Anti-Trump protesters pour in Washington and other US cities as high tariffs anger consumers

Anti-Trump protesters pour in Washington and other US cities as high tariffs anger consumers

The crowd around the memorial containued to build throughout the day. Some carried Ukrainian flags and others wore Palestinian keffiyeh scarves and carried “Free Palestine” signs, while Democrats from the US House of Representatives blasted Trump’s policies on stage.

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Researcher terms polio vaccine a ‘fairy-tale’ and confesses the world was ‘lied to, vaccines didn’t eradicate polio’

Researcher terms polio vaccine a ‘fairy-tale’ and confesses the world was ‘lied to, vaccines didn’t eradicate polio’

Symptoms that would have been diagnosed as polio before the introduction of the vaccine are now attributed to lead or mercury poisoning, or have been given new names, like GBS and transverse myelitis, a neurological disorder that “follows the same pathology as polio,” Humphries said.

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Killing fly with a hammer: How tiny Lesotho ended up with the highest US tariffs in the world

Killing fly with a hammer: How tiny Lesotho ended up with the highest US tariffs in the world

Last year, the landlocked kingdom bordered on all sides by South Africa with a population of 2.3 million people, celebrated 200 years of the founding of the Basotho nation and 58 years of independence from British rule.

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Congo president commutes death sentences of three Americans as Trump’s advisor on Africa tours DRC, Kenya and Uganda

Congo president commutes death sentences of three Americans as Trump’s advisor on Africa tours DRC, Kenya and Uganda

US Department of State announced late on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s new senior advisor for Africa, Massad Boulos, will travel to Congo and three other African countries – Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda – starting April 3.

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Africa’s 60 per cent fallow agricultural land lures foreign investors, but their dreams end up in smoke

Africa’s 60 per cent fallow agricultural land lures foreign investors, but their dreams end up in smoke

In 2021, the Senegalese village of Niéti Yone welcomed investors Frank Timis and Gora Seck from a US-registered company, African Agriculture. Over cups of sweet green tea, the visitors promised to employ hundreds of locals and, one day, thousands. Timis, originally from Romania, was the majority stakeholder.

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Largest tax-dodging scheme by Big Pharma: How Pfizer sold $20 billion of drugs to Americans without paying tax in 2019

Largest tax-dodging scheme by Big Pharma: How Pfizer sold $20 billion of drugs to Americans without paying tax in 2019

A recent review by The Lever also found that Big Pharma routinely engages in tax avoidance. In 2022, major US pharmaceutical companies reported over $214 billion in revenue but only $10 billion in profits in the US. Those same companies reported over $171 billion in revenue outside of the US and over $90 billion in profits – but US consumers pay the highest pharmaceutical costs.

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Make America Stupid Again: How Trump’s provincialism in education will kill Enlightenment scholarship

Make America Stupid Again: How Trump’s provincialism in education will kill Enlightenment scholarship

Long after Jefferson’s death in 1826, the seeds of Enlightenment ideas had a hard time finding purchase in the rocky soil of American xenophobia and anti-intellectualism. In 1841, the brilliant mathematician James Joseph Sylvester, only 27 years old but already writing papers whose conceptual brilliance astonished the field, was hired by the University of Virginia. As historian Lewis S. Feuer noted, Sylvester was “the first observing Jew to be called to the United States to fill a full professorship in a secular subject.”

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Chaos at Pentagon as defence secretary Hegseth accidentally reveals start time of planned killing of Yemeni militant

Chaos at Pentagon as defence secretary Hegseth accidentally reveals start time of planned killing of Yemeni militant

US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth speaks to US service members at the Defence Personnel Accounting Agency on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii,US, on March 25, 2025. Credit: DOD/U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Madelyn Keech

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Trump’s aid cuts fuel embers of HIV after a deadly war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region

Trump’s aid cuts fuel embers of HIV after a deadly war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region

oday the HIV prevalence rate in Tigray is three per cent, more than double the pre-war average, according to local health authorities and the United Nations. The rate among the region’s roughly one million displaced people is 5.5 per cent. Among sexual violence survivors, it is 8.6 per cent.

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US and Russia delegations meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss Ukraine war, eye Black Sea ceasefire

US and Russia delegations meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss Ukraine war, eye Black Sea ceasefire

White House national security adviser Mike Waltz told CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday that the US, Russian and Ukrainian delegations were assembled in the same facility in Riyadh.

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