Nvidia has lost its shock power to investors, for now
Nvidia has lost its shock power to investors, for now
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I hate to admit this one, really.
But the setup on Nvidia’s (NVDA) stock into earnings on Wednesday evening has me confused.
Granted, I left the sell-side analyst gig over 10 years ago and no longer recommend stocks. But it’s hard to shake old habits, and for me, that’s trying to figure out how a stock will react in the 24 hours after an earnings report hits the wires.
For this Nvidia report, I’m stumped on which way the market might go — though I have concerns that investors may sell on the news.
Nvidia’s gross profit margins are compressing as Blackwell chips have entered the mix. The Street is anxiously awaiting management’s confidence in a gross margin recovery back to when it targeted mid-70% levels in the second half of the year. Given the headwinds in the economy, I’m just not sure Nvidia gives that type of confident guidance. If anything, it could say gross margins will ramp above 70% in the second half of the year — but that risks letting investors down. Almost a lose-lose scenario.
Second quarter sales and earnings guidance could surprise the optimistic Street as management aims to reflect the impact of the ban on H20 chips to China. While analysts have seen this coming — EPS estimates have been lowered over the past 60 days, according to Yahoo Finance data — they may be underestimating the top-line headwind.
“The stock will look for a positive catalyst (2026 visibility, gross margin recovery, new China product) to appreciate near-term, in our opinion,” said BofA semiconductor analyst Vivek Arya in a note.
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Nvidia’s valuation from a price-to-earnings multiple perspective is also thought-provoking. On the one hand, given the company’s long-term growth potential, it looks relatively cheap. Considering the factors I mentioned above, however, the valuation could also be considered expensive.
Below is some further context on Nvidia’s stock ahead of earnings from those I know in the trenches. I asked this trio for their views on Nvidia’s PE ratio.
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“In terms of Nvidia (and even Palantir), I would argue that because of the multi-year prospects (data center, AI infrastructure growth for Nvidia) and AI adoption in the various markets, that a simple P/E ratio is the not the best (right?) way to look at those stocks or even ones like ServiceNow. A PEG [price-to-earnings growth] ratio analysis better captures that multi-year opportunity (which of course we can’t simply take on faith but need to corroborate and update as we move through quarters/years).”
“I think it [the relatively low PE on Nvidia] just speaks to the skepticism the market has towards Nvidia’s ability to keep up these monster beat revenue quarters. They believe Palantir’s best quarters are ahead of it in terms of upside growth and they believe that Nvidia’s best quarters are where we are right now and that this is as good as it gets.
“The market isn’t necessarily right, and it’s been like this for over a year now which is why Nvidia’s stock price has treaded water. I’ve thought Jensen [Huang] would surprise the market with another wave of growth but it hasn’t happened yet.
“Nvidia’s earnings haven’t led to a ripping of the stock price for over a year now. They’ve been just meeting expectations. However, I think they can start to show some surprise to the upside with interest in Blackwell that could bump the stock back to the $140-150 levels afterwards. Beyond that? They would really have to shock people, and I don’t think we’re there yet. That next big wave of growth might take another 6 months to show up.”
“Nvidia’s profits and sales are growing at an astounding rate. If you believe the growth rates will continue, then yes, you probably also think the stock is cheap. Nvidia’s share price has rallied 42% from a year ago, yet the price-earnings and price-sales ratios have stayed the same. That’s incredible. It’s also comparably cheap. Nvidia has become one of the most well-known stocks in the world, and it’s attracted money from all types of investors. Yet it still trades at a respectable P/E when you compare it to other tech stocks/semiconductor companies. It’s also one of a handful of firms that has proven it can make money off of AI. That’s a powerful advantage in today’s AI-obsessed market.
“Also, value is in the eye of the beholder. Think of value like a designer shirt at your favorite boutique. Not everybody will pay $50 for a shirt that cost a dollar to make. Some will because they’re a fan of the brand, but others will scoff at paying a premium for a basic white tee. Nvidia could have the ‘cheap’ label just because it benefits from its brand. That, plus it’s the ‘cheapest’ stock in the Magnificent Seven purely by stock price. For most people, value is how much something will cost them. Nvidia at $130 is ‘cheaper’ than Meta (META) at $640 or Microsoft (MSFT) at $455.”
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Why summer 2025 is a ‘perfect storm for cheap flights’
Why summer 2025 is a ‘perfect storm for cheap flights’
June is right around the corner, but there are still some great deals available if you’re looking to book your summer travel.
Typically the best summer airfare prices dry up by late May and early June, but 2025 isn’t shaping up to be like most years.
“At this point in the year, trying to get an affordable deal for July would [normally] be like finding a diamond in the rough,” Katy Nastro, a travel expert at Going, tells CNBC Make It. Due to a number of factors, there are still great fares out there for travelers to find.
“It’s sort of a perfect storm of all these different factors,” Nastro says. “There’s some economic uncertainty, so people might be hesitating to book. There’s more flights on the schedule. Fuel is down a little bit as well. It’s really sort of this total perfect storm for cheap flights.”
For travelers hoping to book a last-minute summer vacation, Nastro has one key piece of advice: Flexibility is your best friend.
“If you’re flexible, you are really in a great position,” she says. “Not only in where you go, but also in your timing. There is widespread availability for multiple dates. August is your best target month if you’re looking to book something and you haven’t done so.”
If you’re looking for a summer travel destination that won’t break the bank, the experts at Going flagged five cities that have consistently had lower-than-average prices stretching into the fall. Take a look.
1) Calgary, Alberta
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What the experts say: Inbound travel from Canada is down just shy of 20%, and because of that we have seen some uniquely low fares for summer to various destinations across Canada. One such place, Calgary (Lake Louise trip anyone?), has seen consistent widespread availability. Average deal prices start at $258 roundtrip, while from some cities we’ve seen fares as low as $142. Average prices sit at $521 roundtrip, but keep your flight alerts on for price drops as we may see some fluctuation this summer.
2) São Paulo, Brazil
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What the experts say: If you are looking for a less humid and more pleasant vacation, head to the southern hemisphere. From large cities the average deal price we’ve seen is roughly $355, while from smaller cities it’s a bit higher in the $699 range. Average prices range from $600-$1,000. The dollar goes pretty far in Brazillian Reals, making it doable for most budgets.
3) Dublin, Ireland
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What the experts say: While Dublin isn’t the cheapest city to explore in Europe, it’s certainly not the most expensive. Dublin is a great jumping-off point to explore the countries vast green landscape, and uber-affordable to get there this year. From most major cities we are still seeing peak date summer availability to Dublin sitting in the high $300’s to $400’s, with an average deal price for all cities sitting at $511 roundtrip. Average prices run up into the $954+ area, but with more nonstop routes added to the Emerald Isle from large and medium cities like Cleveland, Indianapolis, and Nashville, it’s not luck of the Irish, it’s just great deal availability this year.
4) San José del *****, Mexico:
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What the experts say: Some may avoid Mexico in the summer months because of the heat and humidity that can ensue, but sitting on the coast, ***** enjoys miles and miles of the deeply refreshing water of the Pacific, even on the warmest days. Average deal prices for ******** Coastal cities like San José del ***** are in the $354 roundtrip range, but we’ve seen lower as in $292 from Austin. Average prices sit at $640+ roundtrip, so a savings of roughly 45% off. And, considering the fact you can get direct flights from major cities on the East Coast to *****, travelers located in this area can enjoy a hurricane-risk-free beach vacation for July and August.
5) New England:
Montpelier, Vermont.
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What the experts say: The Northeast really shines in the summer, stretching well outside the cities to the various pebbly beaches of Connecticut’s south coast, into Rhode Island and up through until you get to Maine. Average deal prices for various New England cities like Bangor, Boston, and Hatford (which is just the starting point) have been sitting at $149 roundtrip. Average prices for various New England cities are $351+ roundtrip, so we’re seeing a savings of just under 60% off. Most people get outside the cities and hit the coast, but one tip is to also enjoy the mountains and lakes in Vermont and New Hampshire which arent just great for skiing!
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Box Office: ‘Lilo & Stitch’ Ignites to $341 Million Globally, ‘Mission: Impossible 8’ Climbs to $200 Million – Variety
Box Office: ‘Lilo & Stitch’ Ignites to $341 Million Globally, ‘Mission: Impossible 8’ Climbs to $200 Million – Variety
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Roos play hard ball in tense victory against Mines Rovers
Roos play hard ball in tense victory against Mines Rovers
Kalgoorlie grabbed a second win of the GFL season at the expense of Mines Rovers on Saturday.
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Archbishop criticizes Argentine President Milei’s austerity policies during religious ceremony
Archbishop criticizes Argentine President Milei’s austerity policies during religious ceremony
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Archbishop of Buenos Aires fiercely criticized Argentine President Javier Milei during a religious ceremony the leader attended Sunday, saying that under the government’s harsh policies “fraternity, tolerance and respect are dying.”
Milei, a libertarian and staunch ally of President Donald Trump, has implemented austerity policies, a sort of fiscal shock therapy, in an attempt to reign in painfully high inflation in the South American nation. But the policies have also left poverty rates soaring and fueled waves of protests, which in some cases have been met with a violent response by police.
On Sunday, Archbishop Jorge Garcia Cuerva denounced those policies and the larger political atmosphere in Argentina in front of Milei, who was kneeling alone in the front row, and members of his Cabinet.
“Argentina is bleeding from inequality,” he said. The government “is far away from the people in the streets. They don’t feel their pain, nor their frustrations.”
