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Bloomberg
2 days ago
- Climate
- Bloomberg
Hurricane Erin Weakens While Drenching Puerto Rico, Islands
By and Jim Wyss Save Hurricane Erin's winds dropped on Sunday as it wobbled westward, bringing heavy rain across the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico before turning north and probably restrengthening in the coming days. The storm, the first hurricane of the 2025 season, is expected to pass between North Carolina's Outer Banks and Bermuda later this week.
Bloomberg
17-03-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
USAID Cuts Imperil Free Press, Human-Rights Advocacy in Autocracies
By , Jim Wyss, and Katarina Hoije Save The demise of the US Agency for International Development is sapping billions of dollars of funding for health and social programs that will be difficult for the world to replace. But it's also leaving behind a complicated legacy as a promoter of American values abroad. Donald Trump and his efficiency czar Elon Musk made USAID an early target of their cost-cutting campaign in part because the president is prioritizing domestic issues over international support. The agency funded journalistic outlets, human-rights groups and anticorruption efforts that critics at home and abroad argued were unnecessary interventions in other countries' affairs.
