🦠 A Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak has killed 200 people and infected 800 across the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, where it spread after first emerging in mid-May. African leaders held a virtual summit Tuesday to mobilize support for a six-month, $518 million containment effort to counter what WHO has declared a public health emergency of international concern.
Anadolu reports that South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa tripled his country’s pledge to $13.5 million, warning that delays could turn a local outbreak into a regional and global crisis. Africa CDC chief Jean Kaseya urged rapid action to avoid a repeat of past Ebola epidemics that killed thousands.
The scientists have been right about climate change all along, says former Vice President Al Gore on the 20th anniversary of the release of "An Inconvenient Truth," the Oscar-winning documentary about Gore's campaign to educate people about climate change.
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Trump’s administration has barred the IRS from even looking at his past returns.
Teachers, nurses, and firefighters all pay what they owe.
Why does the President of the United States get a special tax deal?
The president announced that the July 4 celebration in DC marking the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence will become a "TRUMP RALLY."
That completes the MAGA takeover of the 250th. Still, flacks working for him say these events are "nonpartisan."
🔴 BREAKING: Syria’s state-owned telecom operator says an international undersea cable between the city of Tartous and Egypt’s Alexandria was subjected to an “act of sabotage,” affecting internet service for users across Syria.
Gas prices fell below $4 per gallon on Monday, GasBuddy said, crossing the milestone as oil costs eased in response to an agreement between the United States and Iran. https://t.co/fP6RI14CRG
Buttigieg: If everything was going just fine in this country, we wouldn’t be here. All of that is what led to all of this which means we cannot just be aiming to go back. Everything in our economy and political structure needs to be reconsidered.
The President of the United States is promoting his own crypto coin at a UFC fight being held in front of the White House. That is a real sentence. What are we doing.
So if Kamala Harris had started a war with Iran, gas prices doubled, and then held a UFC fight on the White House lawn, MAGA would’ve been totally normal and reasonable about it, right?
Allegations of RU efforts to interfere with US Elections to install a favorable Candidate are ridiculous and there's no proof and actually it was probably Ukraine or The Deep State or 'Jina that interfered more, they insisted over and over for years.
Top political advisor Wang Huning has called for high-quality construction of the demonstration zone for integrated development across the Taiwan Strait and urged greater progress in advancing such integration during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030).
Wang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, made the remarks on Saturday in Xiamen, a city in east China's Fujian Province, at a meeting on advancing the demonstration zone's development.
He said the 15th Five-Year Plan period will bring broad opportunities and prospects for deepening cross-Strait integrated development and for promoting the development of the demonstration zone.
Lawrence’s new city manager, Majed Al-Ghafry, is stepping into his role with a plan. Here’s what he said about his goals for Lawrence, including transparency, the budget, housing, university partnerships and citywide inclusivity. https://t.co/PXYwOe3VOV
Like I keep telling everyone I can, anyone who actually uses The AI™ for work (and knows what they're doing) finds themselves doing more work over more time than if The AI™ were not involved.
Regression, not progression, and further -it is purposeful.
The gunboat diplomacy of the Dumbroe Doctrine to use the US military & Fed Agencies and economic strife just to strike deals with "enemy" nation-states that just happen to financially benefit his friends & family reveals our great bluff: that we have plenty of gunboats and ammo
Severe Thunderstorm Warning continues for Overland Park KS, Kansas City KS and Olathe KS until 9:00 PM CDT. This destructive storm will contain wind gusts to 80 MPH!