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America’s crumbling, decades-old power grid is desperately struggling to keep up with data centers, EVs, and extreme weather, and nobody can agree on who should foot the enormous bill to bring it into the 21st century. (Gizmodo)

Insurers are nervous about the growing possibility of a powerful El Niño making it nearly impossible to accurately price weather risk. (Bloomberg)

The Trump administration is slow-walking FEMA wildfire prevention grants to blue states, leaving at-risk communities to fend for themselves. (The Washington Post)

🌍 A single solar panel installation at a Nigerian hospital slashed maternal deaths from 15-20 per month to nearly zero. Sometimes the most powerful medical intervention is just the ability to keep the lights on. (Nigeria Health Watch)

Mothers in Georgia are dying in maternity care deserts while trained midwives sit on the sidelines, a crisis rooted in old, racist policies deliberately designed to push Black women out of the profession. (The 19th)

Five years and nearly a billion dollars into the NIH’s flagship Long COVID research program, the results are in…and they’re a bust, leaving millions of sick patients wondering why the program was testing computer games instead of drugs. (The Sick Times)

🌏 A Christian community that migrated from Egypt to Sudan over a thousand years ago accidentally acquired one of the strongest malaria-resistance genes ever found in humans. (The Conversation)

Don’t panic about this hantavirus outbreak. More worrying is the fact that we’re still systemically unprepared for the next one. (Slow Boring)

This just in: alcohol is still bad for you! In fact, it kills more Americans than fentanyl, meth, and heroin combined, but we’re more worried about seed oils and processed food. (STAT)

China and the US are sweetening the Trump-Xi summit with a corn deal, because nothing says diplomacy like buying each other’s crops. (Bloomberg)

A third of US medical schools have signed MAHA agreements to teach doctors how to talk about food. (Civil Eats)

The federal government wants kids eating fresh, nutrient-dense school lunches, and yet they are cutting the exact funding that helped schools buy fresh, local food to make that happen. (NPR)

🌎 Investigative journalists exiled from their own countries are using satellites and AI to expose illegal Amazon mining they can no longer reach on the ground. (Neiman Lab)

Scientists are using AI to eavesdrop on crows and orcas at scale, and so far they’ve found that most crow conversation happens in soft, intimate murmurs instead of loud caws. (Mongabay)

Two-thirds of American doctors are using a free AI medical search tool to help them make faster decisions on questions outside of their specialty, but raising concerns about…well all the usual concerns we have with AI (hallucinations, lack of outcome data, pharmaceutical company ads funding the platform, the erosion of diagnostic reasoning skills, etc.) (NBC News)

Palantir has given ICE agents a smartphone-ready list of 20 million people to accelerate the speed of raids and arrests (for a population of mostly people with no criminal convictions, mind you). (404 Media)