State Dept. Wants All Visa Applicants To Provide Their Social Media Information
"This appears to be an expansion of a 2017 program that sought social media information only from a subset of initially suspicious visa applicants."
How to open your home to a Refugee Youth today
"Join the hundreds of foster parents across the United States who are meeting the needs of these vulnerable children and youth in the Unaccompanied Refugee Minor Program."
Foster parents of separated immigrant children ‘don’t know how much worse it could be’
"'Many kids are having nightmares, can't eat, can't sleep ... don't know where their parents are. The last image they have of their parents is shock and fear ... the memory never goes away.'"
Border Patrol Recorded Joking About Children Sobbing For Their Parents
"ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization, published the audio of children crying 'Mami' and 'Papi' while at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection detention facility on Monday."
Another shelter for warehoused immigrant children is planned for Houston
"Children as young as 18 months who arrive with their parents have been forced into government custody while the adults serve brief sentences for the misdemeanor crime of illegal entry before going to immigrant detention centers. In some cases, they are deported without their children."
How gut microbes are joining the fight against cancer
"Now, physicians are eager to analyse faecal samples from their patients in the hope of predicting who is likely to respond to anticancer drugs."
Monsanto weedkiller found in granola and crackers, internal FDA emails show
"The FDA has had trouble finding any food that does not carry traces of the pesticide."
Amazon-owned Whole Foods ‘temporarily’ halts GMO labeling program
"Five years ago, Whole Foods first announced its plans to adopt stringent mandatory labeling on products containing GMOs by 2018."
Google AI uses electronic health records to predict your death with 95% accuracy
"Google applied artificial intelligence to a vast amount of data from more than 216,000 adult patients hospitalized for at least 24 hours each in two medical centers."
The States Could Reform Obamacare If Only We Would Let Them
"The cause of the most serious problems in Obamacare can be summarized in a single word: Dumping. Group plans are dumping their sickest, most costly enrollees on the individual market. Within that market, health plans are dumping their most costly enrollees on each other. And individuals are dumping costs on other individuals by waiting to insure until they get sick."