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3 weeks, 6 days ago

'Game changer': Biden likely to trigger huge fight with last minute proposal

In the final weeks of President Joe Biden's administration, his Department of Health and Human Services is proposing a new rule for Medicare and Medicaid recipients that will likely touch off a tense confrontation with HHS secretary-designate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Washington Post reported Tuesday that HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra is now proposing that weight loss drugs like Ozempic …

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2 months, 1 week ago

2024 election: one powerful group is trying to reshape America. It's working—and it's just beginning.

Slate

If you heard about a well-funded right-wing group with a detailed plan to achieve conservative policy goals, you’d likely think of Project 2025. Yet Waggoner told Politico in March that “ADF has never advocated for limitations on access to contraception”—that’s because the organization views emergency contraceptives and IUDs as “abortion-inducing drugs and devices.” Cases: Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Burwell, Alliance …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Homebuyers beware: How to avoid properties with high landslide risk

LA Times

Earth movement has caused road closures and utility service disruptions in some neighborhoods of Rancho Palos Verdes. “It’s important to the basic erosion process,” said Jonathan Godt, the landslide hazards program coordinator for the United States Geological Survey. Several factors can alter a landslide’s active status, such as rainfall and earthquakes, but the warning signs are hard to see because …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Kidnap suspects arrested after migrant held for ransom escaped into L.A. boba shop, feds say

LA Times

According to an indictment, Miguel Angel Avila allegedly body-slammed a kidnapping victim identified as N.C.L., then placed him in a chokehold and punched him repeatedly in the face on March 22, 2023, inside a boba shop in Koreatown. Last March, a man escaped from the second-story window of a motel in L.A.’s Koreatown and ran to a nearby boba shop, …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Medicare Price Negotiations Have Led To Agreements On 10 Drugs

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING The first-ever negotiations between the federal government and pharmaceutical companies have led to agreements that will lower the prices of 10 treatments, reducing costs for the Medicare program and for some individual seniors, the Biden administration announced early Thursday morning. “When these lower prices go into effect, people on Medicare will save $1.5 billion in out-of-pocket costs …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Medicare negotiated drug prices for the first time. Here’s what it got

NPR

Medicare negotiated drug prices for the first time. Here’s what it got toggle caption Nam Y. Huh/AP The White House unveiled the fruits of months of negotiations between the government and pharmaceutical companies: new, lower Medicare prices for 10 blockbuster drugs. It took both sides to reach a good deal.” Sponsor Message The program selected the first 10 medicines for …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Top US health official acknowledges more federal money for utility help is needed for extreme heat

Associated Press

PHOENIX — Visiting Phoenix amid triple-digit temperatures, the U.S. government’s top health official acknowledged on Wednesday that a federal program that helps low-income people pay their utility bills needs to focus more on cooling homes in the summer instead of overwhelmingly on wintertime heating. “What we’re beginning to see is the prominence of extreme heat and no longer just the …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Illinois bans companies from forcing workers to listen to their anti-union talk

NPR

Illinois bans companies from forcing workers to listen to their anti-union talk toggle caption Andrea Hsu/NPR Illinois has become the latest state to adopt legislation aimed at protecting workers from their employers' anti-union messaging. The Illinois Worker Freedom of Speech Act, which takes effect January 1, prohibits employers from holding mandatory meetings to discuss company views on religion or politics, …

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5 months, 1 week ago

MLB draft: Christian Becerra is third Harvard-Westlake pick

LA Times

Christian Becerra, who graduated from Harvard-Westlake in 2021, was chosen by the Twins in the 12th round of the MLB amateur draft. Harvard-Westlake and Sherman Oaks Notre Dame each had a third former high school player taken on the final day of Major League Baseball’s amateur draft Tuesday. Former Harvard-Westlake pitcher Christian Becerra, who pitched in college for California, was …

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7 months ago

Exposure, popularity and stars. Is college softball on the brink of a breakthrough?

New York Times

PALO ALTO, Calif. — On a steamy Thursday afternoon at Stanford’s Smith Family Stadium, every Cardinal player and coach not on the field stands against the dugout rail, shouting encouragement at someone. “I’ve always been proud that I’ve been able to actually live through the growth of the sport,” said former Arizona coach Mike Candrea, the winningest coach in college …

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8 months ago

Biden administration tightens rules for obtaining medical records related to abortion

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The medical records of women will be shielded from criminal investigations if they cross state lines to seek an abortion where it is legal, under a new rule that the Biden administration finalized Monday. “No one should have their medical records used against them, their doctor or their loved one just because they sought or received lawful reproductive …

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8 months ago

Biden administration issues new rule to protect privacy of those seeking reproductive health care: ‘No one should have to live in fear’

CNN

CNN — Patients have a right to privacy when it comes to their medical information, even when they travel to another state for an abortion, IVF, birth control or other types of reproductive health care, federal officials declared in a new rule. “This rule prohibits those regulated by HIPAA — health care providers, health plans, clearing houses and their business …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

California DOJ civil rights probe of Sheriff’s Department headed to settlement, sources say

LA Times

More than three years after the California Department of Justice launched a civil rights investigation into the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the case is headed toward a sprawling settlement agreement expected to touch on issues including jail conditions, deputy gangs and staffing, according to sources familiar with the matter and emails viewed by The Times. Lawyers for Los Angeles …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Alabama IVF patients describe heartbreak, anger after ruling

Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Tory Beasley had dreamed of having three kids, and she and her husband turned to IVF after struggling with infertility. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra visited Alabama to lead a roundtable discussion with a group of IVF patients on Tuesday in Birmingham. Secretary of U.S. Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra hosts a panel discussion …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Nation’s top health official to visit Alabama in wake of IVF ruling

