“Employment has grown steadily over the past decade,” the study said. “But the more important shift isn’t just how many people are working; it’s who’s working and how old they are.”
May 27, 2026
Workers
Indpendent - America’s workforce is getting older as financial pressures of retirement keep workers in their jobs longer. Some 23.2 percent of U.S. workers are older than 55, increasing by 17.3 percent over the last decade, according to an analysis by online careers development platform MyPerfectResume. Older workers’ growth rate outpaced the total workforce’s 11.3 percent increase.
Polls
Senate poll - Texas
Talarico 45%
Paxton 38%
PPP
Talarico 45%
Paxton 38%
PPPDemocratic Values - Support for higher taxes on the wealthy is growing, even among Republican voters. According to recent polling, 70% of GOP voters want to raise taxes on the rich, along with 90% of Democrats. Those numbers are huge. But Donald Trump and his Republican cronies in Congress are working hard to shift even more of the tax burden onto working Americans and lock in lower taxes for billionaires.
What's more, they're colluding with Wall Street billionaires to cut our earned Social Security benefits. Their latest scheme? The “Six Figure Limit.” This would cap Social Security benefits at $50,000 a person, or $100,000 per couple.
Adults who do make time for fun report real payoffs: 72% say it reduces their stress, 57% feel more motivated, and 89% say shared fun strengthens their relationships.
On average, adults who feel fun-deprived say they would need about 17 extra hours per week to change that: a gap that points to how crowded everyday life has become.
Grocery prices to rise
Bloomberg - (Bloomberg) -- As Americans confront a surge in prices at the pump, another inflation wave is headed for the grocery store.
A combination of factors including bad weather, tariffs and a dwindling cattle herd are already pushing up grocery prices at an above-average pace. In April, they rose by the most in nearly four years, and economists say the impact of the Iran war and a potential El Niño weather pattern will only add to pressures into 2027.
The hit to US household finances from higher grocery bills is set to intensify just ahead of the November midterm elections, amplifying affordability as a defining issue. And to a greater extent than the surge in gas prices, the slower-moving food shock will be difficult to reverse quickly because the size of autumn harvests is determined by planting decisions made in the spring.
“It’s going to be a challenging year,” said Ricky Volpe, an agribusiness professor at California Polytechnic State University who previously worked at the US Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service. “Food is going to become less affordable, and consumers should be prepared for it.”
Cheapest cities to live in
Newseweek - These are currently the most affordable cities in the nation, according to AmeriSave, which weighed factors such as median home prices, median household income and cost of living:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Decatur, Illinois
Enid, Oklahoma
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Des Moines, Iowa
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Wichita, Kansas
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Omaha, Nebraska
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Donald Trump
Alternet - Trump is, according to Salon's Chauncey DeVega, becoming even more brazen with his power grabs. A Washington Post report published on May 21, DeVega notes in Salon, demonstrates that "Trump's use of profanity, insults and combative language has grown much worse since his return to power in January 2025."
"In Trump's first term, about 40 percent of his speeches contained at least one use of vulgarity," DeVega explains. "During just the first 16 months of his second term, that figure stands at 93 percent. The president's profane or insulting posts on social media have also tripled as compared to his first term. The barrages are coming much later; most of his posts are made between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m., indicating the president, who has always been nocturnal, is even more so as he approaches his 80th birthday in June."
DeVega continues, "His Truth Social posts are more self-referential and egomaniacal: in 2026, half of his posts have used first-person pronouns — sometimes more than 12 times in a single post. That is up from 30 percent from 2018. But this goes beyond numbers."
The Salon journalist emphasizes that Trump's "vulgar behavior and cruelty are not incidental," but rather, are "structural and a defining feature of his policies."
The consumer costs of the Iran war
Newsweek - The Iran war—and the surge in fuel prices it has resulted in—has sparked warnings from economists and think tanks that the fallout could effectively be acting as a new, long-term tax on American households.
