As the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics unfold across northern Italy, one local from Cortina d’Ampezzo reflects on past triumphs and the cost of transformation in the mountain village her family once called home. @butinicecilia.bsky.social  reports.

The Olympics Transformed a Tiny Italian Village — But at a High Cost

As Cortina d’Ampezzo prepares to host again 70 years later, a local reflects on the residual effects of the 1956 Winter Games

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Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb.)

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and…

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JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

Barcelona, 28 April 2025: No electricity, no internet, no phone. I can’t meet my deadline. It’s already 7 pm. Some friends and I are supposed to meet at a bar for a gig. I don’t know where any of them are. I jump on my bike, headed for my friend Bea’s house, just to check what the plan is 1/

Hi! Any editors out there interested in coverage of the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona? I am in the market for commissions specifically focused on health tech, but I am also available for general news coverage, including in video. Hit me up!

As the Trump administration attempts to freeze most US foreign aid, here's a story I just published with @devex.com about an innovative way that one of the poorest countries in the world has come up with to fund its nascent mental-health program. www.devex.com/news/in-soma...

In Somaliland, a sin tax for mental health relief

A tax levied on an addictive substance has allowed the set up of the very first mental health program in the country. But that shouldn’t let international donors off the hook.

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+++Iran has reportedly freed Italian journalist Cecilia Sala after almost 3 weeks of detention.