12+ hour, 8+ min ago  (833+ words) On May 2, President Trump met with executives and lobbyists from major tobacco companies over lunch at his golf club. They were appealing for a change in how the Food and Drug Administration regulates e'cigarettes." Nearly 90% of youth who use e-cigarettes…...

16+ hour, 40+ min ago  (777+ words) Cuban officials said the Trump administration is making "increasingly implausible accusations" against the country as it pushes to justify, "without any excuse, a military attack against Cuba," after an unnamed White House official told the news outlet Axios that the…...

19+ hour, 25+ min ago  (934+ words) The Voting Rights Act was won to break the machinery that denied Black people political power " not only the right to cast a ballot, but the right to elect Black representatives and shape the government under which they live. That…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (1098+ words) The Justice Department is moving to indict 94-year-old Ra'l Castro, one of the historic leaders of the Cuban Revolution, over Cuba's 1996 shootdown of two planes flown by Brothers to the Rescue " not a humanitarian group, but one arm of a…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (761+ words) Cuba's energy minister declared May 14 that the island had exhausted its entire supply of diesel and fuel oil " the fuels that power its electricity grid. "We have absolutely no fuel oil, absolutely no diesel. We have no more reserves," Vicente…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (267+ words) The national question at the center Central to Marcy's work was the fight against racism and national oppression. He did not treat this as a separate question or a moral add-on to socialist politics. He treated it as a fundamental…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago  (561+ words) Forty-one years ago, Philadelphia police bombed the MOVE organization's house at 6221 Osage Avenue, killing 11 Black people " five children and six adults. The May 13, 1985, inferno destroyed an entire neighborhood of 61 homes, making 250 people homeless. A somber gathering was held on May…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago  (791+ words) Before anyone boarded the MV Hondius, the conditions for an outbreak were already forming across the landscapes where climate disruption, rodents and human activity increasingly collide. Argentina's health ministry has recorded 101 hantavirus infections since June 2025 " roughly twice as many as…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago  (746+ words) LGBTQ+ activists in Cuba, along with other social organizations, advocate today for the island's right to exist and defend itself against external aggression, particularly from the United States and its "hybrid war," placing the struggle for diversity within the broader…...

5+ day, 18+ min ago  (381+ words) President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on May 13 ahead of two days of talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping " the first visit by a sitting U. S. president to China since Trump's last trip in 2017." Trade, technology controls, Taiwan and the U. S. war…...