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An ER visit, a $12,000 bill — and a health insurer that wouldn’t pay
Cloyd came in after a night of worsening fever and a increasing pain on the right side of her stomach. She called her mother, a former nurse, who thought it sounded like appendicitis and told Cloyd to go to the hospital immediately. The doctors in the eme ...[Read more]
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Latin America Researchers Discover Million-Year-Old Hidden Home of Hammerhead Sharks in Galapagos
A group of Ecuadorean scientists has discovered a hammerhead shark nursery where they have been born and sheltered for nearly a million years on the Galapagos Islands, the remote archipelago tucked away 1,000 kilometers off South America’s Pacific coast ...[Read more]
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90 Refugees Feared Dead in Boat Capsize off Libya: UN
"At least 90 migrants are reported to have drowned, when a boat capsized off the coast of Libya this morning", the International Organization for Migration said in a statement. It added that "10 bodies are reported to have washed up on Libyan shores", in ...[Read more]
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Why does it cost $32,093 just to give birth in America?
Stella Apo Osae-Twum and her husband did everything by the book. They went to a hospital covered by insurance, saw an obstetrician in their plan, but when her three sons – triplets – were born prematurely, bills started rolling in. The hospital charge ...[Read more]
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The tax cut is a $6 billion gift to Exxon
The tax windfall helped Exxon's (XOM) net profits surge fivefold, the world's largest publicly traded oil company said on Friday. Excluding the tax bonanza, Exxon's results left Wall Street wanting more. Adjusted earnings unexpectedly declined and revenue ...[Read more]
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Jeremy Corbyn Says Labour Would Pardon And Apologise To Suffragettes
Jeremy Corbyn has announced Labour would grant an official apology and pardon for the suffragettes if it wins the next election. On the centenary of some women over 30 achieving the right to vote, the government is facing calls to overturn the convictions ...[Read more]
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The first Britons were black, Natural History Museum DNA study reveals
he earliest Britons were black-skinned, with dark curly hair and possibly blue eyes, new analysis of a 10,000-year-old Somerset skeleton has revealed. Scientists at the Natural History Museum have used pioneering genetic sequencing and facial reconstructi ...[Read more]
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The Panama Chronicles: How America’s enemies were targeted
“The problem with Panama Papers is that the initial release targeted the enemies of the United States,” Bradley Birkenfeld, an American banker and whistleblower, said. “This is the way the CIA operates – they operate in a scheme in which they try ...[Read more]
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Top Secret Files About Switzerland’s Secret Stay-Behind Army Go Missing
The existence of the organization became known in the early 1990s after a national commission started an investigation to determine if the military was compiling secret dossiers on "suspect" Swiss citizens. The probe was prompted by the revelation that Sw ...[Read more]
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So many Japanese people die alone, there’s an industry devoted to cleaning up after them
There is a putrid smell emanating from the flat. There is an obvious brown stain on the futon where the body has been. The futon, the clothes, the newspapers and horse-racing stubs are covered with maggots and flies. Still, if the man had died in the su ...[Read more]
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Meet the pirate queen making academic papers free online
In cramped quarters at Russia’s Higher School of Economics, shared by four students and a cat, sat a server with 13 hard drives. The server hosted Sci-Hub, a website with over 64 million academic papers available for free to anybody in the world. It was ...[Read more]
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