37+ min ago  (929+ words) Tunnelling workers" health and lives are at risk from the continued refusal of corporations and government authorities to address the known dangers of respirable crystalline silica dust inhalation, a recent study has found. The study, led by University of Sydney…...

54+ min ago  (594+ words) The 2026 MV Hondius cruise ship outbreak represents a terrifying milestone in global epidemiology. As the first known shipborne Andes virus event in recorded history, the outbreak has already claimed three lives and scattered a highly lethal pathogen across multiple countries....

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (924+ words) Bond markets are sending out clear signals of tightening financial conditions as the global inflation surge from the US war on Iran continues and central banks prepare to lift interest rates. This week at a US Treasury auction of $25 billion…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (414+ words) Michael depicts Motown founder Berry Gordy and entertainment lawyer John Branca as benevolent figures who protected Jackson. This portrayal is surely one-sided if not outright false. Gordy and Branca are part of the industry that sought'and still seek'to extract as…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago  (1073+ words) Ninety years ago, Charlie Chaplin's comedy-drama Modern Times hit movie theaters in the United States and internationally. The film had its world premiere in New York City on February 9, 1936. Presently, a fascist gangster in the White House wages criminal imperialist…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1151+ words) The disclosure by the major global bank HSBC last week that it had suffered a $400 million loss as a result of the collapse of the UK lender Market Financial Solutions (MFS) in February has sent out a warning about the…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (535+ words) The Andes strain is the only hantavirus known to spread between humans, transmitted through close, prolonged contact with an infected person's saliva, respiratory secretions or other body fluids. There is no vaccine and no specific treatment; survival depends on prompt…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago  (710+ words) With the cessation of vaccine production, the already low number of vaccinations'which have so far mitigated the consequences of the pandemic'will decline further. Immediately following the announcement of Bio NTech's redundancy plans, the hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship MV…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago  (989+ words) This is the second of a series of articles on the 2026 San Francisco International Film Festival, April 24-May 4, which made a number of films available online. The first part was posted May 1. The first film from the recent San Francisco…...

1+ week, 43+ min ago  (635+ words) The deepening hantavirus outbreak and the Trump administration's response to it expose the catastrophic dismantling of US public health and scientific infrastructure six years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Asked Thursday evening about the hantavirus outbreak that has…...