LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jack Crowe A U.K. High Court judge demanded to see new evidence concerning Charlie Gard’s condition soon Friday, as the legal battle over the infant’s life stretches on. Justice Francis, presiding over Gard’s case, told Gard’s parents, Chris Gard and Connie Yates, that he would need to see new material…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti The Pentagon released a map Thursday that reportedly shows the flight pattern of a Syrian aircraft that dropped chemical weapons on civilians Tuesday. Map Released by Pentagon The map was released hours after President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military to fire 59 Tomahawk missiles at a northern Syrian airbase, in…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Steve Birr Vaping is not serving as a gateway to traditional smoking, and inaccurate reporting on the health effects of electronic cigarettes is hurting the chances of smokers who are trying to quit, according to a new medical research paper. Public health researchers from the University at Buffalo and the…
By Jonah Bennett The judge presiding over the case of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who’s been accused of desertion, ruled Friday that prosecutors won’t be able to rely on any evidence that soldiers were wounded while searching aimlessly for Bergdahl. Such an exclusion robs the prosecution of some of the most emotionally weighty evidence against…
By Andrew Follett After five years of study, the EPA still has no evidence hydraulic fracturing contaminates groundwater. EPA officials said in a Tuesday press conference that data gaps and uncertainties mean the agency can’t prove its previous assertion that there was zero evidence of national drinking water being contaminated. The agency acknowledged that it…