Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have turned a deadly fungus into a potent cancer-fighting compound after isolating a new class of molecules from it. Aspergillus flavus is a toxic crop fungus that has been linked to deaths in the excavation of ancient tombs. It was recently used in a test against leukemia cells and resulted in those cells being killed. “Fungi gave us penicillin,” said Dr. Sherry Gao, senior…
The White House on Wednesday pushed the Israeli assessment of the U.S. military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, as part of its ongoing effort to argue that the hits destroyed Iran’s nuclear program. The White House asked the press pool traveling with the president to send out the statement on behalf of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, just after President Trump publicly hit back at reporting that Iran’s nuclear program…
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The leader of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is blaming systemic failures for a door plug blowout in the skies over Portland in January 2024. Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 made an emergency landing 30 minutes after taking off from Portland International Airport when the door plug separated from the aircraft at 14,830 feet, leaving a hole in the side of the plane. Oxygen masks dropped…
Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s top envoy to the Middle East, blasted what he called “treasonous” leaking of information after multiple media outlets reported that the administration’s strikes on Iran only set its nuclear program back a few months. “Well, it goes without saying that leaking that type of information, whatever the information, whatever side it comes out on, is outrageous,” Steve Witkoff told Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle” Tuesday night.…
President Trump and his top national security brass aggressively pushed back on reporting that Iran’s nuclear program was only set back a matter of months – a determination made by the administration’s own internal assessments. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said an investigation was underway into leaks of a preliminary classified report that determined U.S. strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend set the regime’s program back several months…
The Trump administration is shattering norms around the handling of Americans’ personal, and sometimes private, information — dismantling barriers around data in the name of government efficiency and rooting out fraud. Privacy experts say the moves bring the country closer to a surveillance state, increase the government’s vulnerability to cyber-attacks and risk pushing people away from public services. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has sought — and almost always received —…
Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.), one of the most vulnerable Senate Republican incumbents facing re-election in 2026, warned Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) bluntly in a private meeting Tuesday that deep cuts to Medicaid could cost Republicans control of the House and Senate, according to a person familiar with the conversation. Tillis, who has kept relatively quiet about the hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicaid cuts proposed by the…
Democrats are looking to restart the abortion conversation around the third anniversary of the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. That Supreme Court decision in June 2022 turned abortion into one of the most powerful positions Democrats could run on. They saw major victories on the issue in the 2022 midterms and Virginia’s off-year elections in 2023, but the party largely underperformed up and down the ballot on the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Tuesday postponed classified briefings for Senate and House members as lawmakers look for more answers about President Donald Trump’s directed strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend and his announcement on Monday that the two countries had reached a ceasefire agreement. The Senate briefing has been rescheduled for Thursday so that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio can…
