Opinion
- by: Julia Kollewe
- Source:
The Guardian
- 03/17/2025
AstraZeneca pays up to $1bn for biotech firm ‘that could transform cell therapy’
UK pharma group acquires Belgium’s EsoBiotec as it announces EU has approved Imfinzi lung cancer drug
- by: MARK SHERMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST
- Source:
AP News
- 03/14/2025
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to partly allow birthright citizenship restrictions
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow restrictions on birthright citizenship to partly take effect while legal fights play out.
- by: Stepheny Price , Julia Johnson , Kelly Phares , Megan Tome
- Source:
Fox News
- 03/14/2025
Chuck Schumer will vote to keep government open: 'For Donald Trump, a shutdown would be a gift'
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., says he will vote to keep the government open, warning that a shutdown has worse consequences for Americans and would only empower President Donald Trump and Elon Musk further.
- by: Ian Stark
- Source:
United Press International
- 03/14/2025
More than 2,000 laid off at Johns Hopkins University amid Trump budget cuts
Johns Hopkins University announced Thursday it's laying off over 2,000 employees amid budget cuts made by the Trump administration.
- Source:
News Max
- 03/13/2025
ICE: US Immigration Detention Maxed at 47.6K Detainees
U.S. immigration detention is filled to capacity at 47,600 detainees, a senior U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said on a call with reporters on Wednesday, adding that the Trump administration was seeking more bed space.
- by: Danielle de Wolfe
- Source:
LBC
- 03/12/2025
Europe retaliates against Trump tariffs - as UK steel industry warns US levies 'couldn't come at a worse time'
The tariffs, which see a 25% levy applied to international imports of steel and aluminium, came into effect at midnight on Tuesday (around 4am GMT), with British steel and aluminium industries bracing for the impact.
- by: Luis Prada
- Source:
Vice
- 03/12/2025
Meta Is All About Free Speech—Except They Built a Censorship Tool for China
You might remember the video in which Mark Zuckerberg, donned in the outfit of his newly acquired hypebeast persona, ushered in the second Trump administration by declaring that “it’s time to get back to our roots around free expression.” Suddenly, Zuckerberg was a free-speech warrior, which is code for willfully throwing our most vulnerable under the bus to appease conservatives.
- by: Taylor Herzlich
- Source:
NY Post
- 03/11/2025
Southwest Airlines will charge to check bags for first time — breaking longstanding tradition
The airline on Tuesday said it will end its decades-old free bag check policy – another break from tradition as the company tries to ward off advances from activist investors.
- Source:
Punch Nigeria Limited
- 03/10/2025
US to cancel 83% of USAID programmes
US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said on Monday that the United States was cancelling 83 per cent of programmes at the US Agency for International Development.
- by: Vaughn Hillyard and Raquel Coronell Uribe
- Source:
NBC News
- 03/10/2025
CDC will research widely debunked link between vaccines and autismRead Full Article Here
The possibility of a link between vaccines and autism has been repeatedly debunked by hundreds of scientific studies.
- by: Lucas Nolan
- Source:
Breitbart
- 03/07/2025
No More Web Links: Google Rolls Out Search Tool that Only Provides AI Answers
Google has begun testing a new AI-powered search tool called “AI Mode” that provides users with artificial intelligence-generated answers rather than traditional web links.
- by: Alexandra Koch
- Source:
FOX Business
- 03/07/2025
SpaceX Starship megarocket upper stage lost again during 8th test flight; booster catch is successful
After a failed mission in January, SpaceX on Thursday launched its eighth suborbital flight test of its fully integrated Starship megarocket, a combination of the ship's upper stage (S34) and the Super Heavy booster (B15), at Starbase in Boca Chica Beach, Texas.
- by: Greg Norman
- Source:
FOX Business
- 03/06/2025
Automakers get 1-month tariff exemption, White House says
U.S. automakers who comply with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) are getting a one-month exemption from the Trump administration’s tariffs that went into effect Tuesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Wednesday.
- by: Phil Helsel
- Source:
NBC News
- 03/06/2025
U.S.-to-Mexico flight diverts to Texas after 'security concern'
The plane, headed from the Minneapolis area to Mazatlán, landed without incident, and all the passengers got off safely, Sun Country Airlines said.
- by: Conor Wilson
- Source:
Express
- 03/05/2025
JD Vance demolished by Nick Ferrari before US Vice President rows back on Britain attack
Broadcaster Nick Ferrari has savaged the US Vice President after his claims that the UK was some "random country who has not fought a war for 30 or 40 years."
- by: Kerry Cullinan
- Source:
Health Policy-watch
- 03/05/2025
RFK Affirms Measles Vaccine But Says Decision to Vaccinate is ‘Personal’
Amid the worst measles outbreak in the United States in a decade, vaccine sceptic Robert F Kennedy Jr, the Trump administration’s Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, has affirmed that vaccines protect children.