Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling potentially harmful goods such as raw milk are profiting from the push to write anti-science policies into law across the U.S. They portray the Make America Healthy Again movement as grassroots, but it’s fueled by a web of well-funded national groups led by people who’ve profited – financially and otherwise – from sowing distrust of medicine and science. The Associated Press found state legislation that includes language in the text or public testimony that explicitly spells out that a reason to change the law is to make money or increase sales for dairy farmers.
The New York Times, The Associated Press and the conservative television network Newsmax are among five outlets on Monday who say they won't sign a new Defense Department document about its new press rules. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's team has said that reporters who don't sign onto their new rules will be thrown out of the Pentagon on Wednesday if they don't agree. The new rules declare large swaths of the Pentagon off-limits to reporters and declares that journalists who report information not formally approved by Hegseth's team risk getting their access revoked. The Pentagon says the rules are “common sense.” Journalists say they punish routine newsgathering.
The Trump administration says it’s reviewing more than 55 million foreigners who have valid U.S. visas for any violations that could lead to deportation. In a written answer to a question from The Associated Press, the State Department said all U.S. visa holders are subject to “continuous vetting.” It says it has an eye toward any indication that they could be ineligible for permission to enter or stay in the United States. The State Department’s new language suggests that the continual vetting process is far more widespread and could mean even those approved to be in the U.S. could abruptly see those permissions revoked.
"Bend down #putin, I've got the perfect place to stick this!" 👌🤣
From https://t.me/Pravda_Gerashchenko
On the eve of talks in #Washington, #Ukraine announced that it possesses a super-powerful missile weapon — a cruise missile capable of striking targets deep within the territory of the #Russian_Federation at a distance of more than 3000 km
#Associated_Press photographer #Yefrem_Lukatsky published a photo, allegedly of the #Ukrainian cruise missile "#Flamingo."
A group of journalists at Agence France-Presse is sounding the alarm about conditions faced by their colleagues working in Gaza, saying that without immediate intervention, the last reporters working there will die. AFP, The Associated Press and Reuters all have teams in Gaza to get out the news from a war-torn territory where Israel generally forbids outside journalists to enter. The AFP journalists said that one of its photographers in Gaza wrote over the weekend that he no longer has the strength to work for the media. Disease, danger from military strikes and, increasingly hunger is a pressing problem there.
Submerged in about 40 meters of water off Scotland’s coast, a turbine has been spinning for more than six years to harness the power of ocean tides and generate electricity. The trade association Ocean Energy Europe says keeping such a large turbine operating in the harsh sea environment that long is a record that demonstrates the technology's commercial viability. Tidal energy technologies are still in the early days of their commercial development, but their potential for generating clean energy is big. The MeyGen tidal energy project has four turbines that power up to 7,000 homes annually.