US health care now unaffordable for nearly half of Americans
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When former President Donald J. Trump met with House Republicans last month, he touched on a mix of policies core to his economic agenda: cutting income taxes while also significantly raising tariffs on foreign goods.
Kimberly Clausing, an economist at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, who served in the Treasury Department under President Biden, said combining tax cuts and tariffs would increase income inequality substantially and “hurt the very voters that Trump is counting on to put him in the White House.”
Still, the idea appears to be attracting more interest in the Republican Party, where even politicians who have traditionally been skeptical of tariffs have shown signs of favoring them if the generated revenue is used to help finance further tax cuts.
In a statement, Anna Kelly, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, said Mr. Trump had “put America first by instituting tariffs while simultaneously keeping inflation and consumer prices low.”
“President Trump’s policies brought forward a booming economy, and he will once again lower taxes, impose tariffs on foreign producers, bring jobs back to the U.S. and put America first on Day 1,” she said.
A study by Ms. Clausing and Maurice Obstfeld, also of the Peterson Institute, found that the maximum revenue the United States could earn from tariffs would peak at about $780 billion, less than 40 percent of what income taxes currently bring in.
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Rite Aid, the third biggest US drug store chain, said that more than 2.2 million of its customers have been swept into a data breach that stole personal information, including driver's license numbers, addresses, and dates of birth.
The data provided included the purchaser's name, address, date of birth, and driver's license number or other form of government-issued ID.
“We detected the incident within 12 hours and immediately launched an internal investigation to terminate the unauthorized access, remediate affected systems and ascertain if any customer data was impacted.”
On its dark web site, RansomHub said it was in advanced stages of negotiation with Rite Aid officials when the company suddenly cut off communications.
Rite Aid has also declined to say if the employee account compromised in the breach was protected by multifactor authentication.
The chain filed for bankruptcy in October, largely to seek protection from lawsuits surrounding the opioid crisis.
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🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary However, the age group most struggling to afford health care is adults under 50—with 53 percent unable to cover their bills, down five points from 2022.
"The good news is that health care provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act—including empowering Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices, which has not yet taken effect—may help slow these negative trends and provide more stability."
Each participant was grouped into one of three categories based on their reported ease in accessing and paying for medical care, prescription drugs included.
The findings follow those of the recently released West Health–Gallup Survey on Aging in America, which reported that one-in-three Americans—some 72.2 million people—have avoided seeking out health care in the last quarter due to cost.
"The year 2022 showed encouraging trends of increased health care affordability, post-pandemic," said Gallup senior researcher Dan Witters.
"The decline in 2024 is concerning in that it shows the fragility of American's purchasing power amid a high-priced health care system.
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🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary The consideration of such proposals comes in response to growing outrage among Democrats about high court opinions that overturned landmark decisions on abortion rights and federal regulatory powers that had stood for decades.
There have also been increasing questions surrounding the ethics of the court after revelations about some of the justices, including that Clarence Thomas had accepted luxury trips from a GOP megadonor.
I don’t want to prematurely announce it, but I’m about to come out with a major initiative on limiting the court and what we do and — I’ve been working with constitutional scholars for the last three months, and I need some help,” he said, according to a transcript of the call.
About 2 in 3 Americans say they favor term limits or a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices, according to a 2022 poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
When Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was the majority leader, he refused to even meet in 2016 with Obama’s pick for the high court — current Attorney General Merrick Garland, a federal judge at that time.
Trump, in a post on his Truth Social platform, panned the possible Biden move, saying: “The Democrats are attempting to interfere in the Presidential Election, and destroy our Justice System, by attacking their Political Opponent, ME, and our Honorable Supreme Court.
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Generative AI is taking the world by storm, and its impact is evident across all sectors, including medicine, education, music, computing, and more.
According to a detailed analysis by Michael Thomas, this surpasses the power consumption of over 100 nations, including Ghana, Tunisia, and more (via Tom's Hardware).
Some of the downsides to advancements in the AI landscape include the degradation of the environment, however, Google and Microsoft are big on renewable energy and have been championing the campaign while seeking alternative power sources.
