Senate panel advances RFK Jr.’s nomination to be health secretary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cleared a key hurdle Tuesday after a Senate panel voted to advance his nomination to be health and human services secretary to the full chamber.
Alarming Rise in Microplastics Levels in Our Brains
“I have yet to encounter a single human being who says, ‘There’s a bunch of plastic in my brain and I’m totally cool with that’,” said one researcher.
Drug gangs turn to ‘death saint’ for protection and human sacrifices…
Drug gangs turn to ‘death saint’ for protection and human sacrifices… (Third column, 9th story, link…USAID Is Going Away. Here’s What It’s Been Doing in South America
The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development will deliver a major blow to efforts including humanitarian assistance in Colombia, conservation efforts in Brazil and coca eradication in Peru — South American countries that have been a priority for the support…
FBI agents claim in federal lawsuits their rights have been violated regarding Jan. 6 scrutiny
The FBI met the deadline to send the names of the agents who helped to investigate the Jan. 6 attack. The list has details on more than 5,000 employees and agents who were part of the probe. In a pair of new federal lawsuits, groups of anonymous FBI agents argue their rights have been violated…Singer, songwriter Joy Villa wears DOGE coin dress to Grammys, supports Trump’s deportation crackdown
Joy Villa supports the humane deportation of illegal immigrants from the U.S. She told Fox News Digital she believes everyone should come to the U.S. legally as her grandparents did…Expert navigators deploy rational complexity–based decision precaching for large-scale real-world planning
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 4, January 2025. SignificanceHumans can plan efficiently in incredibly complex situations. Existing work has looked at naive participants in simple tasks, which might not be representative of how experts plan in the real world. Here, we study the real-world planning …
Why this 19-year-old trans woman says it’s clear that Trump wants people like her dead
President Donald Trump signed yet another executive order targeting the rights of trans people in the U.S., this time focusing on banning gender-affirming care to people younger than 19…
RFK Jr Nomination to Lead HHS Advances
Robert F Kennedy Jr’s quest to head the nation’s largest healthcare agency cleared a major hurdle Tuesday, as the Senate Finance Committee voted along party lines to advance his nomination. Despite intense debate about the viability of Kennedy’s nomination to be Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS…