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How The World Added Decades To Life Expectancy The average person today can expect to live far longer than someone born in 1960, regardless of where they live. This chart, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, tracks life expectancy at birth across four World Bank income groups. While high-income countries still have the longest lifespans, the biggest gains have come elsewhere. Upper-middle income countries have added more than three decades to life expectancy, while low-income countries have made substantial progress as well. The data for this visualization comes from World Bank via FRED. It...

President Trump has made clear that American forces will still be “hanging around” the Persian Gulf area with an eye on Iran, while demanding that the Strait of Hormuz be opened to global energy transit once again.  Trump has vowed to keep troops positioned for a fight “until such time as the REAL AGREEMENT reached is fully complied […]

While the military offensives against Lebanon continue apace, Israeli officials are claiming large but increasingly non-credible numbers of Hezbollah among the slain in their war, with officials saying 200 Hezbollah targets were hit in the past 24 hours, and Army Chief Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir claiming “over 1,700” Hezbollah slain in the current war. The […]