The deadline for nominations for Bermuda’s next National Hero has been extended to Friday, November 15th. A Government spokesperson said, “The public is advised that the nomination deadline to choose Bermuda’s next National Hero has been extended to Friday, November 15, 2024. “The public can visit: https://forms.gov.bm/Bermuda-National-Hero-Nomination to submit their recommendation. “The public will be […]

Somerset Reinsurance Ltd. — a provider of reinsurance solutions to the life insurance and annuity market — announced the appointment of Riley LaTour as Chief Risk Officer [CRO] with immediate effect. A spokesperson said, “Riley will be responsible for the firm’s risk management strategies and operations. Riley was most recently Head of Risk Analytics for Somerset […]

With an aim to expand the way they deliver their news to the community, the Bermuda Broadcasting Company is continuing to live stream their evening news programme online for viewers both on the island and abroad. The live video will begin at 7.00pm, and play to 7.30pm, and then the replay will be available: Related […]

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau traveled to Bermuda today [Nov 13] to deliver a eulogy at the funeral of Peter Green. The official statement from the Canadian government’s website said, “The Prime Minister will deliver a personal eulogy at the funeral of close family friend Peter Green, in Bermuda. The Prime Minister will travel from […]

The Cabinet Office advised today that flags on Government Buildings will be flown at half-mast tomorrow, Thursday, 14th November as a mark of respect for the late Senator Leslie L. Robinson on the day of her homegoing celebration. Related Stories ‘Commitment To Professionalism And Fairness’ Household Income And Expenditure Survey Community Consultation On Homelessness Held […]

[Opinion column written by the PLP Senator Lindsay Simmons] In our 2024 Throne Speech, we made one thing clear: the PLP is here to protect and uplift Bermuda’s most vulnerable and to continue making steady progress towards a fairer Bermuda for all of us. From seniors and persons with disabilities to low-income families and those […]

President-elect Donald Trump and President Joe Biden met for nearly two hours at the White House on Wednesday.

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It has been reported that Tufts University has cut ties with MA Rep. Seth Moulton in the wake of his sudden turn against transgender athletes

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Vice President Kamala Harris's presidential campaign — which ended $20 million in debt after raising $1 billion — gave money to far-left Rev. Al Sharpton's civil rights organization just weeks before he conducted a friendly interview with her.

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The recent discovery of the largest drug lab in Canada’s history highlights the ongoing expansion and sophistication of Canadian drug gangs. The gangs have developed international connections with Mexican drug cartels and U.S. criminal organizations.

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The National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina (INDEC) revealed on Tuesday that it had documented an inflation rate of 2.7 percent in the country for October.

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a notice on Tuesday banning all flights to Haiti for at least 30 days following three gun attacks on planes flying to the capital city of Port-au-Prince.

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South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) said on Wednesday that North Korean troops sent to Russia as mercenaries have moved to the frontlines in Kursk over the past two weeks and are “already engaging in combat” against Ukrainian forces.

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Outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken began a farewell visit to the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Brussels, Belgium, on Wednesday in which he repeatedly insisted that President Joe Biden would "push every dollar out the door that we have at our disposal" to Ukraine.

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President-elect Donald Trump met with House Republicans on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning to start a busy day in D.C.

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Talkshow host Drew Barrymore's touchy-feely approach to her guests didn't sit well with Martha Stewart on Tuesday. The homemaking diva appeared extremely uncomfortable when Barrymore began stroking her arm and back during the interview, prompting Stewart to physically push her away.

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"Saturday Night Live" cast member Chloe Fineman is suddenly telling fans that Elon Musk made her cry three years ago when he guest hosted the show and said her comedy writing wasn't funny.

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Hollywood star Jamie Lee Curtis, who endorsed Kamala Harris' unsuccessful bid for the White House, is the latest left-wing elite to quit X/Twitter following President-elect Donald Trump's resounding victory on election day.

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Actor Kevin Costner is smitten with Liz Cheney and her increasingly acerbic attacks on President-elect Donald Trump, saying the former Republican congresswoman from Wyoming should be applauded for her public service in branding him "unstable," "depraved," and "cruel" amongst other insults.

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The House Republican Conference on Wednesday nominated Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to continue serving as the leader of the House.

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As President-elect Donald Trump busily assembles his new administration, Democrat super-lawyer Marc Elias is quietly trying to reverse a key Republican win in a U.S. Senate race.

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CNN contributor and former Obama adviser Van Jones said Wednesday on CNN's "Newsroom" that President-elect Donald Trump's pick of Fox News host Pete Hegseth as the next secretary of defense is "very alarming."

