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Caitlin Gilbert
3 months ago
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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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.
https://wapo.st/3VN0qw9
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Emily Giambalvo
3 months ago
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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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.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/interactive/2025/parlay-popularity-odds-sportsbooks/
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Lena Sun
11 months ago
NEW: CDC scrubs gender, equity references from public health material. Includes data sets. “Orwellian,” says one doctor. W
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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.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/01/31/cdc-website-gender-lgbtq-data/
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Caitlin Gilbert
11 months ago
Latest with
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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.
https://wapo.st/3CmpKCV
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Andrew Ba Tran
about 1 year ago
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.
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Jeremy Merrill
about 1 year ago
Elon Musk's total view count on Twitter is way way bigger (16x) than that of Congress as a whole. chart by
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John D. Harden
about 1 year ago
More to come later this week, but read how we reported all of the stories in this series here:
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Jeremy Merrill
about 1 year ago
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. 🎁:
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Emily Giambalvo
about 1 year ago
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:
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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.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/12/17/college-football-wedding-planning/
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