New Mexico’s legislature passed bills last week that would ban consumer products containing PFAS, joining a small but growing number of states taking action against these persistent “forever chemicals.” If signed by the governor, the legislation would …

Framework — a company that makes upgradeable and repairable laptops — will pause sales on several versions of one of its models in America thanks to Trump’s tariffs, it said. From a report: “Due to the new tariffs that came into effect on April 5th, …

President Donald Trump signaled a potential diplomatic opening amid his aggressive tariff strategy on Monday, threatening China with an additional 50% tariff while simultaneously offering other nations a path to negotiate lower trade barriers.

The ul…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: […] The study, led by researchers at Brown University, found that the wealthiest Americans lived shorter lives than the wealthiest Europeans. In fact, wealthy Northern and Western Europeans had d…

The FBI searched two homes of Indiana University Bloomington data privacy professor Xiaofeng Wang last week, following months of university inquiries into whether he received unreported research funding from China, WIRED reported Wednesday.

Wang, who…

Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Anna Paulina Luna introduced bipartisan legislation in March to cap credit card interest rates at 10% annually as Americans’ debt hits record levels. “Credit cards with high interest rates regularly trap wor…

An anonymous reader shares a report: New data recently released by the Environmental Protection Agency indicate that more than 158 million people across the U.S. have drinking water contaminated by toxic “forever chemicals,” scientifically known as per…

An anonymous reader shares a report: Staff at the Federal Trade Commission have been instructed to no longer refer to the agency as “independent” in complaints, according to an email obtained by The Verge.

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A Nature survey has found that three-quarters of responding U.S. scientists are considering leaving the nation following disruptions to science under the Trump administration.

Out of 1,608 respondents, 75.3% said they were contemplating leaving the c…

theodp writes: “As I prepared for a White House meeting last fall on the nation’s electricity needs,” begins Microsoft President Brad Smith in The Country Needs More Electricity –And More Electricians, a Fox Business op-ed. “I met with the leaders at …