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America’s Thousand Percent Prescription Drug Tariff
Readers are undoubtedly confused by the reference to 1000 percent tariffs on prescription drugs. We don’t call our protection for prescription drug companies “tariffs,”...
Activism
The Steel Industry Merger That Has Environmentalists Worried
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.U.S. Steel, once the world’s largest company of any kind, can take substantial...
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Why Space Is Such a Dangerous Place
The past year has witnessed a growing chorus of alarm in Washington regarding the military utility of space. From the proliferation of space debris to the...
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Save the Children pulls out of Science Museum event over sponsor concerns
Save the Children has pulled out of an event at the Science Museum in London after coming under pressure from its supporters over the...
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Mpox Offers Another Chance to Confront Vaccine Inequity
On Aug. 14, the World Health Organization named mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years. When the first declaration was issued in 2022,...
Archaeology
Stonehenge tale gets ‘weirder’ as Orkney is ruled out as altar stone origin
The plot has thickened on the mystery of the altar stone of Stonehenge, weeks after geologists sensationally revealed that the huge neolithic rock had...
Heart attack
New hope on heart disease as science offers early detection and prevention
Scientists say they are moving towards earlier indentification and prevention of heart disease. The development is the result of a programme that monitored thousands...
Bird flu
US repeating Covid mistakes with bird flu as spread raises alarm, experts say
The US is making the same mistakes with the H5N1 bird flu virus as with Covid, even as the highly pathogenic avian influenza continues...
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Why is the Bank being cautious in delaying rate cuts?
After the Federal Reserve’s monster 0.5 percentage point cut in US borrowing costs on Wednesday, it seemed strange that...
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Axel Springer’s media assets to be split off in €13.5bn KKR deal
Axel Springer has struck a €13.5bn (£11.3bn) deal that will see its media assets, which include Politico, Business Insider...
U.S. Taxpayer Data at Risk? LockBit Ransomware Claims Attack on IRS-Authorized eFile
Sensitive tax information of citizens in the U.S. could potentially be stolen after the notorious LockBit ransomware group...
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Jennifer Aniston’s Ex Justin Theroux Wishes Her Happy Birthday on Instagram
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