Milei watched the speech still faced. Garcia Cuerva warned of hate and misinformation spreading through social media. He described it as “terrorism through social media,” citing former Pope Francis, who hailed from Argentina. Milei’s government often uses social media to attack critics, including politicians and journalists, calling them names like “degenerates” and “baboons.”
Garcia Cuerva also called for more support for the poor and young people he said are increasingly thrown into precarious situations. He specifically highlighted retirees, whose pensions have been severely affected by the austerity policies, and who hold protests every week, often met by police repression.
“Retirees deserve a dignified life with access to medicine and food, a wound that has remained open and bleeding for years, but as a society we must heal it soon,” Garcia Cuerva said.
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Top Republicans threaten to block Trump’s spending bill if national debt is not reduced – The Guardian
Top Republicans threaten to block Trump’s spending bill if national debt is not reduced – The Guardian
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Germany’s military told to be fully equipped with weapons by 2029 – National
Germany’s military told to be fully equipped with weapons by 2029 – National
Germany’s Chief of Defence, Carsten Breuer, has ordered the ******* military to be fully equipped with weapons and other material by 2029, a document seen by Reuters on Sunday shows.
By 2029, Russia may have reconstituted its forces sufficiently to attack NATO territory, according to estimates by Breuer and other senior military officials at NATO.
The latest document, entitled “Directive Priorities for the Bolstering of Readiness”, which Breuer signed on May 19, said Germany will meet the goal with the help of funds made available by the loosening of the country’s debt brake in March.
The defence ministry in Berlin did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
In the directive, Breuer sets priorities for the weapons that should be acquired or developed most urgently, reflecting in part priorities NATO has previously laid out.
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Among them, Breuer lists the strengthening of Germany’s depleted air defences, in particular with a view to intercepting drones.
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Another priority is a capability to launch deep precision strikes, according to the document, effectively hitting targets at a distance of more than 500 kilometres (310 miles) and far behind enemy lines.
In addition to pushing for Germany’s ammunition stocks to be replenished, Breuer also orders Germany to raise its stockpiling targets for all types of ammunition.
Other priorities listed in the document are the swift expansion of Germany’s capabilities in electronic warfare and the establishment of a resilient system of “offensive and defensive capabilities” in space.
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In a speech in mid-May, Army Chief Alfons Mais said a large-scale social and industrial mobilisation meant Russian forces were rapidly gaining firepower.
“From 2029, at the latest, the Russian forces will be capable of a conventional aggression against NATO territory on a large scale,” he said. “But they can start testing us much sooner.”
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Grim Aussie start but Joint venture lifts Paris gloom
Grim Aussie start but Joint venture lifts Paris gloom
Australia’s newest tennis champ Maya Joint has breezed into Paris with a giggle, a slight air of disbelief but the unshakeable confidence of a fearless teen who quite fancies the idea of shocking everyone again with her first deep run at a grand slam.
And the sight of the freshly minted 19-year-old Morocco Open champ excitedly taking a first hit on the Roland Garros clay on Sunday after a “crazy” couple of days when she won her first two WTA titles, in singles and doubles, felt just the pick-me-up the Aussies needed after a gloomy opening day wipe-out at the French Open.
Wildcards Destanee Aiava, and Tristan Schoolkate both succumbed in straight sets on Sunday to hardened claycourt denizens while Rinky Hijikata’s attempt at playing David to the giant American Reilly Opelka’s Goliath didn’t play to script either.
But the good news? There’ll be one *********** winner at least on Monday with Joint facing Ajla Tomljanovic, the battle-hardened former No.1 who the youngster has long looked up to.
Yet though Joint cut a shy figure, sounding still a little amazed at what she’s just achieved, it didn’t stop her musing confidently here on Sunday: “I’ve definitely gained a lot of confidence from Rabat. Yeah, I think I can do well this week.”
There’s been nothing bashful about her performances on court. Inscrutable behind her tinted shades, she displays the crisp hitting and clear thinking of a ruthless tennis veteran. She looks and sounds like a teen, just doesn’t play like one.
“It’s really exciting. I was here once before for a junior doubles match but I never played in junior singles, I lost in quallies,” she beamed after jetting in on Sunday.
“I was thinking about Paris all last week, even when I was winning in Rabat.’
Playing her mate’s not ideal, though. “We’ve trained together quite a bit, travelled together and we’re good friends, so it’ll definitely be a difficult match, but a good match,” she said of the clash with Tomljanovic, 13 years her senior.
There are comparisons between the pair’s introduction to *********** tennis. Tomljanovic switched her allegiance from Croatia to take advantage of the support of Tennis Australia over a decade ago and so has the US born-and-raised Joint, who’s flourished since moving to Queensland.
“Ajla’s definitely given me a lot of advice and guidance,” said Joint. “She’s been really helpful to me, and I’m really lucky to have her as a friend. So, it’s definitely gonna be difficult, but I’m excited. She’s someone I’ve looked up to.”
On Thursday, Tomljanovic was a set down in Rabat when she withdrew to protect an abdominal complaint, but Joint’s the favourite, really at home on the clay.
Indeed, could she be that rarest of things – an *********** natural clay-courter? “Maybe,” laughed the daughter of an Aussie dad and ******* mum.
“I really enjoy clay. My grandparents live in Germany, so I went over there a lot in the summers and trained on the surface, so I’m pretty comfortable on it.”
More comfortable than the two Aussie wildcards on their French Open debuts, with Aiava succumbing 7-5 6-1 to Ukraine’s Dayana Yastremska and Schoolkate losing 6-4 6-2 6-2 to Hungarian Marton Fucsovics.
But Hijikata, who feels he’s improved a lot on the surface, was left frustrated at going down to the tour’s biggest man, the 2.11m, 102kg Opelka, 1-6 6-3 7-5 7-6 (7-3).
AUSTRALIANS IN ACTION ON DAY TWO OF THE FRENCH OPEN (Prefix denotes seeding)
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(17) Daria Kasatkina v Katerina Siniakova (CZE)
Kim Birrell v Jaqueline Cristian (ROM)
Ajla Tomljanovic v Maya Joint
Daria Saville v (7) Madison Keys (USA)
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(25) Alexei Popyrin v Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN)
Jordan Thompson v Jiri Lehecka (CZE)
Aleksandar Vukic v (24) Karen Khachanov (RUS)
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A 29-year-old entrepreneur’s side hustle brought in $40 million in a year. Now she wants to help other ‘uninvestable’ women.
A 29-year-old entrepreneur’s side hustle brought in $40 million in a year. Now she wants to help other ‘uninvestable’ women.
Daniella Pierson started The Newsette newsletter as a sophomore in college.Daniella Pierson
Daniella Pierson is launching CHASM to help women secure venture capital funding.
Pierson said she was laughed out of meetings with VCs when pitching her newsletter called The Newsette.
She built a multimillion-dollar business anyway, and wants to help other women do the same.
Before building her multimillion-dollar business, Daniella Pierson said she was “the poster child” for “do not invest in.”
Now, she aims to help other “uninvestable” women secure financing for their ideas with her new organization, CHASM, where she wants to help close the gender gap in VC funding.
“I had zero investment, not because I didn’t want it. I wanted it very badly,” Pierson told Business Insider. “I went to dozens of VCs, and I was rejected, rejected, rejected, laughed out of every room.”
One “household name” told Pierson she spoke too much and too quickly, and didn’t know what she was talking about: “I cried the whole Uber home.”
Despite the setbacks, Pierson made a name for herself with her newsletter, The Newsette, which she founded in 2015 during her sophomore year at Boston University.
Until graduation, she would write the entire newsletter between 6 and 10 a.m., covering the latest news in beauty, fashion, and business, before rushing to classes. Then she’d work on it in the evenings and weekends too.
“Even after we made a million dollars, I still wrote it,” Pierson said. “I didn’t have fancy VC money to fall back on.”
In 2021, The Newsette had a team of 14 and brought in revenues of $40 million in one year and made a profit in the tens of millions. The following year Pierson launched another newsletter, Wondermind, cofounded with Selena Gomez and the actor’s mother, Mandy Teefey.
That year, Forbes named Pierson the world’s youngest, wealthiest self-made woman of color.
It took Pierson more than five years of hard work to become successful beyond her “wildest dreams.”
Pierson said she grew up as “the dumb twin — that’s not a nickname I gave to myself. That’s something my lovely teachers and peers called me in public to my face.”
She faced numerous barriers and challenges as a female entrepreneur. She failed her business project at college and was almost kicked out a semester before graduation. She was diagnosed with OCD when she was 14, and also lives with ADHD, depression, and anxiety.
Pierson doesn’t want it to be this hard for other women like her.
The amount of funding all-women teams receive is low. In 2022, they accounted for 2.1% ($5.1 billion), *** previously reported. In 2023, it dropped to 1.8% ($3.1 billion).
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“That made me really mad,” Pierson said. “So I was like, what am I going to do? I’m going to close the gender gap.”
Daniella Pierson launched CHASM to help close the gender funding gap.CHASM
CHASM, which launched on May 20, has a “mentor-to-many” business model. Fifty high-profile entrepreneurs and investors, both men and women, pay a $25,000 membership fee to help aspiring female entrepreneurs from pitch to exit, offering insights, networking opportunities, and grants.
Pierson said she wanted to provide women the tools, knowledge, and connections they need to thrive as entrepreneurs without facing the same roadblocks that she did.
Pierson said women start out “50 feet below the playing field” when launching a business. She believes men are part of the solution.
“The gap has opened wider because we’re isolating men,” Pierson said.”That could be a controversial statement, but I don’t think it is, because guess what? If 99.999% of the money, power, wealth, all of that belongs to men, we need some of them on our side.”
