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View More NewsReuters (2018). Yesterday, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), filed a lawsuit challenging an egregious violation of the First Amendment by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). FIRE’s website has a helpful description of the damning facts of the case: The freedom to criticize law enforcement without fear of punishment is an essential right in the United States. In fact, it’s one of the things that separates our free nation from a police state. But officials at the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement don’t seem to understand this. Five months after a…
Rape allegations: Yesterday, Graham Platner—who is trying to unseat Susan Collins from her U.S. Senate seat, and who already won the Democratic primary, positioning him quite well to flip that seat from red to blue come November—faced the most serious allegations yet: that he had raped a woman. The Reason Roundup Newsletter by Liz Wolfe Liz and Reason help you make sense of the day’s news every morning. Jenny Racicot met Platner via a dating app in 2019, starting an on-again, off-again relationship with him. In 2021, she alleges that he assaulted her—allegations Politico broke yesterday, that Racicot discussed on CNN. “I…
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Science does not often advance in sudden epiphanies that yield “Eureka” moments. More typical are years of failed experiments, dogged hypothesis-testing, and incremental discoveries that are, at best, inconclusive. And then, sometimes, eventually, the accumulated knowledge results in a breakthrough. Two recent examples are stunning advances in cancer medicine—one for pancreatic cancer, the other for melanoma—that are rewriting what doctors can promise their patients. But to understand why these achievements matter so profoundly, it is instructive to appreciate how long they took.A Pill That Doubled Survival for the Disease That Kills Almost EveryonePancreatic cancer is the third-leading cause of cancer…
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