In addition to gas, officials have expressed fears that the now nearly three-month conflict could push up inflation across the economy and limit the hopes of interest rates dropping in 2026, fears that were underscored by the latest consumer price index (CPI) from the Department of Labor.
The report found that inflation had overtaken wage growth for the first time since 2023, eliminating the benefit of any pay increases Americans enjoyed over the past year.
And according to the economist Justin Wolfers, a professor at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Americans may be dealing with this “Iran tax” for “months and probably years.”
The primary price impact from the war is in energy. Oil prices have risen significantly since Tehran began preventing ships from traveling through the Hormuz Strait—through which roughly 20 percent of global supply typically moves—and this has in turn pushed up domestic costs at the pump.
According to the AAA, the national average price for a gallon of regular unleaded has risen from under $3 before the conflict began to $4.49, though this dipped in recent days on hopes of a breakthrough in negotiations.
...Researchers at Brown University’s Watson School of International and Public Affairs estimate that consumers have paid close to $48 billion in additional fuel costs since the conflict began on February 28. This is mostly in gasoline, but also diesel, the price of which has likewise risen over 50 percent, together resulting in an average burden of $364.40 per U.S. household.
And according to Roger A. Pielke Jr., a political scientist and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the combined impacts on gas and other products like jet fuel and fertilizer means households are paying roughly $410 extra each month on average.
Too many screens in schools?
Yahoo News - Just a few years ago, America’s public schools were rushing to get every child a laptop....
Now, the conversation has flipped. After pouring billions of dollars into laptops, tablets and learning apps, many schools are facing a digital reckoning. Classrooms have become saturated with screens, and a growing number of parents, teachers and school districts are saying it is time to scale back.
“The Chromebook is just a world of distraction,” says Soffer, who teaches 6th grade English and history. She favors pen-and-paper assignments but is required to use laptops and online apps for certain activities....
The Los Angeles Unified School District, where Soffer teaches, recently became the first major school district to say it will stop giving devices to its youngest students. It is part of a new screen-time policy taking effect in the fall across the country’s second-largest school system.
A sweeping resolution passed last month by the Los Angeles school board requires the district to eliminate devices until second grade; set daily and weekly screen limits for all higher grades; block YouTube on school devices; and ban the use of devices at lunch and recess in elementary and middle school. The district will also audit its education technology contracts, which the teachers union says amount to $1.6 billion.
The Los Angeles crackdown is adding momentum to calls for reform emerging around the country. In many cases, parents lobbied a few years ago for school cellphone bans, which have now become the norm. Realizing phones weren’t the only classroom distraction, they pivoted to a new target: school-issued devices.
Bye bye Google search
Gizmodo - Google is turning Search into a fully AI-infused experience. Powered by the company’s latest Gemini model, the new AI-infused search box will allow users to put images, files, videos, or even Chrome tabs as input. The rise of generative and agentic AI has already significantly disrupted the internet.
Judge blocks West Point from enforcing faculty speech restrictions
The Hill - A federal judge on Tuesday blocked restrictions imposed by the Trump administration that prevent faculty at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (USMA) from speaking to external groups without permission. U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel agreed with a longtime law professor that the policy likely violates civilian professors’ free speech rights under the First Amendment.
“And even affording Defendants due deference in the realm of military affairs, their stated justifications for the Academic Engagement Policy do not warrant such a broad and standardless intrusion on Plaintiff’s speech and that of other USMA civilian faculty members,” Seibel wrote in her 85-page opinion. Seibel is an appointee of former President George W. Bush who serves on the federal bench in New York.
SNAP Enrollment Has Dropped in Every State
Governing - The use of federal food assistance is down in every state and Washington, D.C., after the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). Most dramatically, the number of people receiving nutrition benefits in Arizona plummeted 42 percent — nearly 373,000 people — between the law’s July 2025 passage and January 2026, the latest date for which the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has preliminary data.
