Newly unsealed passages of a federal lawsuit reveal that more than 20 of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking victims were paid through JPMorgan accounts and the bank's former top executives discussed abuse allegations surrounding the late predator.
Idaho lawmakers have approved a proposal to discuss adding several rural eastern Oregon counties to Idaho, with some seeing the move as an opportunity to access Oregon's resources while others express concerns about the financial and logistical implications of adding a large geographic area with few inhabitants.
The US military has reported more than 15,000 service members overdosing on illicit drugs in the past five years, with 332 deaths, as Fentanyl overdose deaths have doubled since 2017, particularly among white male soldiers under 33 years old, and military bases hosting elite soldiers bore higher concentrations of overdoses, with the need for greater attention and resources to address the overdose crisis in the military becoming more pressing.
The bill will both "Ensure that health care facilities that discriminate against patients based on their COVID-19 vaccination status are barred from receiving federal funds" and "Protect vulnerable patients’ right to make their own private health care decisions without being penalized for making those decisions."
The Biden administration has started to grant states’ requests to utilize Medicaid funding to pay for nonmedical but health-related needs like groceries and housing support in order to decrease the need for medical intervention.
