The ideology and methods used to eliminate Argentina's National Institute of Tropical Medicine are exemplary, revealing the intentions of a project of profound social change, disguised in circumstantial justification.
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Scientists and environmental advocates are warning that the Trump administration's rollback of fuel economy standards for cars and trucks will not only lead to more pollution but also hurt cash-strapped consumers already reeling from gas price spikes.
The administration announced on Monday that it was weakening the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, which require automakers to increase the fuel efficiency of their vehicles each year.
Biden administration rules required a 2% annual increase in fuel-efficiency standards, with the goal of bringing most vehicles to an average of 50.4 miles per gallon by 2031. Under President Donald Trump, the annual target has been reduced to just a 1% improvement each year, meaning five years from now the average car would be required to get just under 34.9 mpg.
The Department of Transportation, which finalized the rule, has argued that efficiency standards put an unnecessary burden on carmakers and has projected that lowering them will “reduce the average cost of a new vehicle by $1,300 for American families" and "save the American people $138 billion over the next five years."
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy described the Biden-era increase as one that "forced automakers to produce more expensive electric vehicles that American families didn’t want."
But Dave Cooke, senior vehicles analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists’ (UCS) Clean Transportation Program, argues that rather than being a benefit to consumers, “the federal government’s decision to gut fuel economy standards is a handout to automakers and oil companies that will strap American consumers already struggling with an affordability crisis.”
His group has estimated that since CAFE standards were first introduced in 2010, they have saved auto owners about $321 billion at the gas pump. And over just the past seven months, during which Trump's war with Iran has caused gas prices to soar around the country, UCS estimates that consumers have saved $32 billion.
"Any small reduction in upfront vehicle costs will be outweighed by higher fuel expenses," Cooke said.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) itself estimated in an impact analysis for the rule days ago that, as a result of the rule change, Americans will consume roughly 122 billion more gallons of gas than they would under the 2024 standards, resulting in average lifetime fuel costs of more than $1,600 more per vehicle—more than the administration estimates consumers will save by buying cheaper cars.
Transportation already accounted for about 17% of average US household spending in 2024, the latest year for which the Bureau of Labor Statistics has published data. Meanwhile, as the war with Iran has driven up costs, oil companies are reporting record profits. The top eight brought in nearly $93 billion in earnings in the second quarter of this year alone, according to an analysis by The Guardian.
"Oil companies will get a windfall from gutting the fuel economy standards, but the rest of us are going to be handing over more of our hard-earned paychecks to fill up the tank," said Atid Kimelman, an attorney at the NRDC.
Americans won't just spend more money; they'll also produce way more planet-heating greenhouse gases. The standards being rolled back were projected by NHTSA to prevent about 659 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, 825,000 metric tons of methane, and roughly 24,000 metric tons of nitrous oxide emissions through 2050.
The Center for Biological Diversity pointed out that the US is already the world's largest oil guzzler, accounting for 20% of global use, and that transportation is the No. 1 consumer of that oil.
"This move spells short- and long-term disaster for people’s health, the planet, and even US automakers who’ll sit on the sidelines while clean cars advance around the world," said Dan Becker, the director of the group's Safe Climate Transport Campaign. "This standard was the biggest single step any nation has taken to save gas, money at the pump, and auto pollution.”
Matthew Davis, vice president of federal policy for the League of Conservation Voters, emphasized that fuel efficiency standards are popular with the American public. A nationwide survey last month by the Global Strategy Group found that 73% of voters nationwide said they'd support "reestablishing fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks."
"It is no secret that Trump promised handouts to Big Oil in exchange for campaign spending," Davis said, "and he is delivering for those billionaire CEOs and polluters while he hurts working families, American manufacturing competitiveness, public health, and the environment at every turn.”
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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the country’s main opposition party, announced a long march to the capital, Islamabad, on Sunday, October 4, as part of its ongoing nationwide movement to demand the release of its leader and former Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The march, which was originally scheduled to be held on Sunday, September 27, starting from Peshawar, was postponed on Friday after the party’s top leadership decided it needed more time to mobilize to face the state’s preparations to block it.
Thousands of people have been taking to the streets in different parts of the country demanding the immediate release of Khan, his wife Bushra Bibi, and other party leaders.
Khan’s party and supporters have also accused the Shehbaz Sharif-led coalition government in the country of deliberately ignoring Khan’s bad health condition and trying to “slowly kill him in prison” by keeping him in solitary confinement.