Pierson said she doesn’t want to “just throw money at the problem.”
“I’d rather teach a woman how to fish than just give her a fish,” she said. “I want to put them in the best position for success by giving them the ultimate ****** of everything.”
Some members already signed up for CHASM include Sara Blakely, the founder of Spanx and Sneex; singer Lionel Richie; Fidji Simo, the CEO and chair of Instacart who is joining OpenAI later this year; and Tony Robbins, a motivational speaker and coach.
“This is putting my heart and soul, and my time, where my values are, and I hope people really use this to become the most successful versions of themselves, no matter what industry they’re in,” Pierson said. “If I can do it, anyone can.”
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Paula Gadsby: Even in the good times, fiscal discipline can’t be neglected
Paula Gadsby: Even in the good times, fiscal discipline can’t be neglected
No economist predicted the gravity of the Global Financial Crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic or the current trade disruptions all of which have taken place in just the past 18 years.
If we have learned anything over this *******, it’s that if we think we know what’s coming, we don’t.
All we can do is prepare for this uncertainty. This means prioritising fiscal discipline, sustainable debt levels and affordable government policy.
Living within our means and restoring fiscal buffers are critical, especially when governments need to step in, like they did during the GFC and the pandemic. This is especially the case for highly trade exposed economies like WA’s.
We have benefited from strong demand for commodities from China over the past few decades. More than 50 per cent of WA’s goods exports go to China — much higher than any other major State — with Queensland the second highest at about 25 per cent. Strong demand for commodities was one of the factors that prevented Australia moving into a recession during the GFC.
If we are lucky, strong demand for our commodities will continue. But we can’t rely on it.
A decade ago, WA experienced the end of the mining investment ***** and falling commodity prices. It had a severe impact on everything from house prices to State revenue.
A large and sustained fall in the iron ore price from $US135 per tonne in early 2014 to $US50 per tonne by April 2015, came with a $11.5 billion write down in expected royalty income across the forward estimates in the 2015-16 Budget.
Now WA’s fiscal position is strong again, especially when compared to the other States and Territories. The Pre-election Financial Projections Statement released in February showed that the WA Government expects to be $3.2 billion in the ****** in 2024-25 — which would be the seventh consecutive operating surplus.
And it’s projected to look largely similar all the way through to 2027-28. The ratio of net debt to gross state product is also expected to remain relatively low at 7.6 per cent in 2024-25, although this estimate moves higher to 8.6 per cent in 2026-27.
Meanwhile, other States and Territories will likely see this ratio reach record highs over the coming years.
This is not a reason for the WA Government to throw caution to the wind as it puts the finishing touches to the 2025-26 State Budget. High commodity prices, which have supported our underlying budget position in recent years, are not guaranteed. Royalty revenue can quickly fall in unpredictable global market conditions and have a big impact given they represent 20 per cent of State revenue. This can leave a big hole in State finances in a short ******* of time.
Thankfully WA Treasury has conservative commodity price forecasts which offer somewhat of a buffer by avoiding a significant write down in royalty revenue when prices fall. But this can’t completely offset the risk of volatility or sustained falls in demand for commodities.
As revenue declines significantly and expenses remain unchanged or continue to grow, this can lead to higher borrowing, and start a vicious cycle. WA’s net debt is projected to reach $33.8 billion in 2024-25, and is forecast to continue rising to $37.6 billion by 2027-28.
Like many States, WA’s borrowing is rising to fund a large infrastructure program, necessitated by the strongest population growth rate in the nation. Public debt is important to finance infrastructure investments for economic growth and will help to maintain WA’s GSP per capita at the highest of all the States and Territories.
But balance is needed between assisting the economy, while not overburdening it with debt. Especially when you forecast a decline in revenue, face potential cost blowouts on a record high asset investment program and a global trade war.
Raising excessive debt in an attempt to tackle every policy need and want could put the WA Budget in a precarious position. Instead, the WA Government needs to focus on its key priorities (given budget constraints and economic uncertainty) just like any household budget.
It is more prudent for WA (and all governments) to continue to pay down debt and build strong fiscal buffers. This approach is important given we have an ageing population and need to decarbonise, which will add further structural pressures to the Budget.
It’s fair to assume things will not go to plan. As yet unknown problems will arise. Future generations need room to invest in their own priorities and deal with the problems that we can’t predict.
Fiscal discipline and delivering strong budgets are not only a requirement for macroeconomic stability, but also insure against global economic uncertainty.
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Naga Munchetty: My first ******* at 15 made me faint and throw up
Naga Munchetty: My first ******* at 15 made me faint and throw up
Naga Munchetty has said she “normalised throwing up and fainting” due to a chronic health condition that took decades to diagnose.
The BBC Breakfast presenter called for more research into women’s health issues as she described the “excruciating” pain she has experienced since beginning her ******* at the age of 15.
Despite going to the doctors on a number of occasions, she was not diagnosed until 32 years later as she was led to believe the pain she was experiencing was “normal”.
She spoke during a talk with Kirsty Lang at The Hay Festival in Wales, which The Independent has partnered with for the second year in a row.
“When I started my ******* at 15, I passed out, threw up, was petrified about what was happening and was told it was normal,” she said.
She spoke during a during a talk with Kirsty Lang at The Hay Festival in Wales, which The Independent has partnered with for the second year in a row (Billie Charity and Hay Festival)
“Whenever I spoke to a doctor about having heavy periods, I was never asked about them. I would say they’re really heavy, I throw up, I faint, it’s really really painful. But I was just told it would get better when you get older it will get better when you have a child. There was no question of treatment.”
It wasn’t until she went to the doctor because of an ovarian cyst that she was diagnosed with adenomyosis, a condition she had never heard of before, which sees uterus lining tissue grow into the muscular wall of the uterus.
“I looked it up on the NHS England website, clicked on it, and the link took me to hysterectomy,” she said.
“So the only answer to this condition that no one’s heard of this to cut a chunk out of me. And my eyes were actually being open to how little effort was being put into women’s healthcare.”
She told the talk that after years of living with the condition, she had grown to “normalise” the extreme pain.
“I would normalise throwing up. I thought that was normal,” she said.
“I’ve had to come off set to throw up because I thought I was passing out while presenting BBC Breakfast. I went to the toilet, threw up, cleaned it up. I managed to get a 10-minute break, got makeup redone covered in sweat, sat down and did the next hour and a half.
“That’s not normal.”
She told the talk that after years of living with the condition, she had grown to ‘normalise’ the extreme pain (Billie Charity and Hay Festival)
The journalist and broadcaster has since spoken out about the state of women’s healthcare in the *** and written a book, It’s Probably Nothing: Critical Conversations on the Women’s Health Crisis (and How to Thrive Despite It).
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This week on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” as Americans prepare for Memorial Day, Margaret Brennan speaks to some veterans serving in Congress about the value of public service and honoring those who’ve protected us. Plus, House Speaker Mike Johnson talks about the House’s passage of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
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Gary Martin: How to turn down the volume on your eavesdropping habit
Gary Martin: How to turn down the volume on your eavesdropping habit
As phone chats become routine on trains, personal conversations spill over in cafes and workplace discussions echo through open-plan offices, conversations which were once considered private are increasingly becoming public.One of the downsides is that accidental listening has increased as we often find ourselves drawn into conversations we never intended to hear.This has left many of us struggling with how to navigate the awkwardness of being an unintentional eavesdropper.Eavesdropping has always been part of life.Whether it is overhearing muffled arguments through thin apartment walls, catching snippets of confidential chats in the office kitchen or picking up gossip in crowded public spaces, we have always been tuned into each other’s lives, even when we did not mean to be.But in more recent times, the opportunity to tune into someone else’s business has reached new volumes.With public spaces like cafes, parks and transport often used as makeshift offices, work and personal conversations are frequently within earshot of strangers.
The increased use of mobile and video calls in public, combined with open-plan spaces and a more casual approach to discussing personal matters in communal areas, also makes overhearing more common.Eavesdropping comes in different forms.Intentional eavesdropping is when someone deliberately listens in for juicy details.Passive eavesdropping happens when you cannot help but overhear, like catching a colleague’s phone call while waiting for coffee.
Ethical eavesdroppers understand that sometimes you just cannot help but overhear things.
Forced eavesdropping occurs when someone’s loud conversation fills a space to leave you no choice but to listen.There is a sense of irony attached to increased opportunities to eavesdrop.Just when we are becoming more mindful about privacy, it is actually getting harder to avoid overhearing other people.Some people believe if you are having a conversation in public and do not want others to hear, it is on you to keep your voice down.
Others argue accidental eavesdropping is just part of modern life and that listeners should tune out or move away instead.
Confusion about how to act when overhearing sensitive information has led some to call for “ethical eavesdropping”.Ethical eavesdroppers understand that sometimes you just cannot help but overhear things.They choose to keep what they accidentally hear to themselves, unless the conversation involves something ******** or directly affects someone’s personal affairs or professionalism.Either way, the way we think about eavesdropping has to change.Maybe a touch more consideration from both talkers and listeners could make these awkward interactions a little less common.So next time you find yourself overhearing — or being overheard — ask yourself: are you the talker who could turn it down or the listener who could tune it out?Professor Gary Martin is CEO of AIM WA and a specialist in workplace and social trends
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House Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana
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Cindy McCain, World Food Programme executive director
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MARGARET BRENNAN: I’m Margaret Brennan in Washington.
And this week on Face the Nation: Memorial Day marks the unofficial start to summer. We will kick it off with a hat tip to the nation’s military.
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MARGARET BRENNAN: President Trump rallied West Point graduates on Saturday.
