Category: Americas
-
Indiana has 82,000 fewer people on food assistance than it did last October. Asked how many were removed for ineligibility and how many for paperwork, the state agency said it could not say — which is the part worth reporting.
-
The Chapel Hill ministerial closed with a consensus statement and China’s signature. A text both Washington and Beijing can sign is a text that binds neither — and the clearest call for safety testing came from a frontier lab, not a government.
-
At a G20 ministerial in Chapel Hill, the United States is asking the world’s largest economies to commit to not building AI regulators. France and Germany are bound by an Act that already created them.
-
The House voted 370-48 to fund the government through 11 December, a month before it had to. The Appropriations chairman said out loud what the timing was for: getting Congress past the November elections.
-
Haiti’s new national nutrition survey found acute malnutrition in young children has risen from 5.1 to 7.4 per cent since 2023 — while stunting fell sharply over the same period. Both findings are in the same document, and both are probably right.
-
A judge extended the pause on border wall construction in Big Bend National Park. The striking part is the mechanism: a cabinet secretary can waive the Endangered Species Act outright, and judicial review barely applies.
-
A federal agency has found Cisco violated the civil rights of Middle Eastern and Muslim employees, after an internal chat platform filled with abuse. The retaliation allegation may be the more serious half.
-
The Army Secretary resigned after eighteen months, saying the Defense Secretary was blocking modernisation by firing the generals running it. He is the fourth senior Army departure this year, six months into a war.
-
The president posted an AI-generated image of Kharg Island being destroyed; the vice president called it a message to Iran. The new AI labelling laws have nothing to say about it — they were built for a different problem.
-
Emails show US immigration officials arranged three deportation flights to Iran carrying more than 100 people between September 2025 and January 2026 — a working channel between two governments heading for war.