Emmanuel Martinez

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Desmond Butler |Trisha Thadani |Emmanuel Martinez |Aaron Gregg |Luis Melgar |Jonathan O'Connell | +1 more

Elon Musk and his cost-cutting U.S. DOGE Service team have been on a mission to trim government largesse. Yet Musk is one of the greatest beneficiaries of the taxpayers’ coffers. Over the years, Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits, often at critical moments, a Washington Post analysis has found, helping seed the growth that has made him the world’s richest person. The payments stretch back more than 20 years.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Desmond Butler |Trisha Thadani |Emmanuel Martinez |Aaron Gregg |Luis Melgar |Jonathan O'Connell | +1 more

11 hours agoGerman startup Proxima Fusion — whose team includes engineers from MIT, Google, SpaceX, and McLaren — has unveiled a fusion energy reactor design it believes offers the quickest route to commercially viable fusion power. Dubbed Stellaris, the machine is a quasi-isodynamic (QI) stellarator with …

2 months ago | link.springer.com | Emmanuel Martinez |Cancer Outcomes

AbstractReal-time or synchronous telemedicine can be a valuable adjunctive strategy for chronic disease management, but few studies have assessed its impact on hypertension control among safety-net populations. To evaluate whether telemedicine is associated with blood pressure (BP) control. Retrospective cohort study.

Oct 6, 2024 | csulauniversitytimes.com | Emmanuel Martinez

Broken water fountains. Bathrooms out of service. Tagged walls. Desks scratched up or jiggling from missing parts. These were some conditions of public schools attended by Cal State LA students interviewed recently. That’s why many Eastside and South L.A. residents interviewed said that they support Prop. 2, a statewide measure on this year’s ballot that would allow $10 billion in bonds to be issued to repair and upgrade K-12 public schools and community colleges across the state. If passed, Prop.

May 28, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Sari Horwitz |Dana Hedgpeth |Emmanuel Martinez |Salwan Georges

Clarita Vargas was 8 when she was forced to live at St. Mary’s Mission, a Catholic-run Indian boarding school in Omak, Wash., that was created under a U.S. government policy to strip Native American children of their identities. A priest took her and other girls to his office to watch a TV movie, then groped and fondled her as she sat on his lap — the beginning of three years of sexual abuse, she said. “It haunted me my entire life,” said Vargas, now 64.