Studies have shown that millions of Americans owe a combined $220 billion in medical debt, with 1 in 5 adults saying they don't expect to ever be able to pay off the bills. A group of congressional Democrats on Wednesday proposed knocking the amount down to zero. "People in our country should not be going bankrupt because they got cancer and could not afford to pay their medical bills," Sen. Bernie Sanders said Wednesday in a statement. The legislation would remove the debt from credit reports and severely limit future debt from accruing, the Hill reports. The legislation would cancel existing...
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Two new stories explore how the oil industry is factoring into the 2024 election, with a clear push for Donald Trump to win a second term: A challenge: The Washington Post reports that Trump met with top oil industry executives at Mar-a-Lago last month and asked them to raise $1 billion for his campaign. The request "stunned" some of the executives, per the Post, but Trump pitched it as a wise investment: If reelected, he promised to "immediately reverse dozens of President Biden's environmental rules and policies."Already planning: Politico, meanwhile, reports that Big Oil is already drawing ...
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Hailey Bieber expressed irritation in an interview last fall about rumors that she was pregnant, saying, "When there comes a day that that is true, you, you as in the internet, will be the last to know." The internet received its notification Thursday, when she posted the announcement of her pregnancy and four photos on Instagram, tagging her husband, Justin. A representative told People that the model is just past six months pregnant. Bieber, 27, and her pop singer husband, 30, married in September 2018. They've since both dealt with health issues, per NBC News. Justin Bieber announced in 202...
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It's a double whammy for those looking to break into the field of TV and movie production: Not only is the Art Directors Guild suspending an annual job-placement program for newbies, it delivered the news to would-be applicants with a seriously depressing message about their career choice: "We cannot in good conscience encourage you to pursue our profession while so many of our members remain unemployed," reads the memo obtained by IndieWire.The ADG cited a staggering 75% rate of unemployment among its 3,000 members, the result of a slew of factors including last year's strikes, the pandemic, ...
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Corey Briskin and Nicholas Maggipinto had planned to have children for a decade, since before they were engaged. They decided to employ in vitro fertilization, in which an egg and sperm are combined in a lab. Next, they'd turn to an agency to find a surrogate who would have the fertilized egg implanted and eventually give birth to their child. But they hit a wall when Briskin took a job as an assistant district attorney in Manhattan in 2017, then found out that New York City's health plan doesn't provide IVF benefits for gay men, NBC News reports. On Thursday, Briskin and Maggipinto sued the c...
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may have lost part of his brain to a parasitic worm, but he still believes he could easily win a presidential debate. "I offer to eat 5 more brain worms and still beat President Trump and President Biden in a debate," the candidate said in a post on X, adding: "I feel confident of the result even with a six-worm handicap." After Elon Musk suggested that the debate be held on X Spaces with Tucker Carlson moderating, Kennedy replied, "I'm in," the Guardian reports. On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that in a 2012 divorce deposition, Kennedy said doctors told him an ...
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Benjamin Netanyahu is responding with defiance to a warning from President Biden about an expected invasion of Rafah. After Biden said the US would halt the shipment of offensive weapons to Israel should it go ahead with the ground invasion, Netanyahu issued a video message: "If we have to stand alone, we will stand alone," said the Israeli prime minister, per the Washington Post. "If we need to, we will fight with our fingernails. But we have much more than fingernails."All set? Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Israeli military said Israel already has the necessary weaponry for the invasion, re...
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Zoo Knoxville knew it would be saying goodbye to its last remaining elephant this year, but the farewell was much sadder than expected. The zoo said Thursday that it had euthanized Tonka, a 46-year-old bull elephant that had called the zoo home for the last 43 years. At 15,000 pounds, Tonka was the largest male elephant in North America and one of the oldest, according to WATE. The zoo said Tonka was placed in hospice care earlier this week because there "were no further options to treat acute pain and swelling in his left front leg." "We are heartbroken and grieving," Zoo Knoxville Interim Pr...
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Stormy Daniels has concluded her testimony in Donald Trump's hush-money trial, and Thursday brought more sharp exchanges between her and a defense lawyer attempting to undermine her credibility. "You made all this up, right?" asked Trump lawyer Susan Necheles, referring to Daniels' account of a sexual encounter with the former president back in 2006. "No," Daniels responded, per the New York Times."You have a lot of experience making (up) phony stories about sex," Necheles said at one point, a reference to Daniels' career as an actress in adult films. "Wow. That's not how I would put it," repl...
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A salvage company has lost its claim to $43 million in silver recovered from a passenger cargo ship that sunk during World War II, the UK's highest court ruled Wednesday, siding with South Africa's government. The Japanese navy sunk the SS Tilawa, later dubbed the "Indian Titanic," in the Indian Ocean in November 1942, killing 280 of about 950 people on board, per CBS News. The 2,364 bars of silver that the Union of South Africa had purchased from India to turn into coins, also went down with the ship. They were recovered in 2017 by British company Argentum Exploration, owned by hedge fund man...
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