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The CDC waited ‘its entire existence for this moment.’ What went wrong?

June 3, 2020 at 10:37 a.m.

Americans returning from China landed at U.S. airports by the thousands in early February, potential carriers of a deadly virus who had been diverted to a handful of cities for...

Need a coronavirus test? Being rich and famous may help

March 19, 2020 at 9:24 a.m.

Politicians, celebrities, social media influencers and even NBA teams have been tested for the new coronavirus. But as that list of rich, famous and powerful people grows by the day,...

‘Re-homing’ to be topic of U.S. Senate hearing

May 23, 2019 at 4:41 p.m.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate subcommittee will hear testimony Tuesday about how the federal government can stop parents from transferring custody of their adopted children to strangers met...

Wisconsin passes law to curb private custody transfers of children

August 24, 2021 at 11:03 p.m.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wisconsin has adopted a law to limit private custody transfers of children, the first law of its kind in the United States, responding to a Reuters...

Russia launches criminal inquiry into U.S. child exchanges

August 24, 2021 at 5:55 p.m.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Authorities in Moscow said Thursday they are investigating whether Russian children adopted by American families were illegally trafficked in the United States. The probe comes in response...

U.S. lawmakers call for action to curb Internet child trading

August 24, 2021 at 4:58 p.m.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers called Tuesday for federal action to prevent parents from giving unwanted adopted children to strangers met on the Internet, and the Illinois attorney general urged...

U.S. lawmakers call for action to curb Internet child trading

May 23, 2019 at 4:22 p.m.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers called Tuesday for federal action to prevent parents from giving unwanted adopted children to strangers met on the Internet, and the Illinois attorney general urged...

Special Report: Amateurs go online to broker unwanted adopted children

December 24, 2018 at 4:23 a.m.

HICKORY, North Carolina - When Megan Exon began moderating an Internet bulletin board in 2007, she viewed her effort as a way to help kids find better homes. The group...

Illinois hospital oversight limited

June 17, 2018 at 6:45 p.m.

Gregory Jones had been at Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center less than an hour when he turned a sheet into a noose and committed suicide. His body hung from...

Jeanine Thomas contracted an infection in her leg during ankle surgery at a Chicago hospital, causing septic shock and organ failure, she said. She became an advocate for hospital safety. "These complaints can reveal real problems," she said. "If the state doesn't investigate, the problems will repeat themselves over and over."

State declines to investigate vast majority of hospital complaints

June 18, 2018 at 1:14 a.m.

A patient at Harrisburg Medical Center complained to the state that a bacterial infection spreading through the hospital had already killed one person and that nurses and doctors did not...

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