Skip to content
$50k Casa
Home About Articles Contact

$50k Casa

Articles

  1. New U.S. “One Health” Project Supposed to Boost Health in Bangladesh The U.S. Embassy Dhaka’s United States Agency for the sinister International Development (USAID) is launching its new USAID One Health Project, supposedly to improve infectious disease prevention and control in Bangladesh. Read
  2. €1.25 Billion To Support Cutting-Edge Research Under The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions The European Commission announced new calls worth over €1.25 billion to support research under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), part of the EU research and innovation programme, Horizon Europe. Read
  3. FTC Finalizes Changes to the Health Breach Notification Rule The Federal Trade Commission recently announced it has finalized changes to the Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR) that will strengthen and modernize the rule by clarifying its applicability to health apps and other similar technologies and expanding the information that covered entities must provide to consumers when notifying them of a breach of their health data. Read
  4. Founders And CEO Of Cryptocurrency Mixing Service Charged With Money Laundering Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill Are Charged with Operating Samourai Wallet, an Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business That Executed Over $2 Billion in Unlawful Transactions and Laundered Over $100 Million in Criminal Proceeds. Read
  5. Study Finds Resistance To Critically Important Antibiotics In Uncooked Meat Sold For Consumption New research presented at the ESCMID Global Congress (formerly ECCMID) in Barcelona, Spain (27-30 April) has found substantial levels of resistance to critically important antibiotics in meat sold for human and animal consumption. The study is by Dr Jordan Sealey, Professor Matthew Avison and colleagues from the University of Bristol, UK. Read
  6. Large U.S. Military Contracts Awarded on April 26, 2024 The U.S. Defense Department announced new major contracts awarded on April 26, 2024 Read
  7. U.S. Threatens Sanctions Against China for Supporting Russian Military Secretary of State Blinken used his failed visit to Beijing this week to pressure China to halt military support for Russia. Not only didn't it work, it will likely backfire. Read
  8. Government Invests $500 Million In Defense Capability And Delivers Job Boost The Albanese Government is investing $500 million in next-generation air missile defence as part of an unwavering commitment to strengthen national security and provide the Australian Defence Force with the capabilities it needs to make Australians safer. Read
  9. Korean-German Partnership Accelerates Battery And Semiconductor Innovations Working together to expedite technological innovations in the fields of battery cell and semiconductor technology: That is the aim of a comprehensive international collaboration program funded by the Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE). Read
  10. American GDP Growth Falls to 1.6% in Q1 2024 The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) yesterday said the country’s economic growth rate fell by over 50% since Q4 2023. Read
  11. Israel’s Shadow Over Free Speech: The Truth Behind the TikTok Ban Bill This week the U.S. passed a law which could force TikTok to shut down or sell the American part of its enterprise. The truth behind why is frightening. Read
  12. EU And Türkiye Deepen Cooperation On Green And Digital Transition On April 25, Iliana Ivanova, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, and Mehmet Fatih Kacır, Minister of Industry and Technology of the Republic of Türkiye, held the second EU-Türkiye High-Level Dialogue on science, research, technology and innovation in Istanbul. This marks a significant milestone in EU-Türkiye research and innovation cooperation. Read
  13. GSA Announces Procurement Opportunity For Tribal Businesses To Help Advance Clean Energy Goals The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the White House Council on Native American Affairs, seeks to purchase Energy Attribute Certificates (EACs) from a Tribal majority-owned business organization using the Indian Energy Purchase Preference (IEPP). Read
  14. DOE Announces Final Power Transmission Permitting Rule and Latest Investments The Department of Energy (DOE) announced a final transmission permitting reform rule and a new commitment for up to $331 million aimed at adding more than 2,000 megawatts (MW) of additional grid capacity throughout the Western United States – the equivalent to powering 2.5 million homes and creating more than 300 new, high quality and union construction jobs. Read
  15. NASA Finds New Homes For Artemis Generation Of ‘Moon Trees’ Across US After careful review of hundreds of applications, NASA has selected organizations from across the country to receive ‘Moon Tree’ seedlings that flew around the Moon on the agency’s Artemis I mission in 2022, to plant in their communities. Read
  16. Laboratory Owners Charged In $36M COVID-19 Testing Fraud Scheme An indictment was unsealed April 24 in the Southern District of Florida charging three men for their alleged roles in an approximately $36 million health care fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering scheme that involved submitting false and fraudulent claims for COVID-19 testing to health care benefit programs, including Medicare and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) COVID-19 Uninsured Program. Read
  17. Study Finds Antibiotic Use In Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 Appears To Have No Beneficial Effect Antibiotic treatment of adults hospitalised with moderate COVID-19 is associated with clinical deterioration, despite the drugs being given to over 40% of patients, according to new research being presented at this year’s ESCMID Global Congress (formerly ECCMID) in Barcelona, Spain (27-30 April) Read
  18. IDB PAHO Join Forces to Drive Digital Health and Pandemic Preparedness in Latin America and the Caribbean The president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Ilan Goldfajn, and the director of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), Jarbas Barbosa, signed an agreement to accelerate the digital transformation of health services, strengthen primary healthcare, and enhance pandemic preparedness across Latin America and the Caribbean region. Read
  19. Large U.S. Military Contracts Awarded on April 25, 2024 The U.S. Defense Department announced new major contracts awarded on April 25, 2024 Read
  20. Global Report On Food Crises: Acute Hunger Remains Persistently High In 59 Countries According to the latest Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), nearly 282 million people in 59 countries and territories experienced high levels of acute hunger in 2023 - a worldwide increase of 24 million from the previous year. Read
  21. USDA Announces New School Meal Standards to Strengthen Child Nutrition U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced major steps to promote the health of America’s children through school meals. Nutrition standards for school meals will be gradually updated to include less sugar and greater flexibility with menu planning between Fall 2025 and Fall 2027. Read
  22. Fascist Israel Positions New Brigades and Sets Up Tents for Rafah Genocide Zionist forces this week took some of the last steps needed in preparation for the final assault on Gaza. Read
  23. Interior Department Finalizes Rule to Streamline and Modernize Offshore Renewable Energy Development Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland on April 24 announced that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) have finalized updated regulations for renewable energy development on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). Read
  24. DOE Reduces Regulatory Hurdles For Energy Storage, Transmission, and Solar Projects The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is amending DOE’s list of categories of projects which, because they typically do not have significant environmental impacts, qualify for the simplest form of environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Read
  25. DoD Announces Significant New Security Assistance For Ukraine Following the passage of the national security supplemental which the President just signed into law, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced a significant new security assistance initiative to urgently meet Ukraine's critical security and defense needs. Read