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Trump Refuses to Fund Anti-American or Failed Globalist Programs
The Gateway Pundit
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August 1, 2025
President Trump addressing the United Nations General Assembly. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Embassy in Haiti. The United States was criticized when it cut funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)...
My travels in Trump’s Florida: Maga superstars, gen Z Republicans – and the shame of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
The Guardian
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August 6, 2025
The mezzanine floor of the Tampa Convention Center buzzes chaotically with rightwing chatter: conspiracy theories, grievance politics and Christian nationalism. Look in any direction and someone in front of you, washed in sharp studio lights, is...
The scourge of malnutrition
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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Dr David Bratt Reliable figures are hard to come by in Gaza and the Sudan, but there is no doubt that children are dying like flies in both those places. That I can say children “dying like flies” is testament to the hardening of our...
It’s Time for Health Workers to Defy the Law—Again
The Nation
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August 1, 2025
In 1949, the US psychiatrist Leo Alexander, who had served as a medical adviser to the chief of counsel for war crimes in Nuremberg, issued a warning: “Science under dictatorship becomes subordinated to the guiding philosophy of the dictatorship.”...
WA family, in U.S. legally, fears being ripped apart by Trump TPS order
Yakima Herald-Republic - Washington State
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AUBURN — Almost everything in the Reyes household must be sold. The large dining room table, underneath a print of The Last Supper. Two sturdy wooden side tables. The TV. The Reyeses need money — and fast — to pay lawyers who can help family...
Benefits Kenya Will Lose as US Kicks Off Review of Non-NATO Ally Status
Kenyans.co.ke
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August 6, 2025
Kenya stands to incur considerable losses if it loses its Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA) status with the United States, after it emerged that US legislators were questioning this status. Kenya secured MNNA status during the Joe Biden administration,...
What is Trump’s $15,000 visa bonds programme – and who does it affect?
Al Jazeera
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August 6, 2025
As part of its crackdown on immigration, the US State Department has announced that it will start requiring travellers from certain countries to pay bonds of up to $15,000 to enter the United States. The 12-month pilot programme affects B-1...
'A more direct solution': State Department rolls out key strategy to prevent foreigners from overstaying their welcome
The Blaze
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August 5, 2025
President Donald Trump issued an executive order on his first day in office titled "Protecting the American People Against Invasion." In addition to directing all executive departments and agencies to "employ all lawful means to ensure the...
Focusing on Georgia, Dominican Republic Aims to Seize Key Moment in Trade With U.S.
Global Atlanta - Georgia
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August 5, 2025
Amid the trade skirmishes of President Donald Trump‘s 2.0 term, one Caribbean economy has been noticeably absent from the headlines: the Dominican Republic. That suits the country of 11 million just fine. The largest economy in the Caribbean and...
UEH wants to be at the forefront in the fight against corruption
Haiti Libre
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Haiti - Politic : UEH wants to be at the forefront in the fight against corruption 23/07/2025 09:47:29 At the inaugural conference of the Anti-Corruption Summer School of the Anti-Corruption Unit (ULCC), the Rector of the State University of Haiti...
Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 8.4.25
Florida Politics
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August 4, 2025
Good Monday morning. RSA Consulting is opening a new office in Miami, representing the government and community affairs firm’s first major expansion since its founding in 2009. As part of its expansion, RSA has brought on Alan Alvarez, who will...
«Declaration of Commitment» in favor of school canteens
Haiti Libre
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Haiti - Education : «Declaration of Commitment» in favor of school canteens 23/07/2025 10:24:36 The Ministry of National Education (MENFP), in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP), organized a consultation workshop on the resilience of...
WATCH: Trump revokes visas of 200 JBS workers in Ottumwa (PT 2) – Cornhole Champions #33
Iowa Starting Line
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July 30, 2025
The irony is staggering: JBS subsidiary Pilgrim’s Pride donated $5 million to Trump’s inauguration, only to watch his administration immediately revoke visas for 200 of their Ottumwa workers from Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. These legal...
World’s smallest-known snake is rediscovered
The Columbian - Washington State
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — For nearly two decades, no one had spotted the world’s smallest-known snake. Some scientists worried that maybe the Barbados threadsnake had become extinct, but one sunny morning, Connor Blades lifted a rock in a tiny...
It’s not just ‘good genes.’ It’s a dark reminder of history.
The 19th News
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August 4, 2025
On its surface, American Eagle’s ad campaign starring actress Sydney Sweeney repeats a play on words used by other denim brands touting their “good jeans.” But the ad goes beyond the clothing by directly linking a White woman — the blonde-haired,...
World’s smallest known snake makes big comeback
The Hindu
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July 29, 2025
For nearly two decades, no one had spotted the world’s smallest-known snake. Some scientists worried that maybe the Barbados threadsnake had become extinct, but one sunny morning, Connor Blades lifted a rock in a tiny forest in the eastern...
When Immigrants Oppose Immigration
The Walrus
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August 4, 2025
At just twenty-three, second-generation immigrant Jessie was working in the federal government to save for law school—even though he felt deep “disdain” for “big government.” Jessie’s supervisor suggested that his current role could help him...
Shinto forest bathing as an antidote to global crises
PRI - The World
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July 29, 2025
Melanie Choukas-Bradley gestured towards an Aspen tree with the snow-capped Colorado Rockies on the horizon. “These trees have stories,” Choukas-Bradley said admiringly. “Part of the story of this tree is the bear claws on it. Do you see that? A...
Unpacking Florida's immigration trends − demographers take a closer look at the legal and undocumented population
WUWF - Florida
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August 4, 2025
This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Matt Brooks is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Florida State University. Karin Brewster is a...
The zombie assembly line
The Manila Times
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August 4, 2025
ZOMBIES are flesh-eating monsters popularized by George Romero in the 1970s, which have spread in today’s pop culture from movies like “28 Years Later” and AMC’s television series “Walking Dead.” Zombies are portrayed as resurrected dead, mindless...