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The global growth outlook 2026 is increasingly defined by weakening momentum across major economies.
Growth downgrades are emerging simultaneously across advanced and emerging regions.
As a result, analysts are shifting from recession forecasts toward concerns about prolonged stagnation.
This synchronized deceleration suggests that the world economy is entering a phase of structurally weaker expansion rather than a short cyclical dip

Global Growth Slowdown 2025–2026: Are Major Economies Sliding Into a Synchronized Stagnation?
Global growth outlook 2026 highlights slowing momentum, weak demand, and synchronized risks across major economies

ICE Invades Airports Across the US (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-invades-airports-across-the-us/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260323/p73#a260323p73

How Bolivia’s cacao farmers took on the gold-mining industry – and won https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/apr/22/mining-agriculture-cacao-farmers-resisting-bolivia-gold-rush

Sources: Saints fill out QB room, add Z. Wilson https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48300593/sources-free-agent-zach-wilson-agrees-deal-saints

Meta confirms plans to lay off staff; sources say it impacts a few hundred people across Reality Labs, its social media teams, recruiting, and some sales roles (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-platforms-lay-hundreds

Meta Platforms to Lay Off Hundreds
Meta Platforms will lay off a few hundred people across the company on Wednesday, according to two people familiar with the matter, part of a broader effort to overhaul the company for work in the AI age. The cuts will affect staffers in Reality Labs — the division behind its hardware platforms ...

“Expanding the Supreme Court is no different than redistricting in California and Virginia.
It is a proportionate response to Republican attempts to degrade liberal democracy and move America toward a post-liberal order.”
https://open.…

It Is Time for Ruthless Aggression
The national battle over gerrymandering should be just the first step. Next up: expanding SCOTUS.

It Is Time for Ruthless Aggression -- The national battle over gerrymandering should be just the first step. (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/it-is-time-for-ruthless-aggression-supreme-court-expansion
http://www.memeorandum.com/260423/p40#a260423p40

African swine fever outbreaks increase in pigs and wild boar across the EU https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/news/african-swine-fever-outbreaks-increase-pigs-and-wild-boar-across-eu

African swine fever outbreaks increase in pigs and wild boar across the EU
In 2025, African swine fever (ASF) outbreaks increased across the European Union in both domestic pigs (+76%) and wild boar (+44%) compared to 2024, according to EFSA’s latest annual epidemiological report. The disease reemerged in Spain after 31 years without detections, raising the number of affected Member States to 14.

Citizen Lab details two spying campaigns that abuse weaknesses in the SS7 and Diameter protocols across 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G networks to track people's locations (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026…

Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people's phone locations, researchers say | TechCrunch
The Citizen Lab found two separate surveillance vendors abusing the backbone of cellular networks to spy on several victims across the world.

Fossil fuel subsidies and high costs stall energy transition across rural Indonesia https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/fossil-fuel-subsidies-and-high-costs-stall-energy-transition-across-rural-indonesia/

Fossil fuel subsidies and high costs stall energy transition across rural Indonesia
DENPASAR, Indonesia — Renewable energy uptake has yet to gather momentum across Indonesia’s more than 84,000 villages, a new report concludes, as the government of the world’s fourth-largest country pledges to achieve a radical energy transformation over the next decade. “Village street lighting has increased, while household use has declined due to high initial costs, […]