Category: Health

After 30 years in power, Chad’s brutal ruler Idris Déby Itno is just coming into his own.  With elections on April 11 in his oil rich, yet crushingly impoverished country, he is offering a masterclass in how to not just win an election but crush an opposition, dispirit a population, and seduce foreign backers so…

As governor, Gretchen Whitmer vowed to provide clean and affordable drinking water for the Great Lakes state of Michigan. Last year, she implemented a statewide moratorium on water shutoffs to provide relief during the COVID-19 crisis, allocated $500 million dollars for improving water infrastructure, and in November stood by a campaign promise when she ordered…

The UK government is being urged to ban antibiotic use on healthy farm animals in line with the EU following research by World Animal Protection that found antibiotic resistant superbugs dangerous to public health in rivers and lakes beside factory farms in Spain, the USA, Canada and Thailand. The report, ‘Silent superbug killers in a…

Carolyn Bennett Glauda, a librarian in Beacon, New York, got her Covid-19 shot at an abandoned JC Penney. The store went out of business around the beginning of the pandemic. But when she entered, she saw a cheery, volunteer-filled vaccination hub adorned with balloons. Glauda almost didn’t recognize the space until she was sent to…

With govt so far refusing to honour the award and instead choosing to challenge it, Cairn is looking to enforce it by seizing overseas Indian assets, said an official of a law firm representing Cairn TopicsCairn Energy UK’s Cairn Energy Plc plans to bring lawsuits in the US and other countries to pierce the corporate…

Sipa/AP Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters. It seems clear now why the Trump administration fought so hard to avoid making public the details of the waivers it granted to White House staffers who might…

America had to wait 731 days for the return of the NCAA tournament after the pandemic canceled last year’s postseason in college basketball. With a bubble setup for the men’s tournament around Indianapolis and the women’s tournament in San Antonio, the greatest sporting event in the world made its return. The men’s tournament lived up…

The Mardi Gras March on Oxford Street, organised by Pride In Protest on March 6, 2021. Days after the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, its board has found itself embroiled in controversy. Two members of Pride In Protest  have been stood down from their positions as Mardi Gras board directors, including the only openly…