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The EPA Is in Chaos

3 months 3 weeks ago

“We learn who is furloughed when we send an email to someone and get the out-of-office message,” one employee tells WIRED.

Molly Taft

When the hospital leaves town

3 months 3 weeks ago

In large swaths of rural America, the basic expectation that an ambulance will reach a hospital within minutes no longer holds. Hospital closures, service cuts and fragile finances are stretching rural healthcare to a breaking point, reshaping where people can safely live, work, give birth and grow old.

Ayla Ellison

Why a lot of people are getting hacked with government spyware

3 months 3 weeks ago

Government surveillance vendors want us to believe their spyware products are only used in limited and targeted operations against terrorists and serious criminals. That claim is increasingly difficult to justify, given the broad range of victims — journalists, activists, and now political consultants — that have come forward.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai