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Conductor Thomas Wilkins asks orchestras to 'jump off a cliff' with him

The principal conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra radiates an empathetic, Yoda-like wisdom when it comes to conjuring beautiful sounds from both pros and students.

July 30, 2024
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  • Lara Downes
Bristeria Clark (center) at the graduation ceremony for Morehouse School of Medicine's first class of rural doulas, called perinatal patient navigators. Clark, who's also a nurse and county employee, wants other women to have more support than she did while navigating pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum care.

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Maternity care in rural areas is in crisis. Can more doulas help?

A Georgia medical school has begun training and deploying doulas in rural areas of the state, with the goal of decreasing the risk of childbirth complications, especially for Black women.

July 26, 2024
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  • Jess Mador
Judith Dambowic, a multiple myeloma patient, on her porch in Oakland, CA, right before shaving her head in preparation for a stem cell transplant in May. Dambowic wanted California to pass a law regulating Medigap insurance policies. The reform, which ultimately failed, would have made it easier for her to switch her coverage from Medicare Advantage to traditional Medicare. <br>

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  • Health

California tries but fails to fix a major Medicare loophole for seniors

Seniors choosing Medicare Advantage plans for the first time often don't realize they might get locked out of traditional Medicare for good. But changing this problem must be done state by state.


July 25, 2024
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  • Kate Wolffe
Members of the U.S. Secret Service stand watch as Vice President and Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks during her first campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 23, 2024. The assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump, the abrupt withdrawal of President Joe Biden from the race have added even more fuel to an active landscape of conspiracy theories about the 2024 campaign.

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A coup, fake signatures and deepfakes are the latest conspiracy theories about 2024

The flurry of unverified rumors, speculation, and conspiracy theories comes as people are reeling from an onslaught of high-stakes political upheaval in a matter of days.

July 23, 2024
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  • Shannon Bond
 The Tampa Period Pantry offers free menstrual hygiene products like tampons and pads, as well as other items to help during periods like heating patches for cramps or sanitary wipes.<br>

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  • Health

Need free pads or tampons? In Tampa, you can visit a ‘period pantry’

Tampa Period Pantry has set up 10 locations to help fight 'period poverty.' It's attracting more attention after Gov. DeSantis vetoed funds for free menstrual products in Florida schools.

July 13, 2024
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  • Stephanie Colombini
A file photo of Minister of Diaspora Affairs of Israel Amichai Chikli from May 2024. He was taking part in the Spanish far-right wing party Vox's rally "Europa Viva 24" in Madrid. <em>The New York Times </em>reported that Chikli's ministry funded a covert online influence campaign targeting U.S. lawmakers over the war in Gaza. Chikli denied those reports.

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How Israel tried to use AI to covertly sway Americans about Gaza

A new report by an Israeli watchdog group ties an Israeli firm to a covert online campaign intended to sway crucial Democratic lawmakers to continue backing Israel’s campaign in Gaza.

July 09, 2024
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  • Huo Jingnan
Russian state broadcaster RT broadcasting from near Red Square during the 2018 World Cup in Moscow. The Justice Department alleges an RT employee was behind an AI-powered effort to create fake social media profiles of Americans to spread Russian propaganda in the U.S.

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  • Technology

U.S. says Russian bot farm used AI to impersonate Americans

The bot farm used AI to create social media profiles impersonating Americans and posting post support for Russia’s war in Ukraine and other pro-Kremlin narratives.

July 09, 2024
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  • Shannon Bond
Mary Ann Herbst, a patient at the Good Samaritan Society nursing home in Le Mars, Iowa, gets her first COVID-19 vaccine shot on Dec. 29, 2020. A recent study found only 4 out of 10 nursing home residents in the U.S. have gotten at least one dose of the most recent COVID vaccine, which was released last fall.<br>

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Nursing homes falling further behind on vaccinating patients for COVID

COVID-19 continues to menace nursing homes across the US, but a new report reveals just four out of 10 nursing home residents have gotten their updated COVID shot since last  fall.

July 03, 2024
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  • Sarah Boden
Scarlett Lanzas, second from right, and other information navigators do an exercise in which they use orange string to symbolize how communities are interconnected, at a Nov. 8, 2023, orientation for a pilot project on combating bad information.

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To fight bad information, a project taps trusted messengers in immigrant communities

As news outlets contract and falsehoods circulate online, researchers want to know if trusted community messengers can help link people to quality information.

July 03, 2024
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  • Jude Joffe-Block
Sophia Ferst (left) and her wife, Madison Bethke, outside of Helena, Montana. After <em>Roe v. Wade </em>was overturned, Ferst decided to get sterilized. She is one of many people under 30 now seeking permanent contraception.

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  • Health

How ob-gyns are handling more requests for sterilization after ‘Roe’ was overturned

Tubal ligations doubled in the 16 months following the Dobbs decision. Vasectomies also increased, but men still get sterilized much less often than women.

July 02, 2024
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  • Aaron Bolton
Damari was worried about his future after he was arrested for carrying a gun. The Youth Gun Offender Program gave him a second chance.

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In Florida, teens caught with guns get a second chance to turn their lives around

An innovative program in Tampa aims to stop community violence by focusing on teens arrested for carrying guns. It offers support and mentors so they can get a new start outside of the jail system.

July 01, 2024
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  • Stephanie Colombini and
  • Sammy Caiola
A right-wing legal and political campaign has disrupted the work of government agencies meant to safeguard voting and subjected researchers studying online harms to harassment and death threats.

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  • Politics

What it means for the election that the government can talk to tech companies

The case is one element in a right-wing legal and political campaign that frames efforts to respond to false and misleading information as censorship.

June 27, 2024
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  • Shannon Bond
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  • Music Interviews

Countertenor John Holiday isn't trying to make you love him

The versatile singer, who emphasizes self-acceptance, says his mission is to be a bridge from the classical community to pop, jazz and R & B. And if you’re not a fan, that’s okay.

June 27, 2024
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  • Lara Downes
Alex Stamos, the former director of the Stanford Internet Observatory, during congressional testimony in 2014. The research team Stamos led came under fire from Republicans, who alleged that their research amounted to censorship.

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  • Technology

A major disinformation research team's future is uncertain after political attacks

The Stanford Internet Observatory studied how social media platforms are abused. Now, its top leaders are out and future funding is uncertain amid attacks on its work by conservatives.

June 17, 2024
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  • Shannon Bond
 A 2013 file photo of an Epoch Times newspaper box in New York City. The outlet was founded by adherents to the Falun Gong spiritual movement but it has morphed into a pro-Trump conservative news organization in recent years. Earlier this month, the organization's chief financial officer was arrested on federal money laundering charges.

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  • Media

Money laundering charges raise questions about the direction of The Epoch Times

The media site founded by adherents of Falun Gong morphed into a pro-Trump outlet that spouted conspiracy theories. Now the CEO is out after money laundering charges were filed against the CFO.

June 15, 2024
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  • Jude Joffe-Block
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