Top Cancer Researcher Fails to Disclose Corporate Financial Ties in Major Research Journals
José Baselga lights the Empire State Building in orange to celebrate Cycle for Survival’s 10th year in 2016.Bryan Smith/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally co-published by ProPublica and the New York Times. One of the world’s top breast cancer doctors failed to disclose millions of dollars in payments…
In Chicago Mayor’s Race, Rahm Emanuel’s Exit Makes Room for Powerful Women of Color
Lori Lightfoot at a press conference regarding the findings of a federal investigation into the Chicago Police Department in January 2017.Santiago Covarrubias/Sun-Times/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The way things are shaping up, it’s a fair bet Chicago’s next mayor will be a woman of color. The question is, “Which…
The Case for Giving Pregnant Women More Drugs
Adam McCauley/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Pregnancy often comes with a lengthy list of physical discomforts, but Kate O’Brien’s were unusual: coughing, night sweats, extreme fatigue. After a series of misdiagnoses, a test finally came back positive. She had tuberculosis. O’Brien, who was 35 and living in New…
Judge in Maria Butina Case Rips Prosecutors Who Claimed She Offered Sex to Get a Job
A courtroom sketch depicts Maria Butina, a 29-year-old gun rights activist suspected of being a covert Russian agent, during a hearing at the federal courthouse in Washington, DC, on July 18, 2018. Dana Verkouteren/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A judge rebuked federal prosecutors Monday for falsely alleging that…
Quiz: Which Has Gone Up More, Dog Food or Cat Food?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Today is a slo-o-o-o-o-w day. In addition, I experimented yesterday to see if I could force myself to stay awake all day, and I mostly did. However, there’s no fooling the evil dex: it just slammed me into a coma today instead. But like I…
Hurricane Florence Could Be the Most Powerful Storm to Hit the East Coast in 14 Years
Hurricane Florence as seen from the International Space Station on September 10.Ricky Arnold/NASA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Hurricane Florence, expected to make landfall sometime Thursday, will bring dangerous winds and torrential rainfall to an area of the country that has already been drenched by historic amounts of rain this summer. On…