‘Sickening’ and ‘Evil’: Musk Bashed for USAID Cuts After Study Predicts Millions Could Die

‘Sickening’ and ‘evil’: Musk bashed for USAID cuts after study predicts millions could die

Medical experts and lawmakers are denouncing Elon Musk as cruel, after a new study predicted Trump's cuts to USAID could lead to 14 million deaths.

USAID Cuts Leave Yazidi Tents in Tatters

Lynsey Addario / Contributor / Getty When Hadi Maao was five years old, his mud-brick home collapsed on him after Muslim extremists detonated car bombs in his northern Iraqi village. Seven years later, in 2014, ISIS jihadists forced his community in the district of Sinjar to flee to the mountains. Now 22, he is an asylum seeker in the Netherlands and sends a quarter of his meager earnings as a grocery shelf stocker to his family still sheltering…

On dismantling USAID: What happened to the American soul? Why has cruelty gained such a firm grip? — The South Dakota Standard

Part 1 of 2It must have been pure chance. The discovery of an old reporter’s notebook made me sad, to tears. It exposed a hollowness in our American soul that average people like me often seem helpless to fill.A hollowness that our current elected leaders and their impossibly wealthy compatriots in power mock as weakness. The discovery happened on Monday, on the day that the United States government under Donald Trump shut down the United States…