Elon Musk claimed we're on the verge of the biggest technology breakthrough with AI, but there won't be enough power by 2025.
Sam Altman has been exploring a potential alternative power source for OpenAI's AI efforts, with nuclear fusion at the top of his list.
While nuclear fusion seems like the perfect solution for AI's power needs due to its non-existent impact on the environment, scientists and researchers say it's "too late to deal with the climate crisis" and view fission and renewable energy as better options.
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But BrewDog's latest Make Earth Great Again (MEGA) report published on Tuesday claimed many carbon credits were now of 'highly questionable' environmental benefit and that the costs of those it could trust had 'gone through the roof'.
But workers have reacted negatively to BrewDog's decision to abandon its eco-friendly pledge in what they see as another step away from the brewery's so-called 'punk' ethos that once saw its co-founders blow up cans of Heineken as a PR stunt.
'Whether it be on refusing to meet workers over the abandonment of the real living wage or claiming to be the first carbon negative brewery in the country, BrewDog appear to have given up on being the ethical business that their whole brand is built on.'
The end of BrewDog's carbon negative claim comes after James Watt stood down as company boss in May this year - amid allegations of inappropriate conduct first raised in a BBC Scotland investigation in 2022.
Mr Watt, who is dating Made In Chelsea star Georgia Toffolo, appeared to attempt to warn staff away from taking part in the documentary in a post on BrewDog's Equity for Punks investors forum reported by the Guardian.
The programme included reports that Mr Watt had purchased £500,000 of shares in Heineken and invested £2million in a Cayman Islands hedge fund - suggesting a damaging contrast between his business dealings and BrewDog's 'punk' image.
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Canada's only Avro Lancaster in flying condition is landing in Winnipeg, where there is a deep connection to an aircraft considered one of the famous Allied bombers of the Second World War.
Unable to free his friend, tail gunner Pat Brophy, and with his parachute and clothing on fire, Mynarski reluctantly gave up and jumped.
The Mynarski Memorial Lancaster, owned and operated by the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, was originally built at Victory Aircraft in Malton, Ont., in 1945.
On June 12, 1944, a week after D-Day, Mynarski was the mid-upper gunner of a Lancaster aircraft on a mission to attack a target at Cambrai, France.
Brophy, who survived the crash when the turret broke open and pitched him out, later recounted the story of his friend's heroism, and how Mynarski said, 'Good night, sir,' as he saluted.
The memorial Avro Lancaster is painted the colours of the aircraft from that mission, and branded with the same number, KB726, in honour of Mynarski.
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As President Biden insists he will stay in the presidential race, Democrats are growing increasingly alarmed that his presence on the ticket is transforming the political map, turning light-blue states into contested battlegrounds.
Down-ballot Democrats, local elected officials and party strategists say Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico and Virginia — all of which Mr. Biden won comfortably in 2020 — could be in play in November after his miserable debate performance last month.
“President Trump is appealing to voters across the political spectrum, including in so-called blue states like Virginia, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico and New Jersey, with his agenda to lower costs, secure the border, and restore peace through strength,” said Anna Kelly, a spokeswoman for the R.N.C.
But consistent across all four states are widespread fears about Mr. Biden’s age, unhappiness with inflation and electorates that are more closely divided than many national observers realize, according to interviews with local Democratic officials and strategists.
And a statewide survey in Oregon completed this week found that Mr. Biden had just a single-digit lead over Mr. Trump, according to results shared with The New York Times by a person who was not authorized to disclose them publicly.
Reporting was contributed by Katie Glueck from Salt Lake City, Utah, Reid J. Epstein and Ruth Igielnik from Washington, Nicholas Fandos from New York, Rebecca Davis O’Brien from Hooksett, N.H., and Jenna Russell from Bedford, N.H., and Nashua, N.H.
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2024 has had plenty of upsets.
Games from small teams — like Palworld, Balatro, and Animal Well — rocketed up the sales charts, outstripping titles with much larger budgets.
Meanwhile, the pace of big releases from major companies like Sony and Nintendo has slowed, as mass layoffs have continued to rattle the increasingly consolidated industry.
As perilous as the year has been for people who make games, it's offered a diverse bounty for those who play them.
