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#10 Nurses at Massachusetts Hospital Concerned About Growing Number of Cancer Cases Among Staff - Beth Germano for CBS News, Broken Truth/Maryanne DeMasi, PhD, WB, Noah Da Goat, Sborg40, and Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, on X
Nurses at Newton-Wellesley Hospital say they are concerned about growing numbers of cancer cases among longtime nurses who have been working on a fifth-floor maternal care ward. One nurse who was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor described going to work with a bad feeling in her gut each day. The woman, who asked not to be identified, said she is not alone among her nursing colleagues. "It's getting to the point where the number just increases, and you start saying 'am I crazy thinking this?'" she said. "This can't just be a coincidence." The nurse claims as many as ten nurses who work on the fifth floor have been diagnosed with different brain tumors over the last few years, some cancerous and some not. She said three have had surgery and believes the hospital has not been supportive enough...
#9 US Bans Government Personnel in China From Romantic or Sexual Relations With Chinese Citizens - AP News, Byron Wan, RT, Bangkok Post, Denise Wu, and Special Situations Research Newsletter on X
The U.S. government has banned American government personnel in China, as well as family members and contractors with security clearances, from any romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citizens, The Associated Press has learned. Four people with direct knowledge of the matter told the AP about the policy, which was put into effect by departing U.S. Ambassador Nicholas Burns in January shortly before he left China. The people would speak only on condition of anonymity to discuss details of a confidential new directive. Though some U.S. agencies already had strict rules on such relationships, a blanket “non-fraternization” policy, as it is known, has been unheard of publicly since the Cold War. It’s not uncommon for American diplomats in other countries to date locals and even marry them...
#8 Desantis Blasts Newly Elected Florida GOP Congressman, Continuing History of Attacks - Alec Schemmel Fox News, Eric Daugherty/Proud Elephant, Brandon Wolf/The Space Coast Rocket, Richard FL/Gary Fineout, Rob Bluey and Luis Valdes on X
Ron DeSantis intensified his attacks on Randy Fine Wednesday, blaming the representative-elect's "unique problems" for a thin special election victory in a district known as a Republican stronghold. The Trump-endorsed candidate won Tuesday night's special election to take over former Congressman Mike Waltz's seat by 14 points, the slimmest margin of victory for a Republican in the district since 2018. DeSantis, who had already been criticizing Fine's ability to pull out a victory, called the representative-elect a "squish" who Republican voters didn't even want to cast their ballots for Tuesday night...
#7 Trump’s Sweeping New Tariffs Send Global Stocks Plunging as U.S. Allies Plan Reaction - NBC News, The Kobeissi Letter, Kimchi Premium, Insurrection Barbie/$8 Bartemy/Zerohedge, and Scott4Trump on X
The Trump administration's aggressive global tariff regime against imported goods from some of its closest allies has drawn strong reactions across the board. Longstanding U.S. allies across most of the world's largest economies reacted with a mixture of anger and despair as they vowed retaliatory tariffs and trailed some of the measures they plan to use to soften the blow to their own economies. Countries seeking to sell goods to the United States will now face taxes as high as 54% based on how the White House is calculating duties on U.S. exports, as well as "nonmonetary" trade barriers in response to countries' doing things like manipulating their currencies or serving as "pollution havens."Global markets reacted sharply and swiftly, with investors pulling money out of U.S. shares and the stocks of other companies that rely on global supply chains...#6 Trump Imposes New Tariffs on Cheap Chinese Goods Sold by Companies Like Temu and Shein - Victor Nava for New York Post, Selina Wang, Adam Townsend, Wall St Engine, Dominic Pino/Ryan Petersen, and brookschaaf on X
President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday closing a trade loophole on cheap goods from China that were previously exempt from tariffs. Trump, 78, argued that the so-called “de minimus” exception allowed shippers from the People’s Republic and Hong Kong to “hide illicit substances” in packaging and products. “These shippers often avoid detection due to administration of the de minimis exemption,” the president wrote, claiming that duty-free exports from China “play a significant role in the synthetic opioid crisis in the United States.” The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Wednesday a pause and an ongoing review of federal funding to Maine after the state refused to provide equal opportunities to women and girls in educational programs. The state has refused to comply with President Donald Trump's February executive order to ban trans athletes from girls and women's sports, prompting immense federal pressure. Trump initially vowed to cut federal funding to the state if it refused to comply with the order during a Feb. 20 speech. Now, Trump has made good on that promise... A team that tracked how well in vitro fertilization worked across the U.S. was abruptly cut Tuesday as part of the sweeping layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services. The elimination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance team — a group of six epidemiologists, data analysts, and researchers — shocked public health experts and IVF advocates who said they had felt encouraged by President Donald Trump’s comments supporting access to the infertility treatment. Just last week, Trump declared himself “the fertilization president” while touting efforts to expand IVF... Consumers in Los Angeles County were shocked Tuesday as a new quarter-percent sales tax, ostensibly to raise funds for services for the homeless, went into effect following a referendum in November. L.A. voters passed Measure A, which replaced and increased an earlier county-wide sales tax for the homeless. That tax passed a decade ago, failed to stem the growth of the homeless population and may even have encouraged it... Pesticide companies are among the wealthiest corporations in the world. Take Bayer: The chemical and pharmaceutical corporation made about half of its $50 billion revenue last year from pesticide and seed sales. These behemoths are not, however, without a weak spot: liability to lawsuits filed by ordinary citizens. But that could soon change. Tennessee lawmakers are considering a bill to make pesticide companies immune to certain class action lawsuits. The legislation would effectively block residents from holding companies liable for illnesses caused by pesticide exposure.
#5 Georgia House Democrats Walk Out in Protest Over Bill Banning Gender-Affirming Care for Inmates - Deidra Dukes for Fox 5 Atlanta, Juanita Broaddrick, Libs of TikTok, Vernon Jones, and Christian Heiens on X
Georgia House Democrats staged a dramatic walkout Wednesday as lawmakers debated a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for state prison inmates. It marks growing tensions over a slate of Republican-backed legislation targeting transgender residents. he protest occurred during a debate over Senate Bill 185, which passed the House in a 100-2 vote. All Democrats abstained by leaving the chamber. SB 185, sponsored by Sen. Randy Robertson, a Republican from Cataula, would prohibit the Georgia Department of Corrections from providing gender-affirming care to incarcerated individuals. According to Robertson, about five people currently incarcerated in Georgia receive such care...
#4 Trump Admin Freezes Funding to Maine for Letting Trans Athletes in Girls Sports - Jackson Thompson for Fox News, Charlie Kirk, Diligent Denizen, and Riley Gaines on X
#3 CDC's IVF Team Gutted Even as Trump Calls Himself the ‘Fertilization President' - Berkeley Lovelace Jr. and Abigail Brooks for NBC News, Rachel Cohen, Alanna Vagianos, and The New Republic on X
#2 Shock for L.A. Consumers as ‘Homeless Tax’ — Which They Voted For — Takes Effect - Joel B. Pollak for Breitbart, Kevin Dalton, Playteaux, Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD, and Make L.A. Great Again on X
#1 How Pesticides, Monsanto, and ‘Buried’ Scientific Evidence Converge in a Proposed Tennessee Law - Caroline Eggers 90.3 WPLN News, GM Aatch, Robby Starbuck, Dustin Kittle, and Tracy Beanz/MAHA Action on X
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