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DONALD TRUMP (President of the United States): The military’s job is to dominate any foe and annihilate any threat to America anywhere, any time and any place.
MAN: Hip, hip.
GRADUATES: Hooray!
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MARGARET BRENNAN: But as these new members of the world’s most powerful military go forward, are we doing enough to support them? We will talk with some veterans serving in Congress about the value of public service and we will honor those who protected us.
On Capitol Hill, the president’s big, beautiful bill squeaks through the House. What kind of impact will some of those tax-and-spend provisions have on Americans? And can they survive the Senate?
We will ask House Speaker Mike Johnson and talk with the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Jim Himes.
Some humanitarian aid is returning to Gaza after a monthslong Israeli blockade, but will it be in time and enough to help those in desperate need of food?
Plus, a new plan for American assistance in the region. We will talk to Cindy McCain, head of the U.N.’s World Food Program.
All that and more is just ahead on Face the Nation.
Good morning, and welcome to Face the Nation.
We have a lot to get to in honor of our military today, but we begin with the passage of what President Trump is calling his big, beautiful bill, and the man who got it through the House, Speaker Mike Johnson, who joins us from Benton, Louisiana.
Good morning to you, Mr. Speaker.
REPRESENTATIVE MIKE JOHNSON (R-Louisiana): Hey. Good morning. And I wish a blessed Memorial Day weekend to everybody.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Indeed.
Well, you got this massive tax and border bill through, just barely, one vote margin. You pulled an all-nighter.
Among other things, it will eliminate taxes on tips and overtime, put about $50 billion towards the border wall and hiring Border Patrol agents, keep in place existing individual tax rates, create savings accounts for kids with a one-time deposit of $1,000, increase the child tax credit by about 500 bucks.
The – the bill on this is estimated to be between $4 trillion and $5 trillion over the next decade. How much do you think this is all going to cost?
REPRESENTATIVE MIKE JOHNSON: Well, that’s about the right estimate.
But, at the same time, we have historic savings for the American people, cuts to government to make it more efficient and effective and – and work better for the people. That was a big campaign promise of President Trump and a big promise of ours, and we’re going to achieve that.
So, in the calculation here, there’s more than $1.5 trillion in savings, Margaret, for the people. And that’s – that’s the largest amount – biggest cut in government really in at least 30 years and, if you adjust for inflation, probably the largest in the history of government.
So we’re proud of what we produced here. We’ve checked all the boxes, where all the things that you mentioned in existence – in addition to American energy dominance, investing in our military industrial base, which is appropriate for us to talk about this weekend, and so many other priorities.
And that’s why we call it the one, big beautiful bill. I think, arguably, it’s the most consequential legislation that Congress will pass in many generations, and it’s a long time coming.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, just this morning, we did hear from some of your Republican colleagues over in the Senate, where this heads next, that they can’t support the bill as it is written. I think you know this.
Senator Rand Paul said the cuts are “wimpy and anemic. The math doesn’t add up. It will explode the debt.”
In addition to that political criticism, you’ve already seen…
REPRESENTATIVE MIKE JOHNSON: Yes, look, Senator Paul and I are…
MARGARET BRENNAN: … Moody’s credit rating agency downgrade American credit.
And Goldman Sachs says that this bill will not offset the damage from the president’s tariffs. Isn’t this an economic gamble?
REPRESENTATIVE MIKE JOHNSON: No, it’s not an economic gamble.
It’s a big investment. And, look, this – what this bill is going to do is be jet fuel to the U.S. economy. It is going to foster a pro-growth economy. What do we mean by that? Because we’re reducing taxes. We’re reducing regulations. We’re going to increase and incentivize American manufacturing again.
And what will – the effect this will have in the economy is that entrepreneurs and risk-takers and job creators will have an easier time in doing that. They will allow for more jobs and more opportunity for more people, and wages will increase.
Now, Margaret, this is not a theoretical exercise. We did this already in the first Trump administration. After just the first two years, we brought about the greatest economy in the history of the world, not just the U.S., because we did it, followed a very simple formula. We cut taxes and we cut regulations.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You didn’t do it in the middle of a tariff war.
REPRESENTATIVE MIKE JOHNSON: This time, we’re doing that on steroids.
MARGARET BRENNAN: In the first administration, there was sequencing.
REPRESENTATIVE MIKE JOHNSON: No. Well…
MARGARET BRENNAN: You got tax reform. The Republicans got tax reform through and held off the tariff war.
Goldman Sachs says, the hit to growth from tariffs will more than offset the boost to growth from the fiscal package. That’s Goldman Sachs.
REPRESENTATIVE MIKE JOHNSON: Well – well, I know. I respect Goldman Sachs, but I think what they’re discounting here is the growth that will be spurred on by this legislation and the fact that the so-called tariff war is beginning to subside already.
You’ve got over 75 countries that are negotiating new, more fair trade agreements for the U.S. right now because of the president’s insistence that that be done. And it was decades overdue. That is going to benefit every American. It’s going to benefit the consumers.
You know, they howled when the first tariffs – reciprocal tariffs policy was announced. And they said that prices would skyrocket. That simply hasn’t happened. Many of those early estimates were far off, and that’s being proven now.
So what I think will happen is the tariffs, you know, contest will subside. This legislation will pass and get the economy going again. And people will feel that. They’ll see it in their own pocketbooks, in their own opportunity. And every American household is going to benefit by these policies.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You know Walmart has already said that it will have to raise prices. It’s not theoretical. And the president on Friday was talking about even more tariffs, this time on Apple and others.
But back – back to your end of the – of the deal here, for this tax relief, you talked about the cuts to pay for it all. You are eliminating subsidized federal student loans, so the government will no longer cover the interest on debt while borrowers are in school. You’re eliminating $500 billion in clean energy subsidies and you’re terminating early tax breaks for electric vehicles.
Alongside that, you’re carrying out about a trillion in reductions to Medicaid and food stamps. We looked at your home state, and the projection is that nearly 200,000 Louisianians will lose their Medicaid coverage because of this. How do you defend that to your constituents?
REPRESENTATIVE MIKE JOHNSON: We have not cut Medicaid, and we have not cut SNAP.
What we’re doing, Margaret, is working on fraud, waste and abuse. And everyone in Louisiana and around the country understands that that’s a responsibility of Congress. Just in – in Medicaid, for example, you’ve got 1.4 million ******** aliens receiving those benefits. That is not what Medicaid is intended for.
It’s intended for vulnerable populations, for young, single, pregnant women and the elderly and the disabled and people who desperately need those resources. Right now, they’re being drained by fraud, waste and abuse.
You’ve got about 4.8 million people on Medicaid right now nationwide who are able-bodied workers, young men, for example, who are not working, who are taking advantage of the system. If you are able to work and you refuse to do so, you are defrauding the system. You’re cheating the system.
And no one in the country believes that that’s right.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So…
REPRESENTATIVE MIKE JOHNSON: So there’s a – there’s a moral component to what we’re doing.
And when you make young men work, it’s good for them, it’s good for their dignity.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Sure.
REPRESENTATIVE MIKE JOHNSON: It’s good for their self-worth, and it’s good for the community that they live in.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Sure, but in – first of all, just undocumented immigrants, you know, are not eligible for food stamps or Medicaid. Some…
REPRESENTATIVE MIKE JOHNSON: And yet they’re receiving them. That’s the problem.
MARGARET BRENNAN: … lawfully present immigrants are.
So the 190,000 Louisianians that are projected by KFF as losing their Medicaid, your position is, they were just lazy, not working, that they were undocumented? What – what about them? How do you defend that they will be losing their benefits?
REPRESENTATIVE MIKE JOHNSON: No, what we’re talking about, again, is able- bodied workers, many of whom are refusing to work because they’re gaming the system.
And when we make them work, it’ll be better for everybody, a win-win-win for all. By the way, the work requirements, Margaret, is not some onerous, burdensome thing. It’s a minimum of 20 hours a week. You could either be working or be in a job program, a job training program…
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes.
REPRESENTATIVE MIKE JOHNSON: … or – or volunteering in your community. This is not some – some onerous thing. This is common sense.
And when the American people understand what we are doing here, they applaud it. This is a wildly popular thing, because we have to preserve the programs. What we’re doing is strengthening Medicaid and SNAP so that they can exist, so that they’ll be there for the people that desperately need it the most, and it’s not being taken advantage of.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes.
REPRESENTATIVE MIKE JOHNSON: And this is something that everybody in Congress, Republicans and Democrats, should agree to.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, one of your Republican colleagues over in the Senate has been very vocal about his concern in regard to what you’re doing to Medicaid.
Josh Hawley has been arguing: “It is morally wrong and politically suicidal to slash health insurance for the working poor.” He said the cost-sharing language will force people at or just over the federal poverty level to pay as much as $35 for a medical visit, which means working people will pay more.
How do you defend that? Because you know, in the Senate, they are going to make changes to this.
REPRESENTATIVE MIKE JOHNSON: My friend Josh Hawley is a fiscal conservative, as I am. We don’t want to slash benefits.
And, again, I make this very clear. We are not cutting Medicaid. We are not cutting SNAP. We’re working in the elements of fraud, waste and abuse. SNAP, for example, listen to the statistics. In 2024, over $11 billion in SNAP payments were – were erroneous. I mean, that’s – that’s a number that everyone acknowledges is real.
It may be much higher than that. But here’s the problem. The states…
MARGARET BRENNAN: Louisiana is like the second largest recipient of food stamps in the country, sir. So…
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REPRESENTATIVE MIKE JOHNSON: Let me explain it, Margaret. Let me explain it.
