Players must be assigned female at birth or have transitioned to female before going through male puberty to compete in LPGA tournaments or the eight USGA championships for females under new gender policies published Wednesday. The policies, which begin in 2025, follow more than a year of study involving medicine, science, sport physiology and gender policy law. The updated policies would rule out eligibility for Hailey Davidson, who missed qualifying for the U.S. Women's Open this year by one shot and came up short in LPGA Q-school. Davidson, who turned 32 on Tuesday, began hormone treatments when she was in her early 20s in 2015 and in 2021 underwent gender-affirming surgery, which was required under the LPGA's previous gender policy. She had won this year on a Florida mini-tour called NXXT Golf until the circuit announced in March that players had to be assigned female at birth. People are also reading... 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All the silence and people wanting to stay ‘neutral’ thanks for absolutely nothing. This happened because of all your silence.” LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan, who is resigning in January, said the new gender policy "is reflective of an extensive, science-based and inclusive approach." By making it to the second stage of Q-school, Davidson would have had very limited status on the Epson Tour, the pathway to the LPGA. The LPGA and USGA say their policies were geared toward being inclusive of gender identities and expression while striving for equity in competition. The LPGA said its working group of experts advised that the effects of male puberty allowed for competitive advantages in golf compared with players who had not gone through puberty. “Our policy is reflective of an extensive, science-based and inclusive approach,” said LPGA Commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan, who announced Monday that she is resigning in January. "The policy represents our continued commitment to ensuring that all feel welcome within our organization, while preserving the fairness and competitive equity of our elite competitions.” Mike Whan, the former LPGA commissioner and now CEO of the USGA, said it developed the updated policy independently and later discovered it was similar to those used by swimming, track and field, and other sports. United States Golf Association CEO Mike Whan said the new policy will prevent anyone from having "a competitive advantage based on their gender." “It starts with competitive fairness as the North star,” Whan said in a telephone interview. “We tried not to get into politics, or state by state or any of that stuff. We just simply said, ‘Where would somebody — at least medically today — where do we believe somebody would have a competitive advantage in the field?’ And we needed to draw a line. “We needed to be able to walk into any women's event and say with confidence that nobody here has a competitive advantage based on their gender. And this policy delivers that.” The “Competitive Fairness Gender Policy” for the USGA takes effect for the 2025 championship season that starts with the U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball on May 10-14. Qualifying began late this year, though there were no transgender players who took part. “Will that change in the years to come as medicine changes? Probably,” Whan said. “But I think today this stacks up.” The LPGA “Gender Policy for Competition Eligibility” would apply to the LPGA Tour, Epson Tour, Ladies European Tour and qualifying for the tours. 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Third bail bid for Combs ahead of sex trafficking trialELKO — The next time you have a cup of coffee at an Elko restaurant, it very well may be coming from a local roaster that imports its beans from Guatemala and other areas. “I love the idea of coffee. I love the fact that it always seemed like very few people drink it alone when they are out. They are always with somebody else,” said Garret Kamps, owner and manager of Collective Coffee Roasters in Elko. “ It's kind of a shared habit. It's a shared delight and I love that about it.” His love of coffee and that habit sprung from his younger days. “Quite a few years ago, I was young and just interested in trying to figure out what was good, what would wake me up in the morning,” he said. Living in Reno at the time, he visited a local coffee shop and noticed how there were several varieties of coffee on display, ready for sampling. Garret Kamps, owner and manager of Collective Coffee Roasters, poses in front of bags of coffee. Photo provided by Collective Coffee Roasters. “I just started trying things and started developing a taste for what was good. And, living in Reno, there was a lot of access to good coffee and so we kind of just built our taste and built our preferences.” Kamps said when he moved back to his hometown of Elko a number of years ago, he realized it didn’t have a coffee-roasting scene or a specialty coffee line. “So, we started roasting ourselves at home to try to fill that gap, because it was so expensive to ship coffee in. After a while, we realized this could be really fun. We could actually make a go of this. So, we gathered some friends of ours together to experiment and try some things. We went in together on some equipment and we started a small business.” They also had a particular aim — to sell specialty coffee, Kamps said. The Specialty Coffee Association defines specialty coffee as scoring 83 or higher on their rating scale, he explained. “There are a lot of things at the farms, the way that the coffee is grown and the way that the coffee is processed, that can help achieve those kinds of scores and goals,” he said. “Specialty