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  1. Caribbean Community Summit Opens in Guyana with Self-Sufficiency and Cooperation on Agenda The 46th Regular Meeting of the Heads of Government of CARICOM member nations kicked off yesterday in Guyana’s capital city of Georgetown. Read
  2. Why the Upcoming Supreme Court Ruling on Social Media Censorship Won’t Solve Its Real Problem The Court heard arguments yesterday in a highly anticipated legal battle over whether states can regulate social media. Read
  3. Europe’s Gas Consumption Falls To 10-year Low As Peak LNG Demand Nears Europe’s gas consumption in 2023 fell to its lowest level in 10 years as countries scale up efficiency measures and renewables deployment. In the two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, gas demand has declined by 20% across the continent. Read
  4. WTTC Calls on EU to Unlock Full Potential of Travel & Tourism as it Exceeds Employment Records In a decisive move to shape the future of the Travel & Tourism sector, the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) recently issued a ‘Call to Action’, urging EU stakeholders to support a sector that employs over 22M people and contributes €1.4T to the European Union’s economy. Read
  5. Antibody Reduces Allergic Reactions to Multiple Foods in NIH Trial A 16-week course of a monoclonal antibody, omalizumab, increased the amount of peanut, tree nuts, egg, milk and wheat that multi-food allergic children as young as 1 year could consume without an allergic reaction in a late-stage clinical trial. Read
  6. Australia’s Defense Industrial Base Expanded to Deliver Navy’s "Enhanced Lethality" Surface Combatant Fleet The Albanese Government’s blueprint for the Royal Australian Navy’s new combatant fleet will deliver direct investment to grow a capable, resilient and competitive sovereign defense industrial base and support Australian jobs. Read
  7. Family Dollar Stores LLC to Pay $41.675 Million in Connection with Rodent-Infested Warehouse Family Dollar Stores LLC pleaded guilty recently to holding food, drugs, medical devices, and cosmetics under insanitary conditions, related to a rodent infestation at the company’s West Memphis, Arkansas, distribution center. Read
  8. UK Cancer Treatment Falls Behind Other Countries People in the UK were treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy less often than in comparable countries and faced long waits for treatments, according to two new studies published in The Lancet Oncology. Read
  9. Large U.S. Military Contracts Awarded on February 26, 2024 The U.S. Defense Department announced new major contracts awarded on February 26, 2024 Read
  10. UNICEF And WFP Demand Action To Protect Children And Unfettered Humanitarian Access In Eastern DRC The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme (WFP) are calling for immediate action to protect children and families caught in the escalating violence in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where an increasing number of people, including children, have been wounded or killed near makeshift camps. Read
  11. European Central Bank Posts First Loss in Over Two Decades The central bank which should have been bastion of financial stability was hit hard by recent high inflation and funding costly questionable wars in Ukraine and for Israel. Read
  12. Release: NSAC Publishes Unsustainable: State of the Farm Safety Net The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) released a new report titled Unsustainable: State of the Farm Safety Net, which features a comprehensive analysis of the accessibility and concentration of public dollars distributed through crop insurance premium subsidies, commodity programs, and ad-hoc disaster assistance. Read
  13. Interior Department Releases Draft Guidance for States to Access up to $1.5B to Address Legacy Pollution The Department of the Interior released released draft guidance to states on how to apply for up to $30 million each in matching grant funding available to create jobs and clean up polluting and unsafe orphaned oil and gas wells across the country. Read
  14. Uncovered: Italian Oil Giant’s African Biofuels Gamble Falls Short Investigation into Eni’s projects in Kenya and the Republic of the Congo shows company is failing to produce ‘miracle’ drought-resistant biofuels crops at scale Read
  15. EPA Region 8 Requests Applications For Pollution Prevention Source Reduction Projects The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is opening the FY2024-2025 Regional Source Reduction Assistance Notice of Funding Opportunity for applicants in the states of Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming and 28 Tribal Nations in Region 8. Read
  16. FTC Bans Avast from Selling Browsing Data for Advertising Purposes, Require It to Pay $16.5M The Federal Trade Commission will require software provider Avast to pay $16.5 million and prohibit the company from selling or licensing any web browsing data for advertising purposes to settle charges that the company and its subsidiaries sold such information to third parties after promising that its products would protect consumers from online tracking. Read
  17. CFPB Orders Federal Supervision for Installment Lender Following Contested Designation The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently published an order establishing supervisory authority over installment lender World Acceptance. Read
  18. Scientists Closer To Solving Mysteries Of Universe After Measuring Gravity In Quantum World Scientists are a step closer to unravelling the mysterious forces of the universe after working out how to measure gravity on a microscopic level. Read
  19. NASA Tech Contributes to Soft Moon Landing, Agency Science Underway For the first time in more than 50 years, new NASA science instruments and technology demonstrations are operating on the Moon following the first successful delivery of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative. Read
  20. Oil and Gas Trader Convicted for Role in Foreign Bribery and Money Laundering Scheme A federal jury in Brooklyn recently convicted an oil and gas trader for his role in a scheme to bribe Ecuadorean and Mexican government officials and to launder money to secure contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars for his then-employer, Vitol Inc. (Vitol), the U.S. affiliate of the largest independent energy trading firm in the world. Read
  21. Large U.S. Military Contracts Awarded on February 23, 2024 The U.S. Defense Department announced new major contracts awarded on February 23, 2024 Read
  22. Netanyahu Lays Out “Day After Hamas" Plan for Continued Absolute Domination of Gaza The war criminal prime minister of fascist Israel finally laid out the Zionist plan for Gaza. Read
  23. US Anti-Normalization Act Set To Worsen Dire Humanitarian Situation In Syria: UN Expert A UN expert today expressed concern over the United States Anti-Normalization Act under consideration by the US Congress, saying it could worsen the already dire humanitarian situation of the Syrian people and destroy their hope of rebuilding a peaceful life. Read
  24. EPA Announces $5.8 Billion For Drinking Water, Wastewater And Stormwater Infrastructure Upgrades On Feb. 20, 2024, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as part of the fourth Investing in America tour, Vice President Kamala Harris and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael S. Regan will announce over $5.8 billion for states, Tribes, and territories to invest in drinking water and clean water infrastructure upgrades. Read
  25. U.S. & EU Impose More Futile Sanctions on Russia, and Some Chinese Companies The U.S. and EU are imposing more sanctions on Russia that will likely backfire onto Europe. Read