... SNAP participation fell 10-12 percent in eight other states, and Georgia marked a 24 percent drop. (The only exception to the across-the-board decline in SNAP participation is Guam, which saw a 2 percent rise).Overall, nearly 3.5 million people lost benefits across the 50 states, D.C., Guam and the Virgin Islands. Georgia had the most residents leave SNAP, at nearly 460,600 people, followed by Arizona, Florida, California and Texas.
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Health
Axios - About 1.75 million fewer kids were enrolled in Medicaid this January than at the start of the Trump administration, according to the most recent federal data.More recent state data tracked by the Georgetown Center for Children and Families shows that figure continuing to grow, said the center's executive director, Joan Alker.
Some children's hospitals are seeing an uptick in uninsured patients, said Aimee Ossman, vice president of policy at the Children's Hospital Association, though she noted most children remain eligible for Medicaid.
There are multiple factors contributing to falling child enrollment, including confusion around the impending work rules Congress enacted in last year's GOP budget law and the Trump administration's immigration crackdown that's discouraging some from enrolling their kids, Alker said.Kids qualify for Medicaid and its sister program, CHIP, at higher income thresholds than their parents, but that's often not communicated clearly to parents.
Some children's hospitals are seeing an uptick in uninsured patients, said Aimee Ossman, vice president of policy at the Children's Hospital Association, though she noted most children remain eligible for Medicaid.
There are multiple factors contributing to falling child enrollment, including confusion around the impending work rules Congress enacted in last year's GOP budget law and the Trump administration's immigration crackdown that's discouraging some from enrolling their kids, Alker said.Kids qualify for Medicaid and its sister program, CHIP, at higher income thresholds than their parents, but that's often not communicated clearly to parents.
States are required to keep kids enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP for 12 months at a time. But paperwork verification remains difficult for some families, and Florida is continuing to remove kids whose families don't pay monthly premiums from CHIP.
While the uninsured rate since the start of 2025 hasn't been released, historic trends show that kids who lose Medicaid coverage tend not to get enrolled in other health insurance.
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While the uninsured rate since the start of 2025 hasn't been released, historic trends show that kids who lose Medicaid coverage tend not to get enrolled in other health insurance.
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Voting
MS NOW - Just as some Democrats around the country fervently hoped, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in Tuesday’s GOP primary runoff. Had Cornyn prevailed, he likely would have easily won re-election against Democratic nominee James Talarico. But with Paxton on the ballot, Democrats have at least a chance at nabbing the seat. This election is about more than control of the Senate, as important as that is. It also spotlights the issue of corruption, which Democrats can run on not just in Texas, but across the country.
Though for years Democrats have hoped that the right combination of circumstances could turn Texas blue, the state remains consistently red. Democrats have not won any statewide race since 1994. Cornyn was re-elected to his seat by nearly 10% in 2020 and Donald Trump won the state by 12% in 2024. Paxton’s record, however, gives Democrats new hope. Much like Trump, it’s hard to list the Texas attorney general’s scandals because there are so many of them. MORE
Roll Call - A federal court blocked Alabama from using its new congressional map in this fall’s elections, ruling Tuesday that it is still “intentionally discriminatory” against Black voters. The unanimous decision from a three-judge panel to grant a preliminary injunction adds to the legal drama around the state’s redistricting efforts, part of a flurry of fast-moving court fights that already includes a trip to the Supreme Court and rescheduled primary elections.
NY Times - South Carolina’s Senate refused to approve a Trump-backed voting map, which aimed to eliminate the state’s lone majority-Black district.
A judge in Florida let a new map there stand while a lawsuit against it moved through the courts. The map could give Republicans four additional House seats.
Best and worst states for disaster prepaedness
SmileHub - To highlight the states that understand the importance of disaster preparedness and the ones that need to improve, SmileHub compared the 50 states across 14 key metrics. The data set ranges from disaster relief charities per capita to medical reserve corps volunteers per capita to emergency management budget per capita.
