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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Brazil's prosecutor-general on Tuesday formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat ... read more


THREE DAYS AFTER the National Institutes of Health abruptly announced it would place a strict, low cap on the money it sends to universities and research institutions for the administrative costs of scientific research, the University of Iowa made an abrupt announcement of its own. The school's Office of the Vice President for Research declared that going forward, it would pause "the hiring of new Graduate Research Assistants unless they are already budgeted as a direct cost on a funded project." The announcement sent shockwaves through parts of academia, providing an alarming demonstration of the impact the NIH cap would have on aspiring scientists. "We were pretty stunned," the chair of the biochemistry and molecular biology department at a top university told The Bulwark.


The United States Department of Agriculture on Tuesday said that, over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak. read more


Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) introduced a bill Friday that would establish President Trump's birthday, June 14, as a public holiday. read more


EJ Montini: The most zealous supporters of President Donald Trump practically broke the internet with maniacal rants protesting actor Tom Hanks' comic portrayal of a guy named "Doug" wearing a Make America Great Again (MAGA) hat during the 50th anniversary show of "Saturday Night Live." read more


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