A sign stands in front of part of the Johns Hopkins Hospital complex, July 8, 2014, in Baltimore. Patrick Semansky/AP/File CNN — Johns Hopkins University announced Thursday that it will be cutting more than 2,000 jobs after it lost $800 million in funding from the US Agency for International…

An international neo-Nazi terrorist group with origins in the US appears to be quickly rebuilding its global and stateside ranks, according to information obtained by the Guardian from its digital accounts. Founded in 2018, the Base has been the intense focus of a years-long FBI counter-terrorism…

One of the unacknowledged advantages of the horrendous era we’ve entered is that it is revealing the putrid connections between great wealth and great power for all to see. Oligarchs are fully exposed and they are defiant. It’s like hitting the “reveal codes” key on older computers that let you see…

Wavering US support for the defence bloc may open the door to a new ‘European Treaty Organisation’, says Admiral James Stavridis This feature is available for registered users. Please register or log in to continue RegisterLog in Share article 01 March 2025 6:03pm GMT 01 March 2025 6:03pm GMT This…

Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, has caused alarm among pediatricians, vaccine experts and lawmakers with an opinion piece that focuses on vitamin A and nutrition as treatments for measles. In response to a measles outbreak in Texas, which resulted in the first American measles death in…

Over the past few years, I have fielded versions of the same question from readers again and again: Who, exactly, is buying all of this stuff? The confusion is fair. Recent economic headlines do not add up to a coherent picture: Since 2020, Americans have spent lavishly on discretionary goods and…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions, according to three people familiar with the matter. Hegseth gave the instruction to Cyber Command chief Gen. Timothy Haugh, who then informed the…

You wake up to dark clouds outside, so you check the weather on your phone: a storm is coming. That weather app uses data from the National Weather Service, a part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a small organization which could see as much as 10% of its workforce cut this…

US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago 10 hours ago Brandon DrenonBBC News Getty Images The National Nuclear Security Administration is part of the Department of Energy The US government is trying to bring back nuclear safety employees it fired on Thursday, but…

The 26-year-old charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive officer in an ambush outside a Manhattan hotel in December has touted receiving support that has “transcended political, racial and even class divisions” in a rare public statement. “I am overwhelmed by – and grateful for –…

January 23, 2025 So why is the grave threat of nuclear war virtually absent from our politics? Copy Link Facebook X (Twitter) Bluesky Pocket Email The Doomsday Clock set to 90 seconds to midnight at the National Press Club, in Washington, DC, Tuesday, January 24, 2023. (Patrick Semansky / AP Photo)…

In 2020, after walking by refrigerated trailers full of the bodies of people who died during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic one too many times, my fiancé and I decided that it would maybe be a good idea to get out of New York City for a while. Together with our dog, we spent months driving…

Germany and France warn Trump over threat to take over Greenland 8 January 2025 Alex TherrienBBC News Reuters Donald Trump said Greenland was "critical" for the US's national and economic security (file photo) Germany and France have warned Donald Trump against threatening Greenland, after the US…

For someone who has examined 361 studies and 73 books on societal collapses, Danilo Brozović’s conclusion on what must happen to avoid today’s world imploding is both disarmingly simple and a daunting challenge: “We need dramatic social and technological changes.” The collapse of past civilisations,…

In a new poll, more than two-thirds of respondents said they believed denials of coverage and profits in the health insurance industry were partially responsible for the killing of Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare CEO, in early December. Thompson was shot dead on the streets of Manhattan. His…

Physician assistant Danis Walker vaccinates a construction worker outside a Lowes Home Improvement store in New Orleans on June 11, 2021. Image: Rosemary Westwood/WWNO 03:36 00:00 Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots A group of high-level managers at the…

Who is Luigi Mangione, CEO shooting suspect? 18 December 2024 Madeline Halpert & Mike WendlingBBC News Instagram The scion of a prominent Maryland family who came top of his class at an elite private school before graduating from an Ivy League college, Luigi Mangione seemed to have everything going…

New York Starbucks image may hold key to finding healthcare CEO's killer 2 hours ago Bernd Debusmann JrBBC News, Washington DC Getty Images Police in New York are using facial recognition technology and a discarded mobile phone to track down the killer of a healthcare chief executive.…

