Why hacking fears loom over multimillion-dollar plan to make mobile voting happen
Computer scientist and voting expert David Jefferson is also unimpressed. Although he acknowledges that Kiniry is one of the country’s top voting system experts, he sees Tusk’s effort as doomed.
‘The people have had enough’: Moment of Truth sold-out conference signals growing power of health freedom movement
Children’s Health Defence hosted its sold-out “Moment of Truth” conference November 7-9 in Austin, Texas, drawing about 1,000 attendees in person and another 1,000 online. Meanwhile, Vice President JD Vance praised US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the MAHA Summit on November 14, highlighting the movement’s growing influence over health policy.
Kenya receives $10.5 million for re-greening of Lake Baringo watershed
Museiya praised the Northern Kenya Biodiversity Programme implemented by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) for involving government stakeholders in project design to avoid duplication and ensure alignment with national priorities.
What ‘Godfather of vaccines’ said under oath: Vaccine critics are ‘religious zealots who believe will of God includes death and disease’
Under oath, vaccine pioneer Dr Stanley Plotkin revealed how conflicts of interest, ethical blind spots and scientific hubris have compromised vaccine safety. In a 2018 deposition with attorney Aaron Siri, Plotkin exposed experiments on vulnerable children, the absence of placebo-controlled trials and complete disregard for post-market surveillance.
Longest government shutdown in US history ends and business lumbers back to life but political divisions remain
42 million Americans will no longer have to worry whether the SNAP subsidies that help them pay for groceries will run out. A spokesperson for the Agriculture Department said most states would receive funds for full SNAP benefits within 24 hours of the government reopening.
Kenya: Siaya County Assembly passes landmark Widows Protection Bill that shields women from negative cultures
One of the key provisions of the Bill is the establishment of registration committees at both the county and ward levels. These committees will be responsible for identifying and registering widows, monitoring their welfare and ensuring that their rights are upheld.
Kenyan youth demand increased taxation of world’s super-rich, polluting oil giants for climate justice
The UNTC’s third round of negotiations (INC-3) in Nairobi, from 10-19 November 2025, coincides with COP30 in Belém, Brazil, where countries are debating how to bridge the 1.5°C ambition gap, ending forest destruction and who picks up the tab for international climate finance.
Reports: Vaccine that can treat cancer might already exist but finding causes of its soaring rates does not serve interests of people in power
According to Nature, “A vaccine that helps to fight cancer might already exist. People being treated for certain deadly cancers lived longer if they had received an mRNA-based vaccine against Covid-19 than if they hadn’t, finds an analysis of medical records.”
Studies show Covid boosters only improve Big Pharma’s bank accounts but don’t boost public health
Whatever Covid-19 is and whatever the vaccines do, there has indeed been long-standing evidence that they are more effective in older people who are also at greater risk if they are infected with Covid-19.
How latest air crash in Kenya’s Taita Taveta Forest brought back my own fears of death in Masai Mara 44 years ago
Honestly, I had not heard of small aircrafts crashing. So it was an imagination of someone being prepared to be one of the very first conservation biologists in the whole world. It was a fear factor, which almost made me not concentrate on what I saw. Yet we were required to write a joint report of our scientific expedition, which has to be impressionable in the scientific world in general and in the conservation field in particular.
