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The failure of a hospital chain that provided its own malpractice insurance threatens to leave injured patients with no recourse.  
Absent Oversight: States give little scrutiny to “self-insuring” health care companies. Agency officials say laws allow them to dodge normal safeguards.
Physician, Pay for Thyself: Doctors promised malpractice insurance have discovered they have no coverage for defense expenses and claims. One met with a bankruptcy lawyer.

For-Profit Hospital Chain Never Put Aside Money for Malpractice Insurance to Compensate Injured Patients
Eager to save money, Prospect Medical promised to “self-insure” malpractice claims brought against its doctors and hospitals. The chain’s bankruptcy now threatens to leave hundreds of patients whose claims are pending with no recourse.

Trump administration indefinitely pauses immigrant visa processing for 75 nations (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/01/14/trump-immigration-visa-processing-pause/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY4MzY2ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY5NzQ5MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjgzNjY4MDAsImp0aSI6IjgwNmI2ZjI1LWVlNWYtNDBlYS1hNmZhLTcyNzY2ZGU1ZGUwNiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9pbW1pZ3JhdGlvbi8yMDI2LzAxLzE0L3RydW1wLWltbWlncmF0aW9uLXZpc2EtcHJvY2Vzc2luZy1wYXVzZS8ifQ.yK2tzz4Wq0IbYG9zt9mc_Wz4KM09TgPEFBCFQFVpdcs&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p4#a260115p4

At least 3 killed, 15 injured in Russian attacks across Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/15/at-least-killed-injured-in.html

The Uphill Battle of Navigating a Broken Immigration System - Progressive.org https://progressive.org/magazine/the-uphill-battle-of-navigating-a-broken-immigration-system-sanzum-20260209/

The Uphill Battle of Navigating a Broken Immigration System
Seeking asylum is a human right. But in the United States, this path to citizenship is long, confusing, and treacherous.

Raiders getting calls inquiring about No. 1 pick https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48488757/raiders-spytek-says-teams-inquired-no-1-draft-pick

Stephen Miller’s January 2026 announcement to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers
– telling them that they have “immunity to perform your duties”
and that no “illegal alien, no leftist agitator or domestic insurrectionist” can stop them
– may seem like an extreme statement outside the political mainstream.
And when ICE agents use facial recognition software to monitor immigrants and protesters,
that might seem like an unacceptable invasion of people’s p…

How the 9/11 terrorist attacks shaped ICE’s immigration strategy
The growth of today’s aggressive immigration tactics traces back 25 years, when enforcement took on the dimension of counterterrorism.

Federal authorities have opened a criminal probe into whether
two immigration officers lied under oath about a shooting in Minneapolis last month,
as all charges were dropped against two Venezuelan men.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons said Friday that
his agency opened a joint probe with the Justice Department after video evidence revealed
“sworn testimony provided by two separate officers appears to have made untruthful statements”

Feds investigating if ICE officers lied about a Minneapolis shooting
Federal authorities have opened a criminal probe into whether two immigration officers lied under oath about a shooting in Minneapolis last month, as all charges were dropped against two Venezuelan men. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons said Friday that his agency had opened a joint probe with the Justice Department after video evidence revealed “sworn testimony provided by two separate officers appears to have made untruthful statements” about the shooting of one of t…

“Trump is an old school eugenicist nativist. He actually is fine with immigrants as long as they have the right ‘genes,’”
David J. Bier, director of immigration for the Cato Institute, wrote on X.
“This argument was the basis of the creation of the restrictive US immigration system 100 years ago.”
“He’s a white supremacist. He doesn’t hide it,” Zeteo’s Mehdi Hasan wrote on X. 
This isn’t the first time Trump’s fearmongering about immigrants has crossed the line into ta…

Social Security COLA Increases Suddenly Look a Whole Lot Higher
“March’s 3.3% year-over-year inflation rate, up from 2.4% in February, could translate into a
Cost Of Living Adjustment of
3.2% for 2026,
according to Mary Johnson, an independent Social Security and Medicare policy analyst who calculates the projection.
Back in January, she had pegged the increase at just 1.2%.”

Social Security COLA Increases Suddenly Look a Whole Lot Higher — Barron’s
Higher gas prices drove the uptick in the projected cost-of-living adjustment.

Harry S. Truman was the first U.S. president to formally propose a comprehensive, national universal health insurance plan
In 1945 he proposed a single, federally run system for all Americans.
While Truman is the most prominent historical advocate, Presidents Richard Nixon and Theodore Roosevelt also supported different forms of universal healthcare coverage. 

69 years ago, a president pitches his idea for national health care
Back in 1945 -- a mere seven months into a presidency he inherited from Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Truman proposed a “universal” national health insurance program. In his remarks to Congress, he declared, “Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health. Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness. The time has arrived for action to help them attain that opportunity and that protection.”