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What would a world without medical debt look like? In Germany's former coal-mining region medical debt is almost unknown, despite economic challenges and health problems. Here's why.

Where Is Sri Lanka? What Are Its DemographicsSri Lanka is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, and it’s off the southeastern coast of the Indian subcontinent. In an area of about 25,000 square miles (slightly larger than West Virginia), its main sources of income from exports are textiles, ...

HARTFORD, Conn. — The Justice Department’s inspector general has concluded that it wasn’t “malicious intent,” but rather “bureaucratic incompetence” that was responsible for mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger’s brutal beating death when prison officials transferred him to a violent West Virginia prison and housed him with rival gangsters in 2018.

A report issued Wednesday recommends disciplinary action for prison workers in connection to the famed mobster’s murder.