For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks " yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system? Researchers at the University of Notre Dame now suggest that intelligence doesn't live in one "smart" region of the brain at all. Instead, it emerges from how efficiently and flexibly the brain's many networks communicate and coordinate with each other.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) faced a major legal setback as federal judges in New Jersey and Texas criticized the agency over prolonged detentions and repeated violations of court orders.
March 8 will be the last time most British Columbians have to change their clocks, premier announces
There has been another successful ditching of a plane on the Hudson River. This one is much smaller and only had two passengers but they ditched the plane at night 200 ft off the shore in a section of the Hudson that had active ice in it and they swam to shore in that condition.
When a 41-year-old mother is murdered at a bus stop, who bothers to protest? Stephanie Minter's death is as closely tied to the nation's immigration debate as Alex Pretti's or Renee Good's. But while Pretti and Good died while trying to prevent the enforcement of our country's immigration laws, Minter died precisely because those laws were not enforced. Abdul Jalloh, the man alleged to have stabbed Minter to death in Fairfax County, Virginia, should never have set foot in America.
The US and Israel are employing tactics used in Israel's genocide in Gaza, the "War on Terror," and Donald Trump's recent attacks on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean Sea.
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Ivermectin is now making a comeback, after its use receded in the waning years of the pandemic. Now, especially in conservative political circles, its reputation keeps growing as a kind of cure-all for various ailments, and even for cancer " despite a lack of evidence it works. Last month, Trump's appointed head of the National Cancer Institute, Anthony Letai, said the agency was conducting preclinical studies on ivermectin's ability to kill cancer cells " though doctors say it holds little promise. And Florida's First Lady Casey DeSantis, a breast cancer survivor, touted it in announcing $60 million in cancer research funding, including use of ivermectin.
When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran, according to more than a half dozen sources with knowledge of the firings. The firings came as Patel claimed " without evidence " that the team of FBI agents who investigated Trump's hoarding of top-secret records at his Mar-a-Lago club had engaged in improper investigative steps. But his gutting of the global espionage unit, known as CI-12, also came days before Trump launched Operation Epic Fury, a series of bombing strikes on Iran that killed the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Two of Donald Trump's MAGA stars appear to be on the outs after a searing rebuke from the president surrounding their comments on his Iran strikes.
Megachurch pastor Jack Hibbs (68): "Let me tell you something right now, you want to have Democrats removed from the face of the earth, bring over some Iranians right now and they would take care of the Democrats."
This Hideous Sky Pilot Really Packs Them In
Foreign Service Officer Jared Llamado (32) of McLean Virginia stabbed Michelle Adams (39); Dana Bonnell (36); Mary C. Flood (37), and Heather Miller (40) in a road rage incident in Fairfax, VA. Adams and a dog were killed in his rampage, as was Llamado by a responding Virginia State Trooper.
FSO Jared Llamado Went Completely Bananas
The US launched preemptive strikes against Iran after learning Israel was about to attack " and American troops in the region faced an imminent threat of retaliation, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday. Rubio made the revelation on Capitol Hill, where he briefed a small group of congressional leaders on the joint US-Israel offensive. 'There absolutely was an imminent threat,' Rubio stated. 'And the imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked, and we believed they would be attacked, that they would immediately come after us, and we were not going to sit there and absorb a blow before we responded.' Read more
Latest numbers show 80+% Of men have registered with Selective Service....
Police Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch announced that the NYPD delivered the safest January ever for gun violence, with the fewest shooting incidents and shooting victims in recorded history. Manhattan and Staten Island went the entire month of January without a single murder.
Jessica Tisch Doing Great for New Yorkers
Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people "recover," all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.
Slave owning Founding Father Caesar Rodney, "whose statue in Delaware was removed in 2020 amid calls for racial reckoning, will be given a position in honor in Washington by the Trump administration as part of celebrations of the nation's 250th birthday."
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