## Arizona cancels medical debt for almost half-a-million residents

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And under a deal the state cut with Undue Medical, the beneficiaries all get letters crediting not just United Medical but also the governor.

What’s behind all this is a program that United Medical has been offering across the nation.

Established in 2014, it uses government funds and private donations to acquire portfolios of medical debt from health care providers or debt buyers.

The program is aimed at those whose medical debt whose income is less than 400% of the federal poverty level.

He said the letters are designed to tell people not just that their medical debt was relieved but “how it happened.”.

“The medical debt relief would not be possible without the governor’s leadership and focus on lowering costs and delivering economic opportunity for every Arizonan,” Slater said.

Anyway, she said, Arizona wouldn’t be the first jurisdiction to use COVID dollars from the American Rescue Plan Act in this way. »

### Public release of Epstein records puts Maxwell under fresh scrutiny amid her claims of innocence

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Epstein accuser Danielle Bensky said the release of records has only sharpened the focus on Maxwell’s crimes among their victims.

Flight logs showed Epstein and Maxwell went to the school sponsoring the camp because Epstein was a donor.

The agent said the girl thought her relationship with Epstein and Maxwell was strange, “but Maxwell normalized it for her. »

### Canada backs Greenland’s sovereignty as U.S. talks of annexation - National

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Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is affirming Greenland’s sovereignty as Washington again says it wants to annex the self-governing territory of Denmark.

Anand spoke Tuesday with her Danish counterpart Lars Lokke Rasmussen and says she conveyed “Canada’s support for the fundamental importance of respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity.”.

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### Starfield was a "bat**** crazy idea" for a studio that's "never made a space sim," Bethesda lead admits, but "an ambitious project is what we aim for"

Authored by gamesradar.com

For Pagliarulo, those big swings are exactly what Bethesda is all about.

"An ambitious project is what we aim for," Pagliarulo explains.

"In a lot of ways, Starfield is a bat**** crazy idea for a studio that's like, 'we've never made a space sim, let's do that.'". »

### Into the void: how Trump killed international law

Authored by theguardian.com

There is no linear Trump foreign policy, just a catherine wheel of disconnected explosions thrown out across the night sky.

As Donald Trump Jr asserts, as if it were a virtue, his father is the most unpredictable man in politics.

We do not even ask them to have respect for international law, but ask to take a step back from going 100 miles away from international law.”. »

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