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is sending the nation’s top health official to Alabama on Tuesday for discussions with patients and doctors about the controversial court ruling that upended in vitro fertilization treatment in the state. President Joe Biden and his allies have been quick to seize on last week’s ruling — which says that frozen embryos can be considered …

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10 months ago

Llegan desde Argentina Los Cafres al Ford y Trueno al escenario del Rey este fin de semana

LA Times

El mercado latino de la música sigue en aumento con el anuncio de las giras de reconocidas figuras del entretenimiento por los escenarios más emblemáticos de los Estados Unidos y nuestra área sigue considerándose como una de las más importantes del país. Entretenimiento Grupo Frontera, Marca Registrada y Luis R Conriquez impusieron su ley en el primer Calibash MX Conexión …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Mariachis, struggling since the pandemic, get a tiny home in Boyle Heights

LA Times

For three years, mariachi musician Ramiro Becerra has been living in a motor home near Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights. “It’s the kind of life that sometimes makes you feel like you don’t want to keep on living.” Mariachi musician Ramiro Becerra checks out one of tiny homes he will move into in the Boyle Heights Tiny Home Village. Los …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Hector Becerra Named Managing Editor of the Los Angeles Times

LA Times

Los Angeles Times Interim Executive Editor Terry Tang today announced that Hector Becerra has been promoted to managing editor of The Times. “His ability to lead change and ensure that we’re focusing our resources on the issues and stories that matter most to our readers is precisely what we need to meet challenges now.” Since 2022, Becerra has been deputy …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Vice president brings abortion rights tour to California as Democrats fight for House control

LA Times

Vice President Kamala Harris campaigns for abortion rights, a top issue for Democrats in the presidential election, during an event last week at George Mason University in Manassas, Va. Vice President Kamala Harris brought her abortion rights tour to California on Monday, elevating the issue in a left-leaning state as Democrats nationwide warn that Republicans could enact a federal ban …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Security guard at homeless housing hotel assaulted striking workers, they allege

LA Times

Cristobal Guardado, 63, a cook at the L.A. Grand hotel, shows a cut in his mouth. Striking hotel workers allege they were assaulted by a security guard while picketing outside L.A. Grand Hotel on Friday morning. As striking employees marched down the hotel’s driveway, a security guard started yelling expletives at one of the workers, said Julio Lopez, 44, a …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Covid-19: US households will be able to order more free tests starting Monday

CNN

CNN — The US government will relaunch a program to provide free Covid-19 home tests to Americans, US Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday. Becerra said HHS’s Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response “has been resupplying our stockpile.” The tests coming available soon are intended for use through the end of 2023 and will include instructions on how …

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1 year, 3 months ago

From East L.A., the Stains’ Robert Becerra was a punk-rock legend, to those in the know

LA Times

When 15-year-old Jack Rivera told his friends in Boyle Heights he was going to be the new drummer of the fledgling punk band the Stains, some people in the neighborhood warned him: “Be careful. In the ’70s, when many of Becerra’s childhood friends turned to drug-dealing and gangs, he started the Stains with singer Jerry “Atric” Castellanos, bassist Jesse “Fixx” …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Latin Grammy 2023: Edgar Barrera arrasa en las nominaciones con 13, seguido por Shakira, Karol G y Camilo con 7 cada uno

LA Times

El compositor y productor musical mexicoamericano Edgar Barrera se convirtió hoy en el máximo nominado de la vigésimo cuarta entrega de los premios de la Academia Latina de la Grabación al obtener 13 postulaciones al codiciado Latin Grammy que este año se trasladará, por primera vez, fuera de los Estados Unidos para celebrarse en Fibes, El Palacio de Congresos y …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Biden Administration Warns States About Post-COVID Medicaid Purge

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING The Biden administration is calling on state officials to slow down reviews of their Medicaid programs that have already reduced enrollment by more than 1 million nationwide and will likely reduce it by several million more in the months to come. “Nationally, Medicaid enrollment swelled by nearly 20 million people as states stopped doing eligibility reviews so …

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'Game changer': Biden likely to trigger huge fight with last minute proposal

2024 election: one powerful group is trying to reshape America. It's working—and it's just beginning.

Homebuyers beware: How to avoid properties with high landslide risk

Kidnap suspects arrested after migrant held for ransom escaped into L.A. boba shop, feds say

Medicare Price Negotiations Have Led To Agreements On 10 Drugs

Medicare negotiated drug prices for the first time. Here’s what it got

Top US health official acknowledges more federal money for utility help is needed for extreme heat

Illinois bans companies from forcing workers to listen to their anti-union talk

MLB draft: Christian Becerra is third Harvard-Westlake pick

Exposure, popularity and stars. Is college softball on the brink of a breakthrough?

Biden administration tightens rules for obtaining medical records related to abortion

Biden administration issues new rule to protect privacy of those seeking reproductive health care: ‘No one should have to live in fear’

California DOJ civil rights probe of Sheriff’s Department headed to settlement, sources say

Alabama IVF patients describe heartbreak, anger after ruling

Nation’s top health official to visit Alabama in wake of IVF ruling

Llegan desde Argentina Los Cafres al Ford y Trueno al escenario del Rey este fin de semana

Mariachis, struggling since the pandemic, get a tiny home in Boyle Heights

Hector Becerra Named Managing Editor of the Los Angeles Times

Vice president brings abortion rights tour to California as Democrats fight for House control

Security guard at homeless housing hotel assaulted striking workers, they allege

Covid-19: US households will be able to order more free tests starting Monday

From East L.A., the Stains’ Robert Becerra was a punk-rock legend, to those in the know

Latin Grammy 2023: Edgar Barrera arrasa en las nominaciones con 13, seguido por Shakira, Karol G y Camilo con 7 cada uno

Biden Administration Warns States About Post-COVID Medicaid Purge