"It Was Love": Philippine Family Mourns Girl Who Died Saving Family In Quake

10/02/25 9:42 PM

17-year-old Lady Jane, who died saving her family, was one of at least 72 people killed in the quake that struck off the island of Cebu.

'Don’t pay any attention whatsoever': UK's health minister gives Trump epic putdown

09/23/25 1:46 PM

Global health experts are aghast that President Donald Trump announced an unproven link between autism and commonly used painkillers and vaccines, and they're warning others to ignore his advice.The U.S. president, along with his Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., advised pregnant women not to take acetaminophen, which is used in Tylenol and other products and marketed internationally as paracetamol, but health officials in other nations disputed his claims as unscientific and dangerous, reported The Guardian.“We know that vaccines do not cause autism,” said the World Health Organization spokesperson Tarik Jašarević. “Vaccines, as I said, save countless lives. So this is something that science has proven, and these things should not be really questioned.”Wes Streeting, the UK health secretary, was even more blunt in his criticism of Trump and Kennedy, a longtime skeptic of vaccines who promised to determine the "cause" of autism within months of starting his job.“I trust doctors over President Trump, frankly, on this," Streeting said. "I’ve just got to be really clear about this: there is no evidence to link the use of paracetamol [acetaminophen] by pregnant women to autism in their children. None."“So I would just say to people watching: don’t pay any attention whatsoever to what Donald Trump says about medicine," Streeting added. In fact, don’t take even take my word for it, as a politician – listen to British doctors, British scientists, the [National Health Service].”MHRA, the UK’s healthcare regulator, released a statement within hours of Trump's announcement disputing the link between paracetamol use during pregnancy with autism, and the agency's chief safety officer warned that “untreated pain and fever can pose risks to the unborn baby," which contradicts Trump's encouragement that pregnant women "tough it out" rather than use medicine.The European Medicines Agency also stood by its advice, saying its guidelines were “based on a rigorous assessment of the available scientific data and we have found no evidence that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism in children," and Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration confirmed paracetamol was safe for use in pregnancy and rejected any link to neurodevelopmental conditions.

'Dude!' Trump secretary stuns by revealing taxpayer bailout to sway Argentina election

09/24/25 4:57 PM

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent admitted that Donald Trump's administration was trying to help Argentina President Javier Milei maintain power by extending billions of loans to boost that nation's economy.The U.S. will extend a $20 billion swap line to Argentina and may purchase debt from its government to boost the political fortunes for the libertarian Milei, a close ally of Trump, Bessent and other American conservatives, the treasury secretary told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo.“I don’t think the market has lost confidence in [Milei],” Bessent said. “I think the market is looking in the rearview mirror and looking at decades — about a century — of terrible Argentinian mismanagement.”Milei is facing growing financial pressure since his party lost a key provincial election earlier this month in a landslide, just weeks ahead of Argentina's Oct. 26 midterm elections, and Bessent told Bartiromo the aid was intended as a political boost."The plan is as long as President Milei continues with his strong economic policies to help him, to bridge him to the election, we are not going to let a disequilibrium in the market cause a backup in his substantial economic reforms," Bessent said.The admission stunned social media users, some of whom wondered why he'd say that out loud."'To bridge him to the election' – dude, you're not supposed to say that part out loud," posted author Rob Tracinski."Scott Bessent links bailout of Argentina to Trump's election interference, even as Argentina poaches U.S. soybean markets," wrote legal expert Marcy Wheeler, linking to her blog post on the topic."Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explicitly states that U.S. intervention in the Argentinian economy is to help Javier Milei in his upcoming election," said political and media researcher Craig Harrington."BESSENT: INVESTMENTS HINGE ON A POSITIVE ELECTION OUTCOME," noted Bluesky user Nacmtrader17. "Vote for our preferred candidate and we will bail you out.""Absolutely NOT!" added Bluesky user Tamela Ehlinger. "None of our tax $$$ go to Argentina for the mad man who tanked their economy & will do the same with a cash infusion Bessent & the orange-tainted howler monkey want to do this to make sure that Milei wins the next election to keep another bastard in power." — (@)