Pace of N.I.H. Funding Slows Further in Trump’s Second Year

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Trump Administration Live Updates: C.D.C. Canceled Publication of Covid Vaccine Study

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Trump Administration Live Updates: C.D.C. Canceled Publication of Covid Vaccine Study

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No, Women Are Not OK Right Now YouTube video by Leeja Miller

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Trump Thinks He’s Become Orange Jesus In Trump 1.0, people mocked the President by calling him Orange Jesus. In Trump 2.0, he actually thinks he’s become Jesus, Susan B. Glasser writes.

America’s Orange Jesus
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What Brought Down Eric Swalwell In some ways, Eric Swalwell’s miserable tale is as old as time. In others, it looks like a parable of our modern media environment.

What Brought Down Eric Swalwell
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Donald Trump’s Triumphal Arch and the Architecture of Autocracy The latest in the Trumpite series of proposed oversized buildings is a so-called triumphal arch, though exactly what triumph so needs an arch is unclear, Adam Gopnik writes.

Donald Trump’s Triumphal Arch and the Architecture of Autocracy
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The Rise of CliffsNotes Cinema Oversimplified literary remakes miss the point of the works they are adapting.

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And this is why Bibi won’t stop the wars, he can’t, if he does, his trials will start up again and he will end up in prison.

Netanyahu’s Very Useful War The Israeli leader is trying to make the Iran war work to his political advantage. He may not succeed.

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Define Jewish State The phrase is even more complicated than it appears.

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Endgame The world’s richest man is accruing more power than ever before.

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The New Age of Performance Anxiety With the rise of screen culture, all the world has stage fright.

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The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

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An Extra-Embarrassing White House Correspondents’ Dinner Why is Donald Trump breaking bread with the “enemy of the people”?

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A ‘Barbaric’ Problem in American Hospitals Is Only Getting Bigger Patients are getting stuck in the emergency department for days while waiting for a spot in an inpatient ward.

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A ‘Barbaric’ Problem in American Hospitals Is Only Getting Bigger Patients are getting stuck in the emergency department for days while waiting for a spot in an inpatient ward.

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The families of all dictators must not be allowed to enjoy the stolen weather. Civil courts must also allow torture victims to sue the estates of such dictators

‘Petro-masculinity’ is destroying the planet. Can eco-masculinity help save it? | Andrew Boyd It’s crucial to understanding how gender is affecting our ability to rally behind a shared ecological vision

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Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s Iran negotiations: ‘His word is as good as the gold commode he sits on’ Late-night hosts discussed Trump’s ‘indefinite’ ceasefire with Iran as peace talks over the unpopular war stall.

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Another victim of Cesar Chavez breaks their silence: ​​‘My body remembers’ Jennifer Andrea Porras, now 53, says they were sexually abused by the union leader as a teen

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‘Get back to work’: Amazon faces fresh scrutiny over workplace safety record Workers and labor advocates say the company’s injury rates and how it treats injured staff remain a problem

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Democrats demand FBI director, Kash Patel, take alcohol abuse test Amid growing congressional scrutiny of his conduct, Patel has claimed he has ‘never been intoxicated on the job’

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What is Mythos AI and why could it be a threat to global cybersecurity? Anthropic’s decision to restrict access to its powerful new model increases fears about the advanced technology

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World food systems ‘pushed to the brink’ by extreme heat, UN warns Severe heatwaves in commonly hot regions could leave farmers unable to work outside, with livestock mortality rates expected to rise

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Nearly half of US children are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, report warns American Lung Association report comes amid Trump EPA’s expansive rollback of environmental protections

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What is May Day Strong, the ‘no work, no school, no shopping’ protests against Trump? Day of action to support workers set for 1 May – who is organizing May Day Strong, and how can people join?

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Tehran’s embattled Jewish community endures despite Israeli bombing of synagogue Members of Rafi’ Nia synagogue braved airstrikes to celebrate Passover hours before it was destroyed

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The Pentagon released its UFO videos – so I went to the US to chase aliens. This is what I found What is behind the surge in ufology? The recent spike can be traced to the top of the US government, which inspired me to start investigating ...

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Is The United States Government Trying To Stop Citizens From Leaving? YouTube video by Shayna Conde

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