coffee is kind of the cream of the crop. It's the top end of coffee production and so that's what we're shooting for.” Collective Coffee Roasters does very little blending, Kamps said. “Most of those coffees are so good on their own, coming from either a single farm or a single region,” he said. “We try to offer mostly single-origin coffees to our customers. Mostly, we have a few blends that are just for people who are maybe getting started or maybe people who focus on espresso,” Kamps said. “But for the most part, we're trying to showcase the work that these farms are doing to produce really good coffee.” “We are mainly, right now, a wholesale coffee supplier. So, we supply cafes and restaurants and hotels and things like that,” Kamps explained. “We also have our own retail side, which is mostly done online — so, people sign up for subscriptions and things like that, and it's either shipped to them or delivered,” he said. “We actually do free local delivery. We have a van that goes around that's logoed, and we deliver coffee that way, right to people's homes every week,” he explained. “The bulk of our business is actually getting unbrewed, just roasted, coffee beans directly to cafes or churches or businesses or individuals.” Collective Coffee Roasters also runs a brand called Reformation Roasters, which supplies coffee to churches and supports church planting efforts. “We would love to continue growing,” Garret Kamps said. “We love being a local roaster here in Elko but we also want to see Elko on the map nationally for coffee. We think that would be really cool if Elko was known for good coffee.” He said the company is “working hard,” especially with marketing professional Jaclyn Trice, “to help raise awareness of our brand through social media and through the Specialty Coffee Association, even, to be noticed and recognized at a national level." "We'd love that,” he said. “At some point in the future, to better serve Elko, we probably will offer a slow bar, which is a place where you can come in and sit and get coffee, no window. It'll all be slow service — sit down and experience the product in the community. That will be our goal. We're probably looking at about 12 months for that.” Along with working in the coffee business, Kamps is also a pastor at Living Stones Church in Elko. He said teamwork is an important ingredient in balancing his two passions. “Collective Coffee Roasters has always been a team effort,” he said. It's always been a group of like minded people who've come together to produce a really good product, and so with that shared labor, with the shared work between our partners, we're able to balance the workload. You know, I'm not the only one there.” His wife Delynn Kamps is the head roaster. “She's amazing at what she does,” her husband said. He also said co-owner Casey Parish has done “incredible work” as a business partner. “He's really the nuts and bolts of making everything go and making everything work. He and I were just in our new space that we just moved into, putting up shelving and organizing everything and getting everything ready to look good,” Garret Kamps said. “I'm kind of the chief financial officer,” he added. “I do a lot of the bookkeeping. And as well as sales, I try to keep our customers happy and find new ones.” Customers who support the business in Elko are supporting coffee producers, he said. “Because of the work that we're doing in Elko — Elko gets to be a part of something huge happening around the world,” he said. “Florencio Villatoro is our farmer who produces coffee for us and many others,” out of the remote region of Cuilco, Guatemala. “We don't have local growers, but we're a local roaster. There's no coffee that's grown in the [continental] United States, because coffee is grown in this thin band around the equator of the world. And it can only be grown there because those are the places where the growing season is long enough to support coffee growth,” Kamps explained. “The coffee that we get is mostly processed by hand,” he noted. “It's picked by hand. It's sorted by hand. And then there is some machinery that goes into taking the coffee cherry off of the coffee bean — because they're these little cherries that start green and then they go yellow and then they go red. When they're a certain color of red, that's when they're ripest,” which is why high-quality coffee is hand-picked, he explained. A coffee plant with several beans at a Guatamalan farm. “There's no machine that can do that, because the coffee ripens at different stages on the same branch,” he said. “The coffee is either naturally processed, which is where they allow that cherry to dry on the coffee bean and then they take the cherry off as almost a raisin-like material — or it's washed, which is where they actually use a rudimentary mechanical system in most of the farms that we go to, to remove that cherry as it's ripe and it hasn't dried.” He said it then goes on to dry. “It goes into these big drying beds, where it's then moved by hand to allow the air and the sunlight to dry it. Then, it goes off to a big polishing station or dry mill. There's this little husk left on the coffee bean. They remove that, they get it all cleaned up and then they package it — and that's how we receive it,” he said. After the company receives the coffee, it is weighed and goes on to the German-made coffee roaster to produce a roasted product, he explained. “From there, it's actually hand-packaged as well and hand-bagged. So it's a very person-intensive process.” For the production of specialty coffee, “each bean is probably touched by 40 different hands by the time it gets to you. That's an incredible amount of work, an incredible amount of labor, that goes into producing something,” Garret Kamps said. “I think it's so cool that Elko gets to be a part of that. Elko is experiencing something that is so much bigger than it.” Get the latest local business news delivered FREE to your inbox weekly. 