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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary argued that insulin should be withheld from people with diabetes and replaced with "cooking classes." During a Sunday interview on Fox News, Makary promoted a report from President Donald Trump's Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commi... | |
Submitted at 05-25-2025, 08:18 PM by sleeppoor | |
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The story behind cinema’s most mysterious bird. | |
Submitted at 05-23-2025, 07:22 PM by sleeppoor | |
In Liv Schmidt’s subscriber-only group chat, her followers — some of them in high school — encourage one another to achieve their weight-loss goals. | |
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Cedric Lodge admitted to transporting and selling stolen human remains across multiple states from 2018 to at least March 2020, prosecutors said. | |
Submitted at 05-23-2025, 01:37 AM by sleeppoor | |
The administration is forcing existing students to transfer to other schools or lose their legal status, while also threatening to expand the crackdown to other schools. | |
Submitted at 05-23-2025, 01:30 AM by sleeppoor | |
The congresswoman’s former political adviser claims she tried to extort two homes from her fiancé. | |
Submitted at 05-22-2025, 09:51 PM by Mordant | |
The pilot for the voluntary chemical castration of sex offenders will be extended to 20 prisons in England, the justice secretary has said.
Shabana Mahmood said she would expand a small pilot in south-west England to two regions, after an independent sentencing review recommended it continue.
Mahmood is also exploring a national rollout of voluntary chemical castration for sex offenders, and whether it could be made mandatory. No timeline for this decision has been set.
Forensic psychiatry Prof Don Grubin said he did not think the government would "get the mandatory element of it off the ground" as to "simply make somebody take [the treatment] would be very unethical and...most doctors I know would be resistant to it". | |
Submitted at 05-22-2025, 08:34 PM by NickNoheart | |
A screenshot of a CNN broadcast saying that underground tunnels were found in the home of hip-hop star Sean "Diddy" Combs, which was raided by law enforcement this week following a sex trafficking lawsuit, is fabricated. | |
Submitted at 05-22-2025, 06:47 PM by Grief Bacon | |
A private jet crashed into military housing in San Diego during foggy weather early Thursday, igniting cars parked along a suburban neighbourhood block and killing multiple people on board the plane, authorities said.
The plane could hold eight to 10 people but it’s not yet known how many were on the aircraft, Assistant San Diego Fire Chief Dan Eddy said at a news conference. Authorities will be investigating whether the plane hit a power line, he said.
The aircraft crashed just before 4 a.m. into the U.S. military’s largest housing neighborhood. It appeared to strike at least one home that had a charred and collapsed roof and smash through half a dozen vehicles. About 10 homes suffered damage. | |
Submitted at 05-22-2025, 06:25 PM by NickNoheart | |
The Department of Homeland Security denies that it will produce a television show dubbed the ‘Migrant Hunger Games’ | |
Submitted at 05-22-2025, 02:43 AM by MacTerr | |
Congressman becomes third to die in office this year and sixth in just over a year | |
Submitted at 05-22-2025, 01:16 AM by sleeppoor | |
A Guardian investigation finds insurer quietly paid facilities that helped it gain Medicare enrollees and reduce hospitalizations. Whistleblowers allege harm to residents | |
Submitted at 05-22-2025, 01:34 AM by sleeppoor | |
A federal judge on Wednesday scolded federal prosecutors and announced he will dismiss trespassing charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka related to a standoff at a migrant detention center.
Interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba announced earlier this week she would drop charges against Baraka (but at the same time announced new charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver stemming from a scuffle during Baraka’s arrest). Federal magistrate judge Andre Espinosa reprimanded the federal prosecutors for more than five minutes, calling the retraction of the charges “embarrassing.”
“The hasty arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, followed swiftly by the dismissal of these trespassing charges a mere 13 days later, suggests a worrying misstep by your office,” Espinosa said. “An arrest, particularly of a public figure, is not a preliminary investigative tool. It is a severe action, carrying significant reputational and personal consequences, and it should only be undertaken after a thorough, dispassionate evaluation of credible evidence.”