Best States | Worst States | |
| 1. Vermont | 41. Illinois | |
| 2. Massachusetts | 42. Tennessee | |
| 3. Hawaii | 43. Wyoming | |
| 4. Alaska | 44. Kansas | |
| 5. Rhode Island | 45. South Carolina | |
| 6. North Dakota | 46. Alabama | |
| 7. Pennsylvania | 47. Indiana | |
| 8. Utah | 48. Arizona | |
| 9. Maryland | 49. Nevada | |
| 10. South Dakota | 50. Mississippi | |
Key Stats
- Pennsylvania has the most fire stations per capita – 49.2 times more than Hawaii, which has the fewest fire stations.
- Alaska has the most public health funding per capita – 5.1 times more than Nevada, which has the least public health funding.
- Massachusetts has the most physicians per capita – 3 times more than Mississippi, which has the fewest physicians.
Word
“A system of fuzzy borders, in which powerful states treat territory as negotiable and sovereignty as conditional, is not a viable alternative to the liberal world order.” - Stephen E. Hanson and Jeffrey S. Kopstein, authors of “The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future” Read now
SpaceX
Alternet - Last week, Elon Musk’s SpaceX released its IPO prospectus in preparation for going public in June, and now that experts have had a chance to pore through its 277 pages, one analyst has bad news for interested investors: the company is a “trainwreck.”
This is according to Ed Elson, a prominent financial and tech analyst who is particularly well known among Gen-Z, who posted on Tuesday, “I read all 277 pages of SpaceX's IPO filing so you don't have to.” His nutshell assessment was not optimistic: “Losses up 700 percent. Revenue decelerating. 107x price-to-sales multiple. It's a trainwreck.” When you dig into its claims, he says, it’s “unserious, empty, hallucinatory, and borderline dishonest.”
.... “After eighteen images of rockets in space, we learn that the company’s mission is ‘to extend the light of consciousness to the stars,’” writes Elson. “To accomplish this, the company plans to advance humanity ‘to Kardashev Type II status,’ which is defined in the document as ‘a civilization that harnesses the full energy output of its local star.’ Only a few pages in and it’s already starting to feel like an ayahuasca trip.”
This “psychedelic language,” notes Elson, is peppered throughout the pitch, with “The light of consciousness” mentioned ten different times, “human augmentation” mentioned eleven times, and “first principles” twenty-seven times. “AI gets a mind-boggling 1,251 mentions — more features than the word ‘Jesus’ gets in the Bible.”
Climate change
Independent, UK - A warmer world will likely make bigger and more damaging hail, a new study said. Because climate change from the burning of fossil fuels should make more high-energy unstable air, which is conducive to hail forming, global storms pelting roofs, cars and the ground with hail bigger than a large marble will increase between 38% and 47% by the end of the century, depending on how much heat-trapping gas the world spews, a study in Wednesday's journal Nature said. And storms that produce smaller hail will shrink by 4% to 8%, researchers found.
Hail generally doesn't kill people, but it is expensive. It already costs the U.S. about $10 billion a year and around $80 billion globally, said study co-author John Allen, a meteorology professor at Central Michigan University.
Independent, UK - The UK’s current record-breaking heatwave has the “fingerprints of climate change all over it,” a leading climate scientist has told The Independent, while warning that the UK government must do much more to adapt to what is the new reality.
Britain is currently experiencing their fifth consecutive day of soaring temperatures, with 35C recorded at Heathrow Airport on Tuesday breaking the May temperature record for the second time in two days.
Locations ranging from Suffolk to Berkshire and Warwickshire have all broken temperature records, according to the Met Office, with the 34.8C recorded in Kew Gardens in London on Monday smashing the former May record of 32.8C – set in 1922 – by a massive two degrees. That record was then increased on Tuesday.
Blistering UK temperatures also meant that London was set to be warmer than temperatures set in Lagos, Cairo or Ho Chi Minh City, according to early forecasts.
