As Congress eyes sweeping cuts to Medicaid, the health care program for low-income adults that serves about 20% of people living in the U.S., a new study has a sharp conclusion: cuts to Medicaid will cost lives. The study, published in the National Bureau of Economic Research on May 5, tracked nearly 40 million people … Read more
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting … Read more
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting … Read more
On the Shelf Fahrenheit-182 By Mark Hoppus with Dan OzziDey Street Books: 400 pages, $33If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.orgwhose fees support independent bookstores. It was September 2021 and Mark Hoppus had just completed six months of aggressive chemotherapy. Blink-182 had re-formed and the stars … Read more
A former prisoner has claimed she only survived her time in jail thanks to a Newcastle theatre company. Cheryl Byron was serving a two-year prison sentence at HMP Low Newton, near Durham, when she was first introduced to Open Clasp in 2013. Ms Byron said before she began working with the theatre company, she had … Read more
Charles Barkley isn’t a talking head on ESPN yet. That will happen next year, when TNT’s popular “Inside the NBA” studio show — which stars Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal and Kenny Smith as analysts and Ernie Johnson as host — will be licensed out to air on ESPN starting with the 2025-26 season. In the meantime, … Read more
An Australian man credited with saving more than 2 million babies through decades of regular blood and plasma donations has died at age 88. James Harrison, whose blood contained a rare antibody, died in his sleep Feb. 17 at a nursing home in the Australian state of New South Wales, according to the Australian Red … Read more
