• ‘Danger to our democracy’: fears over Trump allies’ summit with far-right sheriffs

    Mike Flynn, Mike Lindell and others to attend event on election fraud by Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers AssociationA group of far-right sheriffs is set to meet Donald Trump allies in Las Vegas on Wednesday for talks with dozens of Republican state officials and candidates focused partly on potential election fraud by non-citizens, which experts say is wildly overblown.The far-right Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, which the former Arizona sheriff Richard Mack...

  • UI study finds cannabis use among older adults is growing

    While she was out for a walk a few years ago, Duveen Robinson, a 90-year-old Iowa City resident, took a nasty tumble when she stepped in a pothole. Robison chipped off an inch-long piece of her kneecap and was hardly able to walk. Later that day, however, she used a topical CBD and THC ointment

  • French PM accused of recycling far-right ideas in youth violence crackdown

    Gabriel Attal says state needs ‘real surge of authority’ in speech in Viry-Châtillon, where 15-year-old killedThe French prime minister, Gabriel Attal, is facing criticism for his proposed crackdown on teenage violence in and around schools, after he said some teenagers in France were “addicted to violence”, just as the government seeks to reclaim ground on security issues from the far right before European elections.In his speech in Viry-Châtillon, a town south of Paris where a 15-year-old boy...

  • Planet Fitness outlets receive bomb threats after far right derides gym policy

    More than 40 locations across the US reported the backlash after rightwing account stokes anti-trans rhetoric about its rulesMore than 40 Planet Fitness locations across the country have received bomb threats after a conservative movement against the gym’s trans-inclusive locker room policy went viral online.In the weeks since the backlash against the gym chain started in March, at least 43 locations in Connecticut, Florida, Alabama and other states have received bomb threats, according to...

  • Study finds link between anti-Black sentiment and broad support for political violence in the US

    Support for anti-Black violence has a long historical arc in American politics dating back to slavery. A George Washington University research team led by Assistant Professor of Political Science Andrew Thompson conducted an experiment to try to tap into top-of-mind ideas about the changing demographics in the United States.

  • When She's Right, She's Right: Lisa Murkowski Finds an Acorn, Slams Biden Administration

    Since January of 2021, we've seen how unfriendly to the energy sector, and indeed resource extraction in general, the Biden administration has been. Nowhere is that more apparent than in Alaska, where we only recently saw the cancellation of leases in the North Slope's Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR.)

  • Sugar cravings could be caused by loneliness, study finds

    Researchers linked brain chemistry from those who socially isolate to poor mental health, weight gain, cognitive decline and chronic diseases like Type 2 diabetes and obesity.

  • Global study finds there really are more insects out after dark

    Have you ever wondered if there are more insects out at night than during the day?

  • Study finds evidence of microplastics in brains and other organs

    Two new studies have described the ways in which tiny microplastics can end up in humans' organs – and even in the brains of mice. One of the studies, published in Environmental Health Perspectives on Apr. 10., involved feeding healthy mice microplastics over a period of four to eight weeks. Scientists later found that various organs in the mice were contaminated. "In mice that ingested microspheres, we detected polystyrene microspheres in distant tissues including the brain, liver, and kidney,"...

  • Sugar cravings could be caused by loneliness, study finds

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  • There IS a link between women's periods and the moon after all, study finds

    Researchers in France and the US discovered there is a link between menstrual cycles and the full moon. The moon affects the body's circadian rhythms, syncing the cycles.

  • Columbia University is colluding with the far-right in its attack on students

    In her willingness to unleash state violence against student protesters, Minouche Shafik proved herself to be a willing ally to extremistsThe students sat on the ground and sang as police in riot gear approached them. Eventually, more than 100 of them would be arrested; their tents, protest signs and Palestinian flags were gathered into trash bags by the police and thrown away. One video showed officers and university maintenance workers destroying food that had been donated to the encampment,...