U.S. Strikes in Yemen Burning Through Munitions With Limited Success

U.S. Strikes in Yemen Burning Through Munitions With Limited Success

President Trump said this week that Iranian-backed Houthi militants in Yemen have been “decimated by the relentless strikes” that he ordered beginning on March 15. But that’s not what Pentagon and military officials are privately telling Congress and allied countries. In closed briefings in recent days, Pentagon officials have acknowledged …

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FDA Approved Artificial Blood Vessel Despite Warnings

FDA Approved Artificial Blood Vessel Despite Warnings

When the biotech company Humacyte designed a study to see if its lab-grown blood vessel worked, it decided to measure whether blood was flowing freely through the high-tech tube 30 days after it was implanted in a person. As those days passed, some of the 54 patients in the study …

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Trump and DOGE Propel V.A. Mental Health System Into Turmoil

Trump and DOGE Propel V.A. Mental Health System Into Turmoil

Late in February, as the Trump administration ramped up its quest to transform the federal government, a psychiatrist who treats veterans was directed to her new workstation — and was incredulous. She was required, under a new return-to-office policy, to conduct virtual psychotherapy with her patients from one of 13 …

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