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Season 49 of Survivor is well underway and the CBS hit just logged their fifth castaway eliminated from the competition show. The episode kicked off with 14 contestants still in the game. However, with one tribe, Kele, down to only 2 members, it was clear that a merge was going to happen. Sure enough, when the episode kicked off, Jeff Probst changed up the tribes from three into two, with Kele and Hina as the two remaining tribes with 7 castaways on each. As we went into the immunity challenge, the new Kele tribe actually won, giving them their first…
Operations were briefly suspended at Kenya’s main airport after thousands of mourners turned out to receive the body of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, a day after he died in India.Large crowds of mourners carrying twigs and palm branches breached security at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) immediately after the body of the former leader arrived on Thursday morning. Authorities said mourners gained access to restricted areas, prompting a “precautionary closure” to allow security teams to restore order and ensure safety.The airport later said operations had been restored following the shutdown, which lasted about two hours.Because of the unexpectedly huge…
Health insurance is supposed to help families, not bully them. Yet when big insurers, or their lobby in Washington, don’t get the policy outcome they want, they reach for the same lever: higher premiums. That isn’t care. That’s pressure — and patients feel it first. We have seen this before. In October 2017, the administration cut off cost-sharing reduction payments. Carriers answered by “silver-loading” the next year, piling the missing dollars onto silver plans, and premiums jumped just as analysts warned. The Kaiser Family Foundation documents the shift; the Congressional Budget Office said that ending the payments would drive…
The federal government just lost a lot of people fast and there’s more to come. Between Sept. 30 and Dec. 31, tens of thousands of civil servants will end their service through retirement or separation, not to mention those RIF’d as part of the government shutdown. Of the roughly 300,000 departures expected, more than a third are concentrated in three departments: Defense, Treasury and Agriculture. Other communities have been hit particularly hard, including foreign service professionals with decades of experience in diplomacy and humanitarian assistance. The federal workforce has weathered reorganizations before, but this time feels different because of the speed and…
Ola Electric launched residential battery storage systems priced from ₹30,000, entering India’s ₹1-lakh-crore ($12-billion) energy storage market as the electric vehicle manufacturer seeks revenue diversification beyond two-wheelers. The company expects battery consumption for storage systems to reach 5 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in a few years, potentially exceeding automotive use, as it leverages existing cell manufacturing and distribution infrastructure without additional capital expenditure. The home batteries, branded Ola Shakti, utilise the same 4680 cell technology deployed in the company’s electric scooters and will be sold through its 4,000-store network. Deliveries begin in January 2026, with the…
In the video above, I talk about why Republicans are doing so much to discredit the No Kings protest. I’d be grateful if you gave it a watch.Three of the six largest protests in US history have taken place when Donald Trump was president. Two of the six largest have occurred during the less than ten months of the second Trump administration. The Hands Off protest and the No Kings protest, which drew 5 million people, should have bothered Republicans, but they didn’t.Instead, it is the second No Kings protest scheduled for October 18th that has Republicans rattled. Republican leadership,…
Learning from the Laureates The 2025 Economics Prize, Technological Innovation, and the Energy Transition This year’s Nobel Prize in Economics was split among three economists for their work on technological innovation and economic growth. Their work doesn’t focus on energy or the environment, but it has important implications regarding the energy transition. In particular, it raises serious concerns about the long-term impact of Trump’s energy policies and his vendetta against renewable energy on U.S. economic growth. Half of the prize was split between Philippe Aghion of Collège de France, INSEAD and the London School of Economics; and Peter Howitt of…
Marissa Da’Nae is not here for the name shaming, especially when it comes to her son. After a post criticizing the unique spelling of her and NLE Choppa’s baby boy’s name made rounds on social media, Marissa took to X (formerly Twitter) to set the record straight. And let’s just say, she had time.Related: Oop! Marissa Da’Nae Shares Strong Message After Appearing Alongside NLE Choppa To Celebrate Son Chozen’s 2nd Birthday (PHOTOS)Marissa Da’Nae Pops Off After Tweet Goes ViralOop! Marissa DaNae had the timeline buzzing Wednesday afternoon after clapping back at a viral post that called out her son’s name. It all…
by External SourceWednesday, October 15, 2025Inter Press ServicePoverty is not just scarcity. It is exclusion, stigma, and invisibility. Poverty is not a personal failure. It is a systemic failure. A denial of dignity and human rights. Families in poverty often endure intrusive surveillance, burdensome eligibility checks and systems that judge, not support.Single mothers, Indigenous households, marginalized groups face increased scrutiny, suspicion and separation. Over 690 million people live in extreme poverty. Nearly half the world lives on less than USD$6.85 per day. Around 1.1 billion people suffer multidimensional poverty. Two-thirds of people in extreme poverty are in Sub-Saharan Africa. Progress…
When Wright first reached out to Hall, Hall was nervous about working with the shelter. “A place that was managing eight hundred dogs with twelve kennels and one employee?” she said. “I was afraid that I was going to be super fucking sad.” Hall lives off the grid on a dirt road in Terlingua, at the edge of Big Bend National Park, around two hundred miles south of Pecos—a place so remote that she sometimes calls it “the worst place in the world to run a dog rescue.” At the time, she was working for a public-defense association and saving…