A kidney from a genetically modified pig has been transplanted into a living human being for the first time. The organ had 69 genetic alterations to make it less porcine in appearance and safer for a human recipient. The four-hour procedure took place in the US on March 16 and was a success, with the patient said to be recovering well. Richard “Rick” Slayman has diabetes, high blood pressure and end-stage kidney failure. The 62-year-old had previously received a human kidney transplant from a deceased donor, but that organ started to fail last year. Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, recommended the xenotransplantation option to Mr Slayman as a possible route to avoid more dialysis and further deterioration.

Risking ostracism by her colleagues, she fought against the use of psychologists in coercive interrogations by the military and the C.I.A.

The proposed 854-bed facility will be a hybrid jail, hospital and mental health and substance use treatment facility for people facing criminal charges.

Offer the public a different vision, cowards. Repellent Texas governor Greg Abbott is using his state’s southern border as a tool to goad the federal government into a fight over immigration. Oh my goodness! Still? How can that be, after the Democrats in Washington boldly outflanked the Republicans by putting everything they wanted into an immigration bill, which the Republicans in Congress then refused to pass at the behest of Donald Trump? Quite surprising that the most shameless gutter racist politicians in America would risk being exposed as somewhat hypocritical, no? For the purpose of this discussion, and all political discussions going forward, we are going to stipulate the fact that the Republicans will do evil things and lie as a matter of course. That is why the discussion will focus on what the Democrats should be doing. The normal Republican position on immigration is very simple: Racism. “We hate immigrants because they are brown, and poor, and then we will layer a little dubious economic protectionist reasoning on top of that,” is what you will always get from Republicans on this. The only real variations are how veiled or unveiled the racism is. In 2024 (and really for the entire period since 2015), the racism status has been: Not Veiled At All. That is and has been and will be the right wing’s approach to immigration. Imagining that you can catch Republicans in some sort of worthwhile “gotcha” about their reasoning on this issue displays the same sophistication as a cat trying to catch a laser pointer. It is not possible. It is a waste of time. Racism will always create its own post-hoc justifications. The question to think about is: What alternative vision of immigration should be put forward in the political arena, besides that one?

The interpreter for the Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani was fired Wednesday after questions surrounding at least $4.5 million in wire transfers sent from Ohtani's bank account to a bookmaking operation set off a series of events.

Biden embraced Israel after Oct. 7, but that has given him little influence with its leaders as Gaza collapses

X has locked and suspended the accounts of journalists and researchers who shared the alleged identity of a neo-Nazi cartoonist known as Stonetoss after the cartoonist appealed to site owner Elon Musk. The incident, critics say, highlights once again how Musk has not only welcomed extremists onto his platform but has repeatedly boosted their conspiracies, engaged with their accounts, and seems to have protected them from scrutiny. A lengthy X thread posted by the antifascist research group Anonymous Comrades Collective last week claimed that Stonetoss is a man named Hans Kristian Graebener from Spring, Texas. Stonetoss cartoons, which feature simple and colorful imagery coupled with racist, homophobic, and antisemitic language, have become hugely popular among right-wing communities since they were first published at least seven years ago.

After the Honduran president repealed a law granting unfettered authority to outside investors, the crypto groups took the dispute to World Bank arbitration court.

Moreno, a wealthy car dealer endorsed by the former president, will be the GOP's nominee to take on the formidable Sen. Sherrod Brown.

California’s cannabis has long been known for being notoriously strong, but test results from the state’s legal stores show that weed in the Golden State is getting weaker. Experts say there’s more to the story. Cannabis potency is usually measured by levels of THC, the most common intoxicant in marijuana. State law requires that all cannabis products be tested for THC content, which means there’s ample data on how strong the state’s weed is. The median THC potency for cannabis flower has been dropping for the past six months and fell 7% in the past three months alone, according to data shared with SFGATE by Headset, an analytics firm. Headset’s data is based on over 90,000 test results compiled from retail stores and grouped into monthly averages. The median THC potency in December was 30.7%, but as of March 1, it was hovering at 28.5%, according to Headset’s data.

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During Koch-funded trips to mountain resorts, Trump judges huddled over a new strategy to advance “history and tradition” as the law of the land. On Oct. 13, 2022, a handful of the country’s most conservative federal judges gathered inside a wine cellar at a luxury ski resort in Deer Valley, Utah. The surrounding mountains were ablaze with yellow aspens, and the speaker addressing the room joked that the judges were already planning their afternoon hikes. Before they could roam the slopes, they would spend the morning learning about a tool that could supposedly revolutionize how judges interpret the law. It was called corpus linguistics, and it was simple on its face. A corpus essentially works like a search engine that returns every example of how a word or phrase was used in a select database of historical texts. But the leading proponents of legal corpus linguistics see it as something more: a powerful new tool to shore up the legitimacy of the conservative legal movement. Now, judges claiming to be interpreting the Constitution as it was originally understood could wield the imprimatur of big data.

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The Supreme Court has rejected a Biden administration request to intervene and keep Texas immigration enforcement law SB4 on hold while it is challenged in lower courts.

This week in Austin, several musicians sought to show their solidarity with Palestine more explicitly at South By Southwest. Per Politico, five music labels and 105 bands and individual musicians—including over 60 acts from the U.K. and all 12 Irish bands originally scheduled to perform—opted out of the nine-day festival in protest of its controversial sponsors: The U.S. Army; military defense firm, Raytheon; and its subsidiary, Collins Aerospace, which has drawn recent protests for supplying weaponry used to kill and harm thousands of Gazans. Some of these artists, however, turned up in Texas anyway to make their voices heard on a different stage—a protest co-organized by the United Musicians And Allied Workers (UMAW) and Austin For Palestine Coalition.

You don't have to worry about Tarn Adams' millionaire status turning him corporate any time soon. At this year's GDC, the Dwarf Fortress maker came out swinging against a brutal climate of layoffs, cancellations, and general downsizing across the games industry, declaring that the executives responsible can "all eat shit." Just in case you needed a reason to like Dwarf Fortress even more. "Three to four years from now, what are [Dwarf Fortress] sales looking like?" pondered Adams in a chat with PCG, "What kind of decisions do we have to make [with] burn rates and all that stuff?" Considering the possibility of making those hard decisions some day down the line, Tarn wondered if the experience would give him "more empathy for the people that lay people off. "No, I don't fucking think so," he concluded. "They can all eat shit, I think they're horrible, and I think they're bad people." Which is a pretty definitive statement all by itself, but Adams continued: "These decisions, they don't sound practical. They sound like they're driven by greedy, greedy people trying to make some kind of venture capital thing work out.

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Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men will be sentenced by a federal judge starting Tuesday.

Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV lays bare the harmful workplace that Dan Schneider allegedly cultivated.

An alleged burglar was caught on CCTV stretching and doing yoga outside a bakery before she allegedly broke in and stole several items, including almond croissants. Police have charged a 44-year-old Richmond woman after Phillippa's Bakery store on North Street in Richmond was allegedly broken into around 3am on March 3.  CCTV shared by the business showed the alleged thief dressed in all black and doing several leg and body stretches in the car park before the break in.