NPR network staffers and contributors have explored this breadth, from cozy puzzlers like Botany Manor to meditative adventures like 1000xResist to updated juggernauts like Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree.
Sortable by platform and genre, we invite you to find your next favorite game on the list below.
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HeHealth’s AI-powered Calmara app claimed, “Our innovative AI technology offers rapid, confidential, and scientifically validated sexual health screening, giving you peace of mind before diving into intimate encounters,” but now it’s shut down after an inquiry by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
The letter lays out some of the agency’s concerns with the information HeHealth relied on for its claims, including one saying that it could detect more than 10 sexually transmitted infections with up to 94 percent accuracy.
Given that most STIs are asymptomatic, according to the World Health Organization, medical professionals have questioned the reliability of the app’s tactics.
One Los Angeles Times investigation found that Calmara couldn’t even discern inanimate objects and failed to identify “textbook images” of STIs.
The FTC issued a civil investigative demand (similar to a subpoena) seeking information about Calmara’s advertising claims and privacy practices and put HeHealth on notice that it’s illegal to make health benefit claims without “reliable scientific evidence.”
The FTC said it would not pursue the investigation further since HeHealth agreed to those terms and because of “the small number of Calmara users and sales in the U.S.” But, it warned, “The Commission reserves the right to take such further action as the public interest may require.”
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Schools and universities across Bangladesh have been shut until further notice after six people were killed in protests over quotas in government jobs.University students have been holding rallies for several days against the system of providing reservations in public sector jobs for the children of war heroes, who fought for the country’s independence from Pakistan in 1971.Some jobs are also reserved for women, ethnic minorities and the disabled.A third of posts are kept for the children of those categorised as war heroes.
Police didn’t intervene to save the ordinary students,” Abdullah Salehin Ayoun, one of the co-ordinators of the anti-quota movement, told the BBC.Government jobs are highly coveted in Bangladesh because they pay well.
They are the ones who initiated the violence,” Law Minister Anisul Huq told the BBC.Bangladesh's top court suspended the current system last week, but protests are expected to continue until it is permanently removed.“The case has been listed for hearing on 7 August.
Students have been given an opportunity to present their argument in the court,” Mr Huq said.In a late-night operation on Tuesday, police raided the headquarters of the BNP, the main opposition party, in Dhaka, following the violent clashes.Senior BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said the raid was nothing but a drama and it was a message for the students to return home.The protests have been going on for days with the students blocking roads and highways in Dhaka and other major cities, bringing traffic to a halt.Student leaders said they were angered by recent comments of Ms Hasina who, they say, described those opposed to the job quotas as razakar – a term used for those who allegedly collaborated with the Pakistani army during the 1971 war.Several student leaders said Ms Hasina had insulted them by comparing them to razakar.
He said the trouble began after anti-quota students intimidated residents of a hall in Dhaka.“If there’s chaos on the university campuses, there’s no benefit for the government.
We want peace to be maintained,” Mr Arafat told the BBC.UN Secretary General António Guterres called on the government to "protect the demonstrators against any form of threat or violence", according to his spokesman Stephane Dujarric.The students have vowed to continue their protests until their demands are met.The government has strengthened security by deploying the paramilitary, Border Guards Bangladesh, in five main cities, including Dhaka and Chittagong.
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🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary LANCASTER, Pa. — The streets of this Colonial-era city are old and narrow, with blocks of 19th century brick rowhouses sitting just feet from the sidewalk.
“It's definitely slowed traffic,” Sorace said last month as she led a walking tour for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to show off the changes the city is making.
Tensions like this are playing out across the country, in cities large and small, that are using this unprecedented outlay of federal cash to redesign dangerous streets and intersections.
They met for nearly an hour with Buttigieg and other leaders at the Department of Transportation to talk about what they’re doing to make their streets safer and how they navigate local pushback.
Flagstaff is using federal funding to install new protections for cyclists and pedestrians on one of her city’s most dangerous roads, Daggett said, that’s seen hundreds of crashes in recent years.
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell says his city has been adding dozens of “No Turn On Red” signs, and local drivers are not happy about it.
