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[ad_1] The military whistleblower who revealed Australian war crimes committed in Afghanistan has been released from federal prison after a lung cancer diagnosis, reports Joe Lauria. David McBride speaking to his supporters shortly after his release on Thursday in Canberra. (Cathy Vogan for CN) By Joe LauriaSpecial to Consortium News David McBride, the military lawyer who leaked evidence of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan to the media, was released on parole Thursday after being diagnosed with cancer, following more than two years in prison. McBride was sentenced to six years when he pleaded guilty after the trial judge in November…

[ad_1] Story at-a-glance Your thymus, a small immune gland behind your breastbone, begins shrinking in early adulthood, and research shows that better thymus health is strongly associated with lower risks of cancer, cardiovascular disease, metabolic disorders, and early death Adults with healthier thymus tissue were about half as likely to die during a 12-year study period, suggesting that your “immune age” may influence longevity just as much as many traditional health risk factors Smoking, obesity, chronic inflammation, high blood sugar, and poor metabolic health were all linked to faster thymus deterioration, while healthier cholesterol levels and stronger physical resilience tracked…

[ad_1] How a debunked Māori voyage to Antarctica, along with other indigenous folklore, became part of the New Zealand educational curriculum New Zealand is known for its enthusiastic embrace of its indigenous cultural heritage. However, this has recently crossed into the uncritical promotion of pseudoscientific ideas. In Skeptic (April 30, 2025), I documented how the government sponsors websites that promote an array of unfounded ideas about the country’s original Māori inhabitants. Foremost is the influence of their lunar calendar.https://www.skeptic.com/article/new-zealand-maori-maramataka-astrology-craze/”>1 These sites continue to thrive in 2026 and include claims that the moon’s phases affect everything from energy levels and mental…

[ad_1] A word from the pollsters: In the most recent round of primary results, polls basically indicated that Francesca Hong had the Wisconsin gubernatorial primary on lock, when she did not (as we learned yesterday). Other polls had indicated that Abdul El-Sayed, a far-left progressive running in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, might not do so well—but he managed a victory last week. So what’s going on here? I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of primary polling in the Midwestern United States until we can figure out what the hell is going on. https://t.co/Wm6TwTuaUG — Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz)…

[ad_1] From Judge Richard Stearns (D. Mass.) today in U.S. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College: [T]he Government has not sufficiently pled an ongoing violation of Title VI. The Amended Complaint [filed March 20, 2026] focuses almost entirely on incidents that took place during the 2023-2024 school year. {Because the factual allegations pertaining to the 2023-2024 school year have been well fleshed out in prior cases, see, e.g., Kestenbaum v. President & Fellows of Harvard Coll. (D. Mass. 2024); President & Fellows of Harvard Coll. v. United States Dep’t of Health & Hum. Servs. (D. Mass. 2025), the court…

[ad_1] As estimates for “Q-Day” move closer, experts warn that crypto’s slow governance, not its cryptography, may be the biggest obstacle to defending against quantum attacks. Quantum computing is a risk factor for every encrypted system on the planet, including major banks. But crypto, due to the way it works, may be the technology that gets tested first. “Cryptocurrencies are the canary in the coal mine,” Eddy Zervigon, CEO of Quantum Xchange, said in an interview with CoinDesk. Zervigon’s firm builds infrastructure to shield networks, including financial ones, from quantum-enabled attacks, and he’s blunt about where the first casualty is…

[ad_1] White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is leaving her post after two years in order to spend more time with her young children. This is not a particularly surprising development: Press secretary appears to be a demanding job in any administration, and presidents are known to go through several of them. Former President Joe Biden had Jen Psaki and then Karine Jean-Pierre during his single term. The job of the press secretary is to communicate the president’s talking points while dodging, ducking, dipping, diving, and dodging (the five D’s!) hostile lines of inquiry from the media. As such, it’s…

[ad_1] A tragic case in Texas has given me an opportunity to rethink the relationship between surrogacy contracts, abortion, and peonage. In short, a couple from California signed a surrogacy contract with a woman from Alaska. A fertilized embryo was implanted in the Alaska woman. At the 20-week mark, the child was diagnosed with a congenital heart disease that would require multiple surgeries to survive. Pursuant to the surrogacy contract, the couple ordered the woman carrying their child to terminate the pregnancy. The woman refused and she traveled to Texas where the abortion would have been illegal. The Texas Attorney…

[ad_1] Please note: You can watch the video and join the conversation on my Substack. * * * Courtesy if Richplanet, in this 3 Part interview Richard D. Hall chats with Iain Davis about some of the topics discussed in his latest book “The Technocratic Dark State: Trump, AI, and Digital Dictatorship.” Richard D. Hall, Iain Davis, Andrew Johnson and Dannielle & Lloyd Bryant are due to go on a national speaking tour shortly. To get tickets please go HERE or click the image below. To read more about the tour and its worthy cause go HERE. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 [ad_2] Source…

[ad_1] AI-Generated Image. (AI-generated image.)   Today, the en banc US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dismissed, as moot, W.M.M. v. Trump, an important case about whether President Donald Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as a tool for peacetime mass deportation is legal. The AEA allows detention and deportation of foreign citizens of relevant countries (including legal migrants, as well as illegal ones) “[w]henever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the…