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September 22: Russia’s Bomb Shelters and Proposed ACA Coverage Removals
In Russia’s war on Ukraine
Russian authorities are spending tens of millions of roubles repairing bomb shelters in Moscow and shelters at St Petersburg metro stations, as Ukrainian drone strikes continue to reach targets inside Russia. A Ukrainian drone strike hit another Russian refinery on Sunday, underscoring how a war nearing its fifth year is also reshaping civilian preparations far from the front.
In U.S. health policy
The Trump administration is expected to announce plans to remove hundreds of thousands of people from Affordable Care Act coverage. Vice President JD Vance and other officials say the affected enrollees obtained coverage fraudulently. The scale of the proposed removals will make the administration’s evidence and review process central questions.
In Poland
Polish authorities have detained a 17-year-old accused of planning a mass terrorist attack targeting a school and a mosque. Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek described the alleged plot as a planned mass-casualty attack. Authorities have not released further details on the alleged preparations.
In African finance
IFC managing director Makhtar Diop says investors routinely price Africa as a single risk category, raising borrowing costs when instability in one country is treated as a threat to the entire continent. The World Bank’s private-sector arm plans to share its emerging-market credit-risk data with investors and ratings agencies, hoping actual repayment and performance records can narrow that premium.
In astronomy
Astronomers using South Africa’s MeerKAT array have directly detected radio emissions from the exoplanet Beta Pictoris b. Researchers say the signal is planetary in origin, not evidence of alien communication, a clarification that will disappoint only the people already drafting the press conference.
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