They have also alleged that Khan has been denied access to his family members and party colleagues in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail for almost six months now and demanded that he be transferred out of the jail to a private hospital.
Meanwhile, the security forces have fortified the capital, blocking all the ways leading to the capital with shipping containers and large deployments after the government called the protests illegal and threatened consequences for the PTI leadership.
Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi had earlier called the march a failure and “a drama” and warned that if the PTI does not abandon its plan to go to Islamabad the state will find a “permanent solution” to stop them.
The security forces had arrested a large number of PTI leaders and workers in order to derail the protests. The PTI last week said that even its elected members of the National Assembly were arrested.
Three of Khan’s sisters Aleema, Uzma, and Noreen Khan were also arrested by the Pakistani authorities last week and jailed for 30 days on charges of being an alleged “threat to public order.”
The PTI released a statement on Monday, September 28, claiming Khan’s sisters have not been allowed to meet their family members or lawyers at Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore. Calling the situation of their incarceration “alarming” and a violation of their fundamental rights.
The previous mobilization to Islamabad in November 2024 had also witnessed large-scale state repression leading to clashes between the security forces and the PTI workers. Over a dozen people, including four security officials, were killed in those clashes.
Khan, largely considered the most popular political leader in Pakistan’s politics today, was first arrested almost a year after he was ousted from his Prime Minister’s post in May 2023. He led the Pakistan government from August 2018 to April 2022.
The interim government that assumed power after his removal filed over a hundred cases against Khan, accusing him of the misuse of power, corruption, and violence against the security forces during the May 9, 2023 protests.
However, he was released after a court ruled his arrest was illegal only to be arrested again on August 5, this time after a district court sentenced him to three years in prison in the Toshakhana case, related to the state department that stores valuable gifts given to Pakistani officials by foreign dignitaries. Later his wife Bushra Bibi was also arrested.
Though a higher court later overturned his conviction, he and his wife have remained in Adiala Jail facing charges and even convictions in several other cases.
Many leaders in Khan’s party, PTI, were either arrested or forced to denounce the party and politics in public altogether.
Despite the fact that the PTI was blocked from contesting national elections in February 2024, it emerged as the largest opposition group in the country’s National Assembly after it decided to field its candidates as independents.
PTI and Khan’s supporters maintain that the cases against Khan and his wife were politically motivated and fake.
Ammar Ali Jan, leader of the Left wing Haqooq-e-Khalq Party (HKP) and a member of the Tehreek-i-Tahaffuz Ayeen-i-Pakistan (Movement to Save Pakistan’s Constitution or TTAP) formed as a broader alliance to fight for Khan’s release has condemned the continued incarceration of Khan and the repression of movements for his release.
He also questioned the state’s narrative about the failure of the movement, pointing out how it has made every effort to oppress it, including the arrests and fortification of the capital.
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September 30 is the National Day of Remembrance for victims and survivors of Indian boarding schools and residential boarding schools across the United States and Canada.
The day is also known as Orange Shirt Day or National Day for Truth and Reconciliation where hundreds of events are scheduled in both countries throughout the week to honor those who attended and the many who never came home.
Read the latest stories here and here on ICT’s coverage of Indian boarding schools.
ICT has organized a list of events held on or around this year’s Orange Shirt Day.
