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Oona Zenda/KFF Health News The health care system in the U.S. can be extremely confusing. If you’ve puzzled over using your insurance or dealing with hospitals and doctors, we may be able to help. Pre-authorization delay? No in-network specialists? Dispute over costs? Confusion after a hospital discharge? Health Care Helpline — from NPR and KFF Health News — helps you better understand and overcome the hurdles between you and good care. Send us your tricky question about navigating the system and we may tap a policy sleuth to dig in and help find answers. Click here to share your story.

NewsFeedFederal immigration agents have been filmed using pepper spray and zip ties against a protester in San Francisco. Video shows officers, some wearing ICE patches, heading toward the ICE field office with protesters following, before one is tackled and detained.Published On 21 Aug 202521 Aug 2025

FA Women’s Premier League Premier Division – Burnley Women vs Middlesbrough – 17/08/2025KEVIN HAYDEN/BURNLEY FC The former Lionesses’ midfielder, Mel Lawley, has been persuaded to drop down two tiers to help FA Women’s National League (FA WNL) side Burnley achieve promotion into WSL2. After starting just three games in the Women’s Super League (WSL) last season, the 31-year-old Everton midfielder has gone out on loan to Burnley for the season where she will be re-united with Matt Beard, her coach for three years at her previous club Liverpool. Beard is one of only six coaches to manage a team to…

A top official at the US Federal Reserve says she will not be “bullied” after President Donald Trump called for her resignation over an allegation of mortgage fraud.Governor Lisa Cook has been accused of falsifying documents and property records in a bid to get more favourable home loan. She said the claim stemmed from an application before she joined the central bank.The Trump administration is also pursuing mortgage fraud investigations against Senator Adam Schiff and New York Attorney General Letitia James, both political antagonists of the president.Trump has been seeking more influence over the US central bank and has repeatedly…

Who would say work was fun? Your job might be rewarding (some of the time). You may get on with your colleagues (some of them). But fun? It seems simultaneously too grand an ambition and too small.After the work-centric “hustle culture” of the 2010s, then the backlash and widespread burnout brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, the general feeling around work right now could be described as ambivalent at best. At worst, it’s openly combative, as evinced by frequent references to the “battle” over working from home. Managers want employees back in the office; employees want flexibility, and to limit…

Getty ImagesThere are increasing reports of people suffering “AI psychosis”, Microsoft’s head of artificial intelligence (AI), Mustafa Suleyman, has warned.In a series of posts on X, he wrote that “seemingly conscious AI” – AI tools which give the appearance of being sentient – are keeping him “awake at night” and said they have societal impact even though the technology is not conscious in any human definition of the term.”There’s zero evidence of AI consciousness today. But if people just perceive it as conscious, they will believe that perception as reality,” he wrote.Related to this is the rise of a new…

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.Finally, a NYT Strands puzzle I can ace! If you know major superheroes, this will be a fun and easy one for you today. And the spangram makes a related and cool shape! If you need hints and answers, read on.I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.Read…

“I P 6 8! I P 6 8!,” shouted late-night host Jimmy Fallon, trying and failing to fake excitement about the new Pixel smartphones. Fallon, who likely had never heard the technical term before, didn’t seem to realize that IP68 — a rating that indicates phones can survive being submerged in water — isn’t all that interesting as a selling point, nor is this water-resistance feature new to Google’s Pixel line. It’s been around since the 2018 Pixel 3. We’re on the Pixel 10 now, for reference. In a surreal moment that illustrated the tendency to overhype anything associated with…

Ricoh is launching its GR IV compact camera in mid-September for $1,499.95, accompanied by a tiny new GF-2 add-on flash for $119.95. As initially announced in May, the GR IV will feature a 26-megapixel APS-C sensor, slightly redesigned 28mm-equivalent f/2.8 lens, new autofocus and stabilization systems, and 53GB of built-in storage to supplement its microSD card slot.It’s been over six years since the first incarnation of the GR III launched, back in 2019, with just the GR IIIx and HDF variants following since then. The much anticipated sequel camera follows in the footprints of its predecessor with an ultra-compact body…