An O.M.B. Plan to Defund Science—and Anything Trump Doesn’t Like

CRISPR Therapeutics vs. Viking Therapeutics: Is a Gene-Editing or Weight Loss Focused Stock Is a Better Buy in 2026?

One has FDA approval and revenue; the other is pre-commercial but debt-free. Both face distinct risks that could reshape your biotech bet.

जलविद्युतको मागभन्दा उत्पादन बढी छ : ऊर्जामन्त्री श्रेष्ठ

काठमाडौँ। ऊर्जा, जलस्रोत तथा सिँचाइमन्त्री विराजभक्त श्रेष्ठले हाल विद्युतको कूल आन्तरिक मागभन्दा उत्पादन बढी रहेको बताएका छन्। राष्ट्रियसभाको आजको बैठकमा विनियोजन विधेयक, २०८३ मा ऊर्जा, जलस्रोत तथा सिँचाइ मन्त्रालयसँग सम्बन्धित विषयमा सदस्यहरुले उठाउनुभएको जिज्ञासाको जवाफ दिँदै उनले दशकौँ पुराना संरचनाले हालको माग र गुणस्तरलाई सम्बोधन गर्न नसक्ने अवस्था देखिएको जानकारी गराए। यसका लागि विद्युत् वितरण []

Trump admin picks expert who disputes climate crisis to head climate program

The Trump administration has selected former professor Matthew Wielicki, author of the “Irrational Fear” Substack, to head the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Wielicki has long disputed the narrative that climate change is producing a crisis, and his views created friction at the University of Alabama where he once taught classes in geology and geochemistry. []...Click to read more

Macro Note: The Tech Unwind Grew A Second Leg, And It's Healthcare

Macro Note: The Tech Unwind Grew A Second Leg, And It's Healthcare

Mehmet Oz, Donald Trump’s most effective TV star

The telegenic doctor enacting the president’s agenda with professionalism and zeal

AI Was Supposed to Save Companies Money. Instead, It’s Blowing Up Budgets in a Big Way

A new report from KPMG finds that executives are aghast at their AI bills. It’s a warning for any business leader planning to go all-in on the tech.

Form 144 Twist Bioscience Corp For: 9 July

Form 144 Twist Bioscience Corp For: 9 July

Ivermectin isn't a cancer miracle drug, but influencers claim otherwise -- here's how to avoid sprinting past scientific evidence

Ivermectin isn't a cancer miracle drug, but influencers claim otherwise -- here's how to avoid sprinting past scientific evidence

Short RM100,000, top MRSM student who nearly turns down Al-Azhar offer to study medicine, gets MARA lifeline

KOTA BHARU, July 5 — A student who was on the verge of turning down an offer to study medicine at Al-Azhar Univers...

AI and Professional Nursing: On a Collision Course

By JEFF GOLDSMITH In his wonderful and pragmatic new book, A Giant Leap, Dr. Robert Wachter cautions his professional colleagues that simply confiscating potential administrative and clinical staffing savings created by AI couldContinue reading...

Here’s What Fed Chair Warsh Will (And Won’t) Tell Congress Next Week

Here’s What Fed Chair Warsh Will (And Won’t) Tell Congress Next Week

Donald Trump health concerns grow after 'repulsive' moment in North Dakota speech

President Donald Trump has been the subject of health concerns in recent months, and the 80-year-old has done little to quell the rumors during his latest speech at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota

3 Sunday Morning Thoughts – July 12 Edition

***Obligatory forward-looking statement: This is not investment advice. Anyone considering what is said in this email or from the author should consult a licensed financial advisor before taking action or making any purchases. Written by Bryan Lutz, Editor at dollarcollapse.com: I hope you’re having a restful Sunday. Here’s what we do. Every Sunday []

Data centers’ energy demand threatens Trump’s “Made in America” plan

Squeeze on Rust Belt electricity bills threatens Trump’s manufacturing plan.

White House Rages After Embarrassing Trump Story Exposed

Umit Bektas/ReutersThe White House has gone into full defense mode after Donald Trump was found taking credit for price cuts that had nothing to do with him.On Monday, the 80-year-old president posted on Truth Social that Walmart would be “lowering prices, by a lot, at my Administration’s request,” including cutting the cost of beef by 15 percent as part of the country’s 250th birthday celebrations.Trump took a victory lap, praising the announcement as a “huge deal” for millions of Americans suffering through a cost-of-living crisis. The president’s second term has been dogged by high food prices, despite Trump making lowering them a central pledge of his 2024 campaign.Read more at The Daily Beast.

