A quiet algorithmic coup recently reshaped American medicine. The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association released their updated dyslipidemia guidelines. By retiring older risk calculators in favor of the new Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease EVENTS, or PREVENTS, equations, these centralized medical bodies expanded the age range for primary cardiovascular prevention up […]
A student raises her hand and asks a question into the microphone. The woman on the screen in front of them pauses, blinks, and answers. The classroom falls quiet as Holocaust survivor Sonia Warshawski describes what she lived through in her own words. For a moment, it feels as if she is sitting with the […]
In Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power, Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick promise to pull back the curtain on what they believe is among the most important dynamics underlying today’s politics: the pro-Israel lobby’s alleged control over American foreign policy. However, they ultimately come up short. Rather than embrace the topic’s […]
Senate Republicans on Thursday voted down an amendment that sought to open up Americans’ ability to sue pesticide companies over the health impacts of their products. The amendment to the Senate farm bill failed in a party-line vote. While the measure was backed by all of the Senate Agriculture Committee’s Democrats and none of its...
Long-shot Democratic congressional candidate Kirill Basin was arrested last weekend following an altercation at a Maui beach ahead of the Democratic primary in Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District on Aug. 8, where he's seeking to unseat two-term Rep. Jill Tokuda (D-Hawaii). According to the Maui Police Department, the incident began after a 61-year-old man asked Basin...
Vice President Vance met with Senate Republicans at the Capitol on Thursday to discuss how to move the Republican agenda, which has stalled in part because of a fierce intraparty fight over delaying a ban on hemp-derived, intoxicating products, such as delta-8 THC. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) invited Vance to speak to GOP colleagues at...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday voted to eliminate a long-standing rule capping the number of households a single broadcaster can reach nationwide, a move the commission said is necessary to better help television networks compete with the rapid growth of tech companies in the media sector. The now-scrapped rule, which had been in...
Conservative commentator Scott Jennings says it "might be time" for President Trump to weigh in on Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio), an embattled lawmaker facing allegations of domestic violence. CNN's John Berman asked Jennings why Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) has been one of the few Republican lawmakers to call for Miller to resign, saying GOP members...
Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) broke his silence on the abuse allegations against Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) Wednesday and called for his fellow Ohio Republican to drop his reelection bid and resign from Congress for the sake of his daughter’s wellbeing. Husted had largely declined to comment on the serious abuse charges leveled against Miller by...
President Trump defended Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday after the two reportedly clashed last week at Camp David over the depletion of the U.S. military’s munition stockpiles during the war with Iran. “The Fake News, as usual, is spreading false and completely unfounded rumors. I am extremely happy with the job that Pete Hegseth...
The White House has launched a website called “The Fraud Ledger” that tracks the fraud crackdowns by Vice President Vance’s task force. “President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance are waging war on the fraudsters and scammers who have looted hardworking Americans for far too long,” the website reads. It allows visitors to...
More Americans are saying extreme heat is impacting multiple facets of their lives, according to a new poll. In The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll, 50 percent of respondents said their sleep has faced a “major impact” or “minor impact” from extreme heat in the last year, while 39 percent said the...
New reported cases of Ebola are outpacing the response capabilities from international health partners, a top World Health Organization (WHO) official said this week. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the “outbreak is spreading faster than our scale up of the response” in a statement shared on social media following a Wednesday meeting with health...
A federal judge on Wednesday confirmed Haitian migrants in the U.S. have lost their temporary protected status (TPS), after the Supreme Court ruled earlier this summer the Trump administration could terminate the designation. In a two-page order, U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes acknowledged the Supreme Court reversed her February decision pausing the administration’s decision ending...
A federal judge has halted, for now, a Thursday deadline for President Trump to hand over documents detailing the finances of his business empire to the BBC. The BBC was set to receive them in discovery today as part of Trump’s ongoing libel lawsuit against the outlet, which concerns its editing of the president’s Jan. 6,...
