The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is best known for protecting consumers from dangerous products – like children’s clothing that fails federal standards or dressers that can tip over. Now, it’s taking on a new role. The Trump administration is demanding that some of the nation’s biggest hospitals turn over patient records. The CPSC has […]
Beef prices continue to fluctuate, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture is trying to balance lowering costs with its New World screwworm eradication efforts since officials confirmed the insect crossed into the U.S. earlier this summer. On Friday, the department announced it would again begin importing cattle from Mexico, the epicenter of the insect’s outbreak. […]
Chipmaker Nvidia is leading an artificial intelligence safety initiative along with 36 other major tech companies after an OpenAI model broke out of a test and hacked the open-source AI library platform Hugging Face. The initiative includes major AI companies like Microsoft and SpaceX, but three notable exceptions are Anthropic, OpenAI and Google. On July […]
Anna Delvey, known for inspiring the hit Netflix series “Inventing Anna,” about her turn impersonating a German heiress, and appearing on “Dancing with the Stars” while still wearing the ankle monitor that followed the related convictions, announced last week that she has a problem with Wikipedia. In a Friday Substack post, Delvey complained about the […]
Key parts of President Donald Trump’s mail-in voting order will remain blocked in 23 states after a federal appeals court refused to let the administration move forward with them before the midterm elections. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston rejected the Trump administration’s request to let the order move forward in states […]
After nearly two weeks of U.S. airstrikes, the war in Iran has entered a new phase as both sides paused attacks over the weekend, and diplomatic efforts gained momentum. It’s not clear why the U.S. temporarily halted strikes, but the lull comes as Oman says talks with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz are […]
Autism has become one of the most intensely debated topics in health, with competing claims about its causes and how it should be treated. But behind those public debates, researchers say autism science has entered one of its most promising periods. Few people have witnessed that transformation more closely than Joseph Buxbaum, a psychiatrist, neuroscientist […]
Police are searching for a second suspect after a deadly shooting near Seattle’s Space Needle on Sunday. They say one suspect is in custody after gunfire erupted during a food festival, killing three people and injuring four others, including a toddler. It happened at about 6 p.m. local time at the Bite of Seattle festival. Investigators believe […]
A deadly shooting at a Seattle food festival leaves police searching for a second gunman. Investigators believe the suspects were shooting at each other, but one remains on the run. Plus, the suspect in Germany’s deadly Pride attack is dead after a confrontation with police. Now investigators are focused on what he may have planned […]
The Pentagon now separates public casualty totals from the Iran war across two parts of its database, a change that came after lawmakers and military families questioned whether the department had understated the war’s toll. The Defense Casualty Analysis System now lists some Iran-related casualties under Operation Epic Fury and others under a new, generic […]