The states – the states are not properly administering this, because they don’t have enough skin in the game. So what we’ve done in the bill is add some – just a modest state sharing component, so that they’ll pay attention to that, so that we can reduce fraud.
Why? Again, so that it is preserved for the people that need it the most. This is common sense, Margaret. It’s good government, and everybody on both sides of the aisle should agree to that.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, Senator Hawley objects to that cost-sharing language.
He is the one leveraging that criticism. This is going to change, you know that, when it goes to the Senate.
REPRESENTATIVE MIKE JOHNSON: Listen, right. So, I…
MARGARET BRENNAN: How do you – how do you put Republicans up to have to defend these things, when they are facing an election in 17 months?
REPRESENTATIVE MIKE JOHNSON: We got almost every vote in the House because we worked on it for more than a year in finding the exact balance of reforms to the programs, so that we can save them and secure them.
I think – I think Senator Hawley will see that when he looks into the details of what we passed on Thursday. This is a big thing. It’s an historic thing, once-in-a-generation legislation. We call it the one big, beautiful bill because it’s going to do so much and the America first agenda will be delivered for the people just as we promised.
And, look, I had lunch with my Senate Republican colleagues on Tuesday, their weekly luncheon, and I encouraged them to remember that we are one team. It’s the Senate and the House Republicans together that will deliver this – this ball over the goal line, so to speak.
And I encouraged them to make as few modifications as possible, remembering that I have a very delicate balance on our very diverse Republican caucus over in the House.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes.
Yes, well, you have – you have five to six Republicans from high tax states who are not going to want to see that change in the state and local tax deductions. And there’s not a commitment to that in the Senate. Can you still get this through the House without SALT?
REPRESENTATIVE MIKE JOHNSON: Look, we – there’s got to be a modification to SALT.
And, as I have explained to my Senate colleagues many times, you know, they don’t have SALT Caucus in the Senate because they’re all from red states, but in the House, we do have a number of members who are elected in places like New York and California and New Jersey, and they have to provide some relief to their constituents.
Those are what we call our majority makers. Those are the people who are elected in the toughest districts and help us have the numbers to keep the majority in the House. And so this is political reality. We’d love to cut more costs. We’d love to do even more, but we have to deal within the realm of possibility.
And I think this is a huge leap forward for fiscal responsibility, for a government that’s effective and accountable to the people and real relief for hardworking Americans, and they well deserve it.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes.
Well, before I let you go, I want to ask you about another provision that was tucked into this bill. Democrats say it is weakening separation of powers and punishing the courts. It’s a specific provision that would restrict a federal court’s power to enforce injunctions with contempt, unless there was a bond attached to it.
Sounds really weedy, but it’s causing a lot of outcry. If this might get stripped out in the Senate anyway, why did you bother to stick it in?
REPRESENTATIVE MIKE JOHNSON: Well, we bothered to stick it in because that’s our responsibility in Congress.
It is about separation of powers. And, right now, you have activist judges, a handful of them around the country, who are abusing that power. They’re issuing these nationwide injunctions. They’re – they’re engaging in political acts from the bench.
And that is not what our system is intended for. And people have lost their – their – their faith in our system of justice. We have to restore it. And bringing about a simple reform like that is something that I think everybody should applaud.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, thank you for your time this morning.
Face the Nation will be back in a minute. Stay with us.
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MARGARET BRENNAN: We’re joined now by Congressman Jim Himes. He is the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, and he joins us today from Greenwich, Connecticut.
Good morning to you.
REPRESENTATIVE JIM HIMES (D-Connecticut): Good morning, Margaret. Thanks for having me.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You just heard the speaker. I know you did not vote for this bill. But, you know, Connecticut has one of the highest state and local tax burdens in the country. Do you at least like that one little portion of this bill?
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REPRESENTATIVE JIM HIMES: That one little portion is going to be good for my constituents.
But, Margaret, I – I got to tell you, it was like listening to “1984” or something listening to the speaker. You know, anybody can look this up. The American people want basically three things out of their federal budget. Number one, at this point in time, when Americans – the wealthiest Americans, are doing better than ever before, Americans want the wealthiest of the – of Americans to pay more taxes and to give tax relief to the middle class and below.
Number two, they want us to address the deficit, which is now spiraling out of control, to the point where we got a downgrade in one of the U.S. credit ratings. And, third, they want a simpler tax code.
This bill fails spectacularly on all three counts. They’re cutting Medicaid and nutritional assistance, food stamps, to tens of millions of Americans in order to preserve tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans. They’re adding $3 trillion to the deficit with this bill. And, lastly, they’re gumming up the tax code with, you don’t have to pay taxes on tips. Now, what about the folks who don’t earn tips, you know, auto lending?
I mean, again, on the three things that Americans care most about, that they want the Congress to do, this bill fails spectacularly. Look, and that’s going to show up in the polling pretty soon, as Americans come to realize what it is that the House of Representatives just did.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, I want to ask you about your other role on the House Intelligence Committee.
When it comes to what the president has vowed to do to Russia, he floated this idea two weeks ago of possible sanctions if Russia doesn’t stop its war in Ukraine. But then he spoke to Vladimir Putin on Monday, and we heard nothing about sanctions. We did hear from the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency that this war is trending in favor of Russia.
What changes need to be made, if anything, to how the U.S. provides support?
REPRESENTATIVE JIM HIMES: Well, Margaret, look, we’re at a fork in the road with respect to the Russia-Ukraine war.
And, you know, Donald Trump and his acolytes in the Congress will go along with one of these two choices. Either we will continue the trajectory that started when the president and the vice president humiliated Vladimir – humiliated President Zelenskyy in the Oval Office and paused aid, and Vladimir Putin will learn from that experience that he can count on the U.S. to support his murderous incursions into neighboring countries.
Or we can take another path, which I hope the president will take, which is to say, what we need to do right now is generate maximum leverage against Vladimir Putin, and I see the president getting a little frustrated by him.
But that maximum leverage comes because we really uptick the sanctions, we stop the export of oil, we pressure India to stop buying Russian oil, and, of course, we keep arming the Ukrainians. Again, for this guy who considers himself the master of the deal, maximize the leverage of the West so that we can bring this war not just to a conclusion, but to a fair and just conclusion that will keep the Russians from invading countries in the future.
MARGARET BRENNAN: In your role on the Intelligence Committee, you get to see things the public does not.
With that in mind, the president has designated this Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, TDA, as a foreign terrorist organization. He says they’re invading the country. He’s using the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged members without a day in court.
Part of the legal justification of all of this rests on the claim that the Venezuelan government is controlling what TDA is doing. The National Intelligence Council assessed the Maduro government does not control the gang.
But, on this program last Sunday, the secretary of state rejected that. He says he favors the FBI’s finding, which is that some members of the Venezuelan government do influence the gang.
Why does all of this matter?
REPRESENTATIVE JIM HIMES: Well, it matters, Margaret, because I will remind you that, in the George W. Bush administration, exactly what is happening right now happened.
It was a different topic. Right now, despite the conclusions of the intelligence community, the president, the director of national intelligence and the secretary of state are saying that Venezuela directs Tren de Aragua.
Now, they’re saying that because they need this no due process mechanism of deporting people, the Alien Enemies Act, which, by the way, the courts are now laughing at.
But the reason it matters, Margaret, is because the last time the White House did this, when they were determined that the intelligence community be forced to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, which there turned out not to be, 4,400 American servicemen perished in a war that was fought on false pretenses, not to mention, by the way, the many hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who perished in that war, which was a catastrophic strategic mistake driven by the politicization, the – the notion that George W. Bush had that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
That’s why intelligence matters. There’s 4,400 families in this country who lost people because the White House decided they would override the conclusion of their $90 billion-a-year intelligence community. That’s what Marco Rubio is doing, that’s what the president is doing, and that’s what Director Gabbard are doing when they contradict what their own organization is telling them.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So, on that point, this is also becoming an issue for Joe Kent, who is the president’s nominee to run the National Counterterrorism Center.
He’s under scrutiny because e-mails show that, while acting as chief of staff to DNI Gabbard, he pressed analysts to amend an assessment of links between the government and TDA.
According to redacted e-mails that my network has obtained, he wrote: “We need to do some rewriting, a little more analysis so this document is not used against the DNI or POTUS,” the president of the United States. He says: “We need to incorporate the FBI’s assessment.”
You have now read these declassified e-mails as well. Do you believe that Joe Kent was just asking for more context?
REPRESENTATIVE JIM HIMES: No, he absolutely was not. And I have seen the redacted e-mails. He was pressuring the National Intelligence Council to alter their conclusions.
And, look, he gave away the game. You just read the line. He told us why he did that, so that this report would not be used against the president or the director of national intelligence. Think about that. The chief of staff of the – of the Office of the Director National Intelligence wasn’t saying, we need the very best intelligence here. We need you to go back and make sure you’re 100 percent true.
He was saying, we need to make sure that your product is not used to embarrass the president and the director of national intelligence. That is the very definition, the very definition of politicizing intelligence. This is not about embarrassing or not embarrassing anybody.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes.
REPRESENTATIVE JIM HIMES: Again, back to those 4,400 dead Americans.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes.
REPRESENTATIVE JIM HIMES: So, no, Joe Kent must never be confirmed for any Senate-confirmed…
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes.
REPRESENTATIVE JIM HIMES: Look, it’s all out there for the Senate to see. So, no, he may – he must never be confirmed for any Senate-confirmed position because of what he did.
MARGARET BRENNAN: OK. OK. And those e-mails are available for the public to read as well.
Congressman Himes, thank you for your time today.
We’ll be right back with a lot more Face the Nation.
