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Armed attacks, aid cuts provoke record hunger levels in Nigeria: WFP
Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English
Nearly 35 million people 'projected to face severe food insecurity', including 'famine-like conditions'.
Nov 25, 2025, 7:48 AM
Government officials issue dire warning that the US could experience 100-fold increase in blackouts — here's what homeowners need to know
Susan Elizabeth Turek, Yahoo Entertainment
Myriad factors can cause blackouts.
Nov 25, 2025, 7:00 AM
Gaza food kitchens still missing essential products despite ceasefire
BBC News
Israel is allowing more food into Gaza, but aid workers say vital ingredients needed to improve people's diets are still missing.
Nov 24, 2025, 12:19 AM
Big changes to the agency charged with securing elections lead to midterm worries
STEVE KARNOWSKI and JULIE CARR SMYTH, Yahoo Entertainment
The agency was largely absent from that space for elections this month in several states, a potential preview for the 2026 midterms. Shifting priorities of ...
Nov 23, 2025, 12:49 PM
This Week In Techdirt History: November 16th – 22nd
Leigh Beadon, Techdirt
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we featured a guest post about the many problems with the idea of upload filters, while Poland was trying to get them excluded from the EU Copyright Directive. Twitch was continuing to trip over itself in response to its DMCA…
Nov 22, 2025, 8:30 PM
The Shutdown Is Over, but Its Damage Is Not
Toluse Olorunnipa, The Atlantic
Its effects will linger for some time.
Nov 22, 2025, 12:00 PM
Shelters plea for Gazans as winter rains raise fears of more disease and death
BBC News
Displaced Palestinians face life-threatening conditions, as aid agencies appeal for more shelters to be allowed in.
Nov 18, 2025, 12:33 AM
Links 11/15/2025
Yves Smith, Nakedcapitalism.com
Our saucy daily links: seal escape, flu vaccine poor expectations, China v. US soyabeans, Berlin v. Huawei, Starmer sinking, Houthi Red Sea escalation, Mark Levin v. Tucker, Ukraine more dire, Trump interview backfire, no THC? Trump cuts some tariffs, datacen…
Nov 15, 2025, 11:55 AM
Global internet freedoms deteriorated (again) in 2025 - Germany, Georgia & US lost ground
chiara.castro@futurenet.com (Chiara Castro) , Chiara Castro, TechRadar
According to Freedom House, the internet is more controlled and manipulated than ever before. And democracies aren't immune.
Nov 15, 2025, 6:00 AM
The U.S. Tsunami Warning System Is Crumbling
Ellyn Lapointe, Gizmodo.com
Funding and staffing cuts are shuttering the monitoring stations that sustain this life-saving early warning system.
Nov 11, 2025, 2:00 AM
Public safety groups face an uncertain future months after federal grant cuts
Meg Anderson, NPR
Six months after the Trump administration cut more than $800 million in Justice Department grants geared toward public safety, the organizations affected are adjusting to a future without that money.
Nov 10, 2025, 10:00 PM
US highlights Gaza aid surge; Palestinians allege ‘engineered starvation’
Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English
White House says nearly 700 aid trucks entering Gaza each day, a figure disputed by Palestinians and aid organisations.
Nov 9, 2025, 6:56 PM
Gunshots Heard at Canadian Ostrich Farm, Signaling Start of Controversial Cull
Ellyn Lapointe, Gizmodo.com
The cull, spurred by bird flu concerns, aims to eradicate 400 ostriches living on a farm in British Columbia.
Nov 7, 2025, 4:15 PM
Some SNAP recipients have to choose between rent and food amid halt in benefits
Mary Kekatos, ABC News
Some Americans who saw their SNAP benefits halt on Nov. 1 say they have to choose between paying their rent and buying food.
Nov 6, 2025, 10:07 AM
World ‘very likely’ to exceed 1.5C climate goal in next decade: UN
Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English
Despite Paris Agreement pledges, countries 'have landed off target' on climate goals multiple times, the UN warns.
Nov 4, 2025, 6:05 PM
Millions of Americans to get reduced food aid during shutdown: Trump admin
Frankie TAGGART, Yahoo Entertainment
The White House will send only partial food aid payments to 42 million low-income Americans, as the government shutdown crippling public services nears...
Nov 3, 2025, 6:35 PM
What it’s like to be in the middle of a conspiracy theory (according to a conspiracy theory expert)
Mike Rothschild, MIT Technology Review
On a gloomy Saturday morning this past May, a few months after entire blocks of Altadena, California, were destroyed by wildfires, several dozen survivors met at a local church to vent their built-up frustration, anger, blame, and anguish. As I sat there list…
Oct 30, 2025, 10:00 AM
The Deadline for a Major Shutdown Casualty
Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic
Roughly 42 million Americans may not get their SNAP benefits on Saturday.
Oct 29, 2025, 10:33 PM
SNAP benefits set to expire this week. And, Jamaica braces for a Category 5 storm
Brittney Melton, NPR
Over 40 million Americans will soon be without federal food assistance as SNAP benefits are set to expire on Saturday. And, Jamaica braces for Hurricane Melissa to bring over 170 miles per hour winds.
Oct 28, 2025, 11:10 AM
Global efforts not enough to curb temperature rise, UN says ahead of climate summit
BBC News
The UN's review of national climate plans shows the world is well off track to limit warming
Oct 28, 2025, 7:04 AM
Links 10/26/2025
Haig Hovaness, Nakedcapitalism.com
Our strategic daily links: Blooming flower, strange shape, ocean plastic, EU rearmament, Gaza horrors, Chinese supercarrier, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, hapless Democrats, immigration troubles, Mr. market, AI, and wretched ex…
Oct 26, 2025, 10:55 AM
10 years since Aliso Canyon: Disaster was wake-up call for US on dangers of underground gas
Hayley Smith, Phys.Org
On an evening 10 years ago, Porter Ranch resident Matt Pakucko stepped out of his music studio and was walloped by the smell of gas—like sticking your head in an oven, he recalled.
Oct 25, 2025, 3:20 PM
The cost of USAID cuts to women in Afghanistan
BBC News
Over 400 health clinics have shut. The impact on pregnant women has been devastating.
Oct 23, 2025, 9:00 AM
Gavin Newsom deploys California’s National Guard to aid food banks
Joy Saha, Salon
"This is serious, this is urgent — and requires immediate action," the governor said in an Oct. 22 statement
Oct 22, 2025, 8:10 PM