| What Congress is doing to stop Russian hackers next time Posted: 15 Jun 2017 02:13 PM PDT ![What Congress is doing to stop Russian hackers next time]( "What Congress is doing to stop Russian hackers next time") In the past week, a series of dramatic congressional hearings have sought to plumb possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia – or possible presidential obstruction of justice over the matter, which special counsel Robert Mueller is now reportedly investigating. Absent an administration that is staffed up or a president inclined to go hard on Moscow, Congress is looking to define its own strategy. "We don't really have a Russia strategy" to prevent a repeat of election meddling, says James Lewis, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
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| America's dental-care gap is wide. How some states are trying to close it Posted: 15 Jun 2017 01:20 PM PDT ![America's dental-care gap is wide. How some states are trying to close it]( "America's dental-care gap is wide. How some states are trying to close it") For Dorothy Macaione, a 97-year-old with false teeth that no longer fit, it felt like a bridge too far. Which is how she found herself taking a public shared-ride service in May, headed back to a teaching hospital in Boston for the next stage of discounted dental work. In the national debate over health-care, dental insurance is often overlooked.
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| What Turkey's crackdown on NGOs means for Syrian war relief Posted: 15 Jun 2017 12:37 PM PDT ![What Turkey's crackdown on NGOs means for Syrian war relief]( "What Turkey's crackdown on NGOs means for Syrian war relief") After two months of detention in Turkey, the four Syrian staffers from a Danish relief agency were released and expelled from the country, part of an escalating battle between the Turkish government and Western aid organizations that is complicating relief efforts for Syrian victims of war. Recommended: Think you know Turkey?
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| Alex Jones flap: How should media handle conspiracy theories in the Trump era? Posted: 15 Jun 2017 12:07 PM PDT ![Alex Jones flap: How should media handle conspiracy theories in the Trump era?]( "Alex Jones flap: How should media handle conspiracy theories in the Trump era?") When NBC News host Megyn Kelly announced this week that her show would feature the radio host and conspiracy-promoting provocateur Alex Jones this Sunday, she may not have realized the furious backlash it would create. Mr. Jones has on numerous occasions called the massacre of children at Sandy Hook "a giant hoax" that "clearly used actors" and that "pretty much didn't happen." (He since has backed off, calling himself a "devil's advocate.") His website has also advanced the conspiracy that the 9/11 terror attacks were actually an "inside job" by the United States government – a view shared by others on the fringes of both the right and left. Some parents of the 20 children killed at Sandy Hook were outraged.
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