Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is calling for an investigation after she said her guest for President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address was “aggressively” removed from the House chamber. Omar invited Minneapolis resident Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen and Bangladeshi American software engineer, as her guest for Tuesday night’s speech. Rahman was previously detained […]
In this Media Miss Minute, a newly uncovered Department of Justice (DOJ) email is raising fresh questions about whether convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein really died by suicide. Plus, one Nobel Peace Prize winner says President Donald Trump is either a traitor or “exceptional.” Media Miss by the right: DOJ email called Epstein death a […]
News headlines often compress complex science into a simple storyline: If two things are happening at the same time, one must be causing the other. Tylenol causes autism. Ultra-processed foods cause cancer. Social media causes depression. But in science, that’s only the starting point. When two trends move in tandem, researchers call that a correlation. […]
Former Harvard President and Treasury Secretary Larry Summers announced he plans to resign from his position at the university amid growing scrutiny over his ties to convicted sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein. Summers said he would retire from his professorship at the end of the academic year. “I will always be grateful to the thousands of students […]
A bipartisan aviation safety bill drafted after a fatal midair collision near Washington, D.C., has been rejected in the House, stalling its path forward. The bill failed, 264–133, one day after the Pentagon withdrew its support. It’s a reversal that The New York Times reported fueled opposition in the House. The ROTOR Act fell short […]
Microsoft founder Bill Gates apologized Tuesday to staff at his nonprofit Gates Foundation for his ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. During a town hall meeting, Gates acknowledged having two extramarital affairs while married to the foundation’s co-founder, Melinda French Gates. But he denied the women were among Epstein’s victims and said he did […]
Cuban officials said that its military opened fire on a U.S.-registered speedboat Tuesday, killing four people and injuring six. Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior posted on X, saying that the American boat fired the first shots, and a commander of the Cuban border guard was injured. “When a surface unit of the Border Guard Troops […]
The clock is ticking for Anthropic, one of the world’s largest artificial intelligence companies, after the Department of Defense threatened to blacklist the company from working with the military. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the company has until 5 p.m. on Friday to grant the Pentagon full, unfettered access to its AI model. If not, […]
The FBI raided the offices of the Los Angeles Unified School District and the district’s superintendent, Alberto Carvalho. So far, it’s unclear exactly what prompted the raid conducted on Wednesday morning. FBI raid The FBI and Department of Justice reportedly confirmed federal agents searched Carvalho’s office at LAUSD headquarters in downtown LA. Employees were reportedly […]
Representatives from 15 states sued the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and their leaders, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya. The complaint, filed Tuesday, alleges that the defendants unlawfully dismantled and reconstituted a federal vaccine advisory panel and then changed the childhood vaccine schedule […]
