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Fat From Cadavers Now Being Used for Cosmetic Fillers

How badly do you want that perfect beach body? Some are willing to get liposuction and have someone shuffle their own fat around. But how about getting one’s body enhance

AI Creates 16 Never-Before-Seen Real-World Viruses

Scientists in the U.S. recently announced that for the very first time, they were able to use AI to create viruses never before seen in nature. Don’t worry, though: these

USPS: New Rules for Mail-In Ballots; US Issues Travel Alert for 3 Countries

Today, we do a round up of three stories. First, a former acting U.S. attorney was found dead in his office in a federal building in California. Second, the USPS just iss

Over 30 Minnesota Water Systems Hit with 'Coordinated Cyberattack,' Forced to Go Offline

In just 48 hours, a coordinated cyberattack disrupted the digital controls of water systems across more than 30 Minnesota communities, forcing operators to switch to manu

CDC Data Shows Leprosy Cases Spiking in Florida, With a Surprising Cause

Leprosy appears to be not only spreading in central Florida, but according to the CDC, it might now be endemic to the region. Let’s explore why that is, as well as what i

Apps Marketed to US Veterans Are Coming Equipped With Chinese and Russian Code

A first-of-its-kind study reveals that one out of eight apps marketed to U.S. military service members (and their families) contain foreign code—some from China and Russi

Internal Docs Discovered in Lawsuit Exposed Anthropic’s Mass Book Shredding Project

It turns out that Anthropic—the giant AI company behind the Claude chatbot—has been secretly destroying millions of books in the process of feeding them into the AI syste

Future of War: China's SAR Satellite in GEO Orbit Versus Air Force Space Robots

China launched the world’s first geosynchronous synthetic aperture radar satellite in 2023, giving it continuous all-weather surveillance over roughly one-third of the pl

Former CIA Director Dies, Wife Says They Spent His Last Years Looking for Cure to Havana Syndrome

Havana Syndrome refers to a mysterious set of symptoms—headaches, dizziness, tinnitus, and cognitive issues—that has affected more than 1,500 U.S. intelligence and diplom

US Praises Venezuela for Initiating Withdrawal From ICC

Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodríguez has formally begun withdrawing the country from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The United States, which never rati

Multiple US Embassies Issue Warnings to Americans

Let's go through the most recent spate of warnings, arising primarily from the Iran war, issued by the U.S. State Department and the embassies of several different countr

Texas Woman Arrested Over Facebook Post, Goes on Legal Offensive

A woman in Texas was shocked when she opened her front door and found the local police standing there, ready to arrest her over a Facebook post. And the reason she was s

Federal Judge Issues Ruling on Trump IRS Lawsuit

A federal judge on July 13 found that President Donald Trump improperly used a $10 billion lawsuit he ​filed against the IRS to extract personal benefits from the governm

Cause of Gravity Hole Underneath Antarctica's Ice Sheet Gets Mapped Out in New Study

The story I’m bringing you today is one that you’ve probably never heard of before. Because, for one, it involves a continent that very few people have been on: Antarctic

The Imported Asian Disease That Wiped Out 95 Percent of Florida’s Orange Industry in One Generation

In 2003, Florida harvested 242 million boxes of oranges. This season, they’re expecting 12 million. That’s a 95 percent drop in just over 20 years—in a single generation

Journals Retract Papers Cited by CDC in Its Updated Vaccine Guidelines; RFK Responds

Under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention softened its longstandin

Catholic Nuns Sue NY Over State's LGBT Mandate on Pronouns, Bathrooms, and Extramarital Affairs

The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne say they have run Rosary Hill Home for 125 years, providing free palliative care to thousands of poor, terminally ill cancer patients w

Supreme Court Reverses 91-Year-Old Precedent, Allows President to Fire the Heads of 'Independent Agencies'

Aside from the significant losses that were handed to him in a series of Supreme Court decisions, President Donald Trump did score one significant victory. The case in q

Supreme Court Strikes Down State's Gun Restrictions in Major 2nd Amendment Case

In what amounts to a major win for Second Amendment advocates, the U.S. Supreme Court just struck down one of the most restrictive state-level gun laws—a law that require

Nursing School Owner Pleads Guilty After Issuing Nearly 3,000 Fake Diplomas

A woman named Carleen Noreus ran a massive diploma mill in South Florida, selling nearly 3,000 fake nursing diplomas for around $25 million over seven years to people who