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If you hear members of Congress tell it, this is really the moment that federal lawmakers are taking the opioid epidemic seriously. Over the next two days, the House is holding hearings on more than 20 bills to confront the…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions just sent out a memo asking federal prosecutors to pursue the death penalty in drug trafficking cases — implementing President Donald Trump’s plan from earlier this week to ramp up “tough on crime” punishments in response…
In the 1970s, the United States government began a unique practice of “shutting down,” or suspending most non-emergency government functions, when Congress fails to pass a spending bill to keep things running. Since then, there have been 20 shutdowns (two…
A report on the extinction of birds in rural France was published on March 20. Researchers from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle conducted parallel trials and have reached the same conclusion:…
The scandal surrounding Cambridge Analytica’s use and analysis of Facebook users’ personal information without permission has taken an intriguing turn, just as the social media giant’s CEO confirmed that the company failed to establish any connection between Russia and Donald…
In cooperation with experts from the Institute of Metal Physics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMP UB RAS), researchers from the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI have developed and studied nanoheterostructures based on gallium arsenide,…
