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A number of accounts promoting a MAGA and America First agenda have been revealed as being located in Africa, Asia and Europe,
Users posing as rightwing Americans are operating internationally, per the platform’s transparency feature
We use data from the nationally representative (United States) High School and Beyond cohort, characterize fluoride exposure from drinking water across adolescence, adjust for confounders, and observe cognitive test performance in both secondary school and at age ~60. We find that children exposed to recommended levels of fluoride in drinking water exhibit modestly better cognition in secondary school, an advantage that is smaller and no longer statistically significant at age ~60.
The real 'world's first microprocessor' was a classified military secret for nearly 30 years.
The Carney government’s first budget does nothing to address the pressure point that is Old Age Security
Getting covid-19 for the first time slightly increased the risk of heart inflammation, blood clots and bleeding disorders among children, whereas being vaccinated against the virus was much safer and sometimes protective
Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.
over two thirds of SNAP recipients are either children, elderly, or disabled. Of those able-bodied workers with at least one child who receive SNAP, a whopping 89 percent of them have jobs.
the net impact on employment seems to have been . . . nil. Among those who said AI had been implemented, about 80 per cent said there has been no impact on staffing levels as a result, while about 10 per cent reported an increase, and 10 per cent a decrease.
“This general level of unhappiness and this dissatisfaction that I’ve learned to live with — it took me years, decades, but I finally realized this — is what gets me up in the morning,” he said. “It’s what gets me to achieve.”
A Political Explorer analysis found 78.7% of U.S. counties with rising food stamp use since 2010 voted for Trump in 2020. While Trump counties rely heavily on SNAP, he sought cuts to the program.
The survivor of a U.S. strike on a submersible vessel accused by the Trump administration of transporting drugs in the Caribbean has been released by prosecutors in Ecuador.
A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the classic algorithm taught in textbooks.
Employees ranging from senior leaders to engineers are quitting Elon Musk's companies — and often joining his rivals.
How do you negotiate with a man who can break his promises at any time?
Historically, however, these compromise agreements were possible because both parties could rely on the other to honor the agreement after it became law. But the Supreme Court’s decision in AIDS Vaccine suggests that, even if congressional Democrats and Republicans reach a deal where Democrats get some of the health care spending that they seek, Trump can simply cancel that spending after the bill ending the shutdown is signed into law. If he could cancel the foreign aid spending Congress authorized, as the Court just indicated he can, why couldn’t he cancel anything else the legislators agree to?