Monthly Archives: December, 2023

In the Federal Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) Process Administrative Fee and Certified IDR Entity Fee Ranges final rule released today, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury (the Departments) finalize fees associated with use of the Federal IDR process under the No Surprises Act (NSA), which was enacted as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA).

I undertook an ambitious project for the 2023 California Health Equity Fellowship: A three-part series investigating the closure of California’s century-old juvenile state correctional institutions and scrutinizing the challenges faced by county probation departments in handling youths convicted of serious crimes like robbery, rape and murder.

China says it is banning a United States research company and two analysts who have reported extensively on claims of human rights abuses committed against Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups native to the country’s far northwestern region of Xinjiang.

With the GOP primary process just about to start, many Republicans aren’t certain that votes will be counted correctly in their presidential primary contest, amid widespread pessimism about the future of both the Democratic and Republican parties, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

U.S. President Joe Biden ordered the United States military to carry out retaliatory airstrikes against Iranian-backed militia groups after three U.S. service members were injured in a drone attack in northern Iraq.