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Top White House cyber aide says recent Iran hack on water system is call to tighten cybersecurity
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top White House national security official said recent cyber attacks by Iranian hackers on U.S. water authorities — as well as a separate spate of ransomware attacks on the health care industry — should be seen as a call to action by utilities and industry to tighten...
Maternal mortality rate is much higher for Black women than white women in Mississippi, study says
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Black people make up about 38% of Mississippi's population, but a new study shows that Black women were four times more likely to die of causes directly related to pregnancy than white women in the state in 2020. “It is imperative that this racial inequity...
Editorial Roundup: South Carolina
The State. December 6, 2023. Editorial: On healthcare, NC has accepted what SC lawmakers continue to reject As a long-time physician and public health advocate in Rock Hill, S.C., I am looking to our northern neighbors with envy. On Dec. 1, North Carolina closed the...
Editorial Roundup: West Virginia
Charleston Gazette-Mail. December 6, 2023. Editorial: Something is rotten at WV’s Southern Regional Jail The Southern Regional Jail, in Raleigh County, is emerging as the embodiment of everything that is wrong with the criminal justice system in West Virginia and,...
Sen. Krawiec and Rep. Gill won't seek reelection to the North Carolina General Assembly
KERNERSVILLE, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina state Sen. Joyce Krawiec, who has successfully pushed to overhaul Medicaid, streamline health care access and further restrict abortion while in the General Assembly, announced on Monday that she won't seek reelection next year. Krawiec, a...
Pope Francis says he's doing better but again skips his window appearance facing St. Peter's Square
VATICAN CITY (AP) — For a second Sunday, an ailing Pope Francis skipped his popular window appearance to the public in St. Peter’s Square, but in televised remarks said he’s doing better even though his voice wouldn't let him read all his comments aloud. As he did a week...
North Carolina governor and allies celebrate kickoff of Medicaid expansion
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Gov. Roy Cooper and health care advocates celebrated Friday's official start of Medicaid expansion in North Carolina, the result of state legislation this year that's expected to help roughly 600,000 low-income adults obtain the government health insurance. ...
Pope says he has acute bronchitis, doctors recommended against travel to avoid change in temperature
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis said on Thursday that he is suffering from acute, infectious bronchitis and that doctors recommended he cancel his planned visit to Dubai this weekend to avoid the quick changes in temperature that would be involved. “As you can see, I’m alive,”...
Hundreds of thousands in North Carolina will be added to Medicaid rolls this week
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A decade after the federal government began offering expanded Medicaid coverage in states that opted to accept it, hundreds of thousands of adults in North Carolina are set to receive benefits, a development that boosters say will aid hospitals and local economies in addition...
Pope Francis is still having trouble breathing due to lung inflammation, Vatican says
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is still having trouble breathing as a result of a lung inflammation that forced him to cancel his scheduled address at the U.N. climate conference in Dubai and to delegate the reading of his weekly catechesis lesson and other remarks to aides, the Vatican said...
