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Britain’s Online Safety Act aims to make digital spaces safer for children by requiring stronger age assurance on adult sites and other online platforms. Age checks are meant to reduce minors’ access to harmful material, but the policy debate has widened as officials consider additional rules for young people online. Fresh controversy centers on a … Read more
Eli Lilly has raised the stakes in the fiercely competitive anti-obesity market. Fresh late-stage clinical trial data reveal that its experimental treatment, retatrutide, helped patients shed weight at volumes historically achievable only through bariatric surgery. Axios reported that the compound achieved an average weight loss of roughly 28% over an 18-month period during a Phase … Read more
Federal prosecutors are asking for a 50-year prison sentence for Aimee Bock, the founder of Feeding Our Future, after her conviction in one of the largest pandemic-era fraud cases in the United States. The Minnesota case centers on federal child nutrition money that was meant to provide meals for low-income children during the COVID-19 emergency. … Read more
President Donald Trump has repeatedly argued that mass deportations will open jobs for American-born workers. New research now points in the opposite direction, raising serious questions about the economic cost of the administration’s policy and its effect on industries already dealing with labor shortages. A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research, covered … Read more
A new electric vehicle fee bill in Congress would require many EV owners to pay an annual federal charge, adding a fresh cost to electric vehicle ownership at a time when lawmakers are debating how to fund roads, bridges, and transit projects. The proposal is included in the BUILD America 250 Act, a bipartisan five-year … Read more
The Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has worsened sharply, with authorities reporting 513 suspected cases and 131 suspected deaths as response teams try to confirm infections, trace contacts, and slow transmission in areas already hit by conflict, displacement, and limited medical access. The outbreak involves the Bundibugyo species of Ebola, a rarer … Read more
A shingles vaccine now recommended for many older adults has been linked with a lower risk of dementia in a large U.S. study, adding fresh weight to one of the most closely watched questions in brain health: can vaccines help cut dementia risk later in life The study, published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia and reported … Read more
U.S. hospitals added 15,000 jobs in March, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but the increase has not settled concerns about nurse workload, turnover, and patient safety. Health care added 76,000 jobs that month, with most of the growth coming from ambulatory health care services. Hospitals accounted for a smaller, but still notable, part … Read more
A Texas jury has awarded $812 million to the family of a worker killed in an explosion at a Pecos industrial plant, drawing renewed attention to safety standards in hazardous industries and the legal consequences of alleged corporate negligence. The verdict ranks among the largest wrongful death awards connected to an industrial accident in Texas … Read more
A new experimental pancreatic cancer pill has moved from promising trial data into a national access fight, after federal regulators allowed broader use of daraxonrasib for eligible patients while the drug remains under formal review. The drug, developed by Revolution Medicines, has drawn urgent attention because it targets KRAS, a cancer-driving protein that scientists struggled … Read more