Yesterday, Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen was among the protesters taken into police custody at a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing at which Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. answered questions about HHS spending, layoffs, and other changes. Video shows protesters leaping up from the benches with signs…
A UN-backed assessment has said that Gaza’s population of around 2.1 million Palestinians is at “critical risk” of famine and faces “extreme levels of food insecurity” as an Israeli blockade on humanitarian aid continues. The latest report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said there had been a “major deterioration” since October 2024,…
The United States’ system for monitoring famine globally has been taken offline amid President Donald Trump’s order for a 90-day freeze on nearly all US foreign assistance. The Famine Early Warning System Network (Fewsnet) was established after the 1984 famine in Ethiopia, as part of a worldwide effort to prevent a repeat of its devastating…
