Markets may have recovered this month only because two scheming advisors worked the president in the absence of a third. The Wall Street Journal reports Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick both wanted President Donald Trump to pause his market-destroying global tariffs, but Peter Navarro — senior counselor for trade and manufacturing…
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Joy Milne knew something was wrong with her husband long before doctors did. It started with a change in his scent—a musky, waxy odor she couldn’t place. Seventeen years later, when Les was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, the pieces fell into place. Then, at a support group, she smelled it again: the same distinct fragrance…
In January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring missile attacks the gravest threat to America. It was the official greenlight for one of the most ambitious military undertakings in recent history: the so-called “Golden Dome.”
In 2023 and 2024, as AI text generators started to become mainstream, a curious trend emerged: the word “delve” began appearing in a suspicious number of science papers. It became a kind of calling card for AI-generated content — but it’s far from the weirdest one.
For years, the debate over cannabis and cancer has burned on—a haze of anecdotes, conflicting studies, and a stubborn federal classification that still ranks marijuana as dangerous and without medical use. But a new study, the largest of its kind, cuts through the smoke with surprising clarity.
Most ancient centers flexed their power with grand walls or temples. Tel Shiqmona did it with a stink. Perched on a rocky stretch of Israel’s Mediterranean coast, this unassuming outcrop was once steeped in the pungent scent of crushed mollusks—day in, day out. Though Tel Shiqmona rarely gets a mention in ancient texts, new research…
Researchers claim to have found the “strongest evidence” of biological activity outside the solar system. The findings are tantalizing, but we wouldn’t draw any conclusion just yet. When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first opened its gold-coated eye to the cosmos, we were all thinking it. Finding alien life wasn’t its main goal, but…
In the spring of 1971, an entomologist scooped a small insect from a seemingly pristine creek in the Netherlands and pinned it in a museum drawer. The larva—a species of caddisfly—had stitched together a casing from scraps it found in its freshwater world. It was a normal act of insect ingenuity, nothing that would raise…
From the outset of his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump signaled that a central focus of his presidency would be targeting and exacting retribution against his critics. “In 2016, I declared, ‘I am your voice,’” Trump told attendees at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference in March 2023. “Today, I add: I am your warrior.…
Some swing voters who went from voting for Joe Biden in 2020 to voting for Donald Trump in 2024 are now regretting their vote for Trump, as they fear his policies — such as steep tariffs and layoffs at the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) — will hurt them.