The Wall Street Journal editorial board says Congress delivered a bipartisan rebuke last week to an utterly unrealistic defense budget submitted by the Biden Administration. President Biden in May proposed $715 billion for the Department of Defense in 2022. That was a 1.6% increase from 2021, an inflation-adjusted cut to...
Is MIT’s Research Helping the Chinese Military?
Michelle Bethel says she was thrilled when she joined the board of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research seven years ago. But after resigning last week, Bethel says she's no longer confident the institute can ethically push the boundaries of science for the good of humanity...
Merrick Garland One-Ups Eric Holder
Nine months into U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s tenure—and in one of the biggest disappointments of the Biden administration—the Justice Department is back to operating as a branch of the Democratic National Committee, says Kimberley A. Strassel in a recent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal. Former Attorney General...
Researchers Made a Camera That’s the Size of a Grain of Salt
A newly-developed camera the size of a grain of salt can take clear, full-color images—at the level of cameras that are 500,000 times larger. Each camera consists of 1.6 million cylindrical posts which interact with light to produce the images. The surfaces are made from silicon nitride, a material that...
Canada Joins US and Allies in Beijing Olympics Boycott
Canada will join the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia in a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics over human rights concerns, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday. The announcement came after the White House, the Australian government and the UK government confirmed diplomatic boycotts of the Winter Games in February to...
Omarova Nomination to Be Top Banking Regulator Being Withdrawn
President Biden will withdraw the nomination of Saule Omarova to head the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency after a contentious nomination battle. Omarova was Biden's pick for a position that would have put her in charge of regulating banks, a nomination that was largely lauded by progressives who have called for...
New York’s Attorney General Is Seeking to Question Donald Trump Under Oath
The New York attorney general, Letitia James, is seeking to question former President Donald Trump under oath in early January, a source with knowledge of the investigation tells NPR. The request is a significant milestone in a long-running fraud investigation into the Trump family's business practices. Since 2019, the attorney...
New Zealand to Ban Smoking for Next Generation in Bid to Outlaw Habit by 2025
New Zealand has announced it will outlaw smoking for the next generation, so that those who are aged 14 and under today will never be legally able to buy tobacco. New legislation means the legal smoking age will increase every year, to create a smoke-free generation of New Zealanders, associate...
Incoming Storm to Bring Month’s Worth of Rain, Yards of Snow to California
A long-duration storm has the potential to unload a month's worth of rain in a few days and deliver blockbuster snow to the mountains of the West Coast from this weekend to next week, AccuWeather meteorologists warn. Heavy rain and snow will be beneficial for drought relief, but it could lead...
New Poll Finds Major Warning Signs for Biden and Fellow Democrats
Americans don't feel the direct payments or expanded child tax credits doled out earlier this year helped them much, according to the latest NPR/Marist poll, and they don't see Democrats' signature legislation as addressing their top economic concern — inflation. Americans do mostly endorse the new infrastructure law but are less supportive of Democrats' Build...