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HHS Regional Office Shutdowns Threaten Public Health From The Ground Up
Black Enterprise
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June 13, 2025
Medicare is a federal health program governed by statutes and regulations, said Andrew Tsui, a partner at Arnall Golden Gregory who has co-written about the regional office closings. ‘All public health is local’: Experts sound alarm on...
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientists share studies on reef mapping with NUWC Division Newport workforce
DVIDS - Georgia
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July 10, 2025
NEWPORT, R.I. – Dr. T. Aran Mooney, Dr. Seth McCammon and Dr. Yogesh Girdhar from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts shared their studies on coral reefs, mapping sounds and the use of autonomous underwater vehicles...
US based DeVry University expands Caribbean initiative
St. Vincent Times
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July 10, 2025
Residents of the Caribbean can now benefit from a transformative new initiative launched earlier this year by U.S.-based DeVry University. Through the expansion of its Bridge to Brilliance Initiative, DeVry University will offer scholarships and...
Flying? See TSA list of banned, permitted items. Some may surprise you
The Palm Beach Post - Florida
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The Transportation Security Administration has a very long list of items not permitted if you're flying. Some items are obvious, although people do still try to bring loaded firearms onto a plane. Some items allowed in a carry-on or checked bag...
Empowering SVG: DeVry’s Online Education Expansion
St. Vincent Times
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July 10, 2025
DeVry University Expands “Bridge to Brilliance” Initiative to St Vincent and the Grenadines Residents of St Vincent and the Grenadines can now benefit from a transformative new initiative launched earlier this year by U.S.-based DeVry University....
Nonconsensual Third-Party Releases Are Alive and Well in Chapter 15 Despite Purdue
JD Supra - California
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July 10, 2025
Executive Summary Who is impacted: Companies and organizations involved in cross-border insolvency proceedings, particularly those seeking to enforce or challenge nonconsensual third-party releases in the United States. What is changing: Despite...
USDOE cuts PSS grant by 24%
Marianas Variety
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Jacqueline Che THE U.S. Department of Education has reduced federal grant funding to the CNMI Public School System by $4.5 million, or 24%, for school year 2025-2026. The funding cut is part of more than $6 billion withheld nationwide after many...
MPE CARIBBEAN REPORT NEWSLETTER – July 7, 2025
I News Cayman
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July 8, 2025
Big wins for USVI in federal tax bill Teri Helenese While portions of the new federal tax bill have sparked concern, the U.S. Virgin Islands secured several long-sought victories — thanks to determined, bipartisan advocacy led in part by Virgin...
Can you buy weed with a credit card? It's complicated.
Yahoo Finance
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Whether you regularly purchase cannabis edibles or dabble in tinctures, it feels like weed is everywhere now. About 75% of Americans live in a state where marijuana is legal for recreational or medical use, and 79% of Americans live in a county...
Epstein followers in shambles as their conspiracies are falling apart
New York Post
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July 10, 2025
The doom-scrolling community is not happy. From basement bedrooms across the US comes the muffled sound of huffing and puffing. Reddit is ablaze with the anger of digital hysterics who haven’t seen sunlight in months. Why? Because their most...
It happened today – this day in history – July 10
Yellow Advertiser
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July 9, 2025
48BC: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey near the city of Dyrrachium (in what is now Albania). 138: Death of Roman emperor Hadrian aged 62. 988: The city of Dublin is founded on the banks of the River Liffey. 1040: Lady...
Cultural Icon & Patriot Eileene L. Parsons to be laid to rest on July 17, 2025
Virgin Islands News Online
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MANCHESTER, Tortola, VI- Word reaching our news centre, from sources close to the planning, is that the late Mrs Eileene Lucia Parsons OBE—renowned Legislator, Cultural Icon, Patriot, and one of the first women elected in the Virgin Islands—will...
Two RVIPF officers injured in West End car crash
BVI News
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July 7, 2025
in All News / By: BVI News on July 7, 2025 at 6:35 AM / Two officers of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) sustained injuries during a single-vehicle crash early Saturday morning while responding to a report of a sudden death in the...
Settler Colonialism in Light of F. Fanon: Algeria yesterday, Kanaky today... (Part 1)
Black Agenda Report
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September 7, 2025
A depiction of the 1836 Battle of Constantine in Algeria. As settler-colonial violence escalates from Kanaky to Palestine, Fanon’s century-old warnings are critical today—capitalism’s genocidal expansion demands revolution. Originally published in...
Rickey Singh Defended to Death Journalists’ Lifelong Right to Write for Rights!
The Voice
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July 9, 2025
Chronicles of a Chronic Caribbean Chronicler By Earl Bousquet I came to know of Rickey Singh in the mid-1970s, following his writings when the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), not-yet a decade old, was still grappling with charting a new and...
What happened to America’s meat recalls? Pandemic-era dip still lingers.
Investigate Midwest
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July 9, 2025
Kraft Heinz recently distributed more than 367,000 pounds of turkey bacon that may be contaminated with listeria. On July 2, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service announced a recall of three Kraft Heinz products under...
Officers ambushed at Texas ICE facility
Longview News-Journal - Texas
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Tensions over the federal government’s immigration agenda erupted into violence 25 miles from downtown Fort Worth. A group of 10 to 12 people ambushed corrections and police officers July 4 outside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado,...
UPDATE: 2 officers injured in accident @ The Bluffs
Virgin Islands News Online
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THE BLUFFS, Tortola, VI- The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) has reported that two officers sustained injuries, one serious and the other non-life-threatening, when the vehicle they were in slammed into a light pole at The Bluffs last...
Why is MAGA angry with Trump, Pam Bondi over Epstein files?
Al Jazeera
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July 9, 2025
On Tuesday, United States President Donald Trump and US Attorney General Pam Bondi evaded questions from reporters on a recent government review about the accused sex trafficker and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Federal Bureau of...
Settler Colonialism in light of F. Fanon: Algeria yesterday, Kanaky today...
Black Agenda Report
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September 7, 2025
A depiction of the 1836 Battle of Constantine in Algeria. As settler-colonial violence escalates from Kanaky to Palestine, Fanon’s century-old warnings are critical today—capitalism’s genocidal expansion demands revolutionary violence in return....