John Thompson: The Absurd Attacks on Randi After She Criticized Tech in the Classroom

John Thompson, historian and retired teacher in Oklahoma, thought that AFT President Randi Weingarten’s recent speech on the dangers of technology in the classroom was balanced and thoughtful. Yet the Trump administration attacker for raising valid questions. Trump and McMahon have such a knee-jerk aversion to unions, especially the teachers’ unions, that they had to []

Ex-government official warns Trump’s ‘boyhood pal’ might manipulate midterms

Former Homeland Security official Miles Taylor warned of an alleged plot to manipulate the midterm elections, with President Donald Trump’s “boyhood pal” Peter Ticktin at its center. Ticktin, an 80-year-old Florida lawyer who met Trump in the 1950s at a military academy, urged the president to declare a national emergency based on unsubstantiated claims of []

Three Myths of American Healthcare

Ryan McMaken dismantles three persistent myths of American healthcare before tracing the origins of social insurance to Bismarck's deliberate scheme to bind citizens to the state by the chains of gratitude and closing with Mises' 1944 prediction that a population half-dependent on government healthcare would never vote to dismantle it.

The Mineral Bill Comes Due in 2028

The Trump administration is pushing hard to boost rare earth mineral production and imports, but it won't be able to be independent of Chinese supplies any time soon. The post The Mineral Bill Comes Due in 2028 appeared first on Foreign Policy In Focus.

Violent crime is falling — now is the wrong time to cut federal prison funding

A proposed budget cut is threatening to undo this progress, and if it passes, Americans will be less safe.

Palantir’s real weak spot

Pushback to the tech group’s politics may threaten the core of its 330bn business

Democratic Lawmakers Question If Trump Is Mystery Recipient of Drug

Q: Is President Trump the anonymous 79-year-old man getting a still-unapproved obesity drug via a Food and Drug Administration program? A: A news article, and subsequently Democratic lawmakers, questioned whether Trump is receiving the Eli Lilly weight-loss drug, which is reportedly being given to one 79-year-old man. However, the White House has said the unnamed man isn’t the president. FULL ANSWER When we recently published an article about Trump’s claims regarding access to unapproved drugs for seriously ill patients, The post Democratic Lawmakers Question If Trump Is Mystery Recipient of Drug appeared first on FactCheck.org.

Trump promised tougher healthcare fraud enforcement. The numbers tell a different story

The decline complicates the Trump administration's portrayal of an unprecedented crackdown on healthcare fraud

The Career Mirage: Why a Hopeless Developer’s Search for a New Profession Left Him Completely Blindsided

This is why people are going back to DVDs and doing research at physical libraries. The post The Career Mirage: Why a Hopeless Developer’s Search for a New Profession Left Him Completely Blindsided appeared first on TwistedSifter.

Kevin Warsh buried an unusual, unhedged promise in his first Fed minutes—and one economist says it’s the strongest signal in the document

A former Fed economist says one unhedged sentence in Warsh's shortest-ever statement reveals more than the family fight minutes themselves.

Congress must fix its No Surprises mistake

Healthcare is one of our economy’s fastest-growing sectors, and the ability of healthcare providers to manipulate Congress is a big reason why. A modest reform meant to shield patients from surprise medical bills has become a multibillion-dollar windfall for hospitals, doctors, lawyers, and arbitrators. Patients pay the price through higher insurance premiums. Congress must fix []

Nuclear Power is Now Trump Power…What Could Go Wrong?

Donald Trump is now the ultimate face of the U.S. nuclear power industry.What could go wrong?If you are advocating atomic energy in any form, you are promoting The Donald’s latest and largest fiscal fleecing of the American people. It mirrors his mega swindles in crypto and so much more—except this time with apocalyptic impact.It’s a hyper-push for nuclear power.As The New York Times this week headlined the “Climate Forward” column of Claire Brown: “Trump’s plans for nuclear power lurch ahead.”

Abdul El-Sayed Has Said He's a Physician, but There's Just One Problem With That Claim

Abdul El-Sayed Has Said He's a Physician, but There's Just One Problem With That Claim