Friederike Otto, professor of climate science at Imperial College London, told The Independent that these “astonishing” spring temperatures point to how the climate crisis is now seriously meddling with our weather patterns.
"This record-breaking heat has the fingerprints of climate change all over it,” she said. “Seeing 35C in the UK during spring is absolutely astonishing, but the science is very clear - climate change makes these heatwaves hotter, longer, and far more frequent.
“The climate we are living in today is simply not the one we grew up with, and our buildings and infrastructure are woefully unprepared for what's next... [and] temperature records will continue to tumble until we fundamentally halt global emissions and reach net zero."
The most significant of the two remaining glaciers, which are known locally as “eternal snow” and referred to in English as the “eternity glaciers”, has lost 95% of its area since 2002, the expedition found.
“The ice will be gone: it’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when,” said Klaus Thymann, a Danish explorer and the founder of Project Pressure, an environmental charity. “And ‘when’ is coming very, very soon.”
Tropical glaciers are mostly found in the Andes, but also exist in East Africa and Indonesia. They are rapidly losing mass as fossil fuel pollution heats the planet and melts the ice.
Thymann said “it might be weird to have an emotional reaction to an inanimate object” but documenting the loss of the eternity glaciers had left him tearful as he returned to camp after filming on a rare morning of clear skies.
“On a philosophical level, you take eternity – something that’s an abstract, human construct – and we are even now killing our own constructs,” he said. “It raises some very interesting questions, I think, around the little speck we are in geological time, and what amount of chaos we’ve managed to do in such little time.”
May 26, 2026
Tourism plummets
Irish Star - In 2025, the U.S. saw approximately 4 million fewer international visitors compared to the previous year, marking a 5.5 percent drop in overseas tourism. Spending by foreign visitors also fell by more than $8 billion.
Following the slump in travel during the COVID-19 pandemic, last year's numbers represent the steepest annual decline in international tourism in nearly 20 years. Visitor numbers from countries around the globe, including Germany, India, France, Australia, Chile, and China, have decreased. The most significant drop came from neighboring Canada, with far fewer Canadians making the journey to the U.S.
Donald Trump
Independent, UK - U.S. President Donald Trump increased the refugee admissions ceiling by 10,000 for this year to allow more white South Africans into the country, a presidential determination reviewed by Reuters showed. The document, dated May 21, stated white South Africans of Afrikaner ethnicity face an emergency due to "incitement of racially motivated violence" by the government and political parties in the majority-Black nation. Trump, a Republican, froze refugee admissions globally when he took office in January 2025, but weeks later launched a programme exclusively aimed at white South Africans.
MSN - A top doctor has sounded the alarm on President Donald Trump’s habit of falling asleep during meetings, saying it could be a sign of something sinister. Trump, who turns 80 next month, has appeared to nod off during several engagements, most recently at a Memorial Day event at Arlington Cemetery on Monday. Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a professor of medicine and the director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at the George Washington University Hospital, and also cardiologist to the late former Vice President Dick Cheney, has said this could be evidence of a “severe illness.”
Speaking about Trump’s long list of issues, ahead of his visit to the Walter Reed Medical Center for a checkup on Tuesday, Reiner honed in on Trump’s sleeping habits.
“The president has severe daytime somnolence. He falls asleep very often. He’s fallen asleep in the Oval Office on multiple occasions with people talking to him in the Cabinet room;"
....“Rodney Mims Cook Jr., the Trump appointee who chairs the Commission of Fine Arts, a federal arts commission, proposed replacing the Ionic columns with Corinthian columns, a more luxurious style preferred by Trump, The Washington Post first reported in March,” Forster wrote. In that Washington Post article, it was observed that “the Trump-appointed head of a federal arts commission is proposing to replace them with a more ornate style favored by President Donald Trump. Those more decorative columns, a style known as Corinthian, are considered the most luxurious in classical architecture and appear on buildings such as the U.S. Capitol and the Supreme Court. They have long been deployed on Trump’s properties, and the president has handpicked them for his planned White House ballroom, too.”
