President Donald Trump said the US used a weapon he referred to as a "discombobulator" to capture then-Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro this month, but a senior US official said he's likely conflating tools used by the US military. "The discombobulator, I'm not allowed to talk about it," Trump told the New York Post in an interview that published Saturday but added that it "made [enemy] equipment not work" during the capture. The president may be conflating several capabilities into a single weapon that doesn't exist, a senior US official told CNN. US forces did use cyber tools to disable early warning and other Venezuelan defense systems during the operation, it also utilized existing acoustic systems to disorient personnel on the ground.
Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist recently appointed as chair of a highly influential federal vaccine committee, questioned the need for immunizing against illnesses like polio in a podcast interview released Thursday. read more
More than 7,800 research grants terminated or frozen. Some 25,000 scientists and personnel gone from agencies that oversee research. Proposed budget cuts of 35% " amounting to US$32 billion. These are just a few of the ways in which Donald Trump has downsized and disrupted US science since returning to the White House last January. As his administration seeks to reshape US research and development, it has substantially scaled back and restricted what science the country pursues and the workforce that runs the federal scientific enterprise. n an unprecedented move, officials began terminating already-funded grants at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in February, and later at the National Science Foundation (NSF), two of the largest public supporters of scientific research in the United States.
Outraged critics accused President Donald Trump of "whitewashing history" on Friday after the National Park Service removed an exhibit on slavery at Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park in response to his executive order "restoring truth and sanity to American history" at the nation's museums, parks and landmarks. he panels came down because Trump's order requires federal agencies to review interpretive materials to "ensure accuracy, honesty, and alignment with shared national values," an Interior Department statement said.
The Florida Bar downplayed a congressional finding that Matt Gaetz, President Trump's first choice for U.S. Attorney General, committed statutory rape before it abandoned his prosecution. read more
Every --------- who voted for the necrotic------------------- deserves to choke out on a ventilator.
Alex Pretti's Sig handgun has history of accidentally firing " offering possible clue to why Border agent shot him
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That's quite a reach.