Errors and accidents often go unreported in the burgeoning fertility industry, which is largely self-policed and not mandated to notify even patients of mistakes.

Read Lenny Bernstein & Yeganeh Torbati is on book leave in 2024's dive into the opaque world of IVF.

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NEW: As bird flu spreads in cows, U.S. response has echoes of early covid. Testing of cows too limited. Results + studies not shared fast enough. Genetic analysis of H5N1 suggests outbreak started months before it was noticed. w ⁦Rachel Roubein⁩ washingtonpost.com/health/2024/04…

“The people of this blue-collar town on the north side of what used to be the Francis Scott Key Bridge, now a tangle of metal in the Patapsco River, are still trying to make sense of it all.” ⁦Joe Heim⁩ washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/…

Our national, expensive domestic PPE gambit: Two years after a showy groundbreaking, a $350 million medical gloves plant in Baltimore sits empty.

Great accountability journalism from the ⁦⁦The Baltimore Banner⁩. thebaltimorebanner.com/article/baltim…

New from me: Arizona voters will decide whether property owners should get rebates if the city fails to crack down on homeless people latimes.com/politics/story…

Bad times for #opengov in Florida!!

'Approximately two weeks after FDLE and the Post reached their agreement about the AMP records, FDLE’s then-counsel met with [DeSantis] officials who overruled her determination and directed FDLE not to disclose any further public records.

The great Liz Goodwin joins us for the latest Campaign Moment podcast.

We talked Tim Sheehy, the Trump trial, Biden/Israel and the latest machinations in Congress.

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NRA promising to reform how charitable arm spends money in settlement with DC AG, avoiding another potentially embarrassing and expensive trial. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Sheehy apologized and asked for leniency after alleged 2015 gun incident washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

NEW: In a few hours, AZ lawmakers will vote on whether to repeal the 1864 abortion ban — and the GOP is reeling. Kari Lake is begging moderates to repeal for her/Trump, while one said anti advocates are issuing threats.

From Phoenix, w/ Yvonne Wingett Sanchez washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

New: The abortion debate is giving Kamala Harris a moment. But voters still aren’t sold latimes.com/politics/story…

What a loss to the Miami Herald alumni community. Al Chardy, the reporter who broke the Iran-Contra affair, a great reporter and kind soul, died at 72.
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Fascinating story

This year marks 50 years since DC held its first local elections. My story on DC home rule history was on NPR’s Here & Now today. (Again!) wbur.org/hereandnow/202…

The day Ecuador’s drug gangs led President Noboa to declare war. Incredible reporting by ⁦Samantha Schmidt⁩ washingtonpost.com/world/interact…

Tim Sheehy builds his Senate campaign in Montana on once-secret Navy exploits washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/… w/Beth Reinhard Liz Goodwin

Judge blocks request to depose top DeSantis aides in travel records lawsuit politi.co/4aFiSMn via POLITICO

Message from Anya Cook, who nearly died after being denied an abortion in 2022, to FL women now facing six-week ban: “Run,” she said. “Run, because you have no help here.” ⁦Caroline Kitchener⁩ washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/04…