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Hawthorne Sisters Fight for Freedom — and Life

They are one of the religious communities fighting for their right not to have to lead their patients to suicide under our new evil law.

The DSA Has Slogans, but Isn’t Interested in Policies

Nothing is quite so devastating to the DSA as simply and directly asking them...

Barbara Streisand slams Fauci ‘witch hunt’ after Senate committee contempt vote

BARBARA STREISAND: "Dr. Anthony Fauci has been subjected to a disgraceful witch hunt by Senate Republicans ... [he] is an American hero."

Fauci’s phone messages showed concern about pregnant women miscarrying after COVID vaccine

Dr. Anthony Fauci privately acknowledged a potential risk of miscarriage if pregnant women took a COVID vaccine in the first trimester, even as he and the rest of the federal government were urging them to get the shots, according to messages from his phone.

Moolenaar presses Trump admin to confirm chip due-diligence rule still stands amid loophole fears

House Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar is pressing the Trump administration to formally confirm that a rule requiring chipmakers to vet their customers before exporting advanced artificial intelligence chips remains in force, warning that lingering ambiguity could reopen a loophole.

Perseid meteor shower: When is the best time to watch the summer light show?

The Perseid summer light show is back — and viewing conditions are especially promising for the Northern Hemisphere.

The Movement: A $20 burrito and a fight over affordability

A personal note to readers from Emily Brooks: I have welcomed my second child! I’ll be out on maternity leave for the next few months, and Helen, our Senate reporter, will take over writing of The Movement in the meantime. Please continue to share your insights, events, scoops and announcements with her. I look forward...

Trump secretly departed Turkey on third plane: Report

President Trump secretly departed the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, last month using an alternate military aircraft amid security concerns involving Iran. Trump boarded the old Air Force One jet before he was secretly shuttled to a smaller Air Force C-32A plane while inside a catering truck typically used to load meals and other supplies...

Trump, threatened by Iran, used ruse to fly home from Turkey on jet

In today's issue: ▪ Republicans to choose Graham replacement ▪ Trump rolls back vaccine guidance ▪ Blanche sworn in as attorney general ▪ Record heat in contiguous U.S. President Trump engaged in an elaborate ruse last month as he faced a threat against his life from Iran, leaving a summit in Turkey via military jet while making...

Hacks by runaway AI are foreseeable. We’re letting them happen.

There is a point of no return ahead: a point where we can’t simply turn the AIs off because they’d escape and turn us off instead.

Before more E15 reaches the pump, boaters deserve a real warning

At a minimum, we need clear, highly visible pump labels with standardized language that says plainly: "E15 is not for boats."

American Medical Association criticizes Trump executive order on childhood vaccine schedule

The president of the American Medical Association on Monday said President Trump’s new recommendations on childhood immunizations put “children’s health at risk,” joining the chorus of medical experts criticizing the executive order. “Vaccines are among the most thoroughly studied, effective tools we have to protect children from serious vaccine-preventable diseases,” Dr. Willie Underwood III said...

Judge deals blow to Mamdani plan to tax second homes

A judge in Staten Island, N.Y., temporarily blocked New York City Zohran Mamdani’s (D) rollout of a new tax on second homes worth more than $5 million, according to multiple reports. The ruling from Judge Wayne Ozzi, a Democrat on the state’s Supreme Court, required the city to take down a public list of 900,000-plus...

North Carolina Republicans pick ballot replacement for Rep. Chuck Edwards

Republicans in North Carolina selected state Rep. Jennifer Balkcom (R) as the new GOP nominee in the state’s 11th Congressional District, after Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) dropped out of the race last week. Members of the state GOP’s executive committee for the 11th district selected Balkcom just 85 days before Election Day in what projects...

Iran’s steep demands for US over Strait of Hormuz threaten to derail reopening

A deal between Iran and Oman to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is teetering over steep demands from Tehran for the United States and vice versa. Iran on Sunday said the agreement to set up new shipping lanes was in its final stages, but repeated ​that the vital waterway would only reopen once Washington met...

Trump says he hasn’t spoken to Blanche or Pirro about prosecuting Fauci

President Trump said Monday he has not spoken to Attorney General Todd Blanche nor Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., regarding prosecuting Dr. Anthony Fauci. “I have not spoken to them about that, no,” Trump told Semafor’s Shelby Talcott in the Oval Office. Last Thursday, Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental...

American Academy of Pediatrics calls Trump vaccine order ‘dangerous’

The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics blasted President Trump’s Monday executive order calling for fewer childhood vaccines. "As measles cases reach a 35-year high in the U.S. and with cold and flu season quickly approaching, today's executive order on vaccines is not only disheartening but dangerous,” Dr. Andrew Racine said in a release. ...

White House thrusts vaccines back into headlines 

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Healthcare   The Big Story White House thrusts vaccines back into headlines The Trump administration appeared to be backing away from making moves on changing vaccine policy in recent months, perhaps wary of political backlash ahead of the midterm elections. But it all came roaring...

Tech companies must face thousands of lawsuits over social media addiction, appeals court rules

A U.S. Appeals Court on Monday declined to drop the thousands of online safety lawsuits against social media firms, ruling Meta and TikTok appealed the cases too early. In an opinion issued Monday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined the technology liability shield — Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — cannot...

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