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US military removes commander of Greenland base after Vance visit

(NYTimes) — The U.S. military announced Thursday that it had removed the commander of its Pituffik base in Greenland. The decision to remove Col. Susannah Meyers was announced in a statement by the U.S. Space Force that was posted on social media by Sean Parnell, chief spokesperson for the Pentagon. While the statement didn’t cite a specific reason for her removal, Parnell said “actions to undermine the chain of command” or that go against President Donald Trump’s agenda “will not be tolerated.” Parnell’s post contained a link to an article that said Meyers had sent an email to base staff distancing herself from Vice President JD Vance’s visit March 28.

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Children seeking cholera care die after US cuts aid, charity says

(NYTimes) — At least five children and three adults with cholera died as they went in search of treatment in South Sudan after aid cuts by the Trump administration shuttered local health clinics during the country’s worst cholera outbreak in decades, international charity Save the Children reported this week. The people died on a grueling three-hour walk in scorching heat as they tried to reach the nearest remaining health facility, the agency said in a statement. The aid cuts, implemented in January, forced seven of 27 health facilities supported by Save the Children across Akobo County to close and 20 others to partly cease operations, the charity said in a statement.

Stay or go? Israeli evacuation orders force an agonizing choice in Gaza

(NYTimes) — As it pressed forward with its offensive in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military issued new evacuation orders Friday for neighborhoods in eastern Gaza City, including several parts that the military had declared evacuation zones last week — suggesting that some people had remained in their homes even after the Israeli military had told them to leave. Since the two-month ceasefire between Israel and Hamas collapsed in March, Israel has issued a succession of orders covering roughly half of Gaza. The orders have left Palestinians in the north debating whether to stay in their neighborhoods despite the danger or to leave and yet again face the miserable conditions of displacement.

Kennedy accuses FDA of drug industry influence that barred alternative remedies

(NYTimes) — In a speech broadcast to the Food and Drug Administration’s Maryland campus Friday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. introduced himself as the nation’s health secretary with a meandering speech touching on everything from birds of prey to pollution in Lake Erie to the CIA. Kennedy told agency staff members, in the throes of losing 20% of their workforce under his overhaul of the Health and Human Services Department, to boldly avoid the impulse to protect the corporations they regulate. The layoffs, voluntary departures and cutbacks in funding have decimated divisions that govern oversight of tobacco, the drug approval process, testing of cow’s milk and cheese for avian flu, and food safety.

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