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Presidential history quiz: Test your knowledge before the election

Tuesday marks the 59th presidential election of the United States. That’s 59 contests, 45 presidencies and 231 years’ worth of surprising trivia. Voters have spent more than a year getting to know the candidates, President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, but how deep is your knowledge of the other men who’ve served in… Read More »

Uptick in heart attacks following 2016 presidential election

The hospitalization rate for acute cardiovascular disease (CVD) events in a large southern California health system was 1.62 times higher in the two days immediately after the 2016 presidential election when compared with the same two days in the week prior to the 2016 election, according to new research from Harvard T.H. Chan School of… Read More »

How a fight over health care entangled Elizabeth Warren — and reshaped the Democratic presidential race – The Washington Post

In mid-November, a few dozen of the country’s most influential advocates of Medicare-for-all were reviewing details of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s plan to finance the proposed government-run program when they learned that she had unexpectedly changed her position. Warren (D-Mass.), who had excited liberals when she initially embraced a Medicare-for-all idea first proposed by rival presidential… Read More »