Bashing Migrants Isn’t the Way to Win an Election The Biden administration is at risk of squandering much of the moral capital it gained in early 2021 undoing Trump’s anti-immigrant policies by signing an asylum ban. 06/6/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
Backlash to Hochul's decision to halt congestion pricing delays the end of NY legislative session The final hours of the 2024 New York legislative session have been dominated by a growing rift between Gov. Kathy Hochul and some top democratic state lawmakers over the governor’s decision to halt ... 06/6/2024 - 10:54 am | View Link
Biden admin sidesteps single-use plastic packaging ban Though the General Services Administration hailed the rule for reducing waste, environmentalists were pushing for mandatory restrictions. 06/6/2024 - 9:37 am | View Link
Session winds down Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie essentially gutted longshot hopes of passing a Climate Superfund bill to raise money for infrastructure to adapt to a warmer, wetter planet last week. 06/3/2024 - 3:00 am | View Link
These proposed CA bills could ban retailers, grocery stores from selling reusable plastic bags Two California bills being proposed in the State Senate and Assembly could ban retailers and grocery stores from selling reusable plastic bags. “I don’t like plastic bags, personally, but I don’t ... 05/30/2024 - 7:50 am | View Link
Enlarge / An artist's concept of a Mars Ascent Vehicle orbiting the red planet. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
NASA announced Friday that it will award contracts to seven companies, including SpaceX and Blue Origin, to study how to transport rock samples from Mars more cheaply back to Earth.
The space agency put out a call to industry in April to propose ideas on how to return the Mars rocks to Earth for less than $11 billion and before 2040, the cost and schedule for NASA's existing plan for Mars Sample Return (MSR).
Enlarge / A Diamond Shruumz chocolate bar, which come in a variety of flavors. (credit: diamondshruumz.com)
Various federal and state health officials are sounding the alarm on Diamond Shruumz-brand Microdosing Chocolate Bars. The candy, said to be infused with mushrooms, has been linked to severe illnesses, including seizures, loss of consciousness, confusion, sleepiness, agitation, abnormal heart rates, hyper/hypotension, nausea, and vomiting, according to an outbreak alert released by the Food and Drug Administration on Friday.
So far, eight people across four states have been sickened—four in Arizona, two in Indiana, one in Nevada, and one in Pennsylvania, the FDA reported.
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A critical vulnerability in the PHP programming language can be trivially exploited to execute malicious code on Windows devices, security researchers warned as they urged those affected to take action before the weekend starts.
Within 24 hours of the vulnerability and accompanying patch being published, researchers from the nonprofit security organization Shadowserver reported Internet scans designed to identify servers that are susceptible to attacks.