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Within days of Donald Trump’s election victory, health care entrepreneur Calley Means turned to social media to crowdsource advice. “First 100 days,” said Means, a former consultant to Big Pharma who uses the social platform X to focus attention on chronic disease. “What should be done to reform the FDA?” The question was more than rhetorical. Means is among a cadre of health business leaders and nonmainstream doctors who are influencing President Donald Trump’s focus on health policy. Trump’s return to the White House has given Means and others in this space significant clout in shaping the nascent health policies of the new administration and its federal agencies. It’s also giving newfound momentum to “Make America Healthy Again,” or MAHA, a controversial movement that challenges prevailing thinking on public health and chronic disease. Its followers couch their ideals in phrases like “health freedom” and “true health.” Their stated causes are as diverse as revamping certain agricultural subsidies, firing National Institutes of Health employees, rethinking childhood vaccination schedules, and banning marketing of ultra-processed foods to children on TV. Public health leaders say the emerging Trump administration’s interest in elevating the sometimes unorthodox concepts could be catastrophic, eroding decades of scientific progress while spurring a rise in preventable disease. They worry the administration’s support could weaken trust in public health agencies. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, said he welcomes broad intellectual scientific discussion but is concerned that Trump will parrot untested and unproven public health ideas he hears as if they are fact. Experience has shown that people with unproven ideas will have his ear and his “very large bully pulpit,” he said. “Because he’s president, people will believe he won’t say things that aren’t true. This president, he will.” But those in the MAHA camp have a very different take. They say they have been maligned as dangerous for questioning the status quo. The election has given them an enormous opportunity to shape politics and policies, and they say they won’t undermine public health. Instead, they say, they will restore trust in federal health agencies that lost public support during the pandemic. “It may be a brilliant strategy by the right,” said Peter McCullough, a cardiologist who has come under fire for saying COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe. He was describing some of the election-season messaging that mainstreamed their perspectives. “The right was saying we care about medical and environmental issues. The left was pursuing abortion rights and a negative campaign on Trump. But everyone should care about health. Health should be apolitical.” The movement is largely anti-regulatory and anti-big government, whether concerning raw milk or drug approvals, although implementing changes would require more regulation. Many of its concepts cross over to include ideas that have also been championed by some on the far left. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist Trump has nominated to run the Department of Health and Human Services, has called for firing hundreds of people at the National Institutes of Health, removing fluoride from water, boosting federal support for psychedelic therapy, and loosening restrictions on raw milk, consumption of which can expose consumers to foodborne illness. Its sale has prompted federal raids on farms for not complying with food safety regulations. Means has called for top-down changes at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which he says has been co-opted by the food industry. Though he himself is not trained in science or medicine, he has said people had almost no chance of dying of COVID-19 if they were “metabolically healthy,” referring to eating, sleeping, exercise and stress management habits, and has said that about 85 percent of deaths and health care costs in the U.S. are tied to preventable foodborne metabolic conditions. A co-founder of Truemed, a company that helps consumers use pretax savings and reimbursement programs on supplements, sleep aids, and exercise equipment, Means says he has had conversations behind closed doors with dozens of members of Congress. He said he also helped bring RFK Jr. and Trump together. RFK Jr. endorsed Trump in August after ending his independent presidential campaign. “I had this vision for a year, actually. It sounds very woo-woo, but I was in a sweat tent with him in Austin at a campaign event six months before, and I just had this strong vision of him standing with Trump,” Means said recently on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. The former self-described never-Trumper said that, after Trump’s first assassination attempt, he felt it was a powerful moment. Means called RFK Jr. and worked with conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson to connect him to the former president. Trump and RFK Jr. then had weeks of conversations about topics such as child obesity and causes of infertility, Means said. “I really felt, and he felt, like this could be a realignment of American politics,” Means said. He is joined in the effort by his sister, Casey Means, a Stanford University-trained doctor and co-author with her brother of “Good Energy,” a book about improving metabolic health. The duo has blamed Big Pharma and the agriculture industry for