News

The birthplace of U.S. President Donald Trump’s director of personnel has been the subject of media speculation — fuelled by his refusal to answer the question.

Source - Archive.

Source

Beyond staff cuts, the departures of some longtime investigators in recent months have left less experienced people tasked with rooting out dangerous manufacturing practices.

President Trump has announced that an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bout will be held on the grounds of the White House next year, one of many events to be held to celebrate America's 250th birthday.

Ian Rogers was convinced it was up to him to save America. The gun industry’s sales tactics — playing up paranoia and glorifying combat — may be creating a pipeline of extremists willing to open fire.

Reading Time: 43 - 55 minutes

• A New Medical Specialty: Child abuse pediatricians diagnose and document signs of abuse. Their work has come under growing skepticism for the frequent use of the shaken baby syndrome diagnosis.
• Some Controversial Diagnoses: Dr. Nancy Harper, a Minnesota child abuse pediatrician, has been criticized by doctors, lawyers and even a judge for how she handled some cases of alleged child abuse.
• The Price of Criticism: Dr. Bazak Sharon said he lost his job after questioning how Harper and her team made abuse diagnoses. Hospital officials said he failed to follow appropriate protocols.

• Video.
• Substack.

.

You’re in what you thought would be your dream house — until it wasn’t.

The living room ceiling has been ripped out after sewage water backed up and flooded the upstairs bathroom. With the drywall gone, you can spot loose nails and concerning gaps between the floor joists. Rainwater seeps through the cracks around the front door.

Insects crawl through the window frames — even though the windows were reinstalled because they weren’t installed properly in the first place. And most of your bathrooms are unusable, awaiting repairs the builder promised more than a year ago.

It feels like a nightmare — but it’s reality, according to Danielle Antonucci, who invited a Hunterbrook Media reporter to the home she and her husband bought just four years ago in Sarasota, Florida, built by the nation’s largest homebuilder, D.R. Horton ($DHI). In an email provided to Hunterbrook, Antonucci desperately pleaded with D.R. Horton to address the numerous defects rendering their home nearly uninhabitable: “I keep getting the response that this matter has been escalated to the Sarasota office,” she wrote. “It has been 21 months!”

• Struggling Gatekeepers: In the face of some $44 billion a year in pig-butchering scams conducted by Asian crime syndicates, U.S. banks have failed to prevent mass scale money laundering.
• Black Market Bank Accounts: Chinese-language Telegram channels offer to rent U.S. bank accounts to pig-butchering scammers, who use the accounts to move victims’ cash into crypto.
• One Address, 176 Clients: Bank of America allowed hundreds of unverified customers to open accounts, prosecutors alleged, including 176 who claimed the same small home as their address.

As luxury eco-retreats and voluntourism surge, experts warn that without systemic reform, the industry may be doing more harm than good.