While some countries have already phased out the use mercury use in dental amalgam, the remaining countries agreed to the timeline put in place by The Minamata Convention on Mercury, an international ...

A funding bill to avert a government shutdown includes industry backed provisions that halt key FDA protections even as foodborne illnesses surge across the United States.

A growing body of evidence details Jeffrey Epstein’s extensive work with Israeli intelligence while lawmakers push to force public access to government records that have remained hidden for years. A ...

New Joint Economic Committee report shows inflation accelerating as White House withholds key CPI data.

The kill rate is accelerating. In early September, the U.S. was hitting one boat every eight to ten days. In early October, one every two days. For a time, starting in mid-October, it was every day, ...

We had the cure for death from malnutrition, and we took it away.” We speak to surgeon and health policy expert Atul Gawande about the Trump administration’s near-total dismantling of USAID. Gawande, ...

The real revolution came in 2012, when researchers Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier harnessed CRISPR, a natural bacterial defense system. In bacteria, CRISPR cuts out invading viruses’ DNA ...

Drop Site revealed that Epstein had played a role in brokering a security agreement between Israel and Mongolia and setting up a backchannel between Israel and Russia during the Syrian civil war.

Progressives warn that the Democratic Party surrendered its leverage at the precise moment when families facing high healthcare costs needed federal action the most. The shutdown is over, but the ...

President Donald Trump has declared that his administration will defy two federal court orders requiring the government to ...

A late-night ruling upholding a voter-approved anti-gerrymandering initiative has escalated into a direct confrontation between Utah lawmakers and the state judiciary. A late night decision by 3rd ...

In times like these, when it is far too easy to be overwhelmed by the inexhaustible nature of the war machine, we must remember that these are not separate crises, but different fronts of the same ...