A startling report in New York Times Magazine has brought to light how the scientific consensus on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has changed. According to one of the scientists interviewed for the piece, the concept of ADHD is facing an “empirical crisis.” ADHD’s hallmark symptoms of inattentiveness and restlessness present in a variety of ways. Individuals are easily distracted, […]
Rezo Kiknadze, a 26-year-old detained during anti-government protests in Tbilisi in December, faces six years in prison. In a Georgian court, Kiknadze addressed the judge and quoted Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel The Feast of the Goat: “This book is about a tyrant’s end — in the end, everyone leaves the dictator and he dies alone.” […]
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has been losing favorability over the course of President Trump’s second White House term, according to a new survey released on Wednesday. The Economist/YouGov Poll found that just 23 percent of U.S. adults have a favorable view of Schumer, while little over half, 51 percent, of respondents said they...
The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed to loosen federal protections for endangered species. A draft rule from the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) would repeal the current definition of “harm” that’s prohibited under the Endangered Species Act. The law prohibits activity that would “harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill,...
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that the agency will launch a series of new studies aimed at finding the “environmental toxins” he believes are causing increasing rates of autism spectrum disorder. “This is coming from an environmental toxin and somebody made a profit by putting that environmental toxin in...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned Wednesday that President Trump's aggressive new tariffs could both lower growth and raises prices — a dynamic known as stagflation, which is notoriously difficult for the central bank to control. In a Wednesday speech in Chicago, Powell said the economy could be “moving away” from the Fed's goal of...
Time is running out for some Walgreens shoppers to file for their part of a proposed class action settlement that accuses the pharmacy chain of overcharging for generic drugs.
In a recent op-ed, Seleman Yusuph Kitenge argued for an "Africa First" policy to emphasize domestic resource mobilization, strengthening transportation systems and other social services, and the advancement of institutions and human capital to strengthen Africa's economic independence and reduce reliance on foreign aid.
Nvidia revealed on Tuesday the Trump administration's tighter export controls on computer chips will cost the company $5.5 billion. In a filing Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nvidia said it will take a $5.5 billion charge for the exporting of its H20 graphics processing units to China. Exports of a similar bandwidth...
Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.) sparred with CNN host Pamela Brown over the Supreme Court’s ruling regarding the deportation of a Maryland man who was sent to the CECOT maximum security prison in El Salvador. Kilmar Abrego Garcia was removed from the United States last month despite his legal residency in Maryland for more than a...