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The Misery Index: It’s not just for people reading my work. (Ha! You thought you were going to hit me with that in the comments, but I just “8 Mile’d” you.)Let’s move on to the point of this story, and yes, there is one (“8 Mile’d” again). A lot of NBA fan bases are enjoying incredibly fun seasons for their favorite teams. Some squads have exceeded expectations and may have fans wondering if an NBA championship is on the way. Other teams have met expectations perfectly and are indeed contending for that Larry O’Brien trophy. And some teams have their…

Marking the International Day to Combat Islamophobia, Guterres speaks out against bigotry, xenophobia and discrimination.United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed concern over “a disturbing rise in anti-Muslim bigotry”, calling on governments to protect religious freedom and for online platforms to curb hate speech. Guterres made the remarks on Saturday to mark the International Day to Combat Islamophobia marked every year on March 15. Rights groups around the world and the UN have noted a rise in Islamophobia, anti-Arab bias and anti-Semitism since the start of Israel’s 17-month war on Gaza. “We are witnessing a disturbing rise in anti-Muslim bigotry.…

House Democrats will hold a “Day of Action” across the country on Tuesday to “aggressively” push back against the “diabolical Republican scheme to enact the largest Medicaid cut in our nation’s history” after Congress passed a spending bill to avert a government shutdown.The Senate voted 54-46 on Friday to pass the stopgap spending bill, with Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., as the only Republican to oppose the measure. Nearly all Democrat senators opposed it, but Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Independent Sen. Angus King of Maine, who caucuses with the Democrats, voted to pass the bill.Earlier in the week, the GOP-controlled…

The threat of tornadoes moved east into the Mississippi Valley and the south on Saturday, just a day after a massive storm’s winds damaged buildings, started dust storms that caused fatal crashes and fanned more than 100 wildfires in several central states.Multiple tornadoes were reported in Missouri on Friday. Winds of up to 80 mph were forecast from the Canadian border to Texas, threatening blizzard conditions in colder northern areas and wildfires in warmer and drier areas to the south.Three people were killed Friday in car crashes during a dust storm in Amarillo County, Texas, according to state Department of…

U.S. President Donald Trump’s many grievances with Canada on trade have begun to focus on the cross-border dairy market — including accusations Canada charges triple-digit tariffs on U.S. products. Trump is set to impose “reciprocal” tariffs on foreign trading partners starting April 2 that will match duties charged on American products. He has made clear that will include Canadian dairy, in response to what he says are Canadian tariffs of at least 250 per cent and beyond.“Canada is absolutely one of the worst … in terms of charging tariffs,” he said in the Oval Office last week, specifically pointing to…

Analysis by Dave Smith

Mutuum Finance (MUTM) is at a feeding frenzy with presales exploding like the heady days of Pepe (PEPE). An investor who turned $700 into over $233,300 through PEPE in a matter of weeks has instead of re-investing into memecoins, turned his focus onto Mutuum Finance (MUTM), dubbing it a once in a lifetime chance to earn exponential profits. Mutuum Finance (MUTM), which is still in the 3rd phase, has reached 5600 holders raising 3.3 million so far, to allow token holders access at the equivalent of $0.02. The presale is gaining momentum as the time for switch over to phase 4 for Mutuum Finance…

Johns Hopkins University, one of the country’s leading centers of scientific research, said on Thursday that it would eliminate more than 2,000 workers in the United States and abroad because of the Trump administration’s steep cuts, primarily to international aid programs.The layoffs, the most in the university’s history, will involve 247 domestic workers for the university, which is based in Baltimore, and an affiliated center. Another 1,975 positions will be cut in 44 countries. They affect the university’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, its medical school and an affiliated nonprofit, Jhpiego.Nearly half the school’s total revenue last year came from…

Inside Kasmin Gallery in Manhattan, more than a dozen employees huddled like a football team. It was late February and the gallery’s president, Nick Olney, was giving his staff a pep talk before his version of the big game: the opening of the first New York exhibition of work by Robert Indiana since the artist’s death in 2018. Standing next to his celebrated “LOVE” sculpture, Olney laid out the game plan. The goal: a reboot.Most people know Robert Indiana for only one thing: LOVE. The image of that four-letter word, with its jauntily tilted “o,” has appeared on city plazas,…

It is CERAWeek, the sprawling Texas energy conference, and Sultan al-Jaber, who runs the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), one of the world’s largest oil companies, is in high demand. Interviews with Jaber are vanishingly rare. He has been media-shy since he was named by the UAE as the president of COP28 and then flamed for holding two seemingly contradictory roles: oil boss and leader of global climate change negotiations. And it is a good time to meet. Big Oil has got its swagger back in the Trump era. “We can all feel the winds of history in our…