Workers
Newsworthy News - Wyoming’s wide-open promise now comes with a chilling footnote: it may be the most dangerous place in America to earn a paycheck. Wyoming’s workplace fatality rate has ranked at or near the top nationally, with 45 deaths in 2023 and 37 in 2024, far above typical state levels.
Transportation crashes, mining, agriculture, and construction drive most deaths, reflecting an economy built on high-risk work. Nonfatal injury and illness rates are also above the national average, suggesting a broader safety problem, not just statistical noise.
Military
Portside - In April, President Donald Trump requested a $445 billion dollar increase to the defense budget, meaning the United States will be spending around $1.5 trillion on the military. Much of the largesse will benefit the “big five” war contractors: Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and RTX (formerly Raytheon).
Ukraine
NPR - Russia issued a warning that it will continue its mass strikes on Ukraine following weekend attacks that targeted every district in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The recent Russian attacks on Kyiv are viewed as a response to Ukrainian strikes targeting Russian oil facilities and military logistics. Negotiations to end Russia's war in Ukraine have stalled as the U.S. focuses on its conflict with Iran. The Trump administration has eased some sanctions on Russian oil exports to alleviate energy shortfalls during the war with Iran.
Middle East
Headline USA - US Central Command on Monday took credit for attacks on Iran after Iranian media reported explosions in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas on the Strait of Hormuz. In a statement to CNN, CENTCOM spokesman Timothy Hawkins framed the attack on Iran as “self-defense” even though the strikes come as the US is enforcing a blockade on the country that’s part of the same war of aggression the US and Israel launched against the Islamic Republic on February 28.
Academic journals publishing fake AI generated stories
NBC News - A network of fake academic journals masquerading as legitimate publications has published more than a hundred AI-generated papers in recent months, in some cases using the names of real professors at top universities without their knowledge.
Vasant Dhar, a very real professor of data science and AI at New York University, was one of the academics caught in the slop onslaught. In late March, one of Dhar’s colleagues reached out to him about an odd new article listed under Dhar’s name in the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (IJAIR). The paper also appeared on Dhar’s profile on Google Scholar, a service many academics use to track peers’ work.
The article’s content and style seemed different from Dhar’s previous papers — and for good reason. Dhar had not written the piece and did not know what his colleague was referencing. Upon reading the manuscript, Dhar soon concluded that the article was generated by AI and had somehow attached his name to the text.
Vasant Dhar, a very real professor of data science and AI at New York University, was one of the academics caught in the slop onslaught. In late March, one of Dhar’s colleagues reached out to him about an odd new article listed under Dhar’s name in the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (IJAIR). The paper also appeared on Dhar’s profile on Google Scholar, a service many academics use to track peers’ work.
The article’s content and style seemed different from Dhar’s previous papers — and for good reason. Dhar had not written the piece and did not know what his colleague was referencing. Upon reading the manuscript, Dhar soon concluded that the article was generated by AI and had somehow attached his name to the text.
Congress
NY Times - A little more than five months ahead of the midterm elections, President Trump seems to be focused on virtually anything other than keeping Republican control of Congress.
He endorsed a MAGA challenger over Texas’s senior Republican senator, ignoring warnings that he could endanger the seat. He has boasted almost daily about his expensive and expansive new White House ballroom. He has minimized rising gas costs, waving off spiking prices at the pump as “peanuts” last week compared to what he is pursuing in Iran. And even as he engaged over the weekend in negotiations to end the Iran war that he began, Mr. Trump has made plain that he prioritizes his record abroad above domestic affordability, which he has dismissed repeatedly as a Democratic “hoax.”
For many, a new jaw-dropper came last week when Mr. Trump created a $1.8 billion fund to pay people who say they have been victims of “weaponization and lawfare,” including those who attacked the Capitol and law enforcement officers there, on Jan. 6, 2021.
