Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, is moving the assembly of the president’s daily intelligence brief from the C.I.A. headquarters to her own complex, according to officials briefed on the move….
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Students Are Short-Circuiting Their Chromebooks for a Social Media Challenge
Across the country, students are short-circuiting their laptops at school in a new and sometimes dangerous social media trend. The “Chromebook challenge” involves students jamming objects into their laptops until they spark…
RFK Jr. to Defend HHS Overhaul as Democrats Denounce ‘War on Science’
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered a defiant defense on Wednesday of his drastic overhaul of federal health agencies as House Democrats accused him of violating the law by shuttering whole…
FDA Moves to Take Fluoride Supplements for Children Off the Market
The Food and Drug Administration will work to pull fluoride supplements for children from the market, the agency announced Tuesday. The move comes at the same time as a wave of bills…
Richard L. Garwin, a Creator of the Hydrogen Bomb, Dies at 97
Richard L. Garwin, an architect of America’s hydrogen bomb, who shaped defense policies for postwar governments and laid the groundwork for insights into the structure of the universe as well as for…
Judge Orders Georgetown Academic Released From Immigration Detention
A judge in Virginia on Wednesday ordered the immediate release of Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University who was arrested in March, after two months of detention in an…
Seven Takes on the Lurid Dance of the Seven Veils in Strauss’s ‘Salome’
“I’m ready,” Salome sings. And then she dances. Her predatory stepfather has promised her anything she wants if she performs for him. She obliges with the alternately wild and delicate Dance of…
Pepe Mujica, the Former Uruguayan President, Removed the Pomp from Politics
José “Pepe” Mujica did not have much use for Uruguay’s three-story presidential residence, with its chandeliers, elevator, marble staircase and Louis XV furniture. “It’s crap,” he told me last year. “They should…
Cartel Family Members Cross Border in Apparent Deal With U.S., Official Says
A group of family members of Sinaloa Cartel leaders crossed into the United States last week, likely as part of a deal with the Trump administration, Mexico’s secretary of security said on…
Taking Inches in Battle, Russia Demands Miles in Talks
As the world waits to to see if he shows up in Turkey for cease-fire negotiations this week, President Vladimir V. Putin has been sending a clear message, reinforced by his officials….