increasing rates of obesity, depression and chronic health conditions in the country. They have also raised questions about vaccines. “Yeah, I bet that one vaccine probably isn’t causing autism, but what about the 20 that they are getting before 18 months,” Casey Means said in the Joe Rogan podcast episode with her brother. The movement, which challenges what its adherents call “the cult of science,” gained significant traction during the pandemic, fueled by a backlash against vaccine and mask mandates that flourished during the Biden administration. Many of its supporters say they gained followers who believed they had been misled on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines. In July 2022, Deborah Birx, COVID-19 response coordinator in Trump’s first administration, said on Fox News that “we overplayed the vaccines,” although she noted that they do work. Anthony Fauci, who advised Trump during the pandemic, in December 2020 called the vaccines a game changer that could diminish COVID-19 the way the polio vaccine did for that disease. Eventually, though, it became evident that the shots don’t necessarily prevent transmission and the effectiveness of the booster wanes with time, which some conservatives say led to disillusionment that has driven interest in the health freedom movement. Federal health officials say the rollout of the COVID vaccine was a turning point in the pandemic and that the shots lessen the severity of the disease by teaching the immune system to recognize and fight the virus that causes it. Postelection, some Trump allies such as Elon Musk have called for Fauci to be prosecuted. Fauci declined to comment. Joe Grogan, a former director of the White House’s Domestic Policy Council and assistant to Trump, said conservatives have been trying to articulate why government control of health care is troublesome. “Two things have happened. The government went totally overboard and lied about many things during COVID and showed no compassion about people’s needs outside of COVID,” he said. “RFK Jr. came along and articulated very simply that government control of health care can’t be trusted, and we’re spending money, and it isn’t making anyone healthier. In some instances, it may be making people sicker.” The MAHA movement capitalizes on many of the nonconventional health concepts that have been darlings of the left, such as promoting organic foods and food as medicine. But in an environment of polarized politics, the growing prominence of leaders who challenge what they call the cult of science could lead to more public confusion and division, some health analysts say. Jeffrey Singer, a surgeon and senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a libertarian public policy research group, said in a statement that he agrees with RFK Jr.’s focus on reevaluating the public health system. But he said it comes with risks. “I am concerned that many of RFK Jr.’s claims about vaccine safety, environmental toxins and food additives lack evidence, have stoked public fears and contributed to a decline in childhood vaccination rates,” he said. Measles vaccination among kindergartners in the U.S. dropped to 92.7 percent in the 2023-24 school year from 95.2 percent in the 2019-20 school year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency said that has left about 280,000 kindergartners at risk.
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Individuals can receive up to US$943 monthly , couples up to US$1.415, and essential persons, who offer necessary care to SSI recipients, up to US$472. Due to inflation, these amounts have increased by 3,2% compared to last year. What is the Social Security payment schedule in December? Given the diversity of these programs and the populations they serve, SSA has divided the payments into three categories: those who started claiming before May 1997, those who started after, and SSI recipients. The schedule in December is as follows: A calendar quirk means SSI beneficiaries receive a second payment on November 29th , due to the December 1st payment falling on a Sunday . Since payments cannot be made on weekends or holidays, they are issued the preceding business day, which is this year’s Black Friday. Despite its popularity, Black Friday is not a national holiday ; banks and retailers remain open, ensuring the timely distribution of benefits. What are the other 2 categories of Social Security payment? Before May 1997: Payments on the 3rd of each month. After May 1997: Payments depend on birth date: 1st-10th: Second Wednesday 11th-20th: Third Wednesday 21st-31st: Fourth Wednesday SSI Recipients: Payments on the 1st of each month. For November, the payments are scheduled as: SSI beneficiaries: November 1st Pre-May 1997: November 3rd Born 1st-10th: November 13th Born 11th-20th: November 20th Born 21st-31st: November 27th What programs does Social Security provide to its beneficiaries? The programs of Social Security include : Retirement: Available to workers with at least 10 years of taxable income and who are 62 years or older. Disability: Requires beneficiaries to have worked a minimum period and meet SSA's medical criteria. Survivors: Eligibility depends on the deceased worker's relationship and age at death. Family benefits: Similar to survivors, eligibility is based on the relationship with the worker. Current and former spouses may receive up to 50% of the retired worker’s benefit at full retirement age. Supplemental Security Income (SSI): Requires meeting age or disability criteria and certain income and resource limits, and is compatible with other benefits. 