A teenage cancer survivor in remission lost her Medicaid disability coverage after Montana officials reclassified her eligibility without consulting her treating physicians, exposing the bureaucratic chaos states face as federal work requirements roll out nationwide. Taya Hailstone was ten years old when doctors diagnosed her with Hodgkin lymphoma. During treatment, her intestines tore and had […] The post Montana stripped a 19-year-old cancer survivor's Medicaid coverage — without calling her doctors appeared first on American Almanac .
A teenage cancer survivor in remission lost her Medicaid disability coverage after Montana officials reclassified her eligibility without consulting her treating physicians, exposing the bureaucratic chaos states face as federal work requirements roll out nationwide. Taya Hailstone was ten years old when doctors diagnosed her with Hodgkin lymphoma. During treatment, her intestines tore and had to be partially removed. She has been in remission for five years. She still sees doctors roughly three times a week, driving nearly two hours round-trip from Roundup, a central Montana town of about 2,000 people, to specialists in Billings. The federal government classified her as disabled as recently as 2024. Then Montana's Department of Public…Open
A software flaw in Georgia's statewide voting equipment, first exposed in 2022, can allow voters to be matched to their ballots, and state officials have refused to apply the manufacturer's recommended fix before this fall's elections. Security researchers at the University of Michigan and Princeton University are raising fresh alarms about the vulnerability in Georgia's […] The post Georgia's known voting software flaw still unfixed ahead of November midterms appeared first on American Almanac .
A software flaw in Georgia's statewide voting equipment, first exposed in 2022, can allow voters to be matched to their ballots, and state officials have refused to apply the manufacturer's recommended fix before this fall's elections. Security researchers at the University of Michigan and Princeton University are raising fresh alarms about the vulnerability in Georgia's Dominion Voting Systems equipment, now sold under the name Liberty Vote. The flaw allows electronic ballot records that are supposed to be randomized to be restored to their original casting order. Combined with publicly available data, early voting lists, scanner audit logs, and precinct check-in records obtainable through open records requests, that sequence can be used…Open
GOP Rep. Mike Flood (Neb.) said Sunday he supports providing the Pentagon with more funding amid the Iran war over passing legislation to implement President Trump’s $5,000 dividend proposal. “First thing, I think we need to see the proposal, but the priority, in my opinion right now, should be funding our troops and replenishing our [...]
Democratic Rep. Greg Stanton (Ariz.) said Sunday that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) should keep lawmakers in session to address the risks of rapidly advancing artificial intelligence models. “We should take the warnings of the leading investigators of AI very, very seriously,” Stanton told host Chris Stirewalt on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday,” after a former Anthropic [...]