In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working. Let me give an analogy. Voting machines must meet two requirements. They must count the vote accurately, and people must believe they count the vote accurately...

Israel's parliament has voted to pass legislation banning the UN's Palestinian refugee agency (Unrwa) from operating within Israel and Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, within three months. Contact between Unrwa employees and Israeli officials will also be banned, severely limiting the agency's ability to operate in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Co-operation with the Israeli military - which controls all crossings into Gaza - is essential for Unrwa to transfer aid into the war-...

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by Mish Shedlock, Mish Talk: Customers with more than $250,000 in deposits are in trouble. Dear Fed, how about a safekeeping bank!? False and Deceptive Records On Friday, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) Closed the First National Bank of Lindsay Citing False and Deceptive Records The First National Bank of Lindsay reopened […]

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