Measles cases have now spread to 30 states

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/measles-cases-spread-states-texas-b2754915.html

US Bond Market Flashing Red: 30-Year Yield Tops 5%

https://www.benzinga.com/government/regulations/25/05/45550324/us-bond-market-flashing-red-30-year-yield-tops-5-prices-tank-to-october-2023-lows

Bacone College Forced to Liquidate Assets

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/institutions/minority-serving-institutions/2025/05/20/bacone-college-forced-liquidate-assets

WHO members adopt a 'pandemic agreement' to prepare for next pandemic - as America sits out

https://apnews.com/article/who-pandemic-agreement-covid-tedros-51ff7eddb83db47b869d2729a5f27a6d

China defies Trump trade war challenge with US$17.3 billion in capital inflow

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3311001/china-defies-trump-trade-war-challenge-us173-billion-capital-inflow

Japanese car giant Subaru risks Trump's wrath as it hikes prices due to tariffs

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-14728945/subaru-risks-trump-wrath-hikes-prices-tariffs.html

Mortgage rates climb back above 7% after Moody's U.S. debt downgrade

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mortgage-interest-rate-7-percent-moodys-downgrade-economy/

Ticks abundant in Indiana transmitting new diseases illnesses to people

https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/regional/2025/05/19/ticks-abundant-in-indiana-transmitting-new-diseases-illnesses-to-people/83520299007/

Covid-19 spreading again in China with 83% of cases involving elderly

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-05-18/world/world/Covid19-spreading-again-in-China-with-83-of-cases-involving-elderly/2309962

After delay, FDA approves Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine, but only for older people and those at high risk

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/17/health/novavax-covid-vaccine-approval

By eroding US soft power, Trump is ceding the contest to China

https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3310052/eroding-us-soft-power-trump-ceding-contest-china

New way to turn saltwater into drinking water—No electricity required!

https://knowridge.com/2025/05/new-way-to-turn-saltwater-into-drinking-water-no-electricity-required/

If Wealth Was Evenly Distributed Across America, How Much Money Would Every Person Have?

https://www.gobankingrates.com/money/wealth/if-wealth-was-evenly-distributed-across-america-how-much-money-would-every-person-have/

RFK Jr.’s FDA Severely Restricts COVID Vaccine Use

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jrs-fda-severely-restricts-covid-vaccine-use/

Scientists Tweaked LSD’s Molecular Structure and Created a Wild New Brain Drug

https://futurism.com/neoscope/dna-lsd-changes-schizophrenia

China cuts US Treasury stockpile, dropping to No 3 spot among foreign holders

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3310758/china-cuts-us-treasury-stockpile-dropping-no-3-spot-among-foreign-holders

'Disaster': Internet pounces on Trump as US suffers historic credit downgrade

https://www.alternet.org/trump-credit-rating/

DeepSeek paper offers new details on how it used 2,048 Nvidia chips to take on OpenAI

https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3310639/deepseek-paper-offers-new-details-how-it-used-2048-nvidia-chips-take-openai

The effect of physical fitness on mortality is overestimated, research suggests

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-05-effect-physical-mortality-overestimated.html

Now, there’s no denying it: Tariffs are raising prices

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/16/business/tariffs-walmart-prices-nightcap

Air Traffic Control Systems Go Down At Another Major US Airport

https://www.iheart.com/content/2025-05-15-air-traffic-control-systems-go-down-at-another-major-us-airport/

Capital One Is Headed To Court Over Allegedly Cheating Customers

https://www.wideopencountry.com/capital-one-is-headed-to-court-over-allegedly-cheating-customers/

Walmart warns it will raise prices because of tariffs

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/business/walmart-prices-tariffs

Beijing is a ‘red line’: Hungary vows it won’t decouple from China if pushed by Trump

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3310503/beijing-red-line-hungary-vows-it-wont-decouple-china-if-pushed-trump

US reportedly plans to slash bank rules imposed to prevent 2008-style crash

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/15/us-reportedly-plans-slash-bank-rules-imposed-prevent-2008-style-crash

Peter Schiff Says Trade Truce Aside, The World Is 'Losing Confidence' In Dollar And In US Ability To Put 'Fiscal House In Order'

https://www.benzinga.com/markets/bonds/25/05/45396490/peter-schiff-says-trade-truce-aside-the-world-is-losing-confidence-in-dollar-and-in-us-ability-to-put-fiscal-house-in-order

Screwworm: US halts live cattle imports from Mexico to quell spread of flesh-burrowing larva

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/14/health/mexico-cattle-imports-halted-screwworm

China and Russia sign nuclear reactor deal to fuel lunar research station

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3310315/china-and-russia-sign-nuclear-reactor-deal-fuel-lunar-research-station

Peak migration: 16 million birds in one night over Indiana

https://www.wane.com/top-stories/peak-migration-16-million-birds-in-one-night-over-indiana/

Shingles vaccine could lower heart disease risk for 8 years

https://knowridge.com/2025/05/shingles-vaccine-could-lower-heart-disease-risk-for-8-years/

Colombia to join Beijing's Belt and Road initiative

https://www.intellinews.com/colombia-to-join-beijing-s-belt-and-road-initiative-380656/

Massive US pension fund announces seismic shift away from one type of risky investment: 'Poses a real threat'

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/new-york-pension-fund-divestment-climate-invest/

The US and China hold the key to each other’s economic puzzle

https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3309467/us-and-china-hold-key-each-others-economic-puzzle

No deal in sight yet as China and US enter day 2 of trade talks to cool tariff tensions

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3309922/no-deal-sight-yet-china-and-us-enter-day-2-trade-talks-cool-tariff-tensions

Newark Liberty International Airport problems: Another equipment outage causes FAA to issue brief ground stop

https://abc7ny.com/post/newark-liberty-international-airport-problems-another-equipment-outage-causes-faa-issue-brief-ground-stop/16384068/

'We're not out of the woods': Wall Street strategists say stock market's pain won't end with Trump trade deals

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/were-not-out-of-the-woods-wall-street-strategists-say-stock-markets-pain-wont-end-with-trump-trade-deals-120809921.html

New York to lower prison guard hiring age to 18 amid officer shortage

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g-s1-65622/new-york-prison-guard-hiring-age-officer-shortage

Zero ships from China are bound for California’s top ports. Officials haven’t seen that since the pandemic

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/business/zero-ships-china-trade-ports-pandemic

Swiss president calls U.S. tariff talks disappointing, eyes better outcome with China

https://www.fastcompany.com/91332112/swiss-president-tariff-talks-disappointing

US confirms another outage at Newark airport

https://nordot.app/1293659612336177468