Construction companies focused on private funding models have been told to stay away from government health briefings aimed at building hospitals more efficiently.
The chairperson of I Am Hope, which has received millions in government funding, donated thousands to the National Party ahead of the last two general elections.
Four people have died and at least 35 are hurt after a tornado slashed through a small Iowa farming town, reducing homes and other buildings to heaps of twisted rubble.
Taiwan says it's confident it can protect the island, after China started two days of "punishment" drills around Taiwan in what it said was a response to "separatist acts".