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        <title><![CDATA[Susan Berfield - Sr Investigative Reporter]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Portrait of a Young DOGE Coder Dismantling America’s Institutions]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Luke Farritor could have been an artist, or a builder, or someone dedicated to seeing a great historical mystery through. Instead he wound up at the Department of Government Efficiency, slashing, dismantling, undoing.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Berfield]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 09:00:06 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Global Fertility Trade: A Story of Extraction, Exploitation and Opportunity]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Following human eggs as they’re exchanged across open, gray and black markets — reaping rewards for an extremely high price.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Natalie Obiko Pearson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 22:20:18 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[‘The Egg’: How We Reported Our Story on the Global Fertility Industry]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[More than a dozen journalists reported in person on five continents and in 11 countries to tell this story.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Natalie Obiko Pearson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 22:20:17 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Zantac’s Maker Kept Quiet About Cancer Risks for 40 Years]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Glaxo says the heartburn drug doesn’t cause tumors. But the company was warned by its own scientists and independent researchers about the potential danger. ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-02-15/zantac-cancer-risk-data-was-kept-quiet-by-manufacturer-glaxo-for-40-years</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Edney]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2023 05:01:27 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Deadly Bacteria Spread in a Similac Factory—and Caused the US Formula Shortage]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Procedures got sloppy at the facility in Sturgis, Mich. Cronobacter bacteria proliferated. And when the FDA finally acted, America found itself in a desperate scarcity.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-08-25/baby-formula-shortage-a-deadly-bacteria-and-abbott-s-abt-missteps</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Berfield]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2022 04:01:17 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Cash Payments Changed Low-Income Americans’ Lives]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Cash was key to tackling US inequality during Covid-19. But for women who received monthly guaranteed income, it was far more than a pandemic stopgap.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-05-19/what-is-ubi-how-cash-payments-during-covid-helped-black-mothers</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Holder]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2022 08:00:08 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>After covering the basics, like buying a new car and getting monthly groceries for her five children, Tamika Calhoun focused on saving half of her monthly guaranteed income payments for unexpected expenses. </media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How McDonald’s Made Enemies of Black Franchisees]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The company, once celebrated in Black entrepreneurial circles, is settling with Black owners who say they were blocked from the best and most profitable locations.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-12-17/black-mcdonald-s-franchise-owners-face-off-with-fast-food-restaurant-over-racism</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Berfield]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2021 12:00:15 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The Carnegie Avenue McDonald’s formerly owned by Herb Washington, on Cleveland’s east side</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Happened When Evanston Became America’s First City to Promise Reparations]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A hundred questions have arisen in the Illinois community, including whether the payments should be called reparations at all.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Berfield]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2021 04:01:19 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Who Gets How Much: Big Questions About Reparations for Slavery]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A small city agreed almost unanimously that restitution was called for. Then the arguments began in earnest  ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-15/h-r-40-and-reparations-for-slavery-lessons-from-evanston-s-experiment</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Berfield]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2021 08:02:35 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A suburb in Chicago is set to become the first place in the United States to provide reparations to its Black residents, with a plan to distribute $10 million over the next decade.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The U.S. Needs More Covid Testing, and Minnesota Has Found a Way]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Get everybody in an entire state to spit into a tube? You betcha.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-01-14/covid-testing-minnesota-is-the-best-state-for-checking-for-coronavirus</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Berfield]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2021 12:22:02 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Saliva samples from across Minnesota are processed at the Infinity BiologiX facility in Oakdale.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Radical Free-Money Experiment Became Vital When Covid-19 Hit]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[In California, the city of Stockton is running the first American basic income trial in decades.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-25/basic-income-trial-in-stockton-california-becomes-more-important-with-covid</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Berfield]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2020 09:00:17 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What a 1902 Coal Strike Tells Us About Essential Workers Today]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Thousands of miners showed Americans the dangerous, low-paid nature of crucial labor. It helped forge a new kind of social contract—could it happen again?]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-04-29/what-if-essential-workers-staged-a-mass-coronavirus-strike</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Berfield]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2020 09:00:42 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Miners’ union president John Mitchell arriving in Shenandoah, Pa., in 1902 (left), and (from top) McDonald’s, Amazon, and grocery store workers protest as the pandemic spreads.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Antibody Treatments May Be the Best Hope Against the Virus Until a Vaccine]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Regeneron’s drug cocktail could be tested in humans by summer and be saving lives by fall.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-04-20/antibody-treatments-may-be-the-best-hope-against-the-virus-until-a-vaccine</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Langreth]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2020 09:00:25 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Famed AIDS Researcher Is Racing to Find a Coronavirus Treatment]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Columbia’s David Ho is leading a group that’s trying to compress a five-year process into one.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-03-19/this-famous-aids-researcher-wants-to-find-a-coronavirus-cure</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Langreth]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 08:00:18 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Yaoxing Huang, David Ho, and Sho Iketani.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Failure of the Forever 21 Empire]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[If the fast-fashion giant is going to survive bankruptcy, its idiosyncratic owners might have to give up control.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Berfield]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 11:00:42 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Do You Stop Taking Recalled Medication If You Don’t Know It’s Been Recalled?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[FDA recalls are always voluntary and sometimes haphazard—and the agency doesn’t want more authority to protect consumers.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaret Newkirk]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2019 09:00:02 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Carcinogens Have Infiltrated the Generic Drug Supply in the U.S.]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[An FDA quality-control nightmare reveals how impurities end up in America’s blood pressure pills.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Edney]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2019 09:00:40 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Karen Brackman took generic valsartan, a widely prescribed hypertension medication, daily for at least two years.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cannabis CEO Who Built $15 Billion Empire Is Ready for America]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The $15 billion company is ready whenever America is.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Berfield]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2019 09:00:39 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Papa John’s Founder Is at War With His Company]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The board is trying to stop the ex-CEO from mounting a comeback after a string of controversies.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Berfield]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2018 09:00:20 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Best Buy Should Be Dead, But It’s Thriving in the Age of Amazon]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The big-box retailer doesn’t just want to sell you electronics. It wants its in-home consultants to be “personal chief technology officers.”]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Berfield]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2018 09:00:14 GMT</pubDate>
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