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KFF Health News: Criminally ill: Systemic failures turn state mental hospitals into prisons

Associated Press: Deepfake AI cyberbullying: How parents, schools can respond

The New York Times: Hospitals cater to ‘transplant tourists’ as U.S. patients wait for organs

Colorado Public Radio: FEMA denies Colorado disaster declaration requests

Associated Press: Police combat training drills leave trail of deaths, injuries

The New York Times: Google buys data center company for $4.75 billion

The Washington Post: Supersized data centers are coming. See how they will transform America.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: PSC gives Georgia Power OK on $16B data center power plant expansion

StateScoop: Why don’t more child welfare agencies use predictive risk models?

NPR: Rick Steves steps in to save Seattle-area hygiene center

ProPublica: The FDA often doesn’t test the quality of generic drugs, so we did

The Wall Street Journal: America’s seniors are overmedicated

The Washington Post: Bankruptcies soar as companies grapple with inflation and tariffs

Nebraska Public Media: ‘Devastating shock’: Residents, city leaders wonder what’s next for Lexington after Tyson closure announcement

The New York Times: A mysterious death of a teen worker at a Nebraska hog farm

Associated Press: Jim Beam halts bourbon production at Kentucky distillery for a year

L.A. Times: School districts keep public in the dark about big sex abuse payouts

The Washington Post: The new science of ‘many autisms’ and what it reveals about condition’s origins

The New York Times: Epstein files include 1996 child porn complaint that F.B.I. ignored

The Wall Street Journal: We let Anthropic’s Claude AI run our office vending machine. It lost hundreds of dollars.

Outside: More than 300 human ‘cremains’ recovered in the Mojave Desert

The Atlantic: The Roomba was a disappointment

NPR: How ‘The Nutcracker’ helps ballet companies pay the bills

NPR: ‘White Christmas’ is a holiday song with a hidden history

NPR: Meet the 101-year-old who runs the largest nutcracker museum in the U.S.

Smithsonian Magazine: Marshmallow-topped hot chocolate will keep you warm this long solstice night

NPR: From bird droppings to holiday kisses: How we ended up under the mistletoe