ALASKA
“Orange Shirt Day”
ORGANIZER: Haa Tóoch Lichéesh – We believe it is possible, NAMI Juneau
WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 30
TIME: 3:30 – 6:30 p.m. Alaskan Standard Time
WHERE: Zach Gordon Youth Center – 396 Willoughby Ave, Juneau, AK
MORE INFO: Event page
“Every Child Matters Day (Orange Shirt Day)”
ORGANIZER: Tyson Elementary School
WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 30
TIME: 8:30-3:30 p.m. Alaskan Standard Time
WHERE: Richmond Drive, Anchorage, AK
MORE INFO: Event page
ARIZONA
**“Orange Shirt Day”**ORGANIZER: NATIVE HEALTH Phoenix
WHEN: Tuesday, Sept. 29
TIME: 5-7 p.m. local time
WHERE: 777 W. Southern Avenue, Mesa, AZ
MORE INFO: Instagram
IOWA
“Orange Shirt Day Solidarity Memorial”
ORGANIZER: Great Plains Action Society
WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 30
TIME: 5-8 p.m. CST
WHERE: GPAS Hub – 810 Maiden Ln., Iowa City, IA
MORE INFO: Event page
MICHIGAN
“Orange Shirt Day Community Feast”
ORGANIZER: Sault. St. Marie Tribe
WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 30
TIME: 5 p.m. ET
WHERE: Niigaanaagiizhik Ceremonial Building – Sault St. Marie, MI
MORE INFO: Event page
“6th Annual Orange Shirt Day Online Photo Event”
ORGANIZER: Sault St. Marie Tribe
WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 30
TIME: All day
WHERE: Online
MORE INFO: Event page
“Remembrance & Healing, Every Child Matters”
ORGANIZER: Hessel School House
WHEN: September 24 – October 11
TIME: 10:00 AM–4:00 PM EST (Tues-Friday)
WHERE: 3206 W Cedar Street, Hessel, MI, United States, MI
MORE INFO: Event page
“Orange Shirt Day”
ORGANIZER: Hessel School House
WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 30
TIME: 9-5 p.m. EST
WHERE: 3206 W Cedar Street, Hessel, MI, United States, MI
MORE INFO: Event page
MINNESOTA
“Orange Shirt Day Display”
ORGANIZER: American Indian Affairs at MSU, Mankato
WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 30
TIME: 8-4:30 p.m. CST
WHERE: Centennial Student Union 269, Mankato, MN
MORE INFO: Event page
“2026 National Day of Remembrance Gathering”
ORGANIZER: National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition
WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 30
TIME: “Medicine Ball” film screening 12:30-3 p.m. CST (doors open 12:15)
WHERE: Powderhorn Park, Minneapolis, MN
“Community Candlelight Vigil and Remembrance Walk”
ORGANIZER: National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition
WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 30
TIME: 6:00 p.m. CST
WHERE: Powderhorn Park, Minneapolis, MN
MONTANA
“Orange Shirt Day”
ORGANIZER: De La Salle Blackfeet School
WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 30
TIME: 9:45 a.m. MST
WHERE: 104 1st St Nw, Browning, MT, United States, Montana 59417
MORE INFO: Event page
NEW YORK
“Orange Shirt Day Prayer Service”
ORGANIZER: Saint Kateri National Shrine and Historic Site
WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 30
TIME: 6 p.m. EST
WHERE: 3636 State Hwy 5, Fonda, NY
MORE INFO: Event page
“Akwesasne Orange Shirt Day 2026”
ORGANIZER: Mohawk Council of Akwesasne and Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe
WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 30
TIME: 9:30 a.m.- Noon EST
WHERE: Generations Park – 17 Margaret Terrance Memorial Way, Hogansburg, NY
MORE INFO: Event page
NORTH DAKOTA
“A Night of Remembrance: An Orange Shirt Day Gathering & Vigil”
ORGANIZER: Orange Shirt Day: North Dakota
WHEN: Tuesday, Sept. 29
TIME: 7 p.m. CST
WHERE: Steamboat Park, Bismarck, ND
MORE INFO: Event page
“Every Child Matters Mural Memorial Display”
WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 30
TIME: All day
WHERE: Bismarck Art Alley – 117 N 5th St, Bismarck, ND
MORE INFO: Here
“Reclaiming History, Reclaiming the Future: The Bismarck Indian School Archive and Indigenous Educational Leadership”
WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 30
TIME: 2 p.m. Central Time
WHERE: Bismarck State College
MORE INFO: Event page
“Orange Shirt Day Challenge”
WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 30
TIME: 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. CT
WHERE: Sacred Pipe Resource Center – 925 Basin Avenue, Suite 2, Bismarck, ND
MORE INFO: Event flyer
SOUTH DAKOTA
“Rapid City Indian Boarding School Annual Walk”
ORGANIZER: Remembering the Children Memorial
WHEN: Oct. 12
TIME: 9 a.m. MST
WHERE: Begin at Sioux Park Flower Garden – 733 Canyon Lake Dr, Rapid City, SD
MORE INFO: Event page
UTAH
“Healing Concert – Orange Shirt Day”
ORGANIZER: Glittering Worlds Advocacy Coalition
WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 30
TIME: 6 p.m. MT
WHERE: Day-Riverside Branch, Salt Lake City Public Library, UT
MORE INFO: Event page
WASHINGTON STATE
“Orange Shirt Day Healing Walk”
WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 30
TIME: 11 a.m. PT
WHERE: 1937 Lashi St SE, Olympia, WA
MORE INFO: Event page
“Orange Shirt Day: Blue Lightning Performance”
ORGANIZER: Deming Library and Whatcom County Library System
WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 30
TIME: 6-7:30 p.m. PT
WHERE: Deming Library – 5044 Mt. Baker Hwy. Deming, WA
MORE INFO: Event Page
“2nd Annual Orange Shirt Day at Seattle Colleges”
ORGANIZER: Tribal Liaison to the Chancellor of Seattle Colleges
WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 30
TIME: Noon PT
WHERE: South Seattle College – OLY Olympic 120 – 6000 16th Ave. Sw, Seattle, WA
MORE INFO: Event page
WISCONSIN
“Every Child Matters Run/Walk”
WHEN: Oct. 3
TIME: Sunrise ceremony 6:30 a.m CST., walk to follow
WHERE: Begins at Calvary Cemetery, Milwaukee ends at Indian Community School
MORE INFO: Event page
“Orange Shirt Day Open House”
ORGANIZER: Forest County Potawatomi Community
WHEN: Sept. 29 and 30
TIME: 9-3 p.m. CST
WHERE: Family Services Building – 5415 Everybody’s Rd. Crandon, WI
MORE INFO: Event flyer
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On Monday, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed a law establishing national guidelines to professionalize women’s soccer, expand player development, and promote equality measures within the sport.
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva approved Law No. 15.522, which sets forth new obligations for the State, the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), and clubs, aiming to boost the development of women’s soccer in the country.
The regulation, based on a bill submitted by the government to Congress, mandates a gradual reduction in the number of non-professional players registered for competitions, with the goal of achieving full professionalization of the teams. It also stipulates that clubs maintaining youth divisions or training programs must either have a women’s team or establish one within 180 days.
During their development, female players must have access to the same facilities, spaces, and support staff available to their male counterparts. Furthermore, sports organizations dedicated to training female players will enjoy the same rights and benefits as those linked to men’s soccer.
The Ministry of Sports will be responsible for encouraging women’s participation in sports, strengthening grassroots competitions, and supporting the creation and maintenance of professional and youth teams. The legislation also provides for the government to coordinate with clubs and the CBF on protocols to prevent and combat racism, discrimination, prejudice, and violence against women in soccer.
🏟️ #Deportes | El país sudamericano comenzó la cuenta regresiva para la máxima cita del fútbol femenino con actividades en las ciudades sede y un mensaje de impulso al desarrollo del deporte.
Los detalles 🔽https://t.co/8M8x7qh50r pic.twitter.com/RJLpu89mdn— Radio Pichincha (@radio_pichincha) June 26, 2026
The text reads: “The South American country kicked off the countdown to the pinnacle of women’s football with activities in the host cities and a message of encouragement for the development of the sport.”
Regarding equal pay, the law does not mandate automatic parity between women and men but guides the formulation of initiatives aimed at reducing existing disparities in the sport.
The legislation also introduces changes for Soccer Corporations (known as SAFs). Clubs adopting this model must train both female and male players, although they may also choose to maintain exclusively female training programs.
“We want women to gain ground across the entire labor market and in every sporting activity,” stated Lula during the signing ceremony, where he was accompanied by former footballer Miraildes Maciel, known as Formiga. The president also jokingly commented on the performance of the women’s team from Corinthians, the club he supports.
Brazil will be the first South American country to host the Women’s World Cup, scheduled for June and July 2027. The tournament will bring together 32 national teams across eight host cities, including Recife. The new law also mandates the development of a social, sporting, and financial legacy plan for the competition.
Polling firm Quaest published a voting-intention survey showing that Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is the favorite to win the upcoming presidential election.
Six days before the first round of the election, the Workers’ Party leader leads far-right opposition… pic.twitter.com/5p6IQYK8Ho
— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) September 28, 2026
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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan. In August, he won the state’s primary despite being outspent approximately 10 to 1. If elected, he will be the first Muslim senator in U.S. history. Years ago, Dr. El-Sayed contributed several articles and YouTube videos to this magazine, which means that his election would mark another milestone: the first former Current Affairs contributor to serve in the U.S. Senate. We recently caught up with Dr. El-Sayed after his remarkable victory, to discuss some of the most pressing issues in American politics.
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