BBC A report found 143 people had cryptosporidiosis during the outbreak in 2024 An annual report has found 143 people were confirmed to have had cryptosporidiosis during an outbreak in Devon in May 2024, with four hospitalisations. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) previously confirmed 126 cases during the incident. The revised figure of 143...
Shutterstock “We just wanted a relaxing conversation with our dad and we weren’t able to have one,” says Jack Blumenthal. “It was horrible. And it was constant.” Raw pain is etched on Jack’s father’s face as he finally realises how his undiagnosed mental illness – and erratic manic behaviour – hurt the ones he loves...
Prices of toys, car parts and major appliances jumped in the US last month, but the overall impact of Donald Trump’s new tariffs on consumers remained relatively muted. Prices were up 2.4% in May compared with a year ago, up from a rate of 2.3% in April, the latest official inflation figures showed. Housing and...
Did you know that Trump is serving in his second term? You wouldn’t, if you watch the way the news reports his poll numbers and how they compare them to the numbers for Bush, Obama, and Biden at “this point in their terms.” As of two days ago, Trump’s approval rating in the RCP Avg...
We have been bombarded by commentary that Trump has taken a serious hit in the polls, and that his voters are suffering from “buyer’s remorse.” I can’t tell you the number of times I have seen “influencers” tell stories about Trump voters coming up to them and confessing that they regret voting for Trump, and...
Baxter says he is “really looking forward to pre-season” as he tries to put the worst campaign in Exeter’s recent history behind him. Sunday’s victory was just Exeter’s fourth in the league this season – although as with the win over Saracens in January, it came against a side shorn of its international stars. Chiefs...
The answer is too easy. It is, of course, Florida. There is a reason why I was an avid supporter of Governor DeSantis in the primaries, and why I resented the MAGA attacks aimed at him when he was running against President Trump. Ron DeSantis is awesome, and even if you think Donald Trump is...
Namibia’s new president has announced that university fees will be scrapped from 2026. President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, the country’s first female president, made the announcement during her maiden state of the nation address on Thursday evening. Addressing lawmakers, Nandi-Ndaitwah said that students would pay “no registration [or] tuition fees” at all public universities and technical colleges....
The government borrowed more than expected in the year to March due to increased spending on pay and benefits, according to official figures. Borrowing, the difference between spending and income from taxes, was £151.9bn in the year to March, up £20.7bn from the year before. The amount borrowed was much higher than the £137.3bn predicted...
The academic leaders vowed to resist Trump’s efforts for “retribution, censorship, or deportation.” Hundreds of colleges, universities and scholarly societies in the U.S. have pledged to resist the Trump administration’s “unprecedented” all-out attacks on higher education as the president targets universities with massive funding revocations and other retribution. Over 200 institutions have signed a statement,...
Nikita Yadav BBC News, Delhi @MEAIndia/X Vance (left) and Modi discussed matters related to trade, defence and bilateral cooperation India and the US are making progress in negotiating a bilateral trade deal, the countries said after a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Vice-President JD Vance in Delhi. Vance is currently on a four-day...
One of the most important insights of public policy is the understanding that most laws are predicated upon a (stated or unstated) quid pro quo. Take, for example, the roiling monthslong debate about President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda. Prior to the media uproar over the much-ballyhooed...
Weeks after the Rutgers University Senate passed a resolution to form a “mutual defense compact” — aiming to band together with other universities to protect from the Trump administration’s attacks on academic freedom and free speech — university communities’ push for their schools to stand up to the White House is gaining momentum. Labor unions,...
I’m not sure what President Trump’s precise tariff plans are at this point but the general goal seems to be to renegotiate trade deals with countries around the world in ways that made trade more favorable to the US. Here’s what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said yesterday on Meet the Press. ...
Part of the Series Challenging the Corporate University In 2023-2024, students in solidarity with Palestine launched the largest campus movement in the U.S. since the anti-Vietnam War protests, and chapters of Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine and Educators for Justice in Palestine sprang up to support them. The Palestine solidarity movement has continued...