People hold flowers and flags during the annual LGBTQ+ Capital Pride parade in Washington D.C. U.S., June 8, 2024. Nathan Howard | ReutersOfficials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal health agencies are scrubbing or taking down webpages, forms and programs that reflect “gender ideology extremism” on Friday to conform with an executive order that recognizes only two sexes: male and female.CDC webpages that appear to have been removed include statistics on HIV, opens new tab among transgender people and data on health disparities, opens new tab among gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth. A database tracking behaviors, opens new tab that…
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Elon Musk arrives for the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 20, 2025 in Washington, DC.Kenny Holston | Getty ImagesAides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.Since taking office 11 days ago, President Donald Trump has embarked on a massive government makeover, firing and sidelining hundreds of civil servants in his first steps toward downsizing the bureaucracy and installing more loyalists.Musk, the billionaire Tesla and X owner tasked by Trump to slash the size of the 2.2 million-strong civilian government workforce, has moved swiftly to install…
NORWOOD, Mass. — It was impossible not to notice the clean, shiny sheet of ice upon stepping inside The Skating Club of Boston on Thursday morning. It was practically beckoning young skaters to get out there and put their magnificent talents on display; instead, the ice remained unused throughout the morning and into the afternoon, a symbol of the heartbreak being felt throughout this venerable century-old institution.Of the 67 people killed as a result of the collision of an Army helicopter and American Eagle Flight No. 5342 near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night, six of them had…
Faisal Bashir | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesChina’s DeepSeek became the biggest topic in tech this week, with many in the industry and on Wall Street focused on a single number: $6 million.In DeepSeek’s paper about its newest artificial intelligence model, the company said that its total training costs amounted to $5.576 million, based on the rental price of Nvidia’s graphics processing units. DeepSeek included a clear caveat, saying that the number included only the model’s “official training” and excluded the costs tied to “prior research and ablation experiments on architectures, algorithms, or data.”Early in the week, DeepSeek’s AI Assistant took…
ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via EmailTricia Rodriguez, Truveta senior applied research scientist & lead study author, explains the study findings concerning why GLP-1 users stop taking the drug. Source link
A person uses a mobile phone with the U.S. Capitol building in the background, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 13, 2024. Nathan Howard | ReutersA federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from freezing federal loans, grants and other financial assistance to 22 states, barring the Republican for now from implementing a policy that had stoked confusion and fears about critical government-funded services being disrupted.The ruling by U.S. District Judge John McConnell in Providence, Rhode Island came at the behest of Democratic attorneys generals from 22 states and the District of Columbia and despite the White…
FILE PHOTO: The Federal Reserve building is seen in Washington, U.S., Jan. 26, 2022. Joshua Roberts | ReutersA former senior advisor for the Federal Reserve was arrested Friday on charges that he conspired to steal Fed trade secrets for the benefit of China.The data that the advisor, John Rogers, shared with his co-conspirators could allow China to manipulate the U.S. market “in a manner similar to insider trading,” the Department of Justice said. The co-conspirators were members of China’s intelligence and security apparatus who posed as graduate students at a university in that country, according to prosecutors.Rogers, a 63-year-old resident of…
The best part of Dan Hurley’s latest week at the center of sports villain discourse was his hard pivot on a podcast that was unfolding as expected — a little bit of damage control, a touch of mea culpa, Hurley saying it was embarrassing to have proclaimed himself the best coach in men’s college basketball considering veteran peers who are “as good or better than me.”Pivot.“The people that want to have at me, the super soft media people that want to cancel me for being an intense coach, you know, I don’t think we need to make sports softer,” Hurley…
The Trump administration is considering sending 24,000 assault rifles to Israel that had been held up at the State Department on the orders of Antony J. Blinken, the former secretary of state, a U.S. official said.Mr. Blinken had asked the State Department not to move forward with fulfilling Israel’s request, which comprises three tranches valued at a total of $34 million. That happened after Democratic lawmakers raised concerns that the rifles could end up in the hands of settler militias or that Israeli police officers would use them in acts of unjustified violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.The State…
President Donald Trump on Jan. 27, 2025 in Doral, Florida.Joe Raedle | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump has repeatedly discussed imposing tariffs, both on the campaign trail and since taking office — and the first tranche, on goods from Canada, China and Mexico will take effect Feb. 1, the White House confirmed on Friday.While there are still some unknowns, one thing is clear, economists said: U.S. consumers should brace for a negative financial impact.It’s “hard to find positives” from tariffs, said Mary Lovely, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, whose research specializes in…
