Despite some concessions, the new Senate version of the Dontcare bill still provides a big tax cut for the rich and insurance companies.

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.