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At the time, Netflix released an official statement saying it was “actively taking action” against the perpetrator of the leaks, and now the streamer has set its sights on Discord to unveil the perpetrator behind the leaks. A new report from Polygon reveals that the Northern District of California court has issued a subpoena to Discord, demanding the social platform disclose information that could reveal the identity of a user implicated in the leak. According to Polygon, Netflix’s Discord subpoena earmarked an unreleased, copyrighted image from Squid Game season two, uploaded by user @jacejohns4n. In a now-deleted interview posted on Telegram , the leaker credited themselves with the person behind the “worst leak in streaming history.” “One of our post-production partners has been compromised and footage from several of our titles has unfortunately leaked online. Our team is aggressively taking action to have it taken down,” a Netflix spokesperson wrote to IGN at the time. As Polygon notes, the Netflix partner impacted is Lyuno, a California-based localization firm whose clients include major studios like Amazon Studios, BBC, Disney, DreamWorks, and HBO. At the time, IGN reported that the leaked shows populated on fringe websites like 4chan before circulating on other social media platforms like X/Twitter and TikTok. According to IGN, all of the aforementioned leaks featured burnt-in timestamps, watermarks, and unfinished animation renderings for Arcane ‘s first and second act. Other Netflix series included in the leaks were animated films and TV shows like Plankton: The Movie , Spellbound , and Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld . A Lyuno spokesperson addressed the security breach and issued a statement on the company’s official website. “Protecting our clients’ confidentiality and ensuring the security of their content is our highest priority,” Lyuno wrote. “We are actively investigating this security breach to mitigate any potential risks and identify the responsible parties.” While Discord has yet to make an official statement on the matter, the Verge reports that Discord is already juggling a subpoena from MapleStory developer Nexon accusing the platform of refusing to comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ordering it to disclose user information for folks sharing pirated copies of the game. “Discord is committed to fulfilling its obligations under the law, but acting as your copyright assertion partner is not one of them,” a lawyer representing Discord wrote in a letter regarding the Nexon case . As with most things, time will tell whether Netflix cracking down on Discord will unearth the identity of its leaker and what punishments will be doled out to them and other parties involved. Seeing as how much of the shows subjected to leaks are big marquee titles for Netflix, the streamer’s hammer of justice will likely be one for the ages.Heidi Klum is manifesting a lucky 2025 in any way that she can. “Do you have a tradition on New Year’s Eve?” Klum, 51, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, December 28. “For me ... it’s red lace ❤️ . Good Luck 🍀 .” The supermodel shared a video of herself frolicking in the snow — only wearing a matching red lace lingerie set. In the clip, Klum ruffled her long blonde locks before picking up a handful of snow left on a balcony ledge to fling it toward the camera. Klum has never been particularly modest about showing off her curves. “I’m not shy about my femininity,” she told The Times of London in a profile published last month. “I love dressing up where I have my cleavage showing, wearing miniskirts, high heels, gorgeous stockings — but that doesn’t mean I want to go home with you.” She added, “That’s just my personality. Why not? I want to have fun and show my body, but I have boundaries, as do all women.” A post shared by Heidi Klum (@heidiklum) Klum has also worked hard through the years to maintain her physique. “I don’t really have a specific diet. I just eat very healthfully,” she previously told Entertainment Tonight in 2018. “I start with great smoothies in the morning. I also have four children, so we cook a lot. I don’t really eat out a lot. I think when you eat out a lot or order food in a lot it gets a little tricky because you don’t know what people are putting in there.” You have successfully subscribed. By signing up, I agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy and to receive emails from Us Weekly Check our latest news in Google News Check our latest news in Apple News Nearly five years later, Klum revealed via Instagram that she also doesn’t count her calories in a day. “I don’t think I’ve ever had to count my calories in my life, [so] don’t believe everything that you read,” she said in an August 2022 upload. “I don’t count my calories.” Klum had faced backlash that month after a social media user asked her about her weight. In a since-expired Instagram Story video, she got out a scale and learned that she weighed between 137 and 139 pounds.
