Obesity epidemic rocks US as weight-loss options for young people are hard to come by
Fewer than 1 per cent of the nearly 15 million US children with obesity get this type of structured care, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention says. Efforts by the CDC and others to expand insurance coverage have stalled, doctors involved in the process told Reuters.
Trump tries to win over Blacks in Detroit but polls show he won’t flip the Democratic bloc
Donald Trump was convicted in New York last month on 34 felony counts of participating in a scheme to cover up his payment during the 2016 election to a porn star with whom he had an alleged affair. He also faces separate charges for interfering with the 2020 election and allegedly mishandling classified documents.
Pig and haram: To turn off Muslims, US Army cast Chinese vaccines as derived from pork, therefore forbidden
By 2010, the military began using social media tools, leveraging phony accounts to spread messages of sympathetic local voices – themselves often secretly paid by the United States government. As time passed, a growing web of military and intelligence contractors built online news websites to pump US-approved narratives into foreign countries.
Ping pong: How China’s scramble to link US Army to the origin and spread of Covid stirred US propaganda machine
Health workers and the government struggled to get Filipinos vaccinated against Covid-19, despite mobile sites like this one, operating in May 2021 in Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines. At that time, the Philippines had one of the worst inoculation rates in Southeast Asia. The primary vaccine available then was Sinovac. Credit: Reuters
As Covid killed millions US secret services – CIA and FBI – ran an anti-vaccine propaganda to discredit China
The US military launched a clandestine program amid the Covid crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public. Health experts say the gambit was indefensible and put innocent lives at risk.
Man jailed for January 6 riots on Capitol Hill leads pro-Trump armed national militia from prison
Lang is working with a network of election deniers and conspiracists to promote the North American Patriot and Liberty Militia or Napalm for short. The group officially launched last week with 50 state-specific militia groups on Telegram.
Congress probe unearths how US former director of health hatched plans to engineer monkeypox virus capable of killing millions
A new interim report describes the obstruction and secrecy around the mpox proposal as a case study of how the institute “oversees and accounts for the monitoring of potentially dangerous gain-of-function research of concern.”
Birth of rare white buffalo in Dakota rekindles ancient religion and prophecy of better times among American Indians
The birth of the sacred calf comes as after a severe winter in 2023 drove thousands of Yellowstone buffalo, also known as bison, to lower elevations. More than 1,500 were killed, sent to slaughter or transferred to tribes seeking to reclaim stewardship over an animal their ancestors lived alongside for millennia.
As Hunter Biden awaits sentencing after conviction of gun offences, there’s a chance he won’t be jailed
In the federal system, first-time offenders don’t get anywhere near the maximum sentence. Federal sentencing guidelines, which judges use as they weigh punishments for defendants, are expected to recommend a far lighter punishment. And judges aren’t bound by the guidelines, so she could decide not to send him to prison at all. Other options include probation or home detention.
Rising Christian nationalism in Republican party forces Democrats step up bid to stop Trump’s White House quest
The Democratic-led taskforce comes as groups on and off Capitol Hill are increasingly alarmed over Project 2025, a sweeping blueprint from the conservative Heritage Foundation that is preparing to quickly help staff a new GOP administration with plans for dismantling aspects of the federal government and installing loyalists for a second Trump term.
