In 1996, Congress enacted a law to assure Americans that their sensitive personal health data would never be disclosed without their consent. Lawmakers had never heard of AI. Thirty years after passage of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, known as HIPAA, artificial intelligence is disrupting the patient privacy that the law created. Individuals’ […]
A former Immigration and Customs Enforcement official told a congressional forum Monday that the agency’s training is “deficient, defective and broken” and that its leaders have been “lying to Congress and the American people.” Ryan Schwank, a former lawyer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement who taught recruits at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, resigned […]
Escalating violence in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, isn’t just having an impact on American tourists, but the thousands of U.S. expats who call the city home. Census data from 2020 shows more than 3,000 Americans live there. Americans in Mexico That number is about to rise by at least one, because American Todd Price is keeping […]
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the standard-bearer of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, says President Donald Trump’s order on the weed killer glyphosate will protect the U.S. food chain while also allowing the country to wean itself from the broadleaf herbicide. “I will always tell the American people the […]
CBS News is parting ways with longevity physician Dr. Peter Attia after documents showed he had interacted with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In an exclusive with The Hollywood Reporter, officials said staff were told of the decision Monday in a note from the company’s bookings department. Attia told CBS he would resign effective immediately […]
Silicon Valley’s move-fast-and-break-things ethos has collided with medicine’s slow and restrained, follow-the-evidence philosophy. The reverberations were swift and deep. In its wake: a health care system flooded with new artificial intelligence tools. Imaging algorithms flag subtle abnormalities on mammograms and CT scans. Predictive models forecast no-shows and streamline hospital schedules. There are even a few […]
More than 40 million people are waking up under blizzard warnings on Monday as a powerful winter storm moves up the East Coast. Travel bans, school closures and thousands of flight cancellations are already in effect from the Mid-Atlantic through southern New England. Snow began as rain in some areas on Sunday before turning to […]
Mexico killed the leader of a powerful drug cartel. Within hours, violent retaliation spread across several states. Plus, a major winter storm hammers the East Coast, forcing travel bans and grounding thousands of flights. And an armed man was shot and killed after breaching the perimeter of Mar-a-Lago. Investigators are now detailing what brought him […]
The European Union is holding an emergency meeting Monday amid confusion over U.S. tariffs. The bloc’s trade chief is expected to propose suspending ratification of the U.S.-E.U. trade deal until leaders get “full clarity” on American tariff policy. Tariff back-and-forth The move follows a Supreme Court ruling Friday, saying President Donald Trump does not have the authority to impose unilateral tariffs under the International […]
FBI Director Kash Patel is facing criticism after appearing in the USA men’s hockey team locker room following their gold-medal win over Canada on Sunday. A video circulating on X shows Patel celebrating with the team, drinking a beer and wearing a gold medal that one of the players loaned him. A source sent me […]
