A study has found that marijuana users have elevated levels of heavy metals in their blood and urine compared to those who do not use marijuana. The study, published Wednesday in the Environmental Health Perspectives journal, found that marijuana users had higher levels of lead in their blood and urine compared to non-marijuana users. Conducted at...
A Texas state judge has shot down an expansive new law that would override cities’ authority to make their own laws, declaring it unconstitutional Wednesday. House Bill 2127, which opponents have dubbed the “Death Star Bill,” would prevent cities from passing and enforcing local rules in several major policy areas without state authorization. That includes...
Rock singer Alice Cooper has lost his deal with an LGBTQ-owned cosmetics company after he called "cases of transgender" people a "fad." Cooper’s comments were published last week in an interview with Stereogum in which the singer was asked his opinion on gender-affirming care. The interviewer brought up Cooper’s 1974 interview with SPEC in which the singer said “everyone...
Two years have passed since the last American boots left Afghan soil, but the shame of unkept promises still tarnishes our reputation. Despite assurances from the Biden administration that no one would be left behind in Afghanistan, thousands of our former partners and allies there still dodge Taliban death squads and plead for extraction. Americans...
Tropical Storm Idalia is commanding the nation’s attention as it makes its destructive way across the nation’s Southeast. The focus at this stage is rightly on the human toll. As of Wednesday afternoon, there were no direct fatalities officially reported in Florida, the first and hardest-hit state — though two deaths in car crashes may have...
Acting Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith has ordered a service-wide safety review following a deadly MV-22B Osprey crash in Australia this past weekend. Three Marines were killed and 20 were injured Sunday when an Osprey tiltrotor aircraft crashed on Melville Island, north of Darwin, an incident that remains under investigation. In a message to the...
In a recent interview, former President Trump was asked whether he was considering a "Vice President Ramaswamy" as he watched last week's first Republican debate.