Quebec doctors have issued urgent warnings about a surge of AI-generated deepfake videos that use their likeness to promote dubious health advice and products. These videos—circulating across social media and messaging apps—falsely portray real medical professionals giving endorsements or treatment suggestions, often linked to unverified supplements or medications. Physicians emphasized that these deepfake scams are […]
On July 31, 2025, The Guardian reported that nearly $9.7 million worth of USAID-funded contraceptives—including IUDs, implants, and birth control pills—stored in a Belgian warehouse are at risk of being incinerated in France. The supplies were originally destined for developing countries but were never shipped due to the U.S. aid freeze under the Trump administration, […]
On August 1, 2025, El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly—dominated by President Nayib Bukele’s Nuevas Ideas party—voted overwhelmingly (57 to 3) to approve constitutional amendments allowing the president to be re-elected indefinitely. Presidential terms are also extended from five to six years, and runoff elections when no candidate wins a first-round majority have been eliminated. Bukele’s current […]
SummaryOn July 30, 2025, the Trump administration announced a major initiative, unveiled at a White House event titled “Making Health Technology Great Again.” More than 60 public and private sector organizations—including Amazon, Apple, Google, UnitedHealth Group, CVS Health, and the Cleveland Clinic—committed to developing a new private health data ecosystem, managed by the Centers for […]
Summary:High Noon Spirits Company has issued a voluntary recall of its Beach Variety 12‑packs after discovering that a packaging supplier mistakenly sent empty Celsius Astro Vibe (Sparkling Blue Razz Edition) cans to its facility. Those cans were inadvertently filled with High Noon vodka seltzer—4.5% ABV—and packed alongside legitimate Celsius cans. The error poses a risk […]
SummaryA Pennsylvania lawyer, Michael Brandon Cohen, 41, from Hollidaysburg, pled guilty on July 25, 2025 in federal court to two counts of forging the signature of Chief U.S. District Judge Matthew W. Brann. The forgeries appeared on fake court orders sent in May and October 2022, claiming favorable rulings in a civil suit—none of which […]
On July 30, 2025, the NASA–ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite was launched into a sun-synchronous polar orbit aboard India’s GSLV‑F16 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota. This $1.3–$1.5 billion mission marks the first full Earth observation collaboration between the U.S. and India. Weighing 2,392 kg, NISAR is equipped with dual-frequency radar systems—NASA’s L-band […]
On July 29, 2025, CBS News released an in‑depth review of the surveillance footage from the Special Housing Unit at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, where Jeffrey Epstein died in August 2019. CBS’ forensic analysis revealed multiple discrepancies between the video released by federal authorities and the earlier descriptions by officials—including Attorney General Pam Bondi and […]
On the evening of July 28, 2025, at approximately 6:30 p.m., a gunman identified as Shane Devon Tamura, 27, from Las Vegas, opened fire at 345 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan—the building that houses the National Football League (NFL) headquarters, along with Blackstone and Rudin Management offices. He killed four people—including an off-duty NYPD officer, Didarul […]
Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian activist, educator, and consultant on the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, was shot and killed on July 28, 2025, in Umm al‑Khair, a village in the Masafer Yatta region of the occupied West Bank. Witnesses report that an Israeli settler—identified as Yinon Levi, previously sanctioned by the U.S., EU, and UK—operated […]