news2shortsWhen contraception has stagnated for decades, it is hardly surprising it’s fallen victim to culture wars and a wellness cult Something is changing when it comes to contraception. Lots of people aren’t using it. Last week we heard that this includes a third of young Irish people. Meanwhile, there has been a significant rise in … Read more
No patients were injured and the gunman is dead, officials say, but extent of any other injuries is unclear A gunman has been killed after shots were fired on Saturday at a hospital in central Pennsylvania, officials said. Officials at UPMC memorial in York said that no patients had been injured and that the gunman … Read more
Conservative voters believe Vice President JD Vance will become the Republican Party’s presidential nominee in the 2028 election cycle, a straw poll conducted at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) found. “You guys are the conservative movement, you guys are the thought leaders, the opinion leaders. We asked folks who they thought would be … Read more
His friendship with the president dates back to a late-night encounter in a deli. Now he is a loyal envoy brokering the Gaza ceasefire and peace talks on Ukraine With the first phase of the ceasefire nearing its end, an American property developer has emerged as a key figure in determining whether Gaza attains a … Read more
The US president, on a Russian leash, holds talks that exclude the invaded country You can buy a copy of this cartoon Continue reading…
Thanks to Donald Trump, a new era of great power imperialism fuelled by authoritarianism and hyper-nationalism is unfolding A torrent of abrupt US policy reversals, resets and revisions since Donald Trump returned to the White House last month has left America’s friends and enemies struggling to keep up. Trump’s desire both to upend and dominate … Read more
The Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, weighs in on a case involving the new Trump administration for the first time.
Epicenter of latest outbreak had one of state’s highest immunization exemption rates for 2023-24 school year The measles outbreak in Texas has grown to at least 90 cases, reaching historic levels, according to officials. Since late January, 90 cases of measles have been identified in the South Plains region, the state’s department of state health … Read more
Database, first proposed by Trump in 2020 and created by Biden administration in 2023, is now offline Donald Trump’s second presidential administration shut down a national database that tracked misconduct by federal police, a resource that policing reform advocates hailed as essential to prevent officers with misconduct records from being able to move undetected between … Read more
Sacked United States Agency for International Development (USAID) staffers left their Washington, D.C., offices for the last time on Friday, with some carrying boxes scrawled with messages that seemed to be directed at President Donald Trump, who is slashing the agency’s workforce. Thousands of staffers were notified weeks ago of their pending dismissals, while a federal judge … Read more
