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EXCLUSIVE: Veterans are swamping the VA with dubious disability claims, including cases of fraud totaling tens of millions of dollars. 100% disability is now the most common rating.
our first story in our series on the VA’s disability program, with Craig Whitlock and Lisa Rein:
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our first story in our series on the VA’s disability program, with Craig Whitlock and Lisa Rein:
wapo.st/3VN0qw9
How some veterans exploit $193 billion VA program, due to lax controls
The Department of Veterans Affairs spends billions on dubious and even fraudulent disabilities benefits. Meanwhile, some deserving cases wait.
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October 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Veterans are swamping the VA with dubious disability claims, including cases of fraud totaling tens of millions of dollars. 100% disability is now the most common rating.
our first story in our series on the VA’s disability program, with Craig Whitlock and Lisa Rein:
wapo.st/3VN0qw9
our first story in our series on the VA’s disability program, with Craig Whitlock and Lisa Rein:
wapo.st/3VN0qw9
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How America’s favorite sports bet is fueling sportsbook profits
Parlays are becoming more popular, accounting for an increasing share of the money wagered on sports, according to a Post analysis of betting data. Bettors lose billions a year on these bets.
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Parlays are becoming more popular, accounting for an increasing share of the money wagered on sports, according to a Post analysis of betting data. Bettors lose billions a year on these bets.
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Americans can’t stop betting parlays. Sportbooks are cashing in.
As betting booms, parlays are accounting for an increasing share of the money wagered on sports, according to a Washington Post analysis of state data.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
How America’s favorite sports bet is fueling sportsbook profits
Parlays are becoming more popular, accounting for an increasing share of the money wagered on sports, according to a Post analysis of betting data. Bettors lose billions a year on these bets.
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/inter...
Parlays are becoming more popular, accounting for an increasing share of the money wagered on sports, according to a Post analysis of betting data. Bettors lose billions a year on these bets.
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/inter...
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NEW: CDC scrubs gender, equity references from public health material. Includes data sets. “Orwellian,” says one doctor. W @dtkeating.bsky.social and @fenitn.bsky.social
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CDC removes gender, equity references in public health material
Large sets of data are being scrubbed of references to transgender and LGBTQ+ people, among others, which could compromise their use in research.
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February 1, 2025 at 1:02 AM
NEW: CDC scrubs gender, equity references from public health material. Includes data sets. “Orwellian,” says one doctor. W @dtkeating.bsky.social and @fenitn.bsky.social
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RFK Jr as HHS secretary would be a boon to the wellness/alternative therapies industries, as he has talked often about vitamins and supplements among other alt treatments and claimed the FDA has “aggressively”suppressed these remedies.
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RFK Jr as HHS secretary would be a boon to the wellness/alternative therapies industries, as he has talked often about vitamins and supplements among other alt treatments and claimed the FDA has “aggressively”suppressed these remedies.
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Alternative medicine fans see RFK Jr. as a hero. The field’s skeptics worry.
Kennedy’s potential ascent as HHS secretary brings promise for backers of alternative-health approaches, while skeptics say those treatments are often unproven.
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January 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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RFK Jr as HHS secretary would be a boon to the wellness/alternative therapies industries, as he has talked often about vitamins and supplements among other alt treatments and claimed the FDA has “aggressively”suppressed these remedies.
wapo.st/3CmpKCV
RFK Jr as HHS secretary would be a boon to the wellness/alternative therapies industries, as he has talked often about vitamins and supplements among other alt treatments and claimed the FDA has “aggressively”suppressed these remedies.
wapo.st/3CmpKCV
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Watch this livestream of me stumbling through analyzing the Indian Boarding Schools data we just released. I'm going to try to create some charts to put on social media. #rstats youtube.com/live/zffaYBK...
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Watch this livestream of me stumbling through analyzing the Indian Boarding Schools data we just released. I'm going to try to create some charts to put on social media. #rstats youtube.com/live/zffaYBK...
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Elon Musk's total view count on Twitter is way way bigger (16x) than that of Congress as a whole.
chart by @kevinschaul.bsky.social
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December 19, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Elon Musk's total view count on Twitter is way way bigger (16x) than that of Congress as a whole.
chart by @kevinschaul.bsky.social
chart by @kevinschaul.bsky.social
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More to come later this week, but read how we reported all of the stories in this series here:
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December 18, 2024 at 7:53 PM
More to come later this week, but read how we reported all of the stories in this series here:
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Elon Musk has a political megaphone unmatched in modern society. He got a total of 133 billion views since July, and ~1/3 of his posts are about politics.
His typical tweet gets more than 2.4 million views in just one hour, according to our novel view-count time-series dataset.
🎁: wapo.st/3VLjlI6
His typical tweet gets more than 2.4 million views in just one hour, according to our novel view-count time-series dataset.
🎁: wapo.st/3VLjlI6
December 17, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Elon Musk has a political megaphone unmatched in modern society. He got a total of 133 billion views since July, and ~1/3 of his posts are about politics.
His typical tweet gets more than 2.4 million views in just one hour, according to our novel view-count time-series dataset.
🎁: wapo.st/3VLjlI6
His typical tweet gets more than 2.4 million views in just one hour, according to our novel view-count time-series dataset.
🎁: wapo.st/3VLjlI6
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There's lots of conversation about weddings during college football season, but I wanted to see if a team's schedule *actually* made a difference in the number of weddings in a region on a date.
Bye weeks? Big games? Home vs. away? SEC vs. everyone else?
A data-driven analysis:
bit.ly/4iIBuzV
Bye weeks? Big games? Home vs. away? SEC vs. everyone else?
A data-driven analysis:
bit.ly/4iIBuzV
Will you marry me? During the bye week, obviously.
The Washington Post, smitten with football and love stories, analyzed data from The Knot to see how college football schedules impact wedding planning.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 17, 2024 at 1:45 PM
There's lots of conversation about weddings during college football season, but I wanted to see if a team's schedule *actually* made a difference in the number of weddings in a region on a date.
Bye weeks? Big games? Home vs. away? SEC vs. everyone else?
A data-driven analysis:
bit.ly/4iIBuzV
Bye weeks? Big games? Home vs. away? SEC vs. everyone else?
A data-driven analysis:
bit.ly/4iIBuzV