Tag: war and famine
Global hunger crisis deepens as world leaders slash aid amid record...
A record 295 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2024, as war, climate extremes, and economic shocks collided. With aid funding in freefall, UN officials warn the crisis is no longer just systemic—it is a failure of humanity.
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Ugliest of ugly Americans, desperate for face-saving charades, exports chaotic, boorish pestilence abroad
Stuntery, like putz-ery, is readily undone and when it flops, it turns against itself.
The rage of billionaires and the frenzy to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming New...
That strategy is now striking fear into the hard hearts of insatiably greedy billionaires.
GOP budget standoff deepens as internal revolt stalls Trump’s $3.3 trillion megabill
Senate hold-outs cite draconian Medicaid and SNAP cuts while a new CBO score warns the measure will add $3.3 trillion to the debt even as Republican leaders race to meet Trump’s July 4 deadline.
Heinrich-backed ORPHAN Cures Act returns in GOP reconciliation bill, critics say it gifts Big...
Senate parliamentarian reverses an earlier ruling, letting a provision that shields multi-use orphan drugs from Medicare price talks ride on Republicans’ budget package as patient advocates warn of higher costs for taxpayers and seniors.
A ‘striking’ trend: After Texas banned abortion, more women nearly bled to death during...
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.