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MARGARET BRENNAN: In our next half-hour, we will be talking to not one, but two members of the McCain family, Cindy McCain and her son Jack.
Stay with us.
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MARGARET BRENNAN: One congressional tradition that brings out both Republicans and Democrats is the Memorial Day weekend cleaning of the Vietnam Wall.
We ran into former Trump National Security Adviser Mike Waltz on Thursday when we visited. He’s no longer in Congress, but he explained why he started encouraging his fellow veterans in the House to pitch in.
Stay with us.
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MARGARET BRENNAN: We turn now to the executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme, Cindy McCain. She joins us this morning from Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Good morning to you.
CINDY MCCAIN (Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme): Good morning.
MARGARET BRENNAN: In Gaza we have this manmade catastrophe with Israeli authorities blocking the entry of all aid from March until about May 18th. The Trump administration said Israel needs to let in food.
So, are your deliveries consistently now getting through?
CINDY MCCAIN: Well, let’s start with the fact that this is a catastrophe. And you’re absolutely correct, and I’m very grateful that you are covering this issue. They have let a few trucks in. This is a drop in the bucket as to what’s needed.
Right now we have 500,000 people inside of Gaza that are – that are extremely food insecure and could be on the verge of famine if we don’t help bring them back from that. We need to get in and we need to get in at scale, not just a few dribble of the trucks. Right now it’s, as I said, it’s a drop in the bucket.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So, how many trucks need to be getting in daily to address the scale of the need you see? And – and can they get into northern Gaza?
CINDY MCCAIN: Well, prior to the – you know, during the ceasefire, I should say, we were getting in 600 trucks a day. Right now we’re getting in maybe 100. Something like that. So, it – it’s not nearly enough. And it needs to be going to the correct places. So, the various gates. It’s inconsistent as to how the gates are open. It’s inconsistent as to the roads we can use. The roads that are the better roads. The ones that can get us further along aren’t open at all much. It’s complicated right now. And – and again, I will tell anybody who will listen, we need to get in and get in at scale and be allowed to feed these people before further catastrophe occurs.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Your organization announced at least 15 of your trucks were looted when they entered southern Gaza on route to – to bakeries. Israel has consistently said that the looting is being carried out by ******. Have you seen evidence that it is ****** stealing the food?
CINDY MCCAIN: No, not at all. Not – not in this round.
Listen, these people are desperate. And they see a World Food Programme truck coming in and they run for it. This – this doesn’t have anything to do with ****** or any kind of organized crime or anything. It has simply to do with the fact these people are starving to death.
And so, we will continue to go in. We will continue to go in with food and the kinds of supplies that we need to help the bakeries operate and make sure that we can continue to do that and – and hopefully be able to do more of it.
But, again, we can’t do this unless the world community puts pressure on this. We can’t be allowed to sit back and watch these people starve to death with no outside diplomatic influence to help us. These – these – these poor souls are really, really, really desperate. And, you know, having been in – in a food riot myself some years ago, I understand the desperation very well.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, five days ago, Prime Minister Netanyahu vowed to take control of all of Gaza, which seems to be a shift from going in, carrying out raids and then withdrawing. We’ve seen the pope speak out. We’ve seen the leaders of France, of Canada, of the U.K. calling the cutting of aid egregious. Netanyahu said criticism like that is feeding ****** and really feeding anti-Semitism.
What do you make of that pushback from him, that criticisms of the state are feeding hate?
CINDY MCCAIN: What I do know is they’re not feeding people. And the most important part of this is that’s what we’re supposed to be doing.
I’m very grateful for anyone, the pope, any of the folks that did – did shout out and say, listen, we need to get more in. But I can’t tell you as to what – exactly what Netanyahu’s thinking or anything else.
What I do know for a fact is that we need food to get into Gaza to avoid an utter catastrophe.
MARGARET BRENNAN: The Israeli army had announced aid will be distributed under what they described as an American plan. Prime Minister Netanyahu said it will be American companies giving food directly to ************ families in safe zones secured by the Israeli military. There’s reporting in “The Washington Post” that these are armed private contractors doing logistics. Palestinians will have to submit to identity checks to be fed. And that would replace the U.N. coordinated networks, presumably also the World Food Programme.
Do you know how much longer you will be allowed to operate in Gaza?
CINDY MCCAIN: I have not seen a plan from anybody. We continue to operate doing what we do best. And we are the largest and the best at what we do, I might add. I – we’ve never been – a plan has never been proposed to us.
MARGARET BRENNAN: We haven’t heard in – in the press at least from the administration any of the details either. But we do know that the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, announced back on May 9th that this is going to be a U.S. initiative involving only Israeli security. The Israelis are not distributing food.
Secretary Rubio was just in Rome. He said he did meet with you. Did you share with him any of your concerns?
CINDY MCCAIN: Well, we had a very frank discussion about exactly what was going on and what we could do to help alleviate a lot of this. Some of it, I’m not sure that they were completely clear on how we operate and the size that we are and the logistics ability that we have to be able to do this. So – so, we had a – a very nice discussion. As you know, the Rubio family and – and the McCain family have been friends for a very long time. And so I was grateful that he would take the time to listen to what – what we had to say and let us discuss exactly how we feel we should be able to operate.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Did he assure you that the U.S. supports the U.N. and the World Food Programme continuing to supply food in Gaza?
CINDY MCCAIN: We didn’t really discuss the U.S. participation in any of this. He was really – really concerned with and really trying to understand how we operate and – and the need for what exactly what we do. We will work with anybody as long as it feeds people, and feeds people safely, I might add, on the ground and keeps our people and people from other agencies safe as well.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Executive director of the World Food Programme, Cindy McCain. Thank you for your time this morning.
CINDY MCCAIN: Thank you very much for having me.
MARGARET BRENNAN: And we’ll be right back.
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MARGARET BRENNAN: And we’re back with another McCain. Jack McCain is the son of Cindy and the late Senator John McCain. He’s a Navy veteran who served in the Afghanistan War. And he joins us now from Kyoto, Japan.
Good to have you here.
JACK MCCAIN (Afghanistan War Combat Veteran): Thank you. I’m incredibly glad to be here.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So, we know, when you were in Afghanistan, you flew alongside and helped to train some of the Afghan ****** Hawk pilots. Why is it important to you now to speak out on their behalf? Are any of your personal contacts there at risk?
JACK MCCAIN: Yes. Basically everyone that we were unable to get out is at risk. These pilots and crew members fought the Taliban toe to toe. And because of that, the Taliban is trying to seek them out for reprisal. Something that they distinctly promised that they would not do.
So, not only are they – are they in danger, but we owe them a debt.
I believe that I’m vertical and still on this earth because of the efforts of my Afghan pilots and crews. And not only do I owe them personally, but the nation owes them a debt of honor. One that we have yet to repay.
Everyone, interpreters, ground troops, pilots, that worked and fought alongside the United States at our behest should be able to be evacuated here to the United States and should be taken care of.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So, you were active duty at the time of the very chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. I know you helped to get Afghans out during that ******* of time. There were a lot of Afghans airlifted out. Who was left behind and – and what promises were made?
JACK MCCAIN: Yes, the problem is everyone was left behind. Whether it was family members, including family members of U.S. servicemen, whether it was pilots, crews, the people that I worked with, special forces, we did everything we could to get as many as we could out. But due to the chaos of the withdrawal and, frankly, the lack of planning on the part of the United States government, it was up to individuals and sometimes smaller military units to help either, in my case I had to triage who we were going to take out. I had to prioritize operational pilots over pilots in training versus crew members in the back simply because everyone was trying to do everything they could.
So, we have tens of thousands that fought alongside us left behind. Each one of them in danger in their own way. Not to mention family members that can be used as tools of leverage against those that are even here in the United States now.
MARGARET BRENNAN: And to that point, under the Taliban right now, the daughters, the wives, the female family members of a lot of these people who worked with Americans are facing some pretty tough conditions. However, this administration just recently said through Homeland Security that it is safe for Afghans to return. So those here could be sent back. Some Afghans who had arrived here and been given temporary protection.
Does what the U.S. government said match in any way what you are hearing is happening on the ground?
JACK MCCAIN: I would disagree with the entire notion that it is safe for anyone, especially if they’ve been in the United States, to return to rule under the Taliban. Whether they are male, female, young, old, that regime has proven itself to be – to not only have gone back on every promise they made to us, but to be – to have no problem using human lives as pawns to imprison, torture, *****, kill, even sell into slavery.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So, there are a number of veterans of the war in Afghanistan who serve currently as lawmakers in the United States Congress. And it is Congress that sets the number of visas for these – these special immigrant visas, SIVs. We checked. There are more than 144,000 applicants in the pipeline, but there are only 11,000 visas left. That’s not even counting family members here.
Have you gotten any indication from the lawmakers you know that they are going to raise that cap?
JACK MCCAIN: No, I have not. And it is an utter travesty that that is the case. People on both sides of the aisle had – have served in Afghanistan or have fought alongside Afghans, much like me. And the political theater that has taken place of simply ignoring the problem can only be summarized by the word despicable.
This is an issue of humanity. This is an issue of national honor. And this is a debt that we owe. So, I would urge lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to solve this problem because it is not going to go away. It is your job to legislate, so, please do so.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So, that’s in the hand of lawmakers. That was a problem even during the last administration. Now, though, we have this extra complication where the Trump administration has put in orders to restrict refugee admissions and said the U.S. should prioritize people who can, quote, “fully and appropriately assimilate and who do not pose a threat to the security or ******** of the United States.” That’s made it hard for Afghan refugees, family members to enter here.
