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Sunday, March 30, 2025

Utah has become the first US state to ban the use of fluoride in its public water, following concerns raised by HHS Secretary RFK Jr that the mineral poses potential health risks. read more


Chinese espionage in Taiwan has reached new levels, analysts and officials say, after three soldiers who were tasked with guarding the Taiwanese president's office were jailed for photographing and selling classified information. read more


US national Faye Hall (pictured below) was released by the Taliban after having been detained in Afghanistan in Feb 2025. Hall is the fourth American released from Afghanistan since Jan 2025. Hall, two Britons, and their Afghan translator were detained earlier this year. Hall may have been detained for using a drone without authorization. In Jan 2025 Ryan Corbett and William McKenty were freed in exchange for an Afghan fighter, Khan Mohammed, who was convicted of narco-terrorism in the US. George Glezmann was freed after more than two years of detention in a deal brokered by Qatar. The US had lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister, who also heads the powerful Haqqani Network (HQN) blamed for attacks against Afghanistan's former Western-backed government. read more


Five children have been reunited with their families and returned from Russian occupied Ukrainian territories thanks to Qatari mediation, the head of the Ukrainian President's office said. The children, aged between 11 and 16 years old, were returned from Russian-occupied Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia, under the Bring Kids Back UA initiative in coordination with the Ukrainian Ombudsman's office: www.bringkidsback.org.ua read more


Saturday, March 29, 2025

At least one student has tested positive for lead poisoning after exposure at Golda Meir School Lower Campus. Lead hazards were widespread in the building, found on the ground in the boy's bathroom, cafeteria, a hallway, the teacher's lounge, kitchen areas and multiple rooms. Three other students at Trowbridge Street School of Great Lakes Studies, Maryland Avenue Montessori and Albert E. Kagel Dual Language School may have been lead-poisoned due to lead hazards from chipping lead-based paint and lead dust. Trowbridge Street School of Great Lakes Studies became the first MPS building to close due to its high lead levels, followed by Starms Early Childhood Center, Fernwood Montessori, and Lafollette School. read more


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This is the moment in 2014 when the Haqqani Network (HQN) returned US Army SGT Bergdahl Bowe to friendly forces. Note the USSOF personnel and HQN guerillas shake hands and wave: youtu.be

Historical note: A federal judge had vacated Bowe Bergdahl's dishonorable discharge from the US Army six years after the former soldier was convicted of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy after abandoning his outpost in Afghanistan in 2009.

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