Gaza Is Starving. But Israel and the U.S. Can't Deliver Aid, 'Not in a Week and Not in a Month'
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Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust has been found in breach of three regulations at HMP Nottingham. Care Quality Commission will confirm if it will take civil or criminal enforcement action against the trust. The trust will eventually stop running healthcare services at the prisons once a new provider is found. The previous inspection found the trust was in two breaches of …
In a flood, first responders balance helping others while their own families are at risk. It’s an impossible choice
Flooding in NSW has forced local first responders to rescue hundreds of people from floodwaters and rooftops. First responders and their families may be at risk due to extreme weather and rising floodwaters, damaged infrastructure, and other dangers. They have to choose between helping others and protecting their own families. They want to talk to someone who 'gets it' about …
Criminals could be released from prison after serving a third of their sentence to free up space in overcrowded jails. It's part of a series of measures the former Conservative justice secretary, David Gauke, will recommend to the Government on Thursday. The proposals aim to reduce the prison population by 9,500 people as jails battle an overcrowding crisis.
Justice Department smothers Biden-era police reform deals
The Justice Department wants to dismiss the consent decrees with Minneapolis and Louisville, Kentucky. The decrees were reached after high-profile police killings of Black Americans, including George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville. The move aligns with the Trump administration's pivot away from racial justice and civil rights and toward its preferred crusades.
At least 14 people died and 50 were infected by the hospital use of contaminated fentanyl in Argentina. Most of the cases were recorded in the city of La Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires. The laboratories involved in the production of the product were raided and various irregularities were verified.
The strange history of de-extinction began long before the science
Colossal Bioscience claims to have brought back the dire wolf, which disappeared from the Americas around 13,000 years ago. The company has produced three grey wolf pups that have been genetically modified to resemble their lost relatives. Before 1800s, there was neither consensus nor acceptance that entire species could forever disappear from our Universe. Some people believe that de-extinction might …
A year ago stocks were the measure of all things, but now the appetite for stocks seems to have passed some investors. What do early indicators say about the economy and how can you really protect yourself in the end, should the United States slide into a recession?
On Gaza and Ukraine, Britain drifts from lockstep with the United States
Britain suspended trade talks with Israel and condemned Israel’s conduct in Gaza. The same day, Britain joined the European Union in punishing Russia with more sanctions. London and Europe are acting independently of Washington in ways that would have been hard to imagine a year ago. Britain and the E.U. are looking to each other for deeper defense ties and …
Without fuel deliveries, water and sanitation facilities in Gaza could be shut down by the end of the week. Israel cut off power lines to the main desalination plants in March to pressure Hamas to release the remaining hostages it is holding. Some drinking water was loaded on UN lorries that have entered the strip, but supplies haven't been distributed …
As the Million Paws Walk takes its last lap, other charity fundraising events face serious challenges
This Sunday's Million Paws Walk will be the RSPCA's last. Many charitable events are struggling to stay afloat due to COVID disruptions, rising costs and falling returns. The proportion of Australians donating to charities has steadily declined since 2011. There are still fewer people formally volunteering today than at the peak in 2018.
Two Israeli embassy staffers were shot dead outside a Jewish museum in Washington, DC. The victims were Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, who were about to get engaged. The suspect, Elias Rodriguez, 30, from Chicago, entered the museum after the shooting and was detained by event security.
Here’s the late changes Republicans made to Trump’s big bill
House Republicans have made changes to their massive tax cut and immigration bill. They removed sections that authorized sale of public lands in Nevada and Utah. They changed the name of the new investment accounts that parents or guardians could open with a $1,000 contribution from the federal government for babies born between January 1, 2024 and Dec. 31, 2028. …
China has a research station on Norway's Svalbard archipelago. China is calling itself a near-Arctic state and has ambitions to expand its territory in the Arctic region. BBC World Service: China's Arctic ambitions and China's near-arctic ambitions.
Bond Market Shudders as Tax Bill Deepens Deficit Worries
The House of Representatives passed a bill to extend expensive tax cuts and create new ones without significantly slashing spending. The bill has unnerved investors, deepening worries that the country's debt is becoming unmanageable. The 30-year Treasury yield on Wednesday rose as high as 5.15 percent in early trading, its highest since October 2023, before easing back later in the …
Millis and Newton Public Schools in Massachusetts have recalled cucumbers from Bedner Growers Inc. for possible salmonella contamination. The cucumbers were distributed from April 29 to May 19 and have infected more than 24 people in 15 states so far. The schools in Millis disposed of cucumbers.
Why Europe has so far dodged a fentanyl epidemic - The Washington Post
There were 163 fatal overdoses from fentanyl and its derivatives in the European Union, Norway and Turkey in 2022. Europe has a higher rate of drug overdose deaths than the U.S., but it has better health care system. Europe's politicians are wary of replicating the U.,S.'s prescription drug epidemic.
Scientists want to track the world's biodiversity using DNA in the air. Many species are in danger of extinction due to habitat loss, climate change, and other disruptions. Nina Garrett wants to collect environmental DNA from inside the guanacaste tree to deduce who's here.
Short of Prison Space, U.K. Looks to U.S. Model of Time Off for Good Conduct
The government is not expected to adopt all of the recommendations from the review. The current justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, is expected to lay out the government's initial response to the review in Parliament on Thursday. The review was expected to bring backlash from Conservatives and the right-wing Reform Party.
It's Department of Agriculture Day. Food for Progress helps poor people overseas. Farm to School helps the poor people in this country grow and consume healthy food. The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture has cancelled the Patrick Leahy Farm To School grant, which funded programs like Midtown Partners’ Farm to Community Initiative in Mississippi.
Trump Is Coming for Chinese Students. Who Will Protect Them?
Six universities received letters from Congress in March asking them to turn over information on programs where Chinese students participate and work. Academic workers speaking through their unions are demanding that their schools reject the requests. The demand for information on Chinese students is part of a growing attack by the Trump administration and its Republican allies on Capitol Hill.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared that a new equation is being established in the region with Türkiye at its center. In the past few days, the entire world has turned its attention to developments aimed at resolving global and regional crises in which T Turkey plays a central role. Trump announced that, at Erdoğan’s request, the U.S. had decided to lift …
Bitcoin hits $110,000 threshold amid optimism over US legislation
The value of the global cryptocurrency market, including bitcoin, reached $2.2 trillion on Thursday. The price of bitcoin surpassed the $110,000 threshold for the first time in history on Thursday, driven by a fresh wave of optimism over the recent advancement of a key stablecoin bill in the U.S.
Bitcoin hit a new all-time high above $111,000 (£82,605) on Thursday. Institutional investment products saw $557m in inflows last week, contributing to a record-breaking $7.5bn year-to-date. The GENIUS Act cleared a key procedural vote in the US Senate this week. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon confirmed the bank will allow clients to buy bitcoin. The amount of bitcoin held on centralised …