How do you reassure the public that these refugees are not a risk? Even the vice president of the United States has said he does not trust the vetting of refugees.
JACK MCCAIN: Well, I mean, I think I passed the ultimate test in that I literally put my lives in – my life in these people’s hands. So, not only are they worthy of trust, but they are worthy of our care.
The vetting process has taken place. It continues to take place. And if vetting is the issue, fantastic. Let’s pass legislation to solve that problem. Let’s make sure everyone up to this point has been vetted.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Before I let you go, your father famously said, “it matters less that you can fight, but what you fight for is the real test.” I know you feel passionately about this particular issue. Can you ever see yourself entering politics to fight for other issues?
JACK MCCAIN: That’s a – a very interesting question. One that I happen to get asked fairly regularly. And I would say trying to follow his example that the best life is one lived adventurously and in service of a cause greater than one’s self interest. I’m doing that. And if someday that does take me to office in service of the nation, then by all means. But to live a life simply focused on the single goal of attaining public office is not in my mind a life purposefully lived, in – in service in office, it is a purposefully lived one, but that should not be the overriding goal of your life.
MARGARET BRENNAN: We will continue watching.
Jack McCain, thank you for weighing in on this important issue.
JACK MCCAIN: Thank you so much.
MARGARET BRENNAN: We’ll be back in a moment.
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MARGARET BRENNAN: This year, the bipartisan group, led in the past by then Congressman Mike Waltz, went from the House floor, where they had just passed the president’s spending bill in an early morning vote, down to the Washington Mall. Cleaning the Vietnam War Memorial may have been delayed, but the mission was not deterred by either lack of sleep or rain.
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MARGARET BRENNAN: You were up all night. Why did you show up in the rain in your suit to still do this?
REPRESENTATIVE SETH MOULTON (D-MA): Because this is way more important. You know, sometimes people ask me, God, Seth, Washington is a mess today. Is it as bad as Iraq? And every single day the answer is, this is easier than the war. And it’s important to keep that perspective.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Do you think that the divisions in our country now are in the same place, different from what this country went through around the time of Vietnam, when it was a very divided country?
REPRESENTATIVE SETH MOULTON: You know, I think there are actually a lot of – a lot of parallels. And one of the lessons that we should learn is to – to do right by our veterans, if for no other reason we’ve got to work on coming together. And, you know, it’s – it’s difficult when it feels like we’ve got the divider in chief to quote one of his former officials, at the head of our government right now. But that doesn’t mean that those of us in Congress, especially veterans, can’t work together.
MARGARET BRENNAN (voice over): Iowa Republican Zach Nunn spent 20 years as an Air Force intelligence officer as still served in the Air Force Reserve. North Carolina Democrat Don Davis also served in the Air Force and told us that his work as a mortuary officer at nearby Andrews Air Force Base makes Memorial Day especially important to him.
After the wall was cleaned, we talked about their work together on Capitol Hill.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Congress did give that boost of pay last year to the troops. Is it enough in this economy though? Is the country doing enough?
REPRESENTATIVE DON DAVIS (D-NC): We know that families are still struggling to make ends meet. Taking care of the day to day, kids, putting gas in the tank. So, it’s definitely, I’m sure, not enough. But we are moving, I believe, there with that (INAUDIBLE) in particular in the right direction, not only with pay, but looking at broader quality of life issues, housing, childcare that’s available on our installations.
MARGARET BRENNAN: America spends more than any other country on its defense. How is it possible we have this happening to our troops?
REPRESENTATIVE ZACH NUNN, (R-IA): We’ve tried to work together on things that not only help veterans, leading a veteran’s suicide bill, assistance to families in the military. I’m proud the bill that we just passed is going to be able to extent a 22 percent tax cut to military families. I’m proud that we got a child tax credit in there. I’m thrilled that we were able to get our bill in there that worked towards giving a family a tax credit for adoption. We’ve got two adopted kids. This goes a long ways to helping a middle American family, whether you’re military or not, be successful going forward.
REPRESENTATIVE DON DAVIS: But I want to also say, it’s important to do all of this for recruitment, retention, addressing quality of life. We recruit families. But also, when I think about being right here, at the Vietnam Memorial, and I think about our service, my service, you don’t do it for the money, you do it because you love the country.
REPRESENTATIVE ZACH NUNN: That’s right.
REPRESENTATIVE DON DAVIS: So, because of that love for the country, realizing that families are fighting for our country, the service members and their families, we have to continue to just look and – at prioritizing our military families.
MARGARET BRENNAN: How do you tell people now, encourage them to enter public service, at a time when they’re being told, even by the federal government –
REPRESENTATIVE ZACH NUNN: Right.
MARGARET BRENNAN: The private sector is going to be more rewarding for you?
REPRESENTATIVE ZACH NUNN: Look, Margaret, I think you highlight a really important part here. There’s a number of ways that people can be called to serve. It’s one of the things that I think has actually made us most combat effective in Congress is finding people who are mission oriented, who are working together. I tell my kids, the things that they could potentially learn in the military will echo throughout their entire life. But it’s up for every American to make that decision, that pathway.
You’re right, less than 1 percent of Americans are serving. That 1 percent distinguishes itself time and time again.
And there’s lots of great ways to public service. Don and I have worked together to get more teachers, more nurses, more doctors. There’s all great calls to public service. The federal government has a role to play in this, but ultimately it’s up to Americans to decide how do they best give back to the communities that they represent? We certainly felt that military service was a way to do it, but I think we came to it in our own pathway.
REPRESENTATIVE DON DAVIS: Yes, and I would love to say to any young person listening right now that’s remotely interested, I had an amazing career serving in the United States Air Force. I love serving our country. And it was definitely a great career for me. And now as a member of the Armed Services Committee, we’re doing everything to continue to make sure all of our branches are vibrant and we’re doing things to make sure we support them. Give it a shot.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes. Well, we talk about the Vietnam War and the memorial behind you. There are it looks like students coming to reflect this morning. Three million people died in that war, 58,000 Americans among them. I wonder this Memorial Day, who are you thinking of?
REPRESENTATIVE ZACH NUNN: Look, this isn’t ancient history. This is living history. I think of my uncle who flew spotter planes over Vietnam. I think of my dad, who had the choice between enlisting or joining the ROTC program. I also think about my mother, who got – back home taking care of, you know, at that point, her career as a nurse. Ay aunt, who had two little girls. These are the stories that I think it’s so important that young people do have the opportunity to learn about. One, so we never enter this kind of a situation again where we send men and women off to fight and they come back home, not to a hero’s welcome, but as a despised class. Peace through strength is a real deterrent. But also knowing that we’ve got a military that when we commit to fight, we have to go in there knowing that we have a strategy, a plan, and that we’re not going to be bringing people home injured, broken or shattered to a country not ready to receive them.
REPRESENTATIVE DON DAVIS: It’s so warming to see young people, kids walking through and looking at the Vietnam Memorial. I think of those throughout my community back home in eastern North Carolina, who I know served our country during Vietnam.
And I go beyond Vietnam. I think of Corporal Ryan Russell, who’s from east North Carolina, who was killed in Iraq. And I have a special relationship with his mom, Kathy. And we’re doing everything to commemorate those who were killed, not just Vietnam, but in all wars and conflicts so that they know the – that the families, that we’re standing with them. There’s a way to get through this, this healing process that so many families are going through, those tears, that they’re not alone.
But not only that, but to embrace nationally when we see this, to think about all those who ultimately gave their lives in service of our country.
(END VT)
MARGARET BRENNAN: And we will be right back.
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MARGARET BRENNAN: That’s it for us today. But on behalf of all of us here at FACE THE NATION, to our military, our veterans, and especially their families, thank you for your service. We are all in your debt.
Until next week, for FACE THE NATION, I’m Margaret Brennan.
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Suspected arson causes a second major power outage in south of France
Suspected arson causes a second major power outage in south of France
NICE, France (AP) — A second major power outage hit southeastern France early Sunday, this time in the city of Nice, after a suspected arson damaged an electrical facility.
Police currently have not established a link between the blackout that affected parts of Nice as well as nearby cities of Cagnes-sur-Mer and Saint-Laurent-du-Var, and a power outage on Saturday that disrupted the city of Cannes during the closing day of its renown film festival.
The Nice blackout started around 2 a.m. and left some 45,000 households without electricity. The city’s trams stopped and power was briefly cut to the Nice Côte d’Azur airport during its overnight closure hours.
Power was fully restored by 5:30 a.m., according to the energy provider company Enedis.
The Nice public prosecutor said a criminal investigation has been opened for “organized arson.”
On Saturday, two other installations in the Alpes Maritime department were damaged in what officials also suspected to be arson, temporarily cutting power to 160,000 homes, including events at the Cannes Film Festival.
Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi condemned Sunday’s attack and said the city had filed a complaint.
“I strongly denounce these malicious acts targeting our country,” he said on X. He ordered all sensitive electrical infrastructure in the city to be placed under police protection.
“These actions can have serious consequences, particularly on hospitals,” Estrosi said at a press briefing on Sunday. “As long as the perpetrators haven’t been caught, we will remain on high alert.”
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Gemini in Chrome feels like a small step toward Google’s agentic era – The Verge
Gemini in Chrome feels like a small step toward Google’s agentic era – The Verge
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AFL Watch: Forgotten Docker James Aish continues solid run of form in Peel Thunder’s big loss to Perth
AFL Watch: Forgotten Docker James Aish continues solid run of form in Peel Thunder’s big loss to Perth
A forgotten Fremantle Docker stood out as Peel Thunder fielded their maximum allotment of 12 AFL-listed players in their 40-point loss to Perth at Mineral Resources Park on Saturday. Here’s how they fared.
