Dengue fever is surging in Latin America Brasilía is a hotspot, but dengue is spiking across Brazil and Latin America. In 2023 the region hosted 80% of the world’s confirmed dengue cases, according to the UN ’s World Health Organisation. 04/25/2024 - 2:57 am | View Link
Brazil's Embraer delivers 25 jets in Q1; backlog hits 7-year high Brazilian planemaker Embraer said on Friday it delivered 25 aircraft - seven commercial planes and 18 executive jets - in the first quarter of 2024, a 67% increase on a yearly basis. 04/19/2024 - 9:45 am | View Link
A Dengue Fever Outbreak Is Setting Records in the Americas At least 2.1 million cases of dengue fever have been reported in North and South America, and this year 1,800 people have died from the mosquito-borne disease ... 04/17/2024 - 8:30 am | View Link
Dengue fever epidemic sweeps through Latin America The unprecedented wave of dengue fever continues to sweep across Latin America and the Caribbean with nearly five million people infected thus far in 2024 alone, nearly two-thirds of them in Brazil ... 04/14/2024 - 1:11 pm | View Link
Man United enter the race for in-demand Leipzig star Dani Olmo who has a £52m release clause this summer Olmo starred for Spain against Brazil on Tuesday evening where he was utilised in the number ten position and scored an excellent individual goal, dribbling through Brazil's defence before ... 03/28/2024 - 2:37 am | View Link
Trump’s political operatives are putting together a plan that would give him input into the Federal Reserve, including making him an “acting” central bank board member, according to the Wall Street Journal. Via CNBC:
The plans, which the Journal report described as highly secretive, are part of a 10-page document that suggests Trump — if elected — would be consulted on interest rate decisions.
Jamie Raskin hilariously suggested that the RNC headquarters could host the Supreme Court after wingnut justices appeared open to recognizing some form of presidential immunity yesterday. Via HuffPost:
Host Joy Reid, who noted that Trump’s federal election interference case could be remanded back to the D. C. Circuit Court of Appeals and thus further delay the trial past Election Day, called the Supreme Court majority “so clearly politicians” before looping in Raskin.
“Well, they’re politicians who are not even subject to popular election unlike me.
Politico's magazine did a cover story on the New York Times and their feud with the Biden White House, and boy, was it enlightening. Well, maybe not. There wasn't much we didn't already guess, it was just weird to hear them say it out loud.
I find it so puzzling when the people who work there don't understand how much bad faith coverage it took to lose the support of liberal Democrats.
During the Supreme Court hearing that will likely determine whether or not Donald Trump is tried before the next presidential election over his attempt to steal the last one, Justice Brett Kavanaugh asked a question that should alarm everybody.
Speaking of President Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon, Kavanaugh correctly noted that it was “very controversial in the moment” and probably why Ford lost the 1976 presidential election.
The Just Waiting For Another Kent State Shooting Edition
A. L. Katz makes some interesting claims. What is w/ Melania Trump?
Dispatches From A Collapsing State has another long one, against the neo-liberal order. Good luck w/ that, optimist.
Public Notice also goes on at length about Don Snorleone.
And someone not in love w/ the sound of his own typing, the mercifully short Politicalprof.
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After 15 months of trying to pull a Biden family crime spree out of thin air, lead impeachment zealot James Comer has watched his dreams of MAGA glory crumble into dust. Comer, the House Oversight Committee chair, told a Republican colleague that he’s ready to be “done with” the whole fiasco, according to CNN.