Former US diplomats say that negotiation is the only way to stop North Korea from developing long-range nuclear missiles.

The UK's National Health Service is short of basic equipment such as oxygen masks.

The Tories have been slowly starving the NHS of funds. It can't continue to give its previous excellent (and efficient) service under such conditions. The Tories' ultimate goal is to point at these artificially induced problems to "prove" that they should move to a system like the US, that hardly serves the poor at all, and provides a lot more profit to private interests.

The latest Senate Dontcare bill would deny people with preexisting conditions effective medical coverage.

Major US medical insurance sellers say that this makes it totally unworkable.

The goal of the Dontcare bill is to cut a large piece off the carpet that now covers (but only barely just) most Americans. So it won't be big enough. Each version of the Dontcare bill reflects a different scheme to pull the diminished carpet over various places to make it appear to cover us, but that can't be done. The shortfall has to be somewhere.

Justine Damond in Minneapolis called the thugs because she heard suspicious noises outside her home. They shot her dead, and managed to make no recordings of why.

Body cameras should not depend on thugs to turn them on or off.

Macron publicly pressured Israel to stop building colonies in occupied Palestine, and condemned the siege of Gaza.

That is a good thing to do, and shows more courage than the US has had for a long time. However, each one of these colonies violates the Geneva Convention. To stop making more of them is not sufficient.