The Gates Foundation is committing $2.5 billion to fund women's health research over the next five years. Why it matters: These projects, including several in the Boston area, aim to reduce the centuries-old gap in research to treat conditions that primarily affect women. The big picture: The funding boost comes as Boston-area institutions are losing hundreds of million dollars in federal grants, whether from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation or...

You've seen reports about the unpopularity of the Democratic Party these days -- stories with headlines like "Democrats Get Lowest Rating From Voters in 35 Years." It's true: Large numbers of voters disapprove of the party and, even though they don't love Republicans either, trust the GOP more to handle many basic issues. On the other hand, some elements of the Democratic Party are filled with passionate intensity. We're seeing two examples of that now. The first is in Texas. Republican...

US envoy Steve Witkoff and Russia's Vladimir Putin have met at the Kremlin, as Donald Trump's deadline for Moscow to agree a ceasefire in Ukraine looms. The talks lasted three hours, Russian media report, after Witkoff landed in Russia early on Wednesday. The US president has said Russia could face hefty sanctions or see secondary sanctions imposed against all those who trade with it if it doesn't take steps to end the "horrible war" with Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine'...

Republicans went home for the summer with a plan to sell President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” to their constituents. Some are starting to find that voters aren’t buying it. In the latest display of backlash, audience members jeered Nebraska Rep. Mike Flood at a Monday town hall, shouting “Liar!” and “You don’t care about us!” over the two-term lawmaker as he made the case for the megabill, which Trump signed into law last month. By the end, chants of “Vote him out!” threatened to...

The federal government is calling off around $500 million worth of vaccine development projects that use mRNA technology, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday. The 22 now-terminated projects were funded through the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA. Most of the projects that were canceled were for vaccines that fight COVID-19 or the flu, Kennedy said. They include proposals from Pfizer, Sanofi Pasteur and other...

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Top researcher Daniel Liszt, aka “Dark Journalist”, joins Alex Jones to break revolutionary intel on the secret UFO file, Project Blue Beam, NASA wanting to put a nuclear reactor on the moon & more!

from ZeroHedge: Total household debt rose by $185 billion in the second quarter of 2025, a 1% rise from Q1 2025. Balances now stand at $18.39 trillion and have increased by $4.24 trillion since the end of 2019, just before the pandemic recession. Before is a snapshot of the latest Q2 data, courtesy of the NY Fed: […]

by Sean Miller, InfoWars: The potential proceeds from a revaluation of U.S. gold reserves to current market price would equal about 3 percent of U.S. GDP, according to Figure 2 of the paper. On Friday the Federal Reserve Bank website published a “FED Notes” article by Colin Weiss regarding the theory and phenomenon of central banks revaluing […]