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I’ve said goodbye to forgetting my passwords and you can too
I’ve said goodbye to forgetting my passwords and you can too
When was the last time you had to go through the laborious process of resetting a password? Yesterday? Last week? It’s not fun, is it?
Now, I appreciate I’m in a tech-related job, but it seems like a day doesn’t go by without me having to click that dreaded ‘Forgot password’ button. I hate to think where all my forgotten passwords have gone. Maybe there’s a place they all get dumped just in case they’re needed again.
Thankfully, there’s a better way, and it’s called 1Password. In the past, I’ve used Google Password Manager, Apple Password Manager, and even LastPass, but every so often, I like to check out the competition and see if there’s anything I’m missing out on. The grass is greener on the other side, right?
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It was with that question before me that I downloaded 1Password to my phone, signed up for the free 14-day trial, and proceeded to put it through its paces.
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A one stop shop for secure data
At its core, 1Password is perfectly suited to storing passwords, and they’re as easy to create as they are to retrieve. There are two ways to store data. The first is to let 1Password store a username and password the moment that you sign up for a website. This is unbelievably easy, and 1Password will even spot if an existing password needs updating because you’ve changed it.
The second way is to add a new ‘login’ item within the app itself. This is a manual process, but still easy. All you have to do is enter a username, password, and the website that it belongs to. That’s it. You can even ask 1Password to generate a secure password that includes a range of characters, numbers, and symbols. You won’t be able to remember what is generated, but that’s the whole point of the app, right?
Retrieving login data is equally as simple. 1Password will not only automatically recognize when you’re trying to enter login details, but it’ll also autofill the fields for you. You don’t even have to look at the password if you don’t want to. And if you’ve got multiple accounts for the same website, no problem; just pick the one you want from the list that 1Password provides.
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So much more than just passwords
1Password also lets you save a range of data types, including credit cards, identity info, secure notes, and sensitive documents. This is far from a complete list, though. I was amazed to see that you can also add passport data, medical record information, and even software licenses. Pretty much anything that you could think you’d like to keep securely stored, 1Password has you covered. Think of it more like a vault for your digital data.
In terms of usefulness, storing credit card data saves me a lot of time. I’m not a huge fan of handing my payment information over to an app like this, but it certainly makes any checkout process unbelievably quick and straightforward. 1Password will do all the heavy lifting by autofilling any form with your chosen card information.
I also love the ability to securely save documents. I know that it’s possible to store these securely in Google Drive or similar, but what about those extra-special documents that you don’t want stored with everything else? 1Password keeps them all together, stored safely behind your Face ID.
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While we’re on the subject of security, 1Password provides a feature called Watchtower, which gives you a security score based on the data you have stored in the database. It also flags up items that are not as secure as they could be. This makes it easy to address less secure data without manually going through all your passwords.
Secure data at an affordable price
1Password offers two subscriptions. The first is a package designed for individuals, which costs $3.99/£3 per month. It offers all the features I’ve mentioned above and can be trialled for 14 days. If you’d like your whole family to be covered, then the ‘Families’ package, for $6.95/£5.20 per month, is what you need. This includes everything you get as an individual, but for five family members.
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‘I had a house … now it is at the bottom of the sea’
‘I had a house … now it is at the bottom of the sea’
It can take years or even decades for communities to recover from hurricanes. Latin America is still reeling from hurricanes Eta and Iota, which hit two weeks apart in 2020.
According to The Loss and Damage Collaboration, Hurricane Iota affected 7 million people. On the Colombian islands of Providencia and Santa Catalina, Iota reportedly destroyed 98% of the infrastructure.
Colombia and Honduras had been dealing with the effects of rising temperatures before the storms hit, including other hurricanes, droughts, floods, and rising sea levels.
What’s happening?
Fish used to be a food source, but fishing has become more difficult.
Dagoberto Majano from Honduras blames warming temperatures for this. “Within the climatic situation, there has been a shortage of fish because the sea has warmed a lot, the waters warm, and the species try to go to the depths further away,” he said, per The Loss and Damage Collaboration.
Agriculture is also not providing for these communities like it used to, forcing people to migrate.
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Honduras resident Delvis Velázquez Cardenas said that food became more expensive in the drier weather. This forced her husband to move to the U.S. to find work. That was a common consequence.
People also lose their homes. Francis Azucena Cruz told The Loss and Damage Collaboration: “I had a house. … Now it is at the bottom of the sea.”
Why is climate migration concerning?
According to Molly Wood, a journalist and tech investor, warming temperatures are like steroids for weather. These storms were already going to happen, but the warmer weather intensifies them.
As storms become more unpredictable and dangerous, more people will be forced from their homes. It’s not just Latin America seeing climate migration. In the U.S. between 2000 and 2022, about 3.2 million people moved or were displaced because of flooding risks.
Dirty energy contributes to the planet’s warming and the strengthening of extreme weather events. Burning fossil fuels, mining, and drilling are all considered dirty energy because they produce polluting gases.
What’s being done about climate migration?
To understand what’s happening, you should explore critical climate issues to find solutions. One way to reduce climate migration is to reduce dirty energy use, such as by installing solar panels with a battery on your home.
Solar panels don’t produce polluting gases, so they cut down on what’s emitted into the atmosphere. They also make your home more resilient in extreme weather events since you won’t have to rely on the grid during power outages.
EnergySage has a marketplace where you can seamlessly compare installers in your area, just like you would insurance providers. The energy company can also help you save up to $10,000 on installation costs.
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King Charles to open Canada’s Parliament amid Trump’s 51st state talk – The Washington Post
King Charles to open Canada’s Parliament amid Trump’s 51st state talk – The Washington Post
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Why Dockers coach sees ruck conundrum as a good thing
Why Dockers coach sees ruck conundrum as a good thing
Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir has a big rucking problem – but he can’t understand why everyone is such a downer about it.
The Dockers have been heavily criticised over the past two years for apportioning such a significant chunk of their salary cap on two ruckmen – Sean Darcy and Luke Jackson.
The issue is again a hot talking point following Darcy’s recent knee injury and the way Jackson has thrived as the lead ruckman in his teammate’s absence.
Put simply, Jackson plays his best football when he leads the ruck, and it’s the position he enjoys the most.
The former ****** has been cast mainly as a key forward in the games Darcy has been fit to play, but Jackson has become increasingly vocal about his love for the lead ruck role.
Darcy is an out-and-out ruckman who has never kicked more than 12 goals in a season.
Rumours are still circling that Jackson could request a trade back to Melbourne at the end of the season.
That would be disastrous for Fremantle, given Darcy’s injury history over recent years and form struggles this season.
Darcy has missed the past two weeks with a jarred knee – and Fremantle have posted convincing wins over GWS and Port Adelaide in that *******.
Jackson starred in both of those games, and he was arguably best afield against Port Adelaide with 38 hit-outs, 21 disposals, eight clearances, one goal and a goal assist.
Darcy is expected to be passed fit to return for Saturday’s crunch clash with high-flying Gold Coast at People First Stadium.
With the Suns boasting star ruckman Jarrod Witts, the inclusion of Darcy could prove handy.
But would it hinder Jackson’s game?
Many pundits think so.
And would opting for two ruckmen give Jackson further fuel to seek a trade away from Fremantle?
These are key questions Longmuir will have to answer, but the sixth-year coach sees having two classy ruckmen up his sleeve as a huge positive.
“To have two players who are really good at their position – I see it as a good problem,” Longmuir said.
“Everyone else sees it as a bad problem, but I’d see it as a good problem.
“Jacko has got flexibility to play other positions. There’s other ways we can get him around the footy.
“And Sean’s proven over the course of a long time that he’s one of the best rucks in the comp against some of the ******* bodies, especially the big-bodied ruckmen.
“So it’s a good problem to have.”
Given Darcy’s lack of pre-season following ankle and knee issues, Longmuir may opt to bring back the 26-year-old via the WAFL.
The Dockers (6-5) need to find a replacement for rebounding defender Cooper Simpson, who injured his AC joint in the win over Port.
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Cuts in ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ are ‘wimpy,’ ‘anemic,’ and would ‘explode the debt’
Cuts in ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ are ‘wimpy,’ ‘anemic,’ and would ‘explode the debt’
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said he would’ve been willing to vote for President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” even with the “wimpy and anemic” spending cuts, but the current bill would “explode the debt.”
During an appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” Paul, who said he is a hard no on the bill the House passed early Thursday morning, said he supports spending cuts.
“I think the cuts currently in the bill are wimpy and anemic, but I still would support the bill even with wimpy and anemic cuts if they weren’t going to explode the debt,” he said.
Paul noted that “the math doesn’t add up,” repeating his call to remove the $4 trillion debt limit hike, again saying it is “not conservative.”
“There’s got to be someone left in Washington who thinks debt is wrong and deficits are wrong and wants to go in the other direction,” he said.
The House passed the bill in a marathon overnight session last week, marking a significant win for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), however, it will likely hit major roadblocks with the Senate.
Since the bill’s passing in the lower chamber, House Republicans are urging GOP Senators not to change the legislation too severely, or it will never get through the House on its return.
However, Paul has stood firm in his stance against supporting the bill, adding that “conservatives do need to stand up and have their voice heard.”
“Somebody has to stand up and yell, ‘The emperor has no clothes,’” he said. “And everybody’s falling in lockstep on this, pass the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill,’ don’t question anything.”
“Well, conservatives do need to stand up and have their voice heard,” he continued. “This is a problem we’ve been facing for decades now, and if we don’t stand up on it, I really fear the direction the country is going.”
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