When we imagine the process of developing new drugs, we often picture scientists working with cutting-edge technology in gleaming laboratories. But there’s a side of pharmaceutical research that is darker, hasn’t changed in decades, and escapes most people’s notice: the widespread and often painful testing conducted on animals. We recently got a glimpse of that […]
The British elections on July 4 brought significant drama from the national results down to local races. George Galloway, a former member of Parliament, lost his reelection to Labour Party candidate Paul Waugh. Galloway has been the leader of the Workers Party in Britain since he founded it in 2019. Waugh is a former political […]
The United Kingdom has a new prime minister in the form of Sir Keir Starmer. His Labour Party secured a majority of around 170 seats in Thursday’s election, giving him significant latitude to make new laws. Starmer is married with two teenage children. Law is something Starmer knows quite a bit about. Prior to his […]
The general election in the United Kingdom revealed two things: First, that the incumbent Conservative Party has lost its mandate with voters, and second, that it is possible to count millions of votes in short order. Before the sun rose on July 5 in the U.K., the results for 648 of the 650 parliamentary constituencies […]
If anyone still thought our defense industrial base wasn’t in serious trouble, the most recent Government Accountability Office report on how we acquire and advance new weapons systems should set people straight. By looking at the characteristics and performance of 101 of the Pentagon’s costliest weapon programs, the GAO found that more than half of its […]
After the legacy media were forced to admit the obvious — that President Joe Biden’s mental decline is accelerating faster than a Kennedy approaching a lake — the entire political apparatus flipped overnight. After spending years defending Biden as a deeply qualified, deeply intelligent, and deeply alive political figure, they uniformly dropped their Biden 2024 […]
California officials have approved a first-of-its-kind regulation that will set long-term limits on the amounts of water the state's urban utilities can use on an annual basis. The State Water Resources Control Board granted unanimous support Wednesday to sweeping conservation measures that are expected to generate about 500,000 acre-feet in water savings each year by...
President Biden will participate in a high-stakes interview Friday with ABC News's George Stephanopoulos that the television network is calling a “primetime special" and airing at 8 p.m. The potential make-or-break interview comes eight days after Biden's disastrous debate performance, which has undermined his presidential campaign and has resulted in calls for him to drop...
Former MSNBC host and political analyst Chris Matthews said Friday that little is known about President Biden’s “condition” following last week's debate due to his having an incredibly tight circle. “There is a huge distinction between the people who are on the true inside — the true inside — with the candidate or a president,...
Former Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) has been diagnosed with breast cancer, she announced in a social media post. “I have personal news that I want to share with you because we can all learn from it. I just became one of the 300,000 women per year who are diagnosed with breast cancer,” Speier said in...