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In order to give more time for arguments on whether the case should be dismissed, the judge overseeing Donald Trump's hush money trial in New York postponed the sentencing that was originally planned for next week. After Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office stated in a court filing this week that it would not challenge a motion by Trump's lawyers to postpone his sentencing on 34 felony counts of fabricating business documents, State Judge Juan Merchan made his decision. In a succinct ruling, Merchan gave Trump's attorneys and prosecutors further time in early December to present their cases regarding whether the case ought to be dropped in light of his election as president. The prosecution has until December 9 to reply, and the defense must file by December 2. The Supreme Cour...

Now that President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services, a large organization with a $1.7 trillion budget that manages research into both autism and vaccines, his unfounded claims that childhood vaccinations cause autism are coming under increased scrutiny. The idea that childhood immunizations cause autism was first put up in 1998 by a British physician who was later barred from practicing medicine in the UK, although it has since been disproved. Vaccines are safe, according to hundreds of research. According to estimates from the World Health Organization, vaccinations have prevented 154 million deaths worldwide in the last 50 years. Kennedy has blamed vaccines for the significant increase in autism diagnoses in recent de...

"GNX" was Kendrick Lamar's sixth studio album, which was released on Friday without much notice. On Friday afternoon, Lamar released a teaser for the album, and soon after, the project was made available on streaming sites. One of the twelve new songs on "GNX" is "squabble up," which was hinted at in the music video for Kendrick Lamar's popular diss tune "Not Like Us." In 2022, Lamar released an album titled "Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers." "Wacced out murals," the album's opening track, contains lyrics that reference Kendrick Lamar's earlier criticisms about the condition of rap today. The song references the unnamed song that he posted on Instagram in September and the criticism that other rappers gave him once he was revealed as the next Super Bowl halftime show performer. The new rec...

In a contentious move that advances our knowledge of how some of the biggest and smartest creatures on the planet view their surroundings, scientists have temporarily trapped baleen whales and tested their hearing for the first time. Researchers caught two young minke whales off the Norwegian coast in 2023, used suction cups to apply gold-plated electrodes to their skin, and then watched their brain waves as various sound frequencies were played. Each baby whale weighed roughly one ton and was at least twelve feet in length. Whale researchers were taken aback by the study's findings, which were released Thursday in the journal Science and indicate that whales are capable of hearing at far higher frequencies than previously thought. According to the research, the mammals' abilities are sign...

Due to what he described as the neuropsychiatric risk associated with fluoride exposure, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo declared on Friday that communities in the state should refrain from adding fluoride to drinking water. Ladapo recognized in the guidelines that fluoride has long been shown to reduce tooth decay by strengthening teeth. However, he also mentioned that systemic fluoride exposure may also raise safety issues, such as IQ declines. Even though some studies have pointed to possible connections, the findings are still preliminary and far from conclusive. Fluoridated water is one of the top ten public health accomplishments of the last century, according to the American Dental Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevent...

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At a public event on Thursday, a well-known transgender digital rights activist challenged Representative Nancy Mace, just days after the South Carolina lawmaker presented a resolution to prohibit transgender women from using women's restrooms in the U.S. Capitol. During the opening session at The Summit of the Future of the Internet at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., Evan Greer, the director of Fight for the Future, raised his hand and waved an LGBTQ pride flag. Mace was discussing Bipartisan Tech Solutions to Unite a Nation with radio personality Charlamagne tha God and Democratic Representative Ro Khanna. As she was led out of the room, Greer remarked, "To the cheers of the audience, we have had dozens of trans people die this year because of the hate and lies that you are sp...

A charge filed in Minnesota District Court accuses a couple from Connecticut of stealing approximately $1 million worth of products from Lululemon locations nationwide. Charged with organized retail theft on November 14, Jadion Richards, 44, and Akwele Lawes-Richards, 45, were taken into custody inside a Lululemon store in Woodbury, Minnesota. The complaint claims that the couple and an unnamed guy had gone to another Lululemon store in Roseville, Minnesota, the previous day, where they reportedly took about $5,000 worth of merchandise. According to the lawsuit, the pair and the organized crime gang they work for have been stealing from Lululemon stores nationwide since September, according to an investigator for the firm. The theft has cost the company close to $1 million. According to th...

Rep. John Curtis, a Republican from Utah, had only a few weeks to establish himself in the Senate before he would really take the oath of office to succeed retiring Sen. Mitt Romney the following year. Curtis, a senator-elect, was one of at least five Republicans who intended to vote against former Rep. Matt Gaetz's nomination to head the Justice Department, as Senate colleagues and those close to President-elect Donald Trump witnessed. The opposition proved to be too much for Gaetz, who withdrew from the race Thursday afternoon, showing Trump and his supporters that there are still red lines in a Republican Party that is mostly swayed in his favor. As an early sign of how the Utahn is getting ready for his future job and a preview of the kind of power he might have once he's there, it als...

WASHINGTON — Following his withdrawal from consideration to be President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general due to allegations of sexual misconduct, former Representative Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., stated on Friday that he had no plans to return to Congress. The battle will still be fought by me, but from a different angle. In an interview with conservative pundit Charlie Kirk, Gaetz stated, "I have no intention of joining the 119th Congress." Many outstanding Floridians have volunteered to run for my seat; these are individuals who have inspired others with their bravery and public service. He went on to say, "I'm really thrilled to see Northwest Florida reach new heights and have excellent representation." Gaetz, who was elected to Florida's state house for the first time at the age of 28, s...