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Health

Medical residents learn to treat the growing health hazards of climate change

Physicians are seeing the effects of a warming planet in the exam room, and there's a growing push to teach doctors-in-training how to respond.

6 years ago

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is sworn in during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing
Courts & Law

Health care is focus as Barrett Supreme Court hearing opens

Republicans, who control the Senate, are moving at a breakneck pace to seat Judge Amy Coney Barrett before the Nov. 3 election to secure Trump's pick.

6 years ago

Judge Amy Coney Barrett
NPR
Courts & Law

‘Courts are not designed to solve every problem,’ Barrett to say in opening statement

The Senate Judiciary Committee starts confirmation hearings on Monday for President Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett.

6 years ago

Melissa Wilhelm Szymanski sits with her dog Cooper at home in Glastonbury, Conn.
Politics & Policy

COVID-19 coverage safety net has plenty of holes in US

Even though many insurers and the U.S. government have offered to pick up or waive costs tied to the virus, holes remain for big bills to slip through and surprise patients.

6 years ago

People protest at the state Capitol during a rally in Lansing, Mich.
NPR
Politics & Policy

The boiling resentment behind the foiled plan to kidnap Gov. Whitmer

Michigan's Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and others say they weren't surprised by the alleged plot to kidnap her after experiencing months of loathsome protests and partisan battles.

6 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House to a crowd of supporters, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020, in Washington.
Politics & Policy

Doctor says Trump won’t transmit coronavirus, but offers limited details

Some medical experts had been skeptical that Trump could be declared free of the risk of transmitting the virus so early in the course of his illness.

6 years ago

In this June 9, 2020, file photo ranking member Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)
Courts & Law

No ‘dogma’: Democrats walk tightrope on Barrett’s faith

The nomination poses a politically risky test for lawmakers as they try to probe Barrett's views on issues of abortion, health care access and gay marriage.

6 years ago

A volunteer receives an injection during COVID-19 vaccine trial
NPR
Health

Call for administration’s COVID-19 vaccine contracts to be disclosed

Members of Congress and advocacy groups say Operation Warp Speed should release its contracts with vaccine makers after NPR reporting found the terms aren't public.

6 years ago

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., questions President Donald Trump's fitness to serve following his hospitalization for COVID-19, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Politics & Policy

White House virus aid offer is panned by Pelosi, Senate GOP

Pelosi’s most recent public offer was about $2.2 trillion, though that included a business tax increase that Republicans won’t go for.

6 years ago

In this April 15, 2020 file photo, protesters carry rifles near the steps of the Michigan State Capitol building in Lansing, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Courts & Law

Men accused in plot on Michigan governor attended lockdown protests

The revelation has sparked scrutiny of rallies that were organized by conservative groups opposed to the Democratic governor's orders and egged on by President Donald Trump.

6 years ago

Jim Fontenot carries possessions into his brother's home, to which his family temporarily relocated to ride out Hurricane Delta which is expected to make landfall later in the day, in Lake Charles, La., Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Weather

Delta adds insult to injury in hurricane-ravaged Louisiana

Debris piles went airborne as Delta blew through, and some of the wreckage floated around in the storm surge.

6 years ago

A car leaves Cameron, La., Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, past a building destroyed by Hurricane Laura, in advance of Hurricane Delta, expected to make landfall Friday. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Weather

Louisiana braces to relive a nightmare as Delta nears

The city of Lake Charles was already a landscape of towering debris piles still uncollected after Hurricane Laura.

6 years ago

The governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer
Courts & Law

AG: Michigan governor, family were moved as plotters tracked

Michigan's attorney general said the Democratic governor was consistently updated about the investigation over the past couple months.

6 years ago

A National Lawyers Guild, Legal Observer who was arrested observing a protest is searched by police and put into a van which transferred her to the Hennepin County Jail in Minneapolis, United States on October 08, 2020. Protesters took to the streets over former Officer Derek Chauvin being released after posting 1 million USD bail. Derek was the officer known for his involvement in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25, 2020. (Photo by Chris Juhn/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

51 arrested in Minneapolis protests following Derek Chauvin’s release

Protesters gathered outside of the Minneapolis 5th Police Precinct in Minneapolis on Wednesday following the release of former police officer Derek Chauvin.

6 years ago

The entrance to the editorial offices of the New England Journal of Medicine in Boston
NPR
Politics & Policy

In rare step, esteemed medical journal urges voters to oust Trump

'Our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent," the medical journal's editors say in a scathing editorial.

6 years ago

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