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[ad_1] Photo by Leon-Pascal Jc Kalshi recently announced that it will offer gambling opportunities to bet on whether the FDA will approve individual drugs as reasonably safe and effective. Betters will also be able to wager on whether the critical clinical trials that back those approvals succeed in meeting their primary targets (which is individually known as a primary endpoint). But contrary to the company’s claims of better informing drug developers, patients, and researchers, creating a direct way to bet on drug trials and approval decisions will accomplish none of these goals. It will enrich Kalshi and likely a very…

[ad_1] Iran struck Kuwait and President Donald Trump held a televised cabinet meeting Friday, as the Iran War entered its 154th day. In a statement carried by Iran’s Tasnim News Agency, the Iranian military announced it struck Kuwait in retaliation for a U.S. attack Wednesday evening that reportedly killed two adults and their toddler, while also injuring two other children. (Iran has labeled this a war crime.) According to Iran, IRGC “suicide drones struck fighter jet shelters, satellite communication systems, and equipment warehouses at Ahmad Al Jaber Air Base in Kuwait.”  Citing U.S. officials, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday…

[ad_1] Think Robert Oppenheimer, if Robert Oppenheimer had built a bomb that didn’t work. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] It was a good run, but after 250 years, it is finally time to end the experiment in its current form and fashion. Most major cities in America are now low-trust societies where criminality is rampant, and decency is punished. Leftists have destroyed the economic base with woke virtue signaling, burdensome regulations, and a never-ending stream of new taxes. NGOs and Medicaid fraud are responsible for 30% of New York City’s private sector jobs, mostly concentrated in healthcare, education, and social services. The Potemkin Village fake economy fuels an entire segment through NGOs receiving money from the government, then…

[ad_1] New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani held up a bunch of plantains at a press conference on Monday and promised that New York City shoppers would pay 30 percent less than “typical retail prices” when the city opens five government-run grocery stores at a cost to taxpayers of $70 million. “How are you going to keep people from taking advantage of that deal?” one reporter asked the mayor. “Is there going to be a limit on the number of items that someone can take?” “Our RFP [Request for Proposals] makes very clear that this is a program for New Yorkers…

[ad_1] For Americans, the courage required today is not to defeat an empire abroad, but to confront one at home — the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex, writes Dennis Laich Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, on right, during Senate Appropriations Committee hearings in Washington D.C., on July 21 over the White House’s request for about $70 billion in supplemental funding to wage the war on Iran and replenish depleted weapons stocks. (DoW /Carson Croom) By Dennis LaichEisenhower Media Network The first sentence of Thomas Paine’s classic 1776 essay, “Common Sense,” urged the American people to challenge the legitimacy of the English Crown, something…

[ad_1] The story we’re being sold about Iran doesn’t survive contact with the facts: if Iran’s military is supposedly “obliterated,” why are US bases still getting hit and US troops still dying? We unpack that disconnect with Larry Johnson, walking through the mechanics of Iran’s survivable deterrent from underground ballistic missiles to a layered Strait of Hormuz defense that mixes mines, small submarines, underwater drones, fast boats, coastal cruise missiles, and aerial drones. When the threat network is built to hide, move, and reappear, victory slogans don’t matter nearly as much as geography and logistics. We also pressure-test the escalation…

[ad_1] Art by Gianluca Costantini On July 19, 2026, in the working-class Pilastro neighborhood of Bologna, a 42-year-old Moroccan-origin man named Abderrahim Fakir died face-down on the asphalt of Via Svevo while police restrained him. The video is unmistakable. Two officers pin him to the ground, forcing his hands behind his back. Pepper spray has already been used. A civilian helps hold his ankles. Fakir’s voice cuts through the footage, raw and desperate: “Basta, aiuto! Basta!” Help. Enough. Medical personnel stand nearby and do not intervene until he has stopped moving. He never gets up. The images immediately evoked George…

[ad_1] Justice for Salman Rushdie–and a Warning [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Sen. Rand Paul’s (R–Ky.) proposed Expedited Access to Biosimilars Act was unanimously voted out of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee last week. This is good news. Biosimilars are medications that are highly similar to biologic medications that have already been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Biologic medications are drugs produced using living systems, such as microorganisms, plant cells, or animal cells. Examples include antibodies used to treat allergies, arthritis, or cancer, and GLP-1 agonists and VEGF inhibitors to help ameliorate maladies like diabetes and macular degeneration, respectively. Paul’s legislation would permanently codify earlier…