FDA turmoil deepens as top drug chief departs claiming she was fired
Dr. Tracy Beth Høeg, the FDA’s acting drug chief, said she was fired after declining to resign, deepening a chaotic shake-up at the agency.
A day of institutional whiplash saw the FDA lose its top drug regulator, the Supreme Court swat down Virginia Democrats' redistricting bid, and Trump's China summit close with warm optics but little concrete progress — leaving Taiwan, trade, and human-rights cases hanging in the balance.
Dr. Tracy Beth Høeg, the FDA’s acting drug chief, said she was fired after declining to resign, deepening a chaotic shake-up at the agency.
Gov. Jared Polis commuted the nearly nine-year prison sentence of former county clerk Tina Peters, who was convicted of tampering with voting equipment after the 2020 election.
Trump returned from Beijing with promises of stability but few specifics on trade, chips, or Taiwan, and notably failed to push back on Xi’s rhetoric.
The Supreme Court blocked Virginia from using a Democratic-drawn congressional map that could have flipped four seats, issuing the order without noted dissent.
The federal government proposed a drought plan that could slash water deliveries to the three lower-basin states by as much as 40 percent.
A watchdog found the Pentagon dismantled a congressionally mandated program to track and prevent civilian harm in military operations.
Trump urged Beijing and Taipei to ‘cool down’ tensions over the self-governing island but offered no concrete security commitments.
Trump raised the case of the jailed Hong Kong media tycoon with Xi but was told it is a ‘tough situation,’ dashing hopes of a diplomatic breakthrough.
Shareholders approved a 5-for-1 stock split that will lower the per-share price ahead of SpaceX’s long-anticipated initial public offering.
NextEra Energy is negotiating a mostly-stock acquisition of Dominion to create a utility behemoth aimed at powering AI data-center demand.
A Manhattan jury deadlocked for the third time, forcing another mistrial in the disgraced film producer’s sexual-assault retrial.
Federal prosecutors charged an Iraqi national with involvement in nearly 20 alleged terror attacks and plots across the United States and Europe.
Mitchell Hashimoto argues that AI hype is driving companies to make irrational technical decisions and rewrite working systems for the wrong reasons.
A thread celebrating the quiet, continuous improvements to the decades-old digital library that still serves 70,000 free e-books.
Federal prosecutors are seeking the identities of more than 100,000 users of an app that lets drivers modify vehicle emissions settings.
Legislation advancing in California would force publishers to keep games playable offline or offer refunds when servers go dark.
Google’s Project Zero details a full remote-compromise chain against the Pixel 10 that required no user interaction at all.
ABC News appears to have erased the entire FiveThirtyEight archive from the web without public notice, sparking data-preservation anger.
Zulip is reorganizing as an independent nonprofit foundation to ensure its open-source team-chat project stays community-governed.
A satirical post parodying the predictable cycle of shock and resignation that follows each major npm supply-chain compromise.
Radicle offers a peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub that uses Git itself for replication and Ethereum for identity.
Waymo issued a software recall for 3,800 vehicles after discovering they could blindly roll into flooded streets.
Scott Alexander argues that the current generation of AI optimists are repeating the same overconfidence mistakes as every prior boom.
Jason Scott’s decades-long project to preserve, document, and celebrate the art of ASCII and text-mode graphics.
An open-source tool that turns a single image into a complete 3D scene with geometry, textures, and sound effects.
The new release brings JIT improvements, better Unicode handling, and a long-awaited rewrite of the internal timer wheel.
An interactive browser visualization that lets you watch a reinforcement-learning agent gradually master the classic game.