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A "very tiny number" of Afghan refugees are still without permanent homes two years after arriving in the UK, according to the government. Veterans minister Johnny Mercer insisted "nobody is sleeping rough, nobody will sleep rough" when asked about the end of the hotel phase of the Afghan resettlement scheme this month. Mr Mercer today confirmed that "the vast majority of them are in settled long term accommodation".

By Don Surber The New York Times story did not say what its editors and their flying monkeys thought it said. The headline said, “A Tiny Number of Shoplifters Commit Thousands of New York City Thefts.” OK, you don’t need a J-school degree to figure out the message sent. Not everyone in NYC is boosti

New York City’s storefront businesses, already weathering inflation and an uneven recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, are also contending with

A few people are committing the lion's share of petty thefts in America's biggest city.

A roundup of ProPublica’s strongest visual stories of the year.

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Pause and effect on Covid vaccines The effort to vaccinate Americans against Covid-19 took a hit this week. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration jointly called for a pause in use of the vaccine made by Johnson & Johnson while experts try to figure out whether it is responsible for a small number of serious blood clots, mostly in women of childbearing age. While the J&J vaccine has so far made up only a small percenta...