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A meal they’ll loveThe events that have unfolded in South Korea this month, beginning with President Yoon Suk-yeol's short-lived declaration of martial law on Dec 3, have underscored both the remarkable resilience and underlying fragility of the country's democracy. The system survived this time, but no democracy is safe if it constantly faces severe stress tests. First, the good news. The National Assembly quickly passed a resolution to rescind Mr Yoon's declaration of martial law. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to protest Mr Yoon's decision and pressure lawmakers from the ruling People Power Party to support his impeachment. Their efforts worked: while PPP representatives walked out of the Assembly during the first impeachment vote, they supported the motion the second time, and it passed. Mr Yoon has now been suspended and must wait up to six months for the Constitutional Court to decide whether to uphold his impeachment. If it does, a new presidential election will be held within 60 days. This uneasy period has been made even more uncertain by interim President Han Duck-soo's refusal to nominate three justices to fill the nine-member court. Mr Han himself has now been impeached. This ongoing drama highlights fundamental vulnerabilities in South Korea's political system. The 1987 constitutional amendment that ended the country's military dictatorship introduced a single-term, five-year presidency. Citizens were so elated finally to be able to elect their president by direct popular vote that few questions were asked about the constraints on presidential power. It has since become apparent, however, that South Korea's constitutional framework lacks sufficient checks and balances. Though the constitution tasks prime ministers with recommending the appointment or dismissal of cabinet members, successive presidents have unilaterally wielded these powers. Moreover, ruling parties have functioned more as extensions of the presidential office than as independent entities capable of exercising meaningful oversight. Even the judiciary may be susceptible to the president's influence. With no institution effectively restraining executive power, many political scientists and commentators have labelled South Korea's system an "imperial presidency". While South Koreans choose their "emperor" through direct elections, they are heavily influenced by partisan and often-misleading information. Private YouTube channels and social-media accounts, among others, have turbocharged a longstanding problem that makes it all too easy for unqualified or authoritarian-leaning leaders to win power. In the four decades since democratisation, four South Korean presidents have been imprisoned, one has committed suicide, and three, including Mr Yoon, have faced impeachment. There is one political actor that might be able to challenge the president: the opposition party. But South Korea's winner-take-all political system -- in which the victors claim all the spoils, and the losers are left empty-handed -- promotes extreme polarisation and relentless power struggles. It does not help that South Korea's politics are dominated by just two parties, the PPP and the Democratic Party. This partly reflects the predominance of single-member electoral districts. In the 2020 legislative elections, the ruling and opposition parties secured 90% of seats in parliament, despite winning only two-thirds of the proportional representation (party-list) votes, meaning that nearly one-third of the electorate was effectively left without representation. In two-party systems, opposition parties often reject even sensible government initiatives, fearing that any success for the ruling party might diminish their electoral prospects. The antagonism inherent in South Korea's two-party system formed the basis of Mr Yoon's justification for declaring martial law. In a Dec 12 address, Mr Yoon accused the opposition of disrupting government operations by seeking "the impeachment of numerous government officials, who, even without wrongdoing, faced long suspensions from their duties". Mr Yoon also pointed out that, since his election, there have been "178 rallies" calling for his resignation or impeachment. Though this hardly justifies Mr Yoon's decision to declare martial law, it does support the conclusion that the 1987 constitutional system has outlived its usefulness. In fact, beyond hampering domestic governance, extreme polarisation undermines foreign-policy continuity, with each transfer of power bringing a radical shift in external relations. If Mr Yoon's impeachment is upheld, his signature diplomatic initiative -- improving South Korea's long-contentious relations with Japan, and establishing a robust trilateral partnership with that country and the United States -- could be weakened or even reversed. This might destabilise the Indo-Pacific region at a delicate moment, with Donald Trump's return to the White House adding to the climate of uncertainty in the region. The authoritarian axis of China, Russia, and North Korea will certainly jump on any opportunity to exploit instability or antagonism. To break the cycle of political crises, facilitate better governance, and bolster policy stability, South Korea must establish a new political framework that includes stronger checks and balances and fosters genuine power-sharing. For example, the popularly elected president's mandate could be reformed to focus primarily on foreign policy, with domestic governance being delegated to a prime minister selected by the National Assembly. If, in time, a more stable and effective party system emerges, South Koreans might consider moving toward many more seats for proportional representation and a parliamentary system. No democracy is free of imperfections. But the flaws in South Korea's system are becoming a barrier to good governance -- and they are increasingly reverberating internationally, like a malign version of the country's K-pop bands. Rather than following the same old pattern of maximising their own short-term gains without regard for the future, South Korean politicians must take the opportunity the current crisis presents to pursue meaningful and long-awaited institutional reforms. ©2024 Project Syndicate Yoon Young-kwan, a former foreign affairs minister of South Korea, is Chairman of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies.St. John’s mailbag: Deivon Smith’s fate, an emerging player and Bahamas fallout
