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2020 Missouri Amendment 2, also called the Medicaid Expansion Initiative, was a ballot measure to amend the Constitution of Missouri to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. The initiative was on the August 4, 2020, primary ballot and passed with 53.27% of the vote. Following Medicaid expansion initiatives in other states, Republican lawmakers in Nebraska and Utah added work requirements to their states' expansions; supporters aimed to prevent this by proposing state constitutional amendments for future Medicaid expansion initiatives. The measure was supported most in urban areas and opposed in rural areas. After a delay due to a lack of funding from the Missouri General Assembly and resulting litigation, the initiative was slowly implemented in October 2021. Republican lawmakers attempted to roll back the program and add a work requirement through a state constitutional amendment, which failed after the United States Supreme Court prevented its implementation. (Full article...)

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Wycliffe Smith

... that pastor, poet, teacher, and musician Wycliffe Smith (pictured) has served as lieutenant governor of Saba and prime minister of Sint Maarten?
... that during Operation Security and Order, Mbah Suro's followers fought against Indonesian Army special forces with clubs and headbands?
... that NFL player Henry Monroe retired after one season to enter medical school?
... that workers of Jakarta's Public Facility Maintenance Agency are known as "orange troops"?
... that Luis Aranaz was named an "adopted son" of Sabadell after captaining the city's football club to two Spanish second-division titles in the 1940s?
... that the SWAT unit in Regina recruited their first female officer from the Regina Police Service in May 1991?
... that Namibian activist Werner Mamugwe was banned from entering Bechuanaland Protectorate due to his political activities?
... that North Korea thanked the United States for helping its sailors defeat a group of pirates?
... that "the Psycho" controlled the drug trade in Finglas, Cabra, and Ballymun from the early 1990s until his death in 1996?

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Pauline Ferrand-Prévot

In cycling, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (pictured) wins the Tour de France Femmes.
An 8.8-magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, triggering tsunami warnings across the Pacific Ocean.
In association football, the UEFA Women's Euro concludes with England defeating Spain in the final.
In cycling, Tadej Pogačar wins the Tour de France.

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August 4

MTS Oceanos in 1986

1265 – Second Barons' War: Royal troops led by Prince Edward defeated baronial forces under Simon de Montfort at the Battle of Evesham in Worcestershire, England.
1862 – In Brooklyn, a mob composed largely of Irish Americans attacked a group of African Americans in a riot.
1991 – An explosion on the Greek cruise ship MTS Oceanos (pictured) ruptured its hull, causing it to sink off the east coast of South Africa, with all 571 people on board rescued.
2006 – Sri Lankan civil war: Seventeen employees of the French nongovernmental organization ACF International were massacred in Mutur.
2020 – A large explosion of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in Lebanon killed 218 people and caused US$15 billion in damage.

Henry I of France (d. 1060)
Samuel J. Tilden (d. 1886)
Daniel Dae Kim (b. 1968)
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (b. 1981)

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