Government & Policy
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday proposed replacing Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu with former vice prime minister Andrei Belousov, according to an official post by the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parliament, on Telegram. Shoigu was appointed to lead the Kremlin’s security council, Russian state media reported, citing spokesperson Dmitry Peskov. The announcement comes…
The most recent dominant variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, are sometimes referred to as 'FLiRT' variants. They remind us that the virus is still around and some people are still suffering, despite the fact that the majority of the country and the federal government have moved past the pandemic.
For the second year in a row, fewer medical students are applying to residency programs in states with near-total abortion bans. A new data snapshot from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), released Thursday, shows that students in their senior year in a doctorate of medicine program have applied to fewer residency programs.
President Biden and 17 other world leaders made a statement on Thursday, urging Hamas to release the remaining captives from the October 7 attacks in Israel. They believe that this action could lead to a longer period of peace in the ongoing conflict in Gaza. They called for the immediate release of all captives held by…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who leads the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, initiated a probe into the very high prices of Novo Nordisk’s diabetes and weight loss drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy. On Wednesday, Sanders wrote a letter to Novo Nordisk’s CEO, Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen, informing him about…
TikTok is stopping a feature that rewards its app users in France and Spain for watching videos in response to scrutiny from European Commission regulators. “TikTok always wants to work well with the EU Commission and other regulators. So, we are choosing to stop the rewards functions in TikTok Lite while we deal with the concerns…
A single hurricane barreling into New England forests can undo decades of carbon storage, a new study has found. As climate change heats oceans and fuels hurricanes, worsening storms with higher-speed winds are reaching ever deeper into the region’s woodlands, according to findings published on Wednesday in Global Change Biology. Now, just one big storm can knock down…
A divided Supreme Court seemed skeptical that Idaho’s strict abortion ban conflicts with a federal emergency care law, but there appeared to be a split by gender as well as ideology during the nearly two hours of argument. The four female justices, including conservative Amy Coney Barrett, strongly opposed Idaho’s assertion that…
The Biden administration on Wednesday announced a national goal to cut emissions from freight shipping down to zero. A White House fact sheet did not specify a date for this goal, but it adds to existing goals to achieve net-zero emissions for the transportation sector and the entire U.S.…
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