Tag: News
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An embarrassing in-flight snafu and goodbye to a Las Vegas icon: The weekly news quiz
Oct. 12, 2024, 9:00 AM UTC By Annie Hill Passengers on a Qantas Airways flight got a surprise and Las Vegas said farewell to an icon. But what were they? Test your knowledge of the week in news and take last week’s quiz here. Annie Hill Annie Hill is platforms editor for NBC News based in…
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How the NBC News Decision Desk projects 2024 election races
When NBC News colors in a state or district red or blue on election night, that’s because the NBC News Decision Desk has determined it can project a winner in that race. Here’s how NBC News projects winners, the steps it takes to verify results and the answers to some frequently asked questions about the process. How does NBC…
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Texas lawmaker vows to ban medical research on unclaimed bodies after NBC News investigation
This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. A Texas state legislator is vowing to ban the use of unclaimed bodies for research in response to an NBC News investigation that found a local medical program obtained and studied hundreds of human specimens without…
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Turkey will not ‘be rushed’ on Ukraine NATO membership, Erdogan tells NBC News
Ukraine’s proposal for NATO membership is not a question “to be rushed,” Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told NBC News in an exclusive interview Tuesday, adding that relations between his country and Russia were “expanding.” Speaking on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Erdoğan said that the U.S. and other…
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North Carolina hospital company forgives debts of 11,500 people after NBC News report
In July, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, announced a medical debt relief program that all of the state’s 99 eligible hospitals agreed to participate in, forgiving medical debts dating back to Jan. 1, 2014, for Medicaid beneficiaries. In addition, medical debt considered uncollectible for patients whose income is at or below at least 350% of the…
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Texas medical program stops using unclaimed bodies following NBC News investigation
The Health Science Center also terminated its agreement with Dallas County, according to county Administrator Darryl Martin. He said the county had been planning to let the contract expire on Sept. 30 in light of NBC News’ findings. County officials had justified providing these bodies to the center because they had been marked as unclaimed…