Incensed Senate Republicans, many of whom lived through that day, returned home vexed by a president who appears set on pursuing his personal priorities ahead of the November midterm elections, even if doing so undermines his own party. They angrily abandoned Washington on Thursday without funding the president’s immigration crackdown or the $1 billion he wants for his ballroom.
Republicans know that their party’s fate rests with the president, according to interviews with numerous officials in recent weeks. Yet they also know there is not much any of them can do to make him help them.
MS NOW- They may not have the gavels yet, but House Democrats are laying the groundwork for a number of investigations into President Donald Trump should they win control of Congress in November. Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif. — who’s set to chair the House Oversight Committee in a Democratic majority — told MS NOW that his team is “already preparing and gearing up.”
“We’ve got a team on Epstein, we have a team on [Trump] family corruption, we have a team on DHS and ICE,” Garcia said. “Those teams are actively working on preparation, letters, research.”
Health
The Guardian - The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the Ebola outbreak is outpacing response efforts and countries neighbouring the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are at high risk from the disease.
“We are urgently scaling up operations, but at the moment the epidemic is outpacing us,” said the WHO’s director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, as he urged neighbouring countries to take immediate action.
Addressing an online meeting of the African Union about the outbreak, he also announced there had been 220 suspected deaths so far in the current Ebola outbreak and that he would travel to the DRC on Tuesday with Chikwe Ihekweazu, the executive director of the WHO’s health emergencies programme.
Hartmann Report - America has 51 billionaires who made their money from our profit-driven healthcare system, the only one in the developed world. It’s not only obscene that they’re taking so much money from so many of us who have so little; it’s also killing all of us....And the reason it stays that way, according to a shocking new study, is because about half of all white people would rather inflict pain on all of us (including themselves) than allow for a system which may also benefit Black people. More
Local prosecutors preparing to stop federal agents invading election sites
MS NOW - As election officials across the country brace for the possibility of federal agents descending on polling sites in November, a nationwide coalition of Democratic district attorneys has vowed to prosecute any federal agent suspected of intimidating voters.
The announcement, first reported by Politico, comes shortly after President Donald Trump refused to rule out sending U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to election sites during the midterms. “I’d do anything necessary to make sure we have honest elections,” Trump told reporters earlier this month.
The coalition includes prosecutors from Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Dallas and Northern Virginia, among other jurisdictions.
“We’re ready to go,” Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner told MS NOW’s Chris Jansing on Thursday. “In the same way that my office and the offices of these other members of this group have successfully prosecuted civilians and also prosecuted law enforcement, we will prosecute federal agents who try to interfere with elections.”
“It’s a crime in almost every jurisdiction to engage in election interference under state law,” he added, “and they better get ready for the handcuffs and the jail cell.”
Federal law prohibits voter intimidation and interference at polling sites. Many states also have statutes that criminalize voter intimidation.
in a statement.
Trump regime removes hundreds of Jan. 6 stories
Time- The Justice Department has removed hundreds of news releases related to criminal prosecutions connected to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol from its website, it confirmed, characterizing the records as “partisan propaganda.” The deletions include press releases documenting criminal charges, guilty pleas, convictions, and sentencing tied to the Jan. 6 attack, which saw supporters of President Donald Trump storm the Capitol in an effort to block the certification of his loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
After a journalist noted on X last week that the Justice Department appeared to be “quietly” deleting the releases, the department’s rapid response account publicly confirmed over the weekend that they had been scrubbed from its website—but stated that there was “nothing ‘quiet’ about it.”
“We are proud to reverse the DOJ’s weaponization under the Biden administration,” the department wrote. “We will do everything in our power to make whole those who were persecuted for political purposes. This includes stripping DOJ’s website of partisan propaganda.”
The post comes days after the Justice Department announced the creation of a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund to compensate people who allege they have been unjustly investigated and prosecuted by the government, as President Donald Trump and his Administration had repeatedly claimed Trump and his allies were during Biden’s presidency, as part of a deal to settle the President’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS.
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