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Republican Mark Edgington, 53, told the New Hampshire Bulletin last week that he had hoped voters would look past his 1989 second-degree murder conviction, but that it becoming public had caused him and his family distress.
“When I embarked on this, I expected fair, respectful treatment by the press and my party, and to serve my constituents,” Edgington said.
Edgington was 18 years old when he pleaded “no contest” in Florida to a second-degree murder charge in connection with the beating and strangulation death of a motel manager.
He maintains his innocence and told the Bulletin that he was hiding in the motel bathroom during the killing was carried out by a friend.
“I am disappointed to see members of our party pander to the liberal media and feign outrage without giving the candidate the dignity of so much as a phone call,” Osborne told the Bulletin.
On Friday, the New Hampshire Republican Party issued a statement endorsing Edgington’s opponents.
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Guo Wengui, a self-exiled Chinese business tycoon whose criticism of the Communist party won him legions of online followers and powerful friends in the American conservative movement, was convicted by a US jury on Tuesday of engaging in an enormous multi-year fraud that ripped off some of his most devoted fans.
Once believed to be among the richest people in China, Guo was arrested in New York in March 2023 and accused of operating a racketeering enterprise that stretched from 2018 through 2023.
Over a seven-week trial, he was accused of deceiving thousands of people who put money into bogus investments, with the aim of preserving a luxurious lifestyle.
Guo, who is also known by the name Miles Kwok, left China in 2014 during an anti-corruption crackdown that ensnared people close to him, including a top intelligence official.
He applied for political asylum in the US, moved to a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park and joined Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.
In a closing argument, assistant US attorney Ryan Finkel said Guo “spouted devious lies to trick his followers into giving him money”.
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As the world’s wealthiest people were lining up behind former President Donald Trump’s candidacy, the Republican Party served up hours of programming at its convention designed to woo the working class with (mostly) fake populism.
During the first day of the Republican National Convention, the theme was “Make America Wealthy Again.” The evening’s program was a calibrated pitch to the working class — with speakers and video messages repeatedly slamming President Joe Biden over inflation, higher gas prices and grocery bills, and credit card debt.
O’Brien made the most of the historic opportunity, slamming corporate lobbying groups and companies like Amazon, Uber, and Lyft for failing to provide benefits to their workers.
That makes sense: Republicans’ messaging, the RNC platform, and the entire Trump campaign are about meeting people where they are and giving them resentment politics to chew on, while actively selling government policy to the highest bidders.
It’s no accident that during the first day of the RNC, The Wall Street Journal reported that Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, the richest person on Earth, is planning to donate a staggering $45 million per month to a Trump super PAC — or that the same Trump group is being funded by the CEO of coal company Alliance Resource Partners, the co-founder of military spy tech contractor Palantir Technologies, and the billionaire crypto-loving Winklevoss twins.
Occasionally, the facade cracked Monday night — such as when the RNC welcomed uber-wealthy Silicon Valley investor David Sacks onstage to complain about “homeless encampments” in San Francisco and “illegal migrants.” Trumpian resentment politics have never sounded quite so distasteful.
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Price growth accelerated for some types of food, like fresh vegetables, dairy and non-alcoholic drinks.
These inflation numbers are the last to be released before the Bank of Canada decides whether to change its key interest rate on July 24.
"The inflation data for June gave the Bank of Canada what it needed in order to cut interest rates at next week's meeting," said CIBC economist Katherine Judge in an emailed statement.
In June, the central bank made its first rate cut since March 2020, lowering it to 4.75 per cent.
It will take some time to see lower mortgage interest costs after rate cuts, Judge said in an interview.
Interest rate cuts could also help relieve pressure on rent price growth, Judge said.
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A high-profile North Korean diplomat stationed in Cuba has defected to the South, Seoul's spy agency has confirmed to the BBC.The political counselor is believed to be the highest-ranking North Korean diplomat to escape to South Korea since 2016.The diplomat defected in November, the National Intelligence Service (NIS) said.Details about defections of North Koreans often take months to come to light as the defectors must take courses on South Korean society before they are formally integrated.
