time.com

A Spanish territory in northern Africa is experiencing a humanitarian and security crisis after thousands of migrants continue to swim across the border from Morocco, with at least 34 dying in the chaos.

In a highly unusual move, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) committee voted against FDA staff’s own advice in a meeting on July 23 and 24, recommending that six peptides be added to a list that will allow certain specialty pharmacies to dispense them. Currently, those peptides are in a legal gray area. The committee voted against adding to the list one of the peptides being considered, emideltide.

A gender gap has long persisted in religious identity. Historically, data has widely, and with remarkable consistency, shown women being more religious than men. But that appears to be changing when it comes to Gen Z.

India’s youth-led “cockroach movement” was born just over two months ago as a satirical online campaign. But it has quickly swelled into a formidable real-world political force, bringing tens of thousands of protesters into the streets in the country’s capital in recent days to call for the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and reforms to India’s troubled education system.

House Republican leaders sent lawmakers home for a nearly two-week holiday recess Tuesday after several hardline conservative members rebelled on the floor to demand stronger action on Donald Trump’s much-desired voter identification bill.

The project that started the RAM shortage.

Across the U.S., millions of women have to choose between working through unbearable pain, losing income they can’t afford to go without, or tapping into a limited number of sick days that then won’t be there if they have the flu or a doctor’s appointment. For low-wage workers, the choices are even more limited, with no work from home or sick leave options.

Across the U.S., millions of women have to choose between working through unbearable pain, losing income they can’t afford to go without, or tapping into a limited number of sick days that then won’t be there if they have the flu or a doctor’s appointment. For low-wage workers, the choices are even more limited, with no work from home or sick leave options.

another one bites the dust

President Donald Trump compared the U.S. Navy to pirates when describing how it was carrying out his orders to blockade Iranian ports. “We took over the ship, we took over the cargo, we took over the oil. It’s a very ⁠profitable business,” Trump said on ⁠Friday evening, recounting a seizure of an Iranian ship. “We’re sort of like pirates, but we are not playing games.” The U.S. began a naval blockade of Iranian ports last month following the breakdown of peace talks between the two sides, ostensibly in response to Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

Cross posted from https://lemmy.world/post/46305320

President Donald Trump said “yeah, I probably will,” when asked whether he would consider pulling U.S. troops from Italy and Spain. “Why shouldn’t I? Italy has not been of any help to us and Spain has been horrible. Absolutely horrible,” he replied, doubling down on his argument that NATO allies have not supported the U.S. during the Iran war. “We helped them [Europe] with Ukraine… but when we needed them, they were not there. We have to remember that.” As of December 2025, there were 12,662 U.S. active-duty personnel stationed in Italy and 3,814 in Spain, according to data from the U.S. Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC). While Spain has yet to respond to Trump mulling over the troops, Italy’s Defense Minister Guido Crosetto has pushed back. “I wouldn’t understand the reasons behind it. As is clear to anyone, we haven’t used the Strait of Hormuz. And we’ve even offered to carry out a mission to protect shipping—a gesture that, incidentally, was greatly appreciated by the U.S. military,” he told Italian ANSA news agency.

Someone posted without an article on this. Here is the article.

Let’s just declare victory after losing!

Iranian missile strikes inflicted a different type of damage on the UAE: its image of safety, luxury, and financial hub that the country spent years cultivating.

https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1rumqnl/the_race_to_build_ai_humanoid_soldiers_for_war/

Rep. Jared Golden of Maine Rep. Greg Landsman of Ohio Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas Rep. Juan Vargas of California

The Republican-led Senate voted down a procedural measure intended to block President Donald Trump from ordering further military strikes on Iran without congressional approval.

Anthropic, the wildly successful AI company that has cast itself as the most safety-conscious of the top research labs, is dropping the central pledge of its flagship safety policy, company officials tell TIME.

Anthropic, the wildly successful AI company that has cast itself as the most safety-conscious of the top research labs, is dropping the central pledge of its flagship safety policy, company officials tell TIME.

The results of the unilateral war that the winner of the FIFA Peace prize launched.

The results of the winner of the FIFA Peace prize unilateral war everyone

The world’s largest-ever AI summit took place in India this week, with hundreds of thousands of people, including world leaders and CEOs of AI companies, descending upon New Delhi for six days.

https://archive.ph/cBmyW

https://archive.ph/cBmyW

Came across this article a while back, and its a really interesting read. Since today is MLK day it seems like an appropriate day to share this. It’s an especially important moment in history to remember and honor an American patriot who refused to be silent even when he became the target of a man who abused his powerful position in the federal government while hiding behind lies about protecting liberty and justice.

Came across this article a while back, and its a really interesting read. Since today is MLK day it seems like an appropriate day to share this. It’s an especially important moment in history to remember and honor an American patriot who refused to be silent even when he became the target of a man who abused his powerful position in the federal government while hiding behind lies about protecting liberty and justice.

Right-Wing Activist Phyllis Schlafly was back on the warpath. Holding an open letter to Surgeon General C. Everett Koop at a Washington press conference last Friday, Schlafly denounced him for appearing to advocate the “teaching of safe sodomy in public schools.” She accused Koop, a conservative born- again Christian, of not sufficiently promoting chastity. Though the letter, signed by 54 other activists, was addressed to Koop, its message was aimed much further. According to Schlafly, “this is a political issue, and how politicians address it is very important.”

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00020517.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00020517.pdf

A bystander who tackled and disarmed one of the gunmen in a terror attack in which 12 people were killed at a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach on Sunday has been identified by local media as 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed.

Yeah, it shut down the FUCKING WORLD but let’s go ahead and scale it back. Probably the fault of whatever jackass was in office when they weee developed; anyone happen to recall who that was?

Published March 13, 2018, but posted due to its continued relevance.

You may not find these so surprising :)

By Andrew R. Chow

Ralph Baric’s work on gain-of-function research, which includes manipulating viruses in the lab to study their behavior, has faced controversy and blame due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The world’s richest known lithium deposit lies deep in the woods of western Maine, in a yawning, sparkling mouth of white and brown rocks that looks like a landslide carved into the side of Plumbago Mountain.