FDA panel backs first over-the-counter birth control pill in US
The committee’s recommendation means the agency is likely to formally approve the drug this summer.
WATCH: Police mistake goat for man yelling ‘help’
Police in the US responded to a report of someone crying for “help”, but as their bodycam footage showed, it turns out that someone was a distressed goat. Officers of…
Boy aged eight survives two days in Michigan wilderness by eating snow
Nante Niemi went missing for two days while camping in remote woodland in Michigan state.
Links 5/11/2023 | naked capitalism
Alligator Mating Season is Underway in Florida—and Is Causing Havoc Field and Stream Exploring a Middle Ordovician Burgess Shale-type fauna Ecology & Evolution (Sub-Boreal). Citizen science! Warehouses Outperform in Cloudy…
New Wave of Asylum-Seekers at US Southern Border as Title 42 Expires | naked capitalism
Yves here. Tonight we see mainstream media confirming a favored conservative hobbyhorse, that of uncontrolled immigration at the US-Mexico border. For instance, the lead story at BBC is US border…
U.S. Focuses on Invigorating ‘Chiplets’ to Stay Cutting-Edge in Tech
For more than 50 years, designers of computer chips mainly used one tactic to boost performance: They shrank electronic components to pack more power onto each piece of silicon. Then…
Luxury Imports to Russia Take a Detour Around Sanctions — Through Dubai
On a dusty roadside on the outskirts of Dubai, Sohrab Fani is profiting from the West’s response to the war in Ukraine: his shop installs seat heaters into cars being…
Families of Those Lost to Covid Wrestle With Mixed Emotions as Emergency Ends
Shannon Cummings, 53, has tried to push forward after her husband, Larry, a college professor, died of Covid-19 in March 2020. She flew from her home in Michigan to Southern…
‘De-Americanize’: How China Is Remaking Its Chip Business
Last October, construction plans for a hulking semiconductor factory owned by a major state-backed company in central China fell into disarray. The Biden administration had escalated the trade war over…
What’s Driving Record Levels of Migration to the U.S. Border?
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — Millions of people are leaving their homes across Latin America in numbers not seen in decades, many of them pressing toward the United States. While migration…