The judge directed his comments to Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Demanovich — the judge said Demanovich had acted appropriately throughout the case, but as the representative of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, he was responsible for hearing the message. | |
Submitted at 05-21-2025, 07:13 PM by sleeppoor | |
Art-music master Brian Eno is the composer of what might be one of the most-heard pieces of music in history, even if much of the world doesn’t necessarily process it as a piece of music. Eno made the famous Windows ’95 chime — the seven-second sound that would play whenever you’d start up a PC. Earlier this year, Eno’s chime went into the Library Of Congress’ National Recording Registry. Now, Eno is using his famous Microsoft association to call on the company to end its partnership with Israel, and he’s also promising to donate the fees from his Windows ’95 chime fee to victims of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
This morning, Brian Eno posted “Not In My Name,” an open letter to Microsoft, on Instagram. | |
Submitted at 05-21-2025, 05:35 PM by sleeppoor | |
Overall, the Fort Worth-Dallas area ranks third in the nation for the highest number of people — more than 1.3 million individuals —- experiencing hunger in 25 counties. About 60% of those people live in Tarrant and Dallas counties. | |
Submitted at 05-21-2025, 02:31 AM by Nibbles | |
The Trump administration has deported at least two immigrants to war-torn South Sudan in defiance of a federal court order, according to attorneys for the immigrants.
The two men are originally from Myanmar and Vietnam and were being held in U.S. immigration custody. Their lawyers say they learned of the deportation plan after receiving an abrupt notice Monday evening. By Tuesday morning, the men were already on a plane along with as many as 10 other deportees, the lawyers said.
The lawyers revealed these details in an emergency motion to a federal judge in Boston who has already forbidden the Trump administration from sending foreign nationals to so-called “third-party countries,” rather than their country of origin, without providing “meaningful” notice and a chance to raise concern about torture. | |
Submitted at 05-21-2025, 01:21 AM by sleeppoor | |
The previously unknown microbe, named Niallia tiangongensis after the space station where it was discovered, has proven especially resilient, surviving in the harsh conditions of microgravity. Tiangong’s Shenzhou-15 astronauts swabbed a cabin on the space station in May 2023 as part of a survey by the China Space Station Habitation Area Microbiome Program. Follow-up studies of the swabs traced the newly discovered microbe to a strain that appears similar to Niallia circulans—a rod-shaped, spore-forming bacterium originally isolated from soil.
It’s not clear whether the strain evolved on the space station or had already evolved on Earth before hitching a ride to low Earth orbit. | |
Submitted at 05-20-2025, 10:25 PM by Nibbles | |
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Federal immigration agents were reported at a major strawberry packing facility in Ventura County late Thursday morning, sparking fear among workers and prompting at least one to leave early. That fear, however, never culminated in a full-scale raid thanks to informed staff who knew their legal ground and asserted their right to deny entry without a warrant.
According to Ezequiel Ochoa, a gatekeeper at the site, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrived at the entrance but left shortly afterward when they were asked to present a warrant and failed to do so. “We know not to open the gate unless a valid warrant is presented,” Ochoa said. | |
Submitted at 05-20-2025, 04:49 PM by sleeppoor | |

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary argued that insulin should be withheld from people with diabetes and replaced with "cooking classes." During a Sunday interview on Fox News, Makary promoted a report from President Donald Trump's Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commi...
The story behind cinema’s most mysterious bird.
In Liv Schmidt’s subscriber-only group chat, her followers — some of them in high school — encourage one another to achieve their weight-loss goals.
Cedric Lodge admitted to transporting and selling stolen human remains across multiple states from 2018 to at least March 2020, prosecutors said.
The administration is forcing existing students to transfer to other schools or lose their legal status, while also threatening to expand the crackdown to other schools.
The congresswoman’s former political adviser claims she tried to extort two homes from her fiancé.
The pilot for the voluntary chemical castration of sex offenders will be extended to 20 prisons in England, the justice secretary has said.
Shabana Mahmood said she would expand a small pilot in south-west England to two regions, after an independent sentencing review recommended it continue.
Mahmood is also exploring a national rollout of voluntary chemical castration for sex offenders, and whether it could be made mandatory. No timeline for this decision has been set.
Forensic psychiatry Prof Don Grubin said he did not think the government would "get the mandatory element of it off the ground" as to "simply make somebody take [the treatment] would be very unethical and...most doctors I know would be resistant to it".
A screenshot of a CNN broadcast saying that underground tunnels were found in the home of hip-hop star Sean "Diddy" Combs, which was raided by law enforcement this week following a sex trafficking lawsuit, is fabricated.