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‘World at dawn of third nuclear age’, armed forces chief warnsSocial media users had much to say after news broke that UnitedHealthcare's CEO Brian Thompson was assassinated in New York City on Wednesday morning, and most of it was critical of the late executive and the healthcare giant. Minnesota-based UnitedHealthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group and the nation's largest health insurance provider, brought in $281 billion in revenue last year. Johnson was one of the highest-paid executives with a $10.2 million salary, bonus and stock options, according to Reuters. Johnson was expected to speak at an investor meeting on Wednesday in which he was to announce that the company was projected to make about $455 billion in 2025 . One reason the company may have become so profitable, as one X user pointed out, is by denying the most claims out of any health insurance provider. "Today we remember the legacy of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson," Ken Klippenstein, a journalist at The Intercept, tweeted with an accompanying infographic of claim denial rates by insurance company. Today we remember the legacy of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson pic.twitter.com/iyAJwUBe0w Johnson took over as CEO in 2021, the same year UnitedHealthcare implemented NaviHealth, an AI tool that continues to help the company make coverage decisions. In 2023, a class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of deceased patients. It alleged that the tool allowed UnitedHealthcare to "systematically deny claims" of Medicare beneficiaries requiring life-saving care. The program had a 90% error rate, which was calculated based on the percentage of payment denials reversed through internal appeals processes or administrative law judge rulings. The lawsuit alleged UnitedHealth knew about the astronomical error rate but continued using it knowing just 0.2% of patients would file appeals to overturn the decision, STAT News reported . X users voiced their dismay over UnitedHealthcare's practices, including NaviHealth, which they claim have killed many insured Americans. "Just a reminder that Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealth who got rich off denying healthcare to human beings with a [sic] families absolutely deserved worse than what he got," X user @NotDelMario wrote. Just a reminder that Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealth who got rich off denying healthcare to human beings with a families absolutely deserved worse than what he got. Rest in Piss "Fun fact: roughly three million Americans have medical debt greater than the $10,000 reward offered for information on the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter!," another X user shared. Fun fact: roughly three million Americans have medical debt greater than the $10,000 reward offered for information on the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter! "I will not shed one tear for the CEO of a greedy insurance company. Instead I weep for every person who has died due to lack of healthcare and for the 100 million Americans saddled with medical debt," X user @ProudSocialist posted. UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot in New York City today. I will not shed one tear for the CEO of a greedy insurance company. Instead I weep for every person who has died due to lack of healthcare and for the 100 million Americans saddled with medical debt. pic.twitter.com/1HPMjoeoU6 Other social media users, like X user @tobitax, pointed out that other CEOs and "industry leaders might want to read the comments and think hard about them." Saw mainstream news coverage about the killing of the CEO of United Healthcare on TikTok and I think political and industry leaders might want to read the comments and think hard about them pic.twitter.com/RuBii9KFH4 His tweet accompanied images of TikTok comments mirroring insurance companies' verbiage when denying health insurance claims. "I'm sorry, prior authorization is required for thoughts and prayers," one user wrote. "Sending prior authorization, denied claims, collections & prayers to his family," another quipped. "So many jokes and gallows humor around the murder of Brian Thompson! The greed of CEOs and health care profiteers has worked its way into our collective consciousness. Something wealthy people should pay attention to, but wont," X user @julia_doughty warned. So many jokes and gallows humor around the murder of Brian Thompson! The greed of CEOs and health care profiteers has worked its way into our collective consciousness. Something wealthy people should pay attention to, but wont. "was wondering how UnitedHealthcare gets away with being such a sh---y company and this probably has something to do with," Klippenstein stated in a follow-up tweet with an image of the insurance company's more than $100 million spent on lobbying since 1998. was wondering how UnitedHealthcare gets away with being such a shitty company and this probably has something to do with it pic.twitter.com/RFatM0rKW6 Other X users also pointed out Democrats' hypocrisy in mourning Johnson's death while remaining quiet about the ongoing genocide in Gaza. "It is no mystery who democrats actually work for, and it isn't you," X user @SxarletRed wrote. She also included screenshots of X posts from Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) denouncing Johnson's murder. It is no mystery who democrats actually work for, and it isn’t you. pic.twitter.com/Galr84TGB9 "Democrats have shown infinitely more empathy for Brian Thompson than they ever have for any Palestinians," X user @marionumber 4 added. Democrats have shown infinitely more empathy for Brian Thompson than they ever have for any Palestinians https://t.co/GrieP7Y7Nf pic.twitter.com/PvDnMxGaJn "If you need to renew your hope for humanity, read the TikTok comments responding to the news of the UnitedHealthcare CEO's assassination," another X user posted with screenshots of several TikTok comments. If you need to renew your hope for humanity, read the TikTok comments responding to the news of the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s assassination pic.twitter.com/iZwEof6e1X "Will his family still be billed?" one user joked. "Did the ER wait to render care until they confirmed coverage?" another added. Originally published by Latin TimesFormer Pres. Jimmy Carter, Beloved Humanitarian and Diplomat, Dead at 100
