This week, government scientists published a paper in the medical journal JAMA Pediatrics that has added to the debate. It is the analysis behind a 300-page report released last August from the National Toxicology Program, part of the National Institutes of Health That report concluded with "moderate confidence" that there may be a link between high levels of fluoride exposure and lowered IQ. read more
A few minutes into Elon Musk's livestream of his hardcore character in the video game Path of Exile 2, someone DMed him ASCII art of Mario taking a shit on the name "Elon." The fact that the world's richest man and a self-professed epic gamer didn't know he should turn off DMs before starting a livestream was weird. read more
President-elect Donald Trump would have been convicted of illegally trying to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election - which he lost - if he had not successfully been re-elected in the 2024, according to a Department of Justice report released to Congress. "The admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial," the report by Special Counsel Jack Smith said. read more
A draft deal for a ceasefire in Gaza and hostage release has been agreed to in principle and, if all goes well, will be finalized by Israel and Hamas this week, Arab, U.S. and Israeli officials told CBS News. read more
"Murrell's attackers showed no remorse for their actions," [the judge] wrote in her decision, noting that the group "glorified the attack by posting a video online with a clip of the group pinning Murrell against the light post and pushing him into the busy road, to promote the view that non-white individuals like Murrell should be subordinated to white people." read more
Heather Cox Richardson: When a Republican in charge of state redistricting constructs a map based on his idea that "electing Republicans is better than electing Democrats," and when a Republican candidate calls for throwing out the votes of 60,000 voters to declare victory in an election he lost, they have abandoned the principles of democracy in favor of a one-party state that will operate in their favor alone. read more
The Senate confirmation hearing for Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, has begun. read more
PBS does a long fact check on the California wildfires, pointing the misinformation being spread by the incoming President. read more
Republicans, in the peak of cruelty, are turning the L.A. fires into a political bargaining chip. read more
According to nearly a dozen retired officers and current military lawyers, as well as scholars who teach at West Point and Annapolis, an intense if quiet debate is underway inside the U.S. military community about what orders it would be obliged to obey if President-elect Donald Trump decides to follow through on his previous warnings that he might deploy troops against what he deems domestic threats, including political enemies, dissenters and immigrants. read more
Authorities in Indianapolis have charged a 55-year-old Texas man with felony stalking of Indiana Fever star and WNBA rookie of the year Caitlin Clark. read more
Project 2025 takes aim at federal education policy, which ensures that states provide equitable education for all children, and advocates for the disabled are concerned that a second Trump administration will eliminate funding and opportunities for disabled kids, reported Mother Jones. read more
The influence of wealthy donors and dark money was unprecedented. Much of it would have been illegal before the Supreme Court swept away long-established campaign finance rules. read more
A Florida prosecutor who had elected in 2020 then removed from office by Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2022 has been handed a legal loss in his bid to get justice for the ouster. read more
In an escalation of discontent among the highest-profile far-right followers of Donald Trump, his former adviser Steve Bannon has called Trump's newest favorite, Elon Musk, "racist" and a "truly evil guy", pledging to "take this guy down" and kick him out of the Maga movement ... read more
Revolutionary technology is breaking out of the lab. The British government has announced that it is deploying a top-secret quantum clock, developed by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), across the military over the next five years. read more
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