A pandemic-era rule that protected people from losing their Medicaid coverage will expire Friday, putting millions of peoples’ health insurance coverage at risk. Medicaid provides free health insurance to people with low incomes. Usually, Medicaid recipients need to renew their coverage every year, and if they are no longer eligible, […]
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Afghanistan’s schools have reopened for the new academic year, but hundreds of thousands of teenage girls remain barred from attending classes as Taliban authorities ban their attendance in secondary school. Education Minister Habibullah Agha confirmed in a statement that schools up to grade six “will currently be open for girls”, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — If you get health care coverage through Medicaid, you might be at risk of losing that coverage over the next year. Roughly 84 million people are covered by the government-sponsored program, which has grown by 20 million people since January 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. […]
Non-stick pots could be releasing thousands and thousands of small plastic particles as customers are cooking or washing. In a new research, Australian scientists said that just just one surface area crack on a Teflon-coated pan could release all over 9,100 plastic particles. At a micro scale, Raman imaging and […]
Texas Republicans bankrolled by Christian conservative donors are hoping to ride a wave of parental anger over the teaching of race and sexuality in schools to achieve what has long been an unattainable goal: state funding for private education. Groups committed to giving parents the option of sending their children […]