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Eastern Oregon mental health providers face closure with new Medicaid structure
A policy change will force 800 Malheur County Medicaid patients to switch mental health providers or go without care starting Jan. 1, clinic directors warn. MALHEUR COUNTY, Ore. — Nearly 800 mental health patients in Malheur County will lose access to their counselors starting Jan. 1 under a new policy requiring Medicaid recipients to see only contracted providers. On Nov.…
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RescueFest Opens with Restoration of Steve Buscemi’s Wonderful “Trees Lounge” | Festivals & Awards
“Trees Lounge,” a movie that Roger Ebert called “the most accurate portrait of the daily saloon drinker I have ever seen” is going to open the 2025 RescueFest, a benefit for IndieCollect that starts tomorrow, December 5 at the Laemmle Monica. Star/writer/director Steve Buscemi will be there in person, and it’s just the start of a special event that highlights…
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Are GLP-1 weight-loss drugs safe for older adults?
Since GLP-1 weight-loss medications exploded in popularity a few years ago, Chitra Ganta, MD, a geriatrician at the Cleveland Clinic, has seen a flood of interest from her patients. She had already witnessed the positive effect of these medications on diabetes management in the years prior to their approval for weight loss and was excited to be able to offer…
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Netflix Has A Wild Week With Theatrical As The Streamer Circles Warner Bros.
As Netflix makes a run at Warner Bros Discovery that would test its commitment to theatrical, the streamer has had an erratic week in cinemas between Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery with $4 million+ over the five-day Thanksgiving frame (despite the best franchise audience score at 94%), and the presales success of the New Year’s Eve Stranger Things series-finale stunt. When…
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Trump’s Middle East Order | Foreign Affairs
The Middle East is a place that most American presidents want to avoid. Yet inevitably, they find themselves mired in its quarrels. Despite periodic calls for a pivot toward other geostrategic challenges, the perception that its core interests are at stake in the region has kept the United States from leaving. The oil depositories of the Persian Gulf remain vital…
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Mike Johnson asks Republicans to keep concerns private
Washington (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is imploring his fellow Republicans to stop venting their frustrations in public and bring their complaints to him directly. “They’re going to get upset about things. That’s part of the process,” Johnson told reporters Thursday. “It doesn’t bother me. But when there is a conflict or concern, I always ask all members to…
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550 flights cancelled, operations to stabilise by Feb
New Delhi: IndiGo on Thursday told aviation watchdog DGCA that operations are expected to be fully stabilised by February 10, 2026, and sought temporary relaxations in flight duty norms on a day when the country’s largest airline cancelled more than 550 flights, disrupting the travel plans of hundreds of passengers. Acknowledging that the flight disruptions happening for the past few…
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Pakistan allows UN aid to Afghanistan via 2 border points
Peshawar: Pakistan on Thursday decided to allow United Nations agencies to deliver relief supplies to Afghanistan from two border crossing points in northwest Pakistan, according to an official communication issued by the Ministry of Commerce. The ministry has written a letter to the Director General of Afghan Transit Trade and the Member Customs Operations of the Federal Board of Revenue…
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10 Lousiest Horror Movies of All Time, Ranked
Horror has to be one of the most misunderstood genres of all time. Many dismiss it as nothing more than cheap thrills, jump scares, and fake blood. However, true cinema enthusiasts know that horror is capable of so much more. The genre is the perfect vehicle to tap into the darkest, most twisted parts of human nature. When horror goes…
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Breaking the Plastic Wave 2025
Preface In 2020, The Pew Charitable Trusts and Systemiq published a groundbreaking report, “Breaking the Plastic Wave,” amid significant data gaps on plastic pollution, substantial debate over the scale of the plastic pollution problem and various proposals to meet the challenge. With that report, Pew and our partners sought to move the global discourse forward by identifying a credible roadmap…
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