The CEO of UnitedHealthcare, one of the US’s largest health insurers, was shot dead on Wednesday in midtown Manhattan, police confirmed in a press conference. Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare. Photograph: United Health Group Brian Thompson, 50, was shot outside the Hilton…

By Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows The following piece is a short synopsis of Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update. The full length book is available at Chelsea Green’s website. The signs are everywhere around us: Sea level has risen 10–20 cm since 1900. Most non-polar glaciers…

A vigilante militia notorious for its patrols on America’s border with Mexico has threatened to take on the US military in recent weeks, with its founder baselessly claiming that Hurricane Helene was deliberately caused by a government energy weapon that needs to be destroyed, according to private…

The Covid-19 pandemic will “look minor” compared with what humanity faces from the growing number of superbugs resistant to current drugs, Prof Dame Sally Davies, England’s former chief medical officer, has warned. Davies, who is now the UK’s special envoy on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), lost her…

THE WORLD Study: Germany went into recession last year due to "medical leave" The reason for last year's recession of the German economy is the high level of sick leave, according to a new study. "The large scale of sick leave last year led to a huge shortfall in production. Without sick leave, the…

Isabella Weber, the economist who ignited controversy with a bold proposal to implement strategic price controls at the peak of inflation and identified corporate profits as a driver of high prices, has proposed a new measure that could prevent food shortages and price gouging in the wake of another…

The appointment of a US health secretary with anti-vaccine views could cause deaths and have profound consequences around the world, global health experts fear. Robert F Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump’s pick for the position, has a history of spreading misinformation on vaccines and questioning the…

Subscribe Join the newsletter to get the latest updates. By now, if you have spent any amount of time reading about the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene, it is likely that you have seen the AI-generated image above. This is the exact same type of AI-generated slop that has gone viral time and…

Microplastic pollution has been found in all human semen samples tested in a study, and researchers say further research on the potential harm to reproduction is “imperative”. Sperm counts in men have been falling for decades and 40% of low counts remain unexplained, although chemical pollution has…

Human society is on track for a collapse in the next two decades if there isn't a serious shift in global priorities, according to a new reassessment of a 1970s report, Vice reported In that report — published in the bestselling book "The Limits to Growth" (1972) — a team of MIT scientists argued…

An evolutionary biologist and a science fiction writer walk into a bar... and mull over survival. By: Peter Watts BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. I’ve known Dan Brooks for 40 years now. Somehow we’re still talking to each other. We’ve followed radically…

President-elect Trump has tapped Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime environmental lawyer and vaccine skeptic, for the nation’s top health care job, leading the Department of Health and Human Services. Trump announced the pick on the social media platform Truth Social, and said RFK Jr. will be charged…

Donald Trump has suggested vaccines could be banned if he becomes president, in the clearest sign yet of a radical shake-up in public health policy should he put his ally Robert F Kennedy Jr in charge of it. Trump on Sunday told NBC that Kennedy, the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and former…

It begins each day at nightfall. As the light disappears, billions of zooplankton, crustaceans and other marine organisms rise to the ocean surface to feed on microscopic algae, returning to the depths at sunrise. The waste from this frenzy – Earth’s largest migration of creatures – sinks to the…

A former US navy base in Maine has caused among the largest accidental spills of toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” ever recorded in the nation, and public health advocates suspect state officials are attempting to cover up its scale by reporting misleading and incomplete data. Meanwhile, state and…

Local officials in Massachusetts have issued warnings about mosquitoes carrying eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), and, in one case, placed restrictions on the use of public fields at night, prompting backlash from some residents. Public health experts, and others, are also concerned that such…

Donald Trump’s criminal case on charges that he illegally retained classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club was dismissed on Monday after a federal judge sided with the former president and ruled that the special counsel who brought the prosecution had been improperly appointed. The stunning…

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama – Grocery stores in Alabama and Oklahoma have vending machines that allow users to purchase ammo for guns. The vending machine supplier, American Rounds, markets “ammo sales like you’ve never seen before” on its website. The company is looking to revolutionize how ammunition for…

Major news and tech media that have run fossil-fuel ads were largely staying quiet after the UN’s secretary general called for governments and companies to place bans on advertisements for coal, oil and gas. “Stop taking fossil-fuel advertising,” António Guterres implored in a major speech on…

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For the last several months, a city at the heart of Silicon Valley has been training artificial intelligence to recognize tents and cars with people living inside in what experts believe is the first