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Sen. John Thune will replace Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as Republican Senate Majority Leader after a close contest Wednesday that took two ballots to resolve.

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President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday he has selected former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (R-HI) to serve as his Director of National Intelligence (DNI).

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President-elect Donald Trump announced members of his White House senior staff on Wednesday.

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President-elect Donald Trump formally announced Wednesday that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is his pick for secretary of state. Trump issued a press release confirming numerous media reports that indicated Rubio would be chosen for the critical role. “Marco is a

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Rachel Zegler, the star of Disney's upcoming live-action "Snow White" remake, has a message for the 75.6 million Americans who voted for President-elect Donald Trump this year: may you "never know peace."

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MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissmann said Wednesday on "Deadline" that President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as his attorney general marks the United States' entry into "pure George Orwell 1984 land."

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Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said Wednesday on CNN's "The Lead" that President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as his attorney general was a "red-alert moment for American democracy."

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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) responded to a question about whether he thinks Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) would be confirmed by the Senate by pointing to "recess appointments."

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On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” former Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz stated that, during the Biden administration, “One of the things we struggled with when I was the Chief was getting engagement from policy officials

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Wednesday on CNN, network contributor Scott Jennings reacted to what some are describing as President-elect Donald Trump's "unexpected" cabinet appointments.

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Lunchables are being removed from school lunch menus across the U.S. after just a year of them being included in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) after they tested positive for lead and other harmful materials.

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Senate Majority Leader-elect John Thune (R-SD) said Senate Republicans "are excited" to enact President-elect Donald Trump's agenda.

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Actor Josh Gad, who is set to reprise his role as Olaf in Disney's upcoming Frozen 3, has smeared the incoming Trump administration as Nazis -- naturally using a musical theater analogy involving "Springtime for Hitler" from The Producers.

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Historian and political scientist Allan Lichtman said Tuesday on NewsNation's "Cuomo" that conservative media disinformation and billionaire Elon Musk were why his election prediction that Vice President Harris would win the presidency was incorrect.

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Miriam Main resigned on Monday and said she refuses to help men "perform a poor imitation of breastfeeding," which can put babies' safety at risk,

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A Los Angeles middle school teacher has been charged after allegedly grooming her 13-year-old student into a sexual relationship for over a year, with prosecutors saying she left her husband to be in "love" with the child.

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The Fed is in a rate cut cycle as Trump is coming to the White House—just as he would prefer.

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The Ohio State Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that would bar transgender people from using women's bathrooms.

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On “The Alex Marlow Show” on Wednesday, Breitbart Editor-in-Chief and host Alex Marlow praised the pick of Pete Hegseth to be Defense Secretary. Marlow said, “We don’t want Deep Staters. We don’t want people who came from the board of

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Donald Trump moved one step closer to beating Alvin Bragg’s lawfare against him on Tuesday as Justice Juan Merchan rescheduled ruling on motions to set aside the politically motivated New York convictions.

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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has resigned from his congressional seat after President-elect Donald Trump nominated him to serve as Attorney General in his administration.

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By Don Thompson, KFF

California public health officials are dipping into state and federal stockpiles to equip up to 10,000 farmworkers with masks, gloves, goggles, and other safety gear as the state confirms at least 21 human cases of bird flu as of early November. It’s the latest reminder of the state’s struggle to remain prepared amid multibillion-dollar deficits.

Officials said they began distributing more than 2 million pieces of personal protective equipment in late May, four months before the first human case was confirmed in the state. They said they began ramping up coordination with local health officials in April after bird flu was first detected in cattle in the U.S. Bird flu has now been confirmed at more than 270 dairies in central California, and traces were recently detected at a wastewater sampling site in Los Angeles County. Bird flu was also recently detected in a flock of commercial turkeys in Sacramento County.

California is putting a number of lessons from the covid-19 pandemic to use, such as coordinating emergency response with local health officials and tracking infectious diseases through wastewater surveillance, as the state tries to limit the spread of bird flu to humans. It’s striving to maintain an adequate emergency stockpile to withstand the first wave of any new public health disaster without hemorrhaging the state budget.

“We are far better prepared to respond to a pandemic than we were in 2020,” said Amy Palmer, a spokesperson for the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.

For instance, before the coronavirus struck in 2020, the state’s emergency supplies stockpile was barely big enough to crowd two basketball courts.

By the time California ramped up its pandemic response, it had enough personal protective equipment and other disaster supplies to fill 52 football fields. California spent $15.6 billion on direct pandemic response during the covid crisis years, much of it provided by the federal government.

Today, the stockpile fits into about 12½ football fields, though it can seesaw from month to month.

According to the state, the current stockpile includes 101 million face masks, 26 million more than the 90-day supply recommended by the state’s pandemic preparedness guideline.

