Lego Smart Bricks: Toy Tech Debate

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Tim Walz dropped reelection bid due to welfare fraud scandal

Corporation for Public Broadcasting shutting down

After a week-long pursuit we caught and boarded the Bella 1 oil tanker, with no resistance.

CIA agents in Venezula since August reporting on movements

Bad jobs numbers last year

Treasury Department bans international wire transfers for people on public assistance.

Lego releases “smart-bricks”

The ICE officer had been dragged 300’ by a car last year

Victim was a member of an “ICE Watch” group

Trump wants to 1.5x military budget

In an “AI Manhattan Project” China has completed a prototype lithography machine

Anthropic pulls access to Claude Code from xAI’s AI