It has come to this: Missouri Democrats recently reached out to Illinois and Kansas officials, asking them to secure Medicaid funding for low-income Missouri rape victims who have to travel out of state for abortion services due to Missouri's extreme new abortion ban. It's a chilling reminder that Missouri has turned its back on some of its most vulnerable citizens, to the point that they have to flee to neighboring states like refugees from some oppressive regime.
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won met with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in Seoul on Tuesday and agreed to expand their relationship and strengthen cooperation. Their meeting came a day after SK Group announced a plan to invest $250 million in TerraPower, a U.S. nuclear design company, founded by Gates, to develop small modular reactors (SMRs).
President Yoon Suk-yeol has proposed what he called the "audacious initiative" designed to provide comprehensive economic assistance to North Korea in return for its denuclearization. In his speech marking the 77th anniversary of Liberation Day on Monday, Yoon said the plan will help significantly improve North Korea's economy and its people's livelihoods in stages should the North begin a "genuine and substantive" process for denuclearization.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is an outright affront to the international norm of non-aggression. It is wreaking humanitarian havoc on a scale never seen in Europe since the end of World War II. Its impact on the global economy is devastating as Russia and Ukraine are major players in global fuel and food supply chains. Following the invasion, oil prices are spiking and food supplies to those in need in the developing world are at risk.