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NPR (Yuki Noguchi) - Record cyclosporiasis outbreak tests the response of a 'weakened' health system

From state and local food-safety response to the federal health agencies that fund that work, a record-breaking year for cyclosporiasis cases runs up against the Trump administration's cuts last year.

From state and local food-safety response to the federal health agencies that fund that work, a record-breaking year for cyclosporiasis cases runs up against the Trump administration's cuts last year.Open

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Harrison Berger) - U.S. Debt Tops $40 Trillion for First Time

State of the Union: Vice President Vance said the Trump administration had inherited a troubled economy. The post U.S. Debt Tops $40 Trillion for First Time appeared first on The American Conservative .

The U.S. gross national debt exceeded $40 trillion on Wednesday. Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that the Trump administration had inherited a troubled economy. “The issue that we’ve had under the Biden administration, and what we’re still dealing with, is that the debt was growing faster than American GDP,” Vance said, adding that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent “is very much on top of it.” According to the New York Times , the United States is set to borrow more than $2 trillion this year to cover obligations including the Iran War and tax cuts enacted in 2025.  Net interest costs on the national debt approached $1 trillion in 2025, nearly 14 percent of federal spending. The national debt has risen under both…Open

YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Secret Soviet UFOs: What happened when two scientists knocked on a door in Estonia? | Reality Check

Something metallic turned up under a garden in a quiet Tallinn suburb in 1969, and the Soviets spent the next twenty years trying to get it out, bringing in excavators and scientists and military, borrowing the house from its owners and living in it, digging on and off until perestroika ended the whole effort and they walked away. Astrophysicist Dr. Beatriz Villarroel and Ocean X co-founder Dennis Åsberg went to that address to find out what is still down there. Nobody came to the door, but the neighbor who had watched all of it from his window talked to them for an hour. This is their full conversation with Ross Coulthart, recorded for "Secret Soviet UFOs" and running well past what the special had room for. Villarroel walks through the…