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Privacy between doctors and patients is protected by law. But the Trump administration is, in effect, trying to peek into the exam room. The Office of Personnel Management is seeking unredacted federal worker health data from insurers. The unusual request, which would give the government detailed personal and health information, alarmed health policy and legal

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OTTAWA — The federal public health agency is taking over administration of a program that compensates people who have been injured by vaccines, and pledging to review claims that were refused by a third-party administrator for being filed too late...

John Daghita, an alleged U.S. government contractor accused of stealing more than $46 million in cryptocurrency from the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), was arrested last night on the island of Saint Martin in a coordinated operation between the FBI and French authorities.  The arrest, confirmed via tweet by FBI Director Kash Patel, involved the French

The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady at 3.5% to 3.75% on Tuesday, delivering exactly what markets expected but offering little of the comfort traders were hoping for. Bitcoin fell 4% to $71,417. Ethereum dropped 6.48%. XRP lost 3.66%. The total crypto market shed $2.44 trillion in value as a cascade of macro, geopolitical, and

Star Entertainment Group's former executives failed to manage and report money-laundering and criminal-activity risks. Two former senior executives of The Star Entertainment Group have been found by Australia’s Federal Court to have breached the Corporations Act 2001, due to failures in managing and reporting money-laundering and criminal-activity risks.  The judge’s ruling, handed down on Wednesday

News Investigators/ Walson-Jack, the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HoCSF), says the Federal Civil Service has fully transitioned to a paperless system, marking a major milestone in Nigeria’s public sector reform. Mrs Walson-Jack said that with the close of work on Tuesday, all Ministries and Extra-Ministerial Departments (MEMDs) complied with presidential and

The United States federal government is on track for another shutdown by the end of Friday. The Congressional Democrats have been pushing for changes to ICE policies, thus standing in the way of President Donald Trump. On Thursday, the Senate blocked the House-approved 6-bill spending package with a vote of 45–55. This is after the