having been a california resident until recently, terrible air quality with fires & winter is not so strange to me ... but being in salem and smelling the smoke was still very jarring! this explainer by Ken Mahan & Scooty Nickerson bostonglobe.com/2024/11/20/met…

RSVPing >_<

New: Federal agents briefly detained former Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre early last week, served him with a search warrant, and seized his phone, according to three people briefed on the matter. bostonglobe.com/2024/11/25/met…

whoa!

yoon's gameplan was to declare martial law late at night and put up a few barricades at parliament so that lawmakers couldn't vote against it? And then the lawmakers just hopped the barricades? hope this is the end of it so we can laugh.

So Yoon declared the martial law because the liberals were "paralyzing" the government... nothing like an emergency martial law for the first time in 44 years to un-paralyze them and spur them to their chamber at 12:40am to vote against the declaration.

yoon: all my enemies now under martial law korea: nope source: wapo

BREAKING: South Korea’s parliament has voted to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived martial law declaration this month. apnews.com/article/south-…

Massachusetts’s elected officials and state regulators repeatedly failed to discipline, slow, or check Steward Health Care’s aggressive expansion and pursuit of profit. It came at the expense of patient care. Read the new Spotlight investigation: apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/investig…

"It’s a circular blame game. At stake are tens of millions of dollars for former patients and people who were injured or wronged by the company." Latest in the Steward saga by Boston Globe Spotlight Team team bostonglobe.com/2024/12/27/met…

"What’s emerged is a cautionary tale about letting a wannabe billionaire, a titan of private equity, and a real estate investment trust become stewards of a public necessity like health care."

Check out this incredible teaser for the upcoming Boston Globe Spotlight Team series called 'Snitch City' by Dugan Arnett. It will be a podcast too! apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/investig…

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Several databases at the CDC have gone offline today. We know of some — Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, AtlasPlus. There are undoubtedly more. If you are a researcher & use these databases, please share with STAT.com how this will affect your work.

The State Department website has replaced "LGBT" with "LGB"

The CDC informational page on trans and gender diverse people literally redirects to the STI page.

Happy Valentine's Day

So grateful to share a The Pulitzer Prizes finalist nod for our coverage of Steward Health Care w/ the best team Liz Kowalczyk Chris Serres Hanna Krueger Jessica Bartlett Mark Arsenault Yoohyun Jung 🌎 Rebecca Ostriker Catherine Carlock Brendan McCarthy Gordon Russell pulitzer.org/finalists/22660