BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombian police apprehended a 40-year-old man attempting to smuggle several bags of cocaine concealed beneath a meticulously attached toupee. Police said the suspect was detained at Cartagena's airport on Monday as he prepared to board a flight to Amsterdam. A scanner revealed the hidden cargo: 220 grams of cocaine packaged in small bags, strategically placed under what authorities described as a "narco wig." read more
Through NIH funding, universities for decades have partnered with the federal government to support scientists' academic pursuits. Duke University pharmacology and cancer biology professor Donald McDonnell estimates his laboratory has received up to $40 million in NIH funding over 30 years. His lab developed a drug approved in 2023 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat metastatic breast cancer. Upkeep for lab equipment, including machines to grow cancer cells and massive freezers for enzymes and chemicals, would be difficult to afford if indirect cost rates dropped to 15%, McDonnell said. His laboratory also likely will be in the red due to the uncertainty around NIH grants, which would lead to staff layoffs. "The bottom line is, I can't live, I can't think in this chaos," McDonnell said. read more
Billionaire Elon Musk will testify under oath in the case regarding his 2022 purchase of the social media platform Twitter (now X). Investors have filed a lawsuit, claiming that his controversial decision to acquire the platform was merely a tactic to lower its stock price, according to Bloomberg.
... Reviewing reports, legislation, and court cases, Blumm and Jamin found that the previous Trump administration systematically worked to reduce various public lands protections, including reversing national monument expansions and endangered species protections, while proposing an industry-friendly reorganization of the Bureau of Land Management. They argue that, in doing so, the president aimed to appeal to industrial interests, often contradicting requests from local residents and Indigenous nations... .
The U.S. Senate voted Monday to confirm billionaire GOP donor and former wrestling industry executive Linda McMahon as the next secretary of the federal Department of Education. read more
The mystery sources strike again!
#10 | Posted by lfthndthrds
Anytime I read this, I flinch because of the in-your-face ignorance of how things work.
It's called journalism. Facts from what you call "mystery sources" are vetted within the news outlet, usually at least twice, and verified independently. The names of those sources are also known.
Whole generations of dumb@sses never learned how to read critically.
Whole generations of dumb@sses now also think all the world's knowledge is available on the internet.
28. Hard to go wrong with the Blue Goose label.