2025-12-11 21:30:22
Odd-year elections are not always reliable predictors of future events. But in Miami, where voters have increasingly moved right, progressive Democrat Eileen Higgins’ victory Tuesday over a Trump-endorsed rival is the latest warning sign for Republicans that, especially in communities with heavy immigrant populations, voters are frustrated with the GOP’s approach. And their frustration is leading to action.
2025-12-11 21:01:15
US financial regulators were sent on a witch hunt for banks illegally denying services to people for political reasons and have turned up… not very much. “Debanking” became a rallying call against nefarious practices by a liberal financial elite after Donald Trump began accusing big banks of unfairly barring conservatives from holding accounts. He publicly berated Bank of America Corp.’s Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan for the imagined crime in Davos this year.
2025-12-11 21:00:24
In the realm of horror, it was hard to beat the headlines last February that you were carrying around the equivalent of a plastic spoon’s worth of microplastics in your brain. The findings, reported in Nature Medicine, generated lots of outrage on morning talk shows and were even repeated as fact by would-be surgeon general Casey Means.
2025-12-11 20:30:23
A relatively mundane middle-aged rite of passage — shingles vaccination — might offer an added benefit: protection against, or even the slowing of the progression of, dementia.
2025-12-11 20:30:22
Otto von Bismarck allegedly once said, “God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America,” which is funny but of course not true. You could fill several libraries with the names of all the fools and drunkards who came to bad ends, and luck even seems to be running out for the US of A — though in at least one key way it was fortunate this year, despite some deeply foolish policy. It seems bound to test that luck again in 2026.
2025-12-11 20:15:18
Anyone wanting reassurance that building the infrastructure for artificial intelligence isn’t going to break the bank, won’t have enjoyed Oracle Corp.’s latest earnings report. Wall Street’s de facto barometer of AI fears served up several unwelcome surprises, including $10 billion of quarterly cash burn and a massive increase in capital spending.