That includes 88 million N95 masks, more than the emergency services agency said was needed last year. The high-efficiency masks are considered crucial to protect against airborne viruses such as covid-19.

Although the state is building up its stockpile, Palmer could not say if the additional masks are related to fears of bird flu, only that planners are always working “to keep pace with the current risk environment.”

The state’s goal, Palmer said, is to have “an initial supply during emergencies to allow us the time to secure resources,” whether through the federal government or by buying more.

There is no indication of spread between humans in the recent California bird flu cases, and health officials say public risk remains low. Human transmission of bird flu is among several worst-case scenarios for a new pandemic, alongside the possibility of a resurgent mutant coronavirus; wider international spread of mpox, Marburg virus, or Ebola; or an entirely new virus for which there initially is no immunity or vaccine.

Yet, health officials nationwide have struggled to track bird flu transmission. And California has a history of swinging back and forth on preparedness.

Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered an increase in California’s pandemic preparedness in 2006 in response to an earlier threat from bird flu. That included three mobile hospitals that could immediately be deployed during disasters.

Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, ended the program in 2011 as state finances went bust. By the time covid struck, the state released 21 million N95 masks, some so old they were past their expiration date.

Now hospitals are required to maintain their own three-month supply of masks, gowns, and other personal protective equipment under a state law passed in 2020. California’s aerosol transmissible disease standard also uniquely requires hospitals and other high-risk workplaces to follow precautions such as using negative pressure isolation rooms and the highest level of protective equipment until more is known about a new pathogen.

“It is difficult to overstate the level of unpreparedness exhibited by hospitals both in and outside of California in dealing with the 2020 outbreak of COVID-19,” according to a legislative analysis. “Harrowing images of nurses walking the corridors of hospitals in makeshift masks and garbage bags became commonplace.”

California Hospital Association spokesperson Jan Emerson-Shea said hospitals “continuously prepare to respond to all types of disasters, including outbreaks of transmissible viruses.”

In addition, Palmer said California has five mobile hospitals acquired from the federal government, though they got little use during the pandemic. She said they have to be maintained, such as making sure pulse oximeters have working batteries.

But, once again, the current deficit has the state trying to strike a balance.

While lawmakers rejected most of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s $300 million proposed cut to public health funding, the state slashed funding for its stockpile of personal protective equipment by one-third a year ago after it determined that no additional covid-related purchases were necessary, according to the Department of Finance. California eliminated funding this year for eight 53-foot-long trailers that would have moved stockpiled items between warehouses. It’s also cutting nearly $40 million over the next four years from its $175 million disaster stockpile budget.

The state’s preparedness wasn’t good enough for Californians Against Pandemics, which gathered more than 1 million signatures to put a ballot measure before voters in November. The measure would have increased taxes on people with incomes over $5 million and used that money for pandemic prevention and response.

But that effort collapsed after one of its key financial supporters, former cryptocurrency executive Sam Bankman-Fried, was convicted of defrauding customers and investors. In exchange for initiative backers dropping the measure, state officials agreed to broaden the scope of the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine, which was created in 2015 to focus on developing new medicines and therapies, to include technologies for preventing another pandemic.

“By harnessing the power of precision medicine, California is moving to the forefront of pandemic preparedness and prevention,” Newsom said at the time.

Rodger Butler, a spokesperson for the state Health and Human Services Agency, said it’s unclear if the precision medicine initiative will receive additional funding.

By Megan Myscofski

Governor Gavin Newsom went to Washington, D.C. this week to meet with California’s Congressional Delegation and the Biden Administration and advocate for federal funding to the state before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January. 

Newsom told a Spectrum News reporter in the capital that he has concerns the state will lose some federal funding — which Trump threatened while campaigning.

“I guess that's what people voted for, but I got to tell you, a lot of folks will be hurt if we don't push back,” he said. 

Newsom said he’s advocated for funds related to the environment, disaster relief and health care.

That includes two Medicaid waivers — one to put more funds towards behavioral health treatment, and another to renew the state’s MCO tax, which California voters just approved through Proposition 35. 

The governor also pushed for more federal land protections, clean air and water support, and approval on several waiver requests to support the state’s climate and emissions rules. 

Lindsey Churchill works with the Rebuild Paradise Foundation, which supports survivors of the 2018 Camp Fire. 

She said federal funds are already challenging to work with because of how slow they tend to roll out. 

“When you’re trying to provide programs in a timely manner after a disaster, you don’t necessarily have time to wait a year or longer for that kind of funding,” she said. 

She added that she’s also concerned about the Trump administration withholding funding, especially as natural disasters become more frequent and costly.

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