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Good morning. Catastrophic flooding in Nepal has killed more than 600 people with around 3,000 still missing CBS News reports. The loss of generating capacity has raised questions about an ambitious expansion of renewable energy in one of the world's most hazard-prone mountain regions The New York Times notes. Australia's government pledged a miserable $5 million for relief — an amount that would not purchase three average houses in Sydney and equals 44 minutes of its military spending World Socialist Web Site calculates.
Thousands of H-1B visa holders could face rapid deportation under a White House plan that would eliminate the 60-day grace period laid-off workers currently use to find a new sponsor, switch status or leave the country Newsweek reports; the move treats migrant labor as disposable the moment capital no longer needs it. The administration is planning the largest visa revocations in history as ICE arrests hit record highs Zeteo documents, while the enforcement arm prepares to deploy $2 million in robot dogs The Hill reveals.
In Ukraine, a Russian drone strike detonated a warehouse in the village of Myla near Kyiv overnight, killing at least 27 people according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Bloomberg reports. At home, one WNBA team has hired national-security specialists to counter the escalating threats and abuse directed at players as the league's popularity grows NPR reports. Meanwhile, a former White House teleprompter operator, Gabriel Perez, was ordered to surrender more than $100,000 in profits and pay a fine after betting on prediction markets using advance knowledge of words and phrases in Trump's speeches between December 2025 and February 2026 MSNBC reports.
Medical schools still teach that Black people have smaller lungs than white people Mother Jones reveals. The same logic that devalues migrant workers and flood victims in the Global South operates in the clinic: power writes the formulas, and the poor pay the price. Federal pressure is pushing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in higher education to the brink The Progressive warns, ensuring the race science endures.