How Early Birth Control Advocates Fought for and Against the Suffrage Movement
Stephanie Gorton explores the prudish side of the women’s rights movement in The Icon & The Idealist…
Republicans Sucking Up to Trump Dodge Questions on RFK Jr.
No one on the right seems to want to criticize Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks—even if they desperately warrant questioning.Several major conservative politicos have ducked and weaved direct questions about Trump’s decision to tap Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—a virulent opponent of all vaccines—to front the Department of Health and Human Services…
Ex-CDC acting director calls RFK Jr’s false vaccine theories ‘cruel’
Richard Besser criticizes Trump’s health secretary pick, and says falsely linking vaccines to autism is a ‘cruel thing to do’The former acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has criticized Robert F Kennedy Jr’s nomination by Donald Trump as secretary of the country’s health and human services (HHS…
Do tenants have EV charging rights? Plus, a Scotiabank outage: CBC’s Marketplace cheat sheet
CBC’s Marketplace rounds up the consumer and health news you need from the week…
Trump team is seeking to ease US rules for self-driving cars
If new rules enable cars without human controls, that would directly benefit Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO and a Trump mega-donor…
Coca-Cola unveils ‘Holidays are coming’ ad made by AI
Classic ad ‘reinterpreted’ by ‘collaboration of human creativity’ and ‘advanced technology…
Earliest evidence of humans using fire to shape the landscape of Tasmania
Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, about 2,000 years earlier than previously thought…
Head of missing swimmer washes ashore near Miami
Miami Beach police confirmed Friday a human head that washed ashore earlier this week belonged to a teen swimmer who drowned while saving his younger sister from a rip current…
Trial begins Monday for 2 men accused of human smuggling after family’s deaths at Manitoba-U.S. border
A long-awaited trial in Minnesota is scheduled to begin Monday with jury selection for two men accused of helping smuggle people across the U.S.-Canada border, including four members of an Indian family who froze to death in Manitoba as they tried to make it across in blizzard conditions…