Big companies position themselves for payday from $50B federal rural health fund

Tory Starr is worried about the people who get medical care at Open Door Community Health Centers along California’s North Coast. “They’re the folks that work at restaurants. They’re the teacher’s aides,” said Starr, a registered nurse who became Open Door’s chief executive more than six years ago. Those patients, he said, are “really the …

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Prediction markets in hot seat over rogue bettors and insider trading

A soldier betting on an operation to oust Venezuela’s leader. Politicians gambling on their own elections. Massive bets on the president announcing a ceasefire with Iran right before he actually did. Are prediction markets safe places for news junkies to bet on events – or dens of insider trading? A lot is at stake as …

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Strikes in Ukraine and Russia Kill at Least 16 on Chernobyl Anniversary

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked the anniversary with a warning that Russian attacks risk repeating history. “Russia is once again bringing the world to the brink of a man-made disaster — Russian-Iranian Shaheds regularly fly over the plant, and one of them struck the confinement last year,” he wrote on Facebook, referring to the Iran-designed …

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King Charles Jets to US for Trip Overshadowed by Iran Quarrel and Shooting

By Michael Holden and Suzanne Plunkett LONDON/WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) – Britain’s King Charles and Queen Camilla arrive ⁠in ⁠the United States later on Monday for a ⁠four-day trip, a tour which has taken on even greater prominence after the White House Correspondents’ dinner shooting ​and amid acrimony between the close allies. The state visit, …

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Modi’s BJP Gains Ground in India’s Upper House After AAP Lawmakers Defect

NEW DELHI, April 27 (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister ⁠Narendra ⁠Modi’s BJP party strengthened its ⁠position in parliament’s upper house after seven opposition lawmakers joined ​it, a parliamentary list showed on Monday, a shift that could ease the government’s ‌passage of legislation. All seven defectors ‌are from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), led by one …

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Clashes in Indonesia’s Papua as Hundreds Protest Military Presence

JAKARTA, April 27 (Reuters) – Students and civilians clashed ⁠with ⁠law enforcement personnel in Indonesia’s ⁠insurgency-hit Papua on Monday during a protest attended by hundreds ​of residents demanding the withdrawal of military personnel from the region, a police official ‌said. A military operation conducted in ‌the region earlier this month allegedly resulted in the death …

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