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Russian Lab Worker's Abrupt Death Sparks Plague Crisis Concerns; Trump Team "Monitoring Outbreak" With wars in Eastern Europe and the Gulf already sending the world down a dangerous trajectory toward worsening instability ahead of the Northern Hemisphere winter (see the global refining crisis), a suspected plague case at a Russian research institute has added a potential public health crisis to that risk landscape. Axios reports that a laboratory worker's death in Siberia's Irkutsk region has prompted medical observation of nearly 200 potential contacts. The Trump administration "is aware, monitoring the outbreak,...

Yemen’s Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, announced on Monday that its forces were imposing a maritime blockade on Saudi Arabia, a move that came a week after the Saudis bombed the Sanaa International Airport in Yemen. Ansar Allah military spokesman Yahya Saree said the blockade was a response to the long-standing Saudi blockade on […]

House Democrats Unanimously Vote Against Women's History Museum... Can You Guess Why? Authored by Jonathan Turley, House Democrats unanimously voted this week against legislation to build a new women’s history museum on the National Mall. The reason was an amendment that limited the exhibits to biological women to the exclusion of transgender figures. The museum failed 204-216 as House Democrats hoped that they could still secure a museum including transgender figures once they retake power after the midterm elections. The amendment drafted by Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., states in part, “The Museum shall...