With a focus on human rights, US policy toward Latin America under Jimmy Carter briefly tempered a long tradition of interventionism in a key sphere of American influence, analysts say. Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100, defied the furor of US conservatives to negotiate the handover of the Panama Canal to Panamanian control, suspended aid to multiple authoritarian governments in the region, and even attempted to normalize relations with Cuba. Carter's resolve to chart a course toward democracy and diplomacy, however, was severely tested in Central America and Cuba, where he was forced to balance his human rights priorities with pressure from adversaries to combat the spread of communism amid the Cold War standoff with the Soviet Union. "Latin America was fundamental and his global policy was oriented toward human rights, democratic values and multilateral cooperation," political analyst Michael Shifter of the Inter-American Dialogue, a think tank in Washington, told AFP. During his 1977-1981 administration, which was sandwiched between the Republican presidencies of Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, the Democrat sought to take a step back from US alignment with right-wing dictatorships in Latin America. An important symbol of Carter's approach was the signing of two treaties in 1977 to officially turn over the Panama Canal in 1999. "Jimmy Carter understood that if he did not return the canal to Panama, the relationship between the United States and Panama could lead to a new crisis in a country where Washington could not afford the luxury of instability," said Luis Guillermo Solis, a political scientist and former president of Costa Rica. Carter called the decision, which was wildly unpopular back home, "the most difficult political challenge I ever had," as he accepted Panama's highest honor in 2016. He also hailed the move as "a notable achievement of moving toward democracy and freedom." During his term, Carter opted not to support Nicaraguan strongman Anastasio Somoza, who was subsequently overthrown by the leftist Sandinista Front in 1979. But in El Salvador, the American president had to "make a very uncomfortable pact with the government," said Shifter. To prevent communists from taking power, Carter resumed US military assistance for a junta which then became more radical, engaging in civilian massacres and plunging El Salvador into a long civil war. Carter took a critical approach to South American dictatorships in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay, suspending arms deliveries and imposing sanctions in some cases. But his efforts "did not achieve any progress in terms of democratization," said Argentine political scientist Rosendo Fraga. The American president also tried to normalize relations with Cuba 15 years after the missile crisis. He relaxed sanctions that had been in force since 1962, supported secret talks and enabled limited diplomatic representation in both countries. "With him, for the first time, the possibility of dialogue rather than confrontation as a framework for political relations opened up," Jesus Arboleya, a former Cuban diplomat, told AFP. But in 1980, a mass exodus of 125,000 Cubans to the United States, with Fidel Castro's blessing, created an unexpected crisis. It "hurt Carter politically with the swarm of unexpected immigrants," said Jennifer McCoy, a professor of political science at Georgia State University. Castro continued to support Soviet-backed African governments and even deployed troops against Washington's wishes, finally putting an end to the normalization process. However, more than 20 years later, Carter made a historic visit to Havana as ex-president, at the time becoming the highest-profile American politician to set foot on Cuban soil since 1959. During the 2002 visit, "he made a bold call for the US to lift its embargo, but he also called on Castro to embrace democratic opening," said McCoy, who was part of the US delegation for the trip, during which Castro encouraged Carter to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at a Cuban All-Star baseball game. "Castro was sitting in the front row and we were afraid he would rise to give a long rebuttal to Carter's speech. But he didn't. He just said, 'Let's go to the ball game.'" In the years following Carter's presidency, Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) would go on to resume a full-frontal confrontation with Cuba. Decades later, Barack Obama (2009-2017) opened a new phase of measured normalization, which Donald Trump (2017-2021) brought to an end. US President Joe Biden promised to review US policy toward Cuba, but hardened his stance after Havana cracked down on anti-government protests in 2021. "Carter showed that engagement and diplomacy are more fruitful than isolation," McCoy said. bur-lp-rd-jb/lbc/mlr/bfm/sst/bbkCroatia's president faces conservative rival in election run-off
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