Thursday - November 12, 2026

News Tipoffs - Kentucky Editors

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Empower Oversight Presses CMS to End Payments for Psychoeducation
FAIRFAX, Virginia, Nov. 7 -- Empower Oversight Whistleblowers and Research, an organization dedicated to enhancing independent oversight of government and corporate wrongdoing, issued the following news release: * * * Empower Oversight presses CMS to End Payments for Psychoeducation November 6, 2026 WASHINGTON - Empower Oversight is pressing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to end payments to entities utilizing the code for "psychoeducational service." Empower Oversight's requ  more
Environmental Working Group: Nearly 7M U.S. School Students May Be Exposed to Pesticides Used to Treat Crop Fields
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 -- The Environmental Working Group issued the following research: * * * Nearly 7M U.S. school students may be exposed to pesticides used to treat crop fields 1 in 4 schools within a quarter-mile of pesticide-treated fields, new EWG analysis shows By Geoff Horsfield (EWG), Al Rabine (EWG) November 5, 2026 Nearly 20,000 U.S. public elementary and middle schools sit within a quarter-mile of crop fields where harmful pesticides may be sprayed, a new EWG analysis finds. Almos  more