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Roughly 40% of patients in Texas state hospitals are considered ready for discharge after a stay of at least one year. But a lack of appropriate housing, insurance & out-patient services cause long waits.
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This week, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin awarded the $75 million center a total of $55 million of opioid and vaping settlement funds. The 65,000-square-foot-facility will open in 2027.
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Louisiana is one of ten states to provide a full voter registration list at this time.So far, the DOJ has sued 23 states and the District of Columbia for failing to provide their respective lists.
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Instead of mail being postmarked when it's first received, it will now be stamped while being sorted and processed at regional distribution centers – which could be several days later.
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Some of the exhibits removed nationally include those related to slavery, racism, discrimination, pollution, climate change, and any reference to transgender people, among the many disqualifying topics for display at U.S. National Parks.
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The drop in vaccination rates is blamed, at least partly, on anti-vaccine activism, leading to more parents claiming religious and medical exemptions. The CDC advises that a 92-95% vaccination rate is necessary for population-level protection [herd immunity].
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LSU Shreveport Political Science Professor Jeffrey Sadow worries that with no specific plans in place after Maduro's removal, chaos is already a serious concern inside Venezuela. He says there's a small window of time to restore order successfully with decisive short-term steps.
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Applications for families will open on February 4, 2026. A lottery will be used if interest exceeds available funding. The application window for families closes a little more than a month later, on March 17.
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The find, announced by Shell and INEOS, comes more than two weeks after the Trump administration held its first of 30 offshore oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico.
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The Arkansas' Crisis Center is typically contacted by an adult over the phone, but when they added texting, 65% on that platform were children and teenagers - 24/7 988 Lifeline.
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287(g) agreements are intended to help ICE enforce federal immigration law locally. But some worry the new law will keep migrants from reporting crime because participating local law enforcement officers become de facto ICE agents.