Trump administration considers scaling back HIV efforts at CDC
In his first term, President Donald Trump launched a bold and successful initiative against HIV. This time around, the administration’s stance is much different.
Day: March 19, 2025
UK set to tighten gun controls after teenager shot dead mother and siblings
Crime commissioner calls for national database after Nicholas Prosper, 19, bought shotgun by forging firearms licence Gun controls are set to be tightened after a teenager who bought a shotgun by forging a firearms licence was jailed for life for murde…
‘Can’t go anywhere’: Man last seen with Sudiksha Konanki seeks passport to return home amid investigation
Joshua Riibe, a Minnesota college student, is stranded in the Dominican Republic after University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki went missing on March 6. Riibe, left without his passport, awaits the issuance of a new one to return home. Authori…
Factcheck: Kemi Badenoch’s claim that net zero is ‘impossible’ by 2050
Tory leader provides no evidence to support position that flies in face of expert reports and her own wordsThe Conservative party leader, Kemi Badenoch, officially ditched net zero by 2050 as a Tory policy this week. The target was signed into law in J…
Activists call on Canada to help Afghan women facing deportation due to Trump administration cuts
Activists are calling on the Canadian government and universities to let Afghan women studying under U.S.-funded scholarships to come to Canada, warning the students could face dire and potentially life-threatening consequences if they return to a coun…
Trump suggests US could run Ukraine’s power plants
The US president says peace efforts are “very much on track”, a day after Russia’s president declined to agree a full ceasefire.
China is waging cognitive warfare. Fighting back starts by defining it.
The US and its allies need a framework for this new domain of conflict: formal, explicit specifications for its concepts and entities.
Canada Turns to Australia for NORAD Radar
Canada is turning to Australia for a more than $4 billion Arctic radar for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). The Canadian Over-the-Horizon Radar would leverage Australia’s BAE Systems‘ […]
Israelis take to streets in anger as Netanyahu resumes air strikes on Gaza
Thousands of Israelis took to the streets of Jerusalem on Wednesday to call on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to end the war on the Gaza Strip and return the hostages. Israel resumed a series of deadly air strikes on the besieged Palestinian enclav…
Pavel Durov says Telegram now has 1B+ MAUs, up from 950M in July 2024, and made $547M in profits in 2024, and calls WhatsApp “a cheap, watered-down imitation” (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Pavel Durov says Telegram now has 1B+ MAUs, up from 950M in July 2024, and made $547M in profits in 2024, and calls WhatsApp “a cheap, watered-down imitation” — Telegram founder Pavel Durov said …