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Supreme Court Skeptical of Overriding Preventive Medical Tests in Obamacare

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is trying to decide whether to keep an Affordable Care Act provision that requires insurers to offer no-cost preventive care tests. The court heard arguments Monday on whether the procedure for deciding which tests can be included under the national insurance program is legally flawed. A group of Christian plaintiffs are most bothered by the requirement for insurers to provide free HIV tests and medications. They said in their court filings that their contributions to the health insurance fund are inadvertently making them “complicit in facilitating homosexual behavior.” If they win their lawsuit, insurers could be relieved of the costs of the tests, passing them back to patients and undercutting a key provision of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The free tests are one of the most popular parts of the 15-year-old health insurance law, allowing early warning detection of high cholesterol, cancer, diabetes and other potentially deadly ailments. Obamacare is credi

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FDA to Phase Out Petroleum-Based Dyes in Foods

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it plans to end the use of petroleum-based synthetic food dyes in America’s food supply within the next two years in a bid to combat a myriad of health concerns, especially among children. The policy was announced by Marty Makary, the newly confirmed head of the Food and Drug Administration, at a press conference Tuesday afternoon at the headquarters of the Department of Health and Human Services. Also in attendance were Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and several representatives of the Make America Healthy Again movement. “For the last 50 years, we have been running one of the largest, uncontrolled scientific experiments in the world on our nation’s children, without their consent,” Makary said. “Today, we are ending that experiment, by removing petroleum-based chemicals from their food supply.” Though he quickly acknowledged eliminating what he called “chemical toxins” from the food supply is “not a silver bullet that will instantly

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Lying About Your Birth Year Might Not Cut It Anymore, As Meta Is Using AI-Powered Age Detection To Catch Underage Users And Move Them Into Teen Accounts

As social media companies are focused on introducing products and features that keep their users hooked, regulatory authorities are actively looking into protecting teenagers from the adverse impact of excessive consumption of these platforms. A growing number of teens, not only parents, seem worried about the harmful impacts of social media, as pointed out in…

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Al Gore Compares 2nd Trump Administration to Nazi Germany: ‘Their Own Preferred Version of Reality’

Former Vice President Al Gore compared the Trump administration to Nazi Germany on Monday, saying the president and his advisors aim to “create their own preferred version of reality” in order to achieve their immoral goals. Gore made the comment at an event in San Francisco that was tied to a climate change initiative as the city is currently observing “Climate Week,” Politico reported. “It was [Jürgen] Habermas’ mentor, Theodor Adorno, who wrote that the first step in that nation’s descent into hell was, and I quote, ‘The conversion of all questions of truth into questions of power,’” Gore told the crowd of about 150 people. “He described how the Nazis, and I quote again, ‘Attacked the very heart of the distinction between true and false,’ end quote. The Trump administration is insisting on trying to create their own preferred version of reality.” The harsh comparison came just a moment after Gore said he understands “very well why it is wrong to compare Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich to any other movement.” He

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