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White House backs 'border czar' Tom Homan after reports he accepted cash during an undercover FBI probe last year MSNBC first reported Saturday that Homan had accepted cash during a 2024 encounter with undercover agents who were posing as businesspeople seeking government contracts that Homan suggested he could h...

The White House stood behind Tom Homan on Monday following reports that he had accepted $50,000 from undercover agents posing as businesspeople during an FBI operation last year, leading to a bribery investigation that was shut down by the Trump administration's DOJ. https://to.pbs.org/4pyLb7s

Unless you are protesting against genocide in Gaza.

The Housing Hunger Games “How extremely profitable all of this precarity has become.” Author Brian Goldstone speaks to Laura Flynn on working and homelessness in today’s America.

“It’s an engineered abandonment of not thousands, not hundreds of thousands, but millions of families,” @brian-goldstone.bsky.social told us about homelessness.

Five Al Jazeera journalists, including Anas al-Sharif, killed in Israeli strike on Gaza Israel’s military said it killed an Al Jazeera journalist it accused of being a Hamas cell leader in a Gaza airstrike on Sunday. Rights groups said he was targeted for his frontline coverage of the Gaza war and that Israel had provided no evidence to support its claim.

Five Al Jazeera journalists, including Anas al-Sharif, killed in Israeli strike on Gaza

WATCH: Understanding the stages of starvation According to the United Nations, more than 20,000 children were hospitalized in Gaza for malnutrition between April and mid July.

According to the United Nations, more than 20,000 children were hospitalized in Gaza for malnutrition between April and mid-July.

‘They slaughtered us like animals’: the inside story of how one of the biggest atrocities of the Sudan war unfolded in Zamzam As the UK prepared to host a global summit on bringing peace to Sudan, the RSF paramilitary began a ‘genocidal’ massacre in Zamzam refugee camp. But when reports emerged of the killings, London held its silence. For the first time, using intelligence reports and witness testimony, we piece together what occurred during the April atrocity – and why it was not stopped

‘They slaughtered us like animals’: the inside story of how one of the biggest atrocities of the Sudan war unfolded in Zamzam

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe One afternoon in late 2021, Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, met with the commander of Israel’s military surveillance agency, Unit 8200. On the spy chief’s agenda: moving vast amounts of top secret intelligence material into the US company’s cloud. Meeting at Microsoft’s headquarters near Seattle, a former chicken farm turned hi-tech campus, the spymaster, Yossi Sariel, won Nadella’s support for a plan that would grant Unit 8200 access to a customised and segregated area within Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. Continue reading...

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians

Israeli politician quotes Hitler to advocate for a ‘Hebrew Gaza’ Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin quoted Adolf Hitler when discussing the push to create what he called a ‘Hebrew Gaza’.

Who is drawing parallels between the Holocaust and the Palestinian genocide now? Moshe Feiglin is: “Just as Hitler vowed to eliminate every Jew and said he couldn’t live as long as one Jew remained, I say:...They must be eliminated.” www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

mRNA vaccines for HIV trigger strong immune response in people Nature - Results from early-stage trial show that 80% of participants who received one of two HIV vaccine candidates produced antibodies against viral proteins.

Two vaccine candidates using mRNA technology elicit a potent immune response against HIV

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‘We are dying slowly, save us’: starvation takes hold in Gaza after a week of appalling milestones Parents watch children waste away as deliberate aid restrictions from Israel mean hunger is becoming a killer, as experts confirm famine is currently playing out The people of Gaza did not need this week’s official confirmation from UN-backed hunger experts that the “worst-case scenario of famine” was unfolding there. For months they have watched as their children waste away. “All my children have lost nearly half of their body weight,” said Jamil Mughari, a 38-year-old from Maghazi in central Gaza. “My daughter, who is five years old, now weighs only 11kg. My son Mohammad has become just skin and bones. All my children are like this. Continue reading...

‘We are dying slowly, save us’: starvation takes hold in Gaza after a week of appalling milestones

Will Gaza Ever Know a Real Ceasefire, or Just a Pause Before the Next Bomb? What does hope mean when your city is flattened and everyone you know is slowly starving?

"I worry that, if a ceasefire does come, there will be nothing left to save."