The NIS has not confirmed this to the BBC.The Chosun Ilbo newspaper said it was able to interview the diplomat, whom it identified as 52-year-old Ri Il Kyu.It added that he defected because of "disillusionment with the North Korean regime and a bleak future".His work reportedly involved stopping Havana from forging official diplomatic ties with Seoul.
However, in February, the two governments did establish official relations, in what was seen as a setback for Pyongyang.
"Every North Korean thinks at least once about living in South Korea," the newspaper quoted him as saying.The last known high-profile defection to the South was that of Tae Yong-ho in 2016.
He is North Korea's former deputy ambassador to the United Kingdom.On Sunday, South Korea marked its very first North Korean Defectors' Day ceremony.Addressing the ceremony, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol promised better financial support for North Korean defectors and tax incentives for companies hiring them.Mr Yoon, a conservative, has taken a more hawkish approach towards North Korea and on foreign policy general, compared to his predecessor Moon Jae-In.He supports sanctions against Kim Jong Un's regime and has promised to develop technology to carry out a pre-emptive strike on North Korea if Pyongyang looks to attack Seoul.The latest defection comes at a time of heightened tensions between the two Koreas.North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has formally abandoned the goal of reunification with with the South and also recently branded Seoul as "Enemy number One" - a dramatic turnaround from just six years ago when he formally met then South Korean Leader Moon Jae In.Since then, there has been an upping of rhetoric on both sides of the border.
The two countries floated propaganda balloons along their border towns, with those from the North containing trash and parasites.And earlier in June, Pyongyang claimed to have test-fired an advanced nuclear warhead missile.
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Six people, including a policeman, have been killed and 28 others injured in a rare shooting attack near a Shia Muslim mosque in Oman's capital, Muscat, police say.The three attackers were also killed by security forces during the incident in the al-Wadi al-Kabir area on Monday night, according to a statement.Police gave no details about the identities of the victims and gunmen, or the motive.
But it has never before claimed an attack in Oman, where the Shia are a minority.Video showed a crowd running for cover inside the mosque's courtyard as gunshots were heard.
Worshippers had gathered there on the eve of the Shia holy day of Ashura.The police statement expressed condolences to the victims' families and said an investigation into the circumstances of the incident was under way.It also emphasised "the necessity of obtaining information from official sources and disregarding unreliable information".Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said he was "deeply saddened" by the attack and that his heart went "out to the families of the victims".
"I have instructed the Pakistan embassy in Muscat to extend all possible assistance to the injured and visit the hospitals personally," he wrote on X.
He also advised Pakistani residents of Oman to avoid al-Wadi al-Kabir and to co-operate with local authorities.Mr Ali later told AFP news agency that the attackers had initially opened fire from a building next to the mosque, where hundreds of people had gathered for a prayer service.The worshippers were held "hostage" by militants before "they were later freed by Omani forces", he said.India's embassy said it had been informed by the Omani foreign ministry that one Indian national had been killed and another injured, without identifying them.The shooting happened on the night of the ninth day of the Islamic month of Muharram, when Shia Muslims attend rituals on the eve of Ashura.
This has allowed it to play a leading role in mediation efforts to try to resolve conflicts and disputes in the region.The Gulf sultanate has a population of about 4.6 million, of which more than 40% are foreign workers.The government does not publish statistics about religious affiliation.However, the US state department estimates that 95% of the population is Muslim, with 45% Sunni, 45% Ibadi and 5% Shia.
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However, the age group most struggling to afford health care is adults under 50—with 53 percent unable to cover their bills, down five points from 2022.
"The good news is that health care provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act—including empowering Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices, which has not yet taken effect—may help slow these negative trends and provide more stability."
Each participant was grouped into one of three categories based on their reported ease in accessing and paying for medical care, prescription drugs included.
The findings follow those of the recently released West Health–Gallup Survey on Aging in America, which reported that one-in-three Americans—some 72.2 million people—have avoided seeking out health care in the last quarter due to cost.
"The year 2022 showed encouraging trends of increased health care affordability, post-pandemic," said Gallup senior researcher Dan Witters.
"The decline in 2024 is concerning in that it shows the fragility of American's purchasing power amid a high-priced health care system.
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