaders or countries by name. But he alluded to a schedule that includes

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South Korean truth commission says it found more evidence of forced adoptions in the 1980s

Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean truth commission says it found evidence that women were pressured into giving away their infants for foreign adoptions at government-funded facilities where thousands of so-called “vagrants” were confined and enslaved from the 1960s to the 1980s. The report by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission came

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Se amplía la búsqueda de un hombre que supuestamente arrojó café hirviendo sobre un bebé

Sofía Barruti (CNN) — Un hombre buscado por supuestamente arrojar café hirviendo sobre un bebé en un ataque no provocado en un parque en el estado de Queensland, en el norte de Australia, es ahora objeto de una persecución internacional. Ahora puedes seguirnos en WhatsApp Channel El inspector detective de la Policía de Queensland, Paul Dalton,

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Suspect arrested on arson charges in string of fires set along Interstate 5 in Lane County

(Update: Suspect formally charged, arraigned, adding name) EUGENE, Ore. (KTVZ) – A man was arrested on arson, reckless burning and other charges Saturday, accused of starting a string of fires along Interstate 5 in the Goshen area south of Eugene, Lane County sheriff’s deputies said. Dispatchers received a report of a man starting fires along

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Judge asks potential jurors if they can be fair toward 3 officers charged in Tyre Nichols’ death

Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Potential jurors in the federal trial of three former Memphis police officers charged with violating Tyre Nichols’ civil rights are being asked whether heavy media coverage and video of him being beaten to death could influence their ability to be fair. Jury selection began Monday in Memphis for the

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ANÁLISIS | Trump se prepara para el debate amenazando con encarcelar a funcionarios electorales

Sofía Barruti (CNN) — Donald Trump se preparó para su debate con Kamala Harris mostrando el extremismo que corre el riesgo de favorecer la afirmación de la vicepresidenta de que es un “hombre poco serio” que constituye una amenaza “extremadamente grave” si regresa a la Casa Blanca. Trump advirtió que procesará a los funcionarios electorales

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