A photo of displaced Palestinians receiving hot meals distributed by aid organizations in Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza City, Gaza on July 24, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "“Food Has Become a Memory”: My Hunger Diary in Gaza," and the DEK, "A 21-year-old writer living in Gaza documents her daily life under the U.S.–Israeli program of mass starvation."

A photo of writer Sara Awad overlaid with the quote, "This is my attempt to document what it feels like when your stomach rumbles, becoming louder than your thoughts."

A photo of the only food for the day for a family of eight, overlaid with the text, " mom baked eight pieces of bread, one for each of our family members, and each one of us chooses the way to eat it."

A photo of the daily bread, baked, overlaid with the text, "For me, I choose to separate it into two portions — the second is for dinner. Very small portions for a person who does not eat enough for months. And we do not know when the next bread will come along."

"Today marks the 89th day of the starvation war. I woke up with a dizzy feeling in my head as I had not eaten anything since yesterday morning." interc.pt/3IHtVw9

No, they just need to be honest and deliver.

This waterfall is called Rodney Falls,located in Stevenson, Washington State.

The beauty of the Pacific Northwest, pool of the winds waterfalls, located in Stevenson, Washington State. #photography #landscape #nature #outdoors #waterfalls

Here a beautiful place in the Northwest. #photography #landscape #outdoors #nature #waterfall

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Details of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza Gaza's humanitarian catastrophe is deepening 20 months into Israel's war against Hamas, with conditions threatening to push nearly half a million people into famine by the end of September, according to U.N. estimates.

Details of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza reut.rs/44BZ5fH

‘No other explanation’: children of slain Gaza doctor say he was deliberately targeted Family of Dr Marwan al-Sultan says the Israeli airstrike ‘precisely’ hit the apartment block the cardiologist and his relatives occupied

‘No other explanation’: children of slain Gaza doctor say he was deliberately targeted

A black and white photograph of Henrietta Swan Leavitt. She is wearing a white blouse with a large lace collar that covers her shoulders, upper chest, and neck. Her hair is pulled up and she is looking directly at the camera. She has dark eyes in tis photo, strong eyebrows, and a long, thin nose.

Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born #OTD in 1868. She established the period-luminosity relation for Cepheid variable stars, an essential tool for understanding the scale of our Universe. 🧪 👩‍🔬 🔭

Image: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Nothing wrong with expecting people to pick themselves up by their bootstraps, until you realize that some people have no boots.

‘Gaza must be eliminated’: Israel’s airwaves are filled with pro-genocide propaganda | Arwa Mahdawi Here is a collection of 20 of the more outrageous statements by Israeli lawmakers or public figures since 7 October 2023

‘Gaza must be eliminated’: Israel’s airwaves are filled with pro-genocide propaganda | Arwa Mahdawi

Nearly one-third of Pacific nation Tuvalu seeks Australian climate visa Nearly one-third of citizens in Pacific nation Tuvalu are seeking a landmark climate visa to live in Australia as rising seas threaten their palm-fringed shores, official figures obtained by AFP show.

Nearly one-third of Pacific nation Tuvalu seeks Australian climate visa

Sticky membranes of dead red blood cells obstruct small vessels Damage to the vascular lining leads to interactions with red blood cells that hint at how to treat dangerous complications of heart attack, stroke and COVID-19.

Damage to the vascular lining leads to interactions with red blood cells that hint at how to treat dangerous complications of heart attack, stroke and COVID-19

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Letter from Gaza: The Nakba We Are Living Through "I have now become a refugee twice over: once from our historic village of Barbara, and now from Jabaliya."

"Letter from Gaza: The Nakba We Are Living Through"

Powerful story from Hamza Salha on how he and his family were forced to flee their home in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza to head for an unknown fate as Israel expands its attacks.
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Study shows link between CT scans and the risk of developing cancer CT scans are quick, painless, non-invasive tests that can identify everything from brain tumors to injuries from an accident. But a new study published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine shows a…

A new study published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine shows a link between the radiation exposure from the imaging tool and cancer.

Underwater kelp forests are losing a turf war In warming coastal seas, a crucial ecosystem is being replaced by ‘turfs’ of red algae, which release chemicals that suppress kelp survival.

In warming coastal seas, a crucial ecosystem is being replaced by ‘turfs’ of red algae, which release chemicals that suppress kelp survival

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