A private jet crashed into military housing in San Diego during foggy weather early Thursday, igniting cars parked along a suburban neighbourhood block and killing multiple people on board the plane, authorities said.
The plane could hold eight to 10 people but it’s not yet known how many were on the aircraft, Assistant San Diego Fire Chief Dan Eddy said at a news conference. Authorities will be investigating whether the plane hit a power line, he said.
The aircraft crashed just before 4 a.m. into the U.S. military’s largest housing neighborhood. It appeared to strike at least one home that had a charred and collapsed roof and smash through half a dozen vehicles. About 10 homes suffered damage.
The Department of Homeland Security denies that it will produce a television show dubbed the ‘Migrant Hunger Games’
Congressman becomes third to die in office this year and sixth in just over a year
A Guardian investigation finds insurer quietly paid facilities that helped it gain Medicare enrollees and reduce hospitalizations. Whistleblowers allege harm to residents
A federal judge on Wednesday scolded federal prosecutors and announced he will dismiss trespassing charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka related to a standoff at a migrant detention center.
Interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba announced earlier this week she would drop charges against Baraka (but at the same time announced new charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver stemming from a scuffle during Baraka’s arrest). Federal magistrate judge Andre Espinosa reprimanded the federal prosecutors for more than five minutes, calling the retraction of the charges “embarrassing.”
“The hasty arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, followed swiftly by the dismissal of these trespassing charges a mere 13 days later, suggests a worrying misstep by your office,” Espinosa said. “An arrest, particularly of a public figure, is not a preliminary investigative tool. It is a severe action, carrying significant reputational and personal consequences, and it should only be undertaken after a thorough, dispassionate evaluation of credible evidence.”
The judge directed his comments to Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Demanovich — the judge said Demanovich had acted appropriately throughout the case, but as the representative of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, he was responsible for hearing the message.
Art-music master Brian Eno is the composer of what might be one of the most-heard pieces of music in history, even if much of the world doesn’t necessarily process it as a piece of music. Eno made the famous Windows ’95 chime — the seven-second sound that would play whenever you’d start up a PC. Earlier this year, Eno’s chime went into the Library Of Congress’ National Recording Registry. Now, Eno is using his famous Microsoft association to call on the company to end its partnership with Israel, and he’s also promising to donate the fees from his Windows ’95 chime fee to victims of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
This morning, Brian Eno posted “Not In My Name,” an open letter to Microsoft, on Instagram.
Overall, the Fort Worth-Dallas area ranks third in the nation for the highest number of people — more than 1.3 million individuals —- experiencing hunger in 25 counties. About 60% of those people live in Tarrant and Dallas counties.
The Trump administration has deported at least two immigrants to war-torn South Sudan in defiance of a federal court order, according to attorneys for the immigrants.
The two men are originally from Myanmar and Vietnam and were being held in U.S. immigration custody. Their lawyers say they learned of the deportation plan after receiving an abrupt notice Monday evening. By Tuesday morning, the men were already on a plane along with as many as 10 other deportees, the lawyers said.
The lawyers revealed these details in an emergency motion to a federal judge in Boston who has already forbidden the Trump administration from sending foreign nationals to so-called “third-party countries,” rather than their country of origin, without providing “meaningful” notice and a chance to raise concern about torture.
The previously unknown microbe, named Niallia tiangongensis after the space station where it was discovered, has proven especially resilient, surviving in the harsh conditions of microgravity. Tiangong’s Shenzhou-15 astronauts swabbed a cabin on the space station in May 2023 as part of a survey by the China Space Station Habitation Area Microbiome Program. Follow-up studies of the swabs traced the newly discovered microbe to a strain that appears similar to Niallia circulans—a rod-shaped, spore-forming bacterium originally isolated from soil.
It’s not clear whether the strain evolved on the space station or had already evolved on Earth before hitching a ride to low Earth orbit.
Federal immigration agents were reported at a major strawberry packing facility in Ventura County late Thursday morning, sparking fear among workers and prompting at least one to leave early. That fear, however, never culminated in a full-scale raid thanks to informed staff who knew their legal ground and asserted their right to deny entry without a warrant.
According to Ezequiel Ochoa, a gatekeeper at the site, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrived at the entrance but left shortly afterward when they were asked to present a warrant and failed to do so. “We know not to open the gate unless a valid warrant is presented,” Ochoa said.