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The opioid epidemic remains one of the US’s worst public health crises — with 2018 ending up as the second-worst year for overdose deaths in US history, behind 2017. But you wouldn’t know that from listening to the Democratic presidential…
July 2017 seems like a million years ago now, but in some ways it feels like little has changed. Take this article I wrote that month. The headline is “The latest revelation won’t end Trump’s presidency. Only Paul Ryan can.”…
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will no longer be administering injections to participants in the clinical trial of an experimental HIV vaccine after a review found that the drug did not prevent infection. The NIH’s National Institute of…
Social media platform Twitter says it is unable to identify the total number of accounts impacted by a recently-identified vulnerability in the platform’s “contacts upload” feature. With “an abundance of caution and as a matter of principle,” Twitter announced Monday…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Google has sent a notification to some users of its photo and video sharing service that their private files had been randomly sent to strangers’ archives for four days last November. It said only a few videos…
This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. Monday night’s Iowa caucuses were supposed to offer America a first look at the Democratic Party’s frontrunner…
