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World Cup Fans Are Complaining That America's Tipping Culture Is Making Their Trip Much More Expensive

International football fans attending the FIFA Club World Cup in the US face unexpected costs due to tipping culture, adding to their travel expenses and causing confusion.

International Business Times UK

US Servers and International World Cup Fans Clash Over US Tipping Culture: 'I'm Confused Why This Even Exists'

International football fans visiting the US for the World Cup are frustrated by the tipping culture, which adds unexpected costs to their travel expenses.

International Business Times UK

Zen proverb of the day: "Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day." Knowledge vs wisdom? How true unlearning unlocks growth, success, and inner peace

Ever thought why some people keep gaining knowledge yet never find real wisdom? The Zen proverb of the day reveals a powerful truth. Learning adds information. Unlearning creates clarity. In today's information age, personal growth, success, self-improvement, and inner peace often begin when we let go of limiting beliefs, ego,…

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Trump’s ‘Stone Ages’ threat against Iran harks back to a notorious Vietnam War declaration

ANALYSIS: President’s channeling of legendary Strategic Air Command boss Curtis LeMay in his bomb Iran ‘back to the Stone Ages’ rhetoric is part of a longstanding campaign to delegitimize modern laws of war ... but ignores LeMay’s own judgments that his preferred tactics would be war crimes, Andrew Feinberg writes

The Independent UK

Pentagon staff mock Hegseth with scathing nickname

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Pete Hegseth given brutal new nickname by Pentagon staffers, report says

Trump praised Hegseth this week as an early and enthusiastic supporter of his Iran military campaign

The Independent UK

A sweeping biography of Robert McNamara wins $50,000 book prize

A deep and wide-ranging biography of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has won a $50,000 prize

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Despite decades of cost cutting, governments spend more than ever. How can we make sense of this?

Recent controversies over New Zealand’s Ka Ora, Ka Ako school lunch program have revolved around the apparent shortcomings of the food and its delivery. Stories of inedible meals, scalding packaging and general waste have dominated headlines.

The Conversation

A Biden official says Israel committed war crimes. Who else will come forward?

The administration lied to obscure a genocide. Now a former spokesperson is revealing the disconnect between words and reality

The Guardian - US

Love him or loathe him, Elon Musk is a champion of efficiency and could save the US government a fortune

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have apparently become great friends over recent months. Musk poured millions of dollars into Trump’s successful election campaign, and has been a vocal and visible supporter of the president-elect.

The Conversation

The best documentaries about political figures, from Klitschko to Navalny

These excellent films shine a light on some of history’s most important officials and activists

Evening Standard

American Gun review: riveting and horrifying history of the AR-15

Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson provide an indispensable read on the assault rifle used in so many mass shootings

The Guardian - US

Daniel Ellsberg: whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers

The “most important whistleblower of our times”, Daniel Ellsberg was the military analyst who smuggled hundreds of pages of top secret material about US actions in Vietnam out of his office at the Rand Corporation, and shared them with a reporter from The New York Times, said The Guardian.

The Week

Daniel Ellsberg obituary

Whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers showing that the American public had been misled about the Vietnam war

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Reason

RIP Daniel Ellsberg, Who Told the World the Truth About the Vietnam War

The Pentagon Papers leaker risked prison to reveal that American military officials were lying to Congress and the public about Vietnam. He died today at age 92.

Los Angeles Times

Daniel Ellsberg, former defense analyst who released top-secret Pentagon Papers, dies at 92

Daniel Ellsberg, the defense analyst whose unauthorized release of the top-secret Pentagon Papers triggered court battles over freedom of the press and led to calamity for the presidency of Richard M. Nixon, has died.

The Conversation

'Courage is contagious': Daniel Ellsberg's decision to release the Pentagon Papers didn't happen in a vacuum

In 1971, when Daniel Ellsberg arrived at a federal court in Boston, a journalist asked if he was concerned about the prospect of going to prison for leaking a 7,000-page top-secret history of the Vietnam War. Ellsberg responded with a question of his own: “Wouldn’t you go to prison to…

Salon

Doctors are disappearing from ERs

A private equity–owned medical staffing company employs fewer doctors in its ERs as a cost-saving initiative

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Salon

Banning noncompetes for medical staff

Eliminating noncompete contracts would allow doctors to practice wherever their services are needed

Tribune News Service

Banning noncompete contracts for medical staff riles hospitals

Dr. Jacqui O’Kane took a job with a hospital in southern Georgia in 2020, as the lone doctor in a primary care clinic in a small town that’s a medically underserved area. She soon attracted nearly 3,000 patients.

Fortune

'It sucks': Doctors forced to move hundreds of miles by noncompetes are praying the FTC ends them once and for all

Business and hospital groups are likely to sue to block the FTC's proposed rule, meanwhile.

The Guardian - US

From The Hurt Locker to American Sniper: how Hollywood tried to tackle the Iraq war

Two decades on from the beginning of the war, a handful of films have tried various ways to show the conflict with audiences mostly choosing to stay away

Tribune News Service

Doctors are disappearing from emergency rooms as hospitals look to cut costs

Pregnant and scared, Natasha Valle went to a Tennova Healthcare hospital in Clarksville, Tennessee, in January 2021 because she was bleeding. She didn’t know much about miscarriage, but this seemed like one.

WEKU

ERs staffed by private equity firms aim to cut costs by hiring fewer doctors

Increasingly, private equity firms shape staffing decisions at hospital emergency rooms, research shows. One apparent effect: Hiring fewer doctors and more health care practitioners who earn far less.

Tribune News Service

ER doctors call private equity staffing practices illegal and seek to ban them

A group of emergency physicians and consumer advocates in multiple states are pushing for stiffer enforcement of decades-old statutes that prohibit the ownership of medical practices by corporations not owned by licensed doctors.

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