Day: March 17, 2025
Have Humans Passed Peak Brain Power?
Across high-income countries, humans’ ability to reason and solve problems appears to have peaked in the early 2010s and declined since. Despite no changes in fundamental brain biology, test scores for both teenagers and adults show deteriorating perfo…
UNLV professor killed in 2023 mass shooting is named as part of Trump’s DEI crackdown at colleges
Patricia Navarro-Velez, 39, one of three people gunned down in December 2023
Devastating storms kill at least 39 across 7 states in the South and Midwest
Residents and work crews in the South and Midwest are beginning to clean up and survey the destruction from a series of storms that kicked up wildfires, tornadoes and dust storms
‘Horror everywhere’: In Kursk, evacuated Russians long for peace
Russia says it has evacuated 371 of its civilians from towns it has recently retaken from Ukraine in the Kursk region, many of which have been left in ruins by the fighting. The civilians became trapped when Ukraine launched its surprise incursion in …
The 4 concessions Trump and Putin may agree to as Russia and US leaders prepare for talks
Donald Trump has told reporters that he expects to speak to Vladimir Putin tomorrow as the US continues to push for a ceasefire in Ukraine.
Geopolitical uncertainty, tariffs start to weigh on MPV market
Freight rate declines coupled with ship supply and cargo demand worries are rippling through the MPV sector.
Trump rages ‘every shot fired by Houthis will be treated as fired by IRAN’ in furious threat after US warship attacked
DONALD Trump threatened to hold Iran accountable for “every shot” the Houthis fired just hours after a US warship was attacked in the Red Sea.
The Houthi rebels – Iran’s major proxy terror group – claimed to …
Trump will visit the Kennedy Center as he puts his mark on the national arts institution
President Donald Trump will visit the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Monday afternoon.
Washington State women land spot in WNIT
The Washington State) women learned it was picked for the 48-team Women’s National Invitation Tournament.