Illinois will join the World Health Organization's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) following the United States' departure from the UN health agency last month, Governor JB Pritzker, a Democrat, said on Tuesday. The move makes Illinois the second U.S. state to join the program in defiance of Republican President Donald Trump after California, also led by a Democratic governor, joined in January. The U.S. formally left the WHO last month after completing a one-year waiting period following an executive order that Trump signed on his first day back in office in January 2025.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from stripping temporary protected status from up to 350,000 Haitians, a status that allows them to legally live and work in the United States amid the turmoil in their homeland. Judge Ana Reyes issued a temporary stay that prevents Kristi Noem, the US homeland security secretary, from implementing her decision to remove the status known as TPS, which was scheduled to expire on Tuesday.

Cross your fingers that the latest vast dump of Jeffrey Epstein documents marks the beginning of the end of the overhyped hysteria. Yes, the millions of pages contained some fine gossip, and a bit of genuine scandal: A once-top official in Britain's Labour party is now facing jail for taking bribes from Epstein; all the details on how the elites work offer some fascinating insights — and the likes of Casey Wasserman likely deserve a few hits to their reputations.

Chinese students and scientists who are members of the Chinese Communist Party, attended schools tied to the Chinese military or worked with companies connected to Beijing's theft of U.S. technology have "infiltrated" several top American universities, according to a watchdog group report that raises fresh concerns about America's vulnerabilities to its most fierce adversary.

Senior Israeli officials, including IDF chief Eyal Zamir, who visited Washington over the weekend, have been pushing the US to strike Iran, but US President Donald Trump is reluctant, Axios reports. The report says that Zamir briefed Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Dan Caine on Israel's offensive and defensive plans in the event of war with Iran. "It's safe to say that nothing came out of that meeting to change his or the president's mind on attacking Iran," Axios quotes a US official as saying, referring to Caine and Trump. "It's really the Israelis who want a strike. The president is just not there," the official says.

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by Harley Schlanger, LaRouche Organization: Time is running out on renewing the New START arms limitation treaty. The potential for diplomatic solutions to matters of war and peace remains open, but is quickly closing. The START treaty expires in two days, and the nuclear Doomsday clock is ticking, ticking, ticking…. Link to statement issued at […]

Michelangelo Dying, which she says is more of an exorcism than an album, was nearly released without Cale performing on the track Ride, because she was too afraid to ask him

Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kisser lets some big details slip in a new social media post