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Kathaleen Pittman likes to leave the door of her office at Hope Medical Group for Women open at the end of the day. That way she can watch patients leave after their abortions, and absorb the palpable sense of relief in the clinic’s hallways. “Being able to see them before the procedure, after the procedure,…

For years, telemedicine has been pitched as a way to democratize medicine by driving down costs, increasing access to care and making appointments more efficient. It sounds great—until you look at the data, and find that only about 10% of Americans have actually used telemedicine to make a virtual visit, according to one 2019 survey.…

For weeks, Joe Biden’s dark blue campaign buses have declared that the former Vice President is battling for the “the soul of the nation.” On the campaign trail, he has regularly cribbed from the Pope and the Bible, and offered parables that would be perfect fits in Sunday school lessons. And his criticism of the…

Spicer said he won't pretend to be a journalist and aims to produce informative discussions about issues

Pope Francis, 83, generally has good health but lost part of a lung to a respiratory illness as a young man

In its first emergency action since 2008, officials voted to immediately lower the fed funds rate by 50 basis points

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It has historically been difficult for a candidate who performs poorly on the day to recover

There is a difference between peace and retreat. The Trump administration’s agreement with the Taliban represents a full retreat. It’s an agreement that most Republicans would deplore if a Democrat president made the deal, and they’d be right to be angry. Let’s begin with the elephant in the room. There is no meaningful argument that…

“Ebola knocked us over, but now we know not to underestimate anything; we know how important it is to prepare.”

That's one way to do it

Even cobras should know better than to mess with a mother!

It was the night before Super Tuesday, and Elizabeth Warren was hanging in there. Bernie Sanders had just held a massive Los Angeles rally with Public Enemy, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar had just dropped out and endorsed Joe Biden, but Warren was doing what she always does: playing the same Motown-inspired soundtrack, handing out…

And they have some pretty funny suggestions

Former Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay lead an emotional conversation around the racist and threatening messages the women often receive

The vote for the emergency cut to a range of 1% to 1.25% was unanimous

'When it comes to your money, issues like this are not acceptable'

Surrounded by smoldering houses and the blackened skeletons of burned-out cars, Mohammed Efaz picked his way through the streets of Khajuri Khas, a neighborhood in north-east Delhi. The 32 year-old Muslim said he would never return to India’s capital after what he saw happen here last week. “We will never come back here to live…

China and other countries have conducted tens of thousands of tests for COVID-19. Why has the US only performed a few hundred?

Hot dog waffles aren’t exactly a classic staple of modern cuisine, but hot diggity dog, this recipe — which involves the odd method of scooping out fun strands of raw hot dogs with a paper clip, a.k.a. Clippy, your old friendly Microsoft pal —has gone massively viral on Twitter. It’s originally from the minds of…

Chinese carriers are adding nearly 3 million seats back into scheduled services this week, primarily for domestic routes

The vulnerability of people with albinism is compounded by poverty and superstition

In 1983, the Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Raymond Dirks, an investment advisor who passed insider information on to his clients, who used it to make money. It seemed clear that using insider information this way was illegal, but the Court found a dubious loophole. The fascinating thing about the case: the most conservative…

There are reasons to be particularly concerned about the possibility of an outbreak in North Korea

The California Secretary of State did not identify the 43 companies that reported they were not in compliance with the law