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You're Named After Who? This Top Law School Will Have To Fight For Its New Name

[photo1]A San Francisco law school received bad news after trying to circumvent some legal trouble. University of California College of the Law, San Francisco -- formerly known as UC Hastings -- decid...

Two dead in US from tainted surgeries in Mexico; 206 more may have brain infections

A second person in the US has died in an outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to surgeries in Mexico that involved epidural anesthesia. While the case count is now up to 18, more than 200 others acros...

How You, or Anyone, Can Dodge Montana's TikTok Ban

[photo1]Amanda HooverMontana's TikTok ban is a technological nightmare. Experts warn it will be incredibly difficult for officials to enforce and incredibly easy for almost anyone to get around. But m...

Boston Isn't Afraid of Generative AI

[photo1]Beth Simone NoveckAfter ChatGPT burst on the scene last November, some government officials raced to prohibit its use. Italy banned the chatbot. New York City, Los Angeles Unified, Seattle and...

John Durham Declares Victory And Goes Home

[photo1]At long last John Durham has dropped his long-awaited report. Let the mass arrests begin!Or perhaps not.In 2019, the Special Counsel was tasked by attorney general Bill Barr with investigating...

Raw milk from farm with no electricity sparks outbreak that nearly killed babyvar abtest_1935091 = new ABTest(1935091, 'click');

A 10-month-old baby in Tennessee developed a life-threatening condition last year and spent 27 days in the hospital with failing kidneys after drinking raw milk from a cow-share, health officials in T...

Germany and Intel in funding dispute over EUR17bn chip plant

Intel's plan to construct a massive chip plant in Magdeburg, Germany, is arguably the centrepiece of the EU's strategy to ramp up domestic production of semiconductors. But cash flow has proven to be ...

Leaked Pentagon Documents May Herald a New Era of Revelations

[photo1]Lily Hay Newmanthe United States government has been scrambling this week thanks to a leak of sensitive Pentagon documents that include an array of recent intelligence updates and Joint Chiefs...

Deadly fungal outbreak in Wisconsin linked to neighborhood construction

Toxic fungal spores wafting around a Wisconsin neighborhood--possibly spread by recent construction in the area--sparked an outbreak of rare infections that left one person dead, state health official...

NY officials detect polio again, warn of possible summer wave

Health officials in New York have once again detected poliovirus in wastewater from Rockland County, where a case of paralytic polio occurred last summer.

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Spike in deadly strep infections linked to wave of flu, RSV in US kids

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and amid a tall wave of respiratory viruses, health officials in Colorado and Minnesota documented an unusual spike in deadly, invasive infections from Streptococc...

EU tells Elon Musk to hire more staff to moderate Twitter

Elon Musk and the EU are in a dispute over the Twitter owner's plan to use more volunteers and artificial intelligence to help moderate the social media platform, as the company responds to strict new...

Antitrust Suit Sets Stage To See If Yale, Columbia, And Others Are Institutes Of Higher Learning Or Higher Income

[photo1]For decades now, elite colleges have positioned themselves as the gatekeepers of prestige and economic opportunity, and have stood as shorthand for a person being educated. Why mention a perso...

Chinese influence, loan-collection practices reasons for India's crackdown on lending firms

India's push to ban over 90 lending apps has sent shockwaves to the fintech industry as many scramble to understand why they have been impacted. The Ministry of Electronics and IT's move is reportedly...

Here's why Europe is abandoning plans to fly aboard China's space station

Nearly six years ago the European Space Agency surprised its longtime spaceflight partners at NASA, as well as diplomatic officials at the White House, with an announcement that some of its astronauts...

Gonorrhea is becoming unstoppable; highly resistant cases found in US

The most highly drug-resistant cases of gonorrhea detected in the US to date appeared in two unrelated people in Massachusetts, state health officials announced Thursday.

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Maybe The Biden Classified Docs *Won't* Become The Next BUT HER EMAILS False Equivalency?

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Yesterday CBS News reported that attorneys for President Biden found "roughly ten" classified documents from his time in the Obama administration in a box at...