Texas mall shooting: ‘Neo-Nazi’ Texas gunman opened fire at random – police
Despite his extremist beliefs, the suspect opened fire with no regard for their race or sex, police say.
Briton pleads guilty in US to 2020 Twitter hack
It was probably the most high-profile hack in social media history, hitting dozens of famous accounts.
Title 42: The pandemic-era border policy explained
The Trump administration imposed Title 42 at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, and President Biden supported it. Now, the restrictive rule is about to be lifted. Officials predict that…
US Senator Diane Feinstein returning to DC after resignation calls
While Ms Feinstein has faced calls to resign before, this latest round of demands “does feel different, because she’s missing these votes and the Senate is so closely divided,” Eric…
The debt ceiling saga explained – in under 90 seconds
Will the US government run out of money? Here’s what’s at stake politically and economically.
US health panel releases new breast cancer screening guidelines
“Our worry is that if now the USPS task force says (to screen at) 40 and every two years, we have concerns that’s going to lead to even more disparities…
$5 Million in Damages
Donald Trump’s legal problems are growing deeper. Yesterday, a jury found the former president liable for the sexual abuse and defamation of the magazine writer E. Jean Carroll, ordering him…
What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View, or How to Look at the World from the Philosophical High Ground | naked capitalism
By KLG, who has held research and academic positions in three US medical schools since 1995 and is currently Professor of Biochemistry and Associate Dean. He has performed and directed…
We Can Use AI in the Economy but Only If We Are Willing To Tax Capital More Heavily | naked capitalism
Yves here. While it’s good to see discussion of how to mitigate the employment effect of greater use of AI and what to do to mitigate it, I am bothered…
What Survives in the Atacama Desert?
BY THE TIME I arrived at the European Southern Observatory site at Paranal, I could feel the dryness in my body. A headache nagged. The astronomers there said occasionally their…