Breakthroughs in cell and gene therapy have opened the door to life-changing treatment for people with sickle cell disease. Yet few patients know these treatments exist, and even fewer can access them due to the seven-figure price tag.
Sam Stein highlights 16-year-old cancer patient Mikaela Naylon, who spent her final days lobbying Congress for the Give Kids a Chance Act, helping revive the long-stalled pediatric cancer research bill, with her story inspiring new momentum and raising cautious optimism it could finally pass. Read more
President Donald Trump doesn't have his name on the Kennedy Center yet, but he's already shaped it to his tastes. Later this month, he's assembling the center's board of trustees, which he chairs, in Palm Beach, Florida " nearly 1,000 miles away from the institution's home in Washington, DC. Board meetings, one attendee says, now mirror Trump Cabinet meetings, with members going around the room to "talk about how great and visionary the president is and how he has so much class and taste." Read more
Whether you're logging into your bank, health insurance, or even your email, most services today do not live by passwords alone. Now commonplace, multifactor authentication (MFA) requires users to enter a second or third proof of identity. However, not all forms of MFA are created equal, and the one-time passwords orgs send to your phone have holes so big you could drive a truck through them.
The Signalgate scandal that enveloped US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in March appears to be symptomatic of a wider lax attitude towards the use of non-approved messaging apps by officials and employees, a Senate Committee has concluded.
WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (Reuters) -- The United States will reassert its dominance in the Western Hemisphere, build military strength in the Indo-Pacific, and possibly reassess its relationship with Europe, President Donald Trump said on Friday in a sweeping strategy document that seeks to reframe the country's role in the world. The National Security Strategy, released overnight, described Trump's vision as one of "flexible realism" and argued that the U.S. should revive the 19th century Monroe Doctrine, which declared the Western Hemisphere to be Washington's zone of influence. It also warned that Europe faces "civilizational erasure" and must change course.
Rubio: Here's the problem with vetting people. You can't have a perfect vet no matter who that person is, for a couple reasons. The first is we don't -- you can only vet information that exists, right? So it is possible that in many cases there are things about these people you just don't know. No matter how much you vet them, you just don't have certain information. And in some parts of the world where there's very limited documentation, very limited, you can't just go out and interview people in many cases because of the presence of the Taliban, et cetera. It becomes very difficult. Read more
the little horror gets a fake peace prize, too
The DODIG report is 65 pages long and mildly redacted.
Thanksgiving travelers were surprised last week when Airbus grounded roughly six thousand A320-family jets for an urgent software rollback. The cause of the delay? Fears of radiation from cosmic rays and solar storms.
Outgoing Islamophobic sore loser NYC Mayor Eric Adams signed an executive order barring NYC from making business or pension investment decisions that discriminate against Israel to continue sabotaging the popular NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani who wants to divest NYC funds from the ethnic cleansing Pariah nation, which would include an NYPD contract worth $567,000 with Tel Aviv-based Terrogence Global.
... What if he didn't really change"what if the bureaucrats changed him? That's the puzzle piece America and the Trump administration are examining right now. Biden's hard turn left after taking office arrived without an external shock. Which invites a different reading, one that might sound cynical in any other era. Maybe the shift that began with a stack of pardon certificates wasn't evolution. Maybe it was a revolution by the people who held the pen
Staged just a mile from the White House, Friday's World Cup draw will have a distinctly political feel. The glittering ceremony will take place at the Kennedy Center, the famous Washington arts venue now chaired by US President Donald Trump after he overhauled its board this year. Proceedings, however, seem to have been planned with the US president very much in mind. Read more
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) accused former Vice President Kamala Harris of telling "blatant lies" to write her postcampaign memoir "107 Days" and "cover her a"," according to a profile about the governor published in The Atlantic on Wednesday. Reporter Tim Alberta described Shapiro as "between outrage and exasperation as I relayed the excerpts" about him from Harris's book. She accused Shapiro of taking over the conversation when he was interviewed to be her running mate, allegedly insisting on being "in the room for every decision," Alberta wrote.
F Finally, thankfully, the global warming craze is dying out. To paraphrase Monty Python, the climate parrot may still be nailed to its perch at the recent COP summit in Belm, Brazil " or at Harvard and on CNN " but elsewhere it's dead. It's gone to meet its maker, kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. By failing to pledge a cut in fossil fuels, COP achieved less than nothing, the venue caught fire, the air-conditioning malfunctioned " and delegates were told on arrival not to flush toilet paper. Bill Gates's recent apologia, in which he conceded that global warming "will not lead to humanity's demise," after he closed the policy and advocacy office of his climate philanthropy group is just the latest nail in the coffin.
