Researchers successfully extracted and analyzed 34 new mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) from mammoth specimens, including 11 from the Early and Middle Pleistocene periods. These specimens range in age from 1.3 million to 125,000 years old. Published in Molecular Biology and Evolution, the study highlights how ancient DNA can be used to explore genetic variation over deep time.

Solomon says the scale and depravity of what he was exposed to was far darker than he had ever imagined

After ICE raided a downtown Charlottesville courthouse and arrested two men, the federal agency is promising to prosecute the bystanders who challenged their authority.

Andreas Kalcker, prominent peddler of chlorine dioxide remedy, to appear at ‘Truth Seekers Conference’ in Miami

The MAGA president broke yet another presidential tradition in attending the late Pontiff’s funerary rites.

Wikipedia is facing another threat.

The chemical lobby demanded Trump make the locations of high-risk chemical plants secret. The EPA did just that.

David created some iconic art for various SF books and properties

Beker Rengifo is the latest victim of Trump's reckless and illegal war on migrants.

How a Colorado slumlord’s psyop turned into a brand-new ‘forever war’ on Venezuela

Critics warn: it’s not just history being erased—it’s identity.

Trump administration officials directed police to circumvent courts and pursue gang members into their homes without a warrant, a new document shows.

Republican former representative had fabricated much of his resumé and stole identities to fund his campaign

Hundreds of foreign students in the U.S. on F-1 visas said they were informed their SEVIS records were suddenly terminated by DHS.

After eight years in “the hole” at Texas’ Lane Murray Unit, Kwaneta Harris documents the “daily reality” of staff sexual exploitation and violence.

Social Security workers are being asked to use an AI chatbot. An animated video on how to do so failed to mention that the chatbot can’t be trusted with personally identifiable information.

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested April 25 by federal authorities and is being charged with felony counts of obstruction for her role in helping an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest after he appeared in her courtroom last week, officials confirmed. Dugan, 65, is scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Dries at 10:30 a.m. April 25 on the second floor of the Federal Courthouse in downtown Milwaukee, according to two federal sources. Brady McCarron, spokesman for U.S. Marshals Service in Washington, D.C., confirmed Dugan was arrested at about 8 a.m. at the Milwaukee County Courthouse and is in federal custody.

For the fifth time this month, police have made a firearm-related arrest in the Naperville Topgolf parking lot, bringing the total to nine for the year.

The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat. The department on Thursday said it was withdrawing a rule proposed in August after three years of development. Officials with the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service cited feedback from more than 7,000 public comments and said they would “evaluate whether it should update” current salmonella regulations. The rule would have required poultry companies to keep levels of salmonella bacteria under a certain threshold and test for the presence of six strains most associated with illness, including three found in turkey and three in chicken. If the levels exceeded the standard or any of those strains were found, the poultry couldn’t be sold and would be subject to recall, the proposal had said.

As the bill traveled through committees in the state legislature, lawmakers questioned its necessity. Texas already has the Sunset Advisory Commission, which was established in the late 1970s to evaluate the need for state agencies — and their effectiveness, efficiency and responsiveness to the public.