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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday unveiled a series of regulatory actions designed to effectively ban gender-affirming care for minors, building on broader Trump administration restrictions on transgender Americans. https://to.pbs.org/4pOr8lp
WATCH: Trump administration seeks to cut off access to transgender health care for U.S. children
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday unveiled a series of regulatory actions designed to effectively ban gender-affirming care for minors, building on broader Trump administrat...
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December 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday unveiled a series of regulatory actions designed to effectively ban gender-affirming care for minors, building on broader Trump administration restrictions on transgender Americans. https://to.pbs.org/4pOr8lp
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Translation of the letter sent from Venezuela to the United Nations. Apologies if the translation is not exact. And to be clear, Venezuela, we Americans do not want war. We are dealing with a mad king.
Caracas, December 16, 2025
Caracas, December 16, 2025
December 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Translation of the letter sent from Venezuela to the United Nations. Apologies if the translation is not exact. And to be clear, Venezuela, we Americans do not want war. We are dealing with a mad king.
Caracas, December 16, 2025
Caracas, December 16, 2025
Im trying to figure out how this was a set-up. Was the plan to cancel having a pride match all along? Because surely even FIFA isn’t pig headed enough to think making the Egypt Iran match the Pride match was going to work?
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Egypt and Iran object to playing in a Seattle 'Pride' match in next year's World Cup
Local organizers had planned to include the June 26 game with Seattle's Pride celebrations. Then, FIFA announced the match would include Egypt and Iran, two countries where gay rights are nil.
www.npr.org
December 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Im trying to figure out how this was a set-up. Was the plan to cancel having a pride match all along? Because surely even FIFA isn’t pig headed enough to think making the Egypt Iran match the Pride match was going to work?
www.npr.org/2025/12/10/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/10/n...
The NTSB is full of quantitative minded engineers and scientists. When they say something, we should be listening.
www.npr.org/2025/12/10/n...
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NTSB warns that defense bill could undermine aviation safety changes after DCA crash
The head of the NTSB is voicing strong opposition to provisions in the defense policy bill. The NTSB says the House bill would undermine safety improvements made after the mid-air collision near DCA.
www.npr.org
December 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The NTSB is full of quantitative minded engineers and scientists. When they say something, we should be listening.
www.npr.org/2025/12/10/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/10/n...
The biggest killer of journalists this year? Israel, with 43% of all journalist killings.
www.news24.com/world/israel...
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Israel ‘the worst enemy of journalists’ in 2025, killed 43% - Reporters Without Borders | News24
Reporters Without Borders said that Israel was responsible for nearly half of all journalists killed this year worldwide, with 29 Palestinian reporters slain by its forces in Gaza.
www.news24.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The biggest killer of journalists this year? Israel, with 43% of all journalist killings.
www.news24.com/world/israel...
www.news24.com/world/israel...
Just because you don’t like what the science says doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
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UN environment report 'hijacked' over fossil fuels - top scientist
The US and other governments derailed an agreement on a global environment study, its co-chair says.
www.bbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Just because you don’t like what the science says doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
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“things unraveled when his humanitarian parole expired but his asylum status did not permit him to work.”
"Rahmanullah Lakanwal was reported to feel that the CIA had abandoned him once he arrived in the United States, so he might well have become radicalized, but not in the familiar way; not by Islamists but by the actions of the Trump administration."
For Trump, Even the National Guard Shooting Is About Immigration
And he won’t let the facts get in the way of his agenda.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“things unraveled when his humanitarian parole expired but his asylum status did not permit him to work.”
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need more of this.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need more of this.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
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The civil rights case backlog has gotten so bad the Dept of Education is recalling about 250 workers. Nobel thought, maybe they were needed in the first place?
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Education Dept. asks hundreds of fired employees to temporarily return
The federal Education Department is asking hundreds of staffers in the Office for Civil Rights to temporarily return to help clear a backlog of cases.
www.usatoday.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The civil rights case backlog has gotten so bad the Dept of Education is recalling about 250 workers. Nobel thought, maybe they were needed in the first place?
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
These bribery and corruption pardons really rankle me. It’s so rare that people are actually held accountable for white collar crime so undermining the system when it does actually work feels even worse.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Trump Pardons Henry Cuellar, Texas Lawmaker Awaiting Bribery Trial
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
These bribery and corruption pardons really rankle me. It’s so rare that people are actually held accountable for white collar crime so undermining the system when it does actually work feels even worse.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
The suspicions were correct. The US proposal for peace in Ukraine came straight from Moscow.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Putin Advisers Discuss Plans for Dealing With Trump: Transcript
The following is a transcript of an Oct. 29 phone call between Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin’s most senior foreign-policy adviser, and Kirill Dmitriev, an economic adviser to the Russian president.
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The suspicions were correct. The US proposal for peace in Ukraine came straight from Moscow.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
There really is hope for new technology to make gigantic leaps forward in tackling the world’s pressing issues.
This carbon capture system reduces emissions by 95% for pertinent industrial processes using just 3% of the energy current systems use.
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This carbon capture system reduces emissions by 95% for pertinent industrial processes using just 3% of the energy current systems use.
news.mit.edu/2025/mantel-...
A new take on carbon capture
Mantel, founded by MIT alumni, has developed a system that captures CO2 from factories and power plants while delivering steam to customers.
news.mit.edu
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
There really is hope for new technology to make gigantic leaps forward in tackling the world’s pressing issues.
This carbon capture system reduces emissions by 95% for pertinent industrial processes using just 3% of the energy current systems use.
news.mit.edu/2025/mantel-...
This carbon capture system reduces emissions by 95% for pertinent industrial processes using just 3% of the energy current systems use.
news.mit.edu/2025/mantel-...
We all know it already but this just further proves that the point is not to decrease red tape and bureaucracy. The cruelty is the point.
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The Trump administration wants everyone to reapply for food stamps. What does that mean? • Ohio Capital Journal
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins’ call for a close reexamination of the 42 million people who receive federal food aid has befuddled advocates and lawmakers, coming mere days after recipients...
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
We all know it already but this just further proves that the point is not to decrease red tape and bureaucracy. The cruelty is the point.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/21/r...
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/21/r...
FirstEnergy’s latest scheme:
Miscategorize bribes as construction costs to the tune of 108 million. Errors get found and now they have to come up with the money. Charge the balance to customers instead of shareholders.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/14/r...
Miscategorize bribes as construction costs to the tune of 108 million. Errors get found and now they have to come up with the money. Charge the balance to customers instead of shareholders.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/14/r...
Report shows scandal-plagued Ohio utility made $108 million in errors. It wants customers to pay • Ohio Capital Journal
Scandal-plagued FirstEnergy wants to make customers pay $108 million it used for things like lobbying but said was for construction.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
FirstEnergy’s latest scheme:
Miscategorize bribes as construction costs to the tune of 108 million. Errors get found and now they have to come up with the money. Charge the balance to customers instead of shareholders.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/14/r...
Miscategorize bribes as construction costs to the tune of 108 million. Errors get found and now they have to come up with the money. Charge the balance to customers instead of shareholders.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/14/r...
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"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
This is just the latest in the saga. Episode one was where the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency appointed himself chairman if Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It’s illegal for him to hold those positions but…you know.
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Top Fannie Mae officials ousted after sounding alarm on sharing confidential housing data
A confidant of Bill Pulte, the Trump administration’s top housing regulator, provided confidential mortgage pricing data from Fannie Mae to a principal competitor.
apnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:48 AM
This is just the latest in the saga. Episode one was where the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency appointed himself chairman if Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It’s illegal for him to hold those positions but…you know.
apnews.com/article/fann...
apnews.com/article/fann...
In economic news, this paper showed that consumers wound up paying a markup greater than the tariffs on wine from the 2019-2021 period.
Relavent for the current tariffs is that it took about a year for the full consumer effect to hit.
www.nber.org/papers/w3439...
Relavent for the current tariffs is that it took about a year for the full consumer effect to hit.
www.nber.org/papers/w3439...
Who Pays for Tariffs Along the Supply Chain? Evidence from European Wine Tariffs
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
November 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
In economic news, this paper showed that consumers wound up paying a markup greater than the tariffs on wine from the 2019-2021 period.
Relavent for the current tariffs is that it took about a year for the full consumer effect to hit.
www.nber.org/papers/w3439...
Relavent for the current tariffs is that it took about a year for the full consumer effect to hit.
www.nber.org/papers/w3439...
Underreported this month: Several top Chinese military officials have been purged. This is likely to consolidate power on the Taiwan question.
www.thecipherbrief.com/inside-xi-ji...
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Inside Xi Jinping’s Military Purge: Loyalty, Power, and Taiwan
OPINION — Last week’s Fourth Plenum of the Chinese Communist Party witnessed a purge of China’s senior military leaders, culminating in over two years of the removal of senior military officials once ...
www.thecipherbrief.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Underreported this month: Several top Chinese military officials have been purged. This is likely to consolidate power on the Taiwan question.
www.thecipherbrief.com/inside-xi-ji...
www.thecipherbrief.com/inside-xi-ji...
This is the 15th strike and over 60 people have been killed. Yet, attempts by congress to ask for more information on justification have been completely rebuffed.
News out of Colombia is that a fishing vessel was among the targets. When will there be accountability?
www.npr.org/2025/11/02/n...
News out of Colombia is that a fishing vessel was among the targets. When will there be accountability?
www.npr.org/2025/11/02/n...
US carries out new strike in Caribbean, killing 3 alleged drug smugglers
The U.S. military has carried out another lethal strike on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea.
www.npr.org
November 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This is the 15th strike and over 60 people have been killed. Yet, attempts by congress to ask for more information on justification have been completely rebuffed.
News out of Colombia is that a fishing vessel was among the targets. When will there be accountability?
www.npr.org/2025/11/02/n...
News out of Colombia is that a fishing vessel was among the targets. When will there be accountability?
www.npr.org/2025/11/02/n...
The monthly premium increase even for people making decent wages is set to be insane in some parts of the country if the subsidies are not extended.
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Increasing cost of healthcare if tax subsidies not extended
Based on estimates from health research group KFF, Margot Sanger-Katz and Alicia Parlapiano, for NYT’s the Upshot, show how much premiums rise if there is no tax subsidy extension. It varies …
flowingdata.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The monthly premium increase even for people making decent wages is set to be insane in some parts of the country if the subsidies are not extended.
flowingdata.com/2025/10/30/i...
flowingdata.com/2025/10/30/i...
Republicans are not the party of fiscal responsibility anymore. They haven’t been for a while but this is a real nail in the coffin.
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U.S. hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic
This rapid debt accumulation is the fastest outside of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the debt having reached $37 trillion in August.
www.pbs.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Republicans are not the party of fiscal responsibility anymore. They haven’t been for a while but this is a real nail in the coffin.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...