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If you are on any social media platform, you’ve likely seen them. Medical professionals who are gaining a following because of the funny way they portray the medical community. Medical professionals who are fighting against misinformation (as they define it). Medical professionals who are selling their own products, or their content, including advertisements for someone else’s products. It used to be that to get medical advice, you had to go to your doctor–the one in your town, who had an office and everyone knew where “Doc” was, especially if he wasn’t in the office that day. Today, you can hear…

Iran said it had forced a U.S. warship to turn back from entering the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, but a U.S. official denied a report that it had been struck by Iranian missiles, according to an Axios journalist. Iran’s navy said it had prevented “American-Zionist” warships entering the Strait of Hormuz area by issuing a “swift and decisive warning.” Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency said two missiles had hit the warship near the port of Jask at the southern entrance to the strait, where Iran’s navy has a base, but a senior U.S. official immediately denied the report, Axios’…

An attorney representing the Trump administration informed a U.S. District Court Friday evening that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has begun offering new appointments to disaster workers whose contracts the agency did not renew in January, reversing a controversial decision that prompted a coalition of labor unions, scientific groups and local governments to sue the administration. FEMA has “initiated contact to offer new appointments” to term-limited staff whose contracts expired the first three weeks of January, U.S. Attorney Craig H. Missakian wrote in a notice submitted to the U.S. District Court in San Francisco Friday. The notice comes after months…

Fermat Capital Management has invested in the Asian Development Bank’s first-ever catastrophe bonds, designed to shield Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan against specific types of natural disasters. The two sovereign bonds — each $80 million in size and with a three-year tenor — will pay out to impacted communities if predefined levels of precipitation are breached, or if earthquakes reach particular magnitudes, regardless of actual losses. “Fermat is generally called upon to be the lead investor in first-of-its-kind deals such as this one,” a spokesperson for the Connecticut-based firm said in an emailed response to questions, confirming it had participated in the…

A United Airlines aircraft on Sunday struck a light pole and a trailer during its final approach to Newark Liberty International Airport, the New Jersey State Police said. The underside and tire of United Airlines Flight 169 struck a light pole and tractor-trailer on the New Jersey Turnpike around 2 p.m., according to a New Jersey State Police spokesperson. The Federal Aviation Administration said the Boeing 767-400 landed safely and was arriving from Venice, Italy. “Our maintenance team is evaluating damage to the aircraft,” said a United spokesperson. “We will conduct a rigorous flight safety investigation into the incident and…

A new report from the Government Accountability Office finds that average premium increases between risk levels are larger for wind than for wildfire. Between 2019 and 2024, homes in areas classified as severe or extreme wind risk had premiums about 58% higher on average–approximately $1,294 more per year–than similar homes in major wind risk areas, the next lower category. By comparison, premiums for homes in severe or extreme wildfire risk areas were about 8% higher–roughly $181 more annually–than those in major wildfire risk areas. The findings highlight differences in how premiums vary across catastrophe risk categories, particularly at the highest…

Three people have died and one is in intensive care in South Africa after a cluster of hantavirus infections linked to a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, the World Health Organization said Sunday. One case has been confirmed by laboratory testing and five others are suspected, the Geneva-based United Nations agency said in a statement posted on X. Two crew members on board also require urgent medical care. The vessel involved is the MV Hondius — currently off the coast of Cape Verde — according to the ship’s operator, Oceanwide Expeditions BV. As of late Sunday local time, Cape…

After a remarkably successful effort to extinguish diversity, equity and inclusion programs at US employers, federal officials are stepping up their push against corporate America’s remaining DEI initiatives. Last week it was a review of Walt Disney Co. television station licenses over the company’s discrimination policies, following a Jimmy Kimmel joke that drew ire from the president. Before that, it was a $17 million settlement with IBM regarding its DEI practices, and a lawsuit against Nike Inc. for allegedly not cooperating with an investigation into bias against White workers. In February, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sent a letter to…

AI Law “We are telling our clients: You should proceed with caution here.” — Alexandria Gutiérrez Swette, a lawyer at New York-based law firm Kobre & Kim, commenting on a ruling by a federal judge in New York stating that …

China has ordered its companies to ignore US sanctions, an unprecedented act of defiance that threatens to trap a vast banking sector in the crossfire as tension rises between the world’s largest economies. Beijing has often railed against unilateral sanctions and pronounced them illegitimate, but it has also quietly allowed its largest companies to comply with them, in order to avoid blowback on its own economy and to preserve access to the US financial system. Saturday’s announcement — coming before a long-awaited meeting later this month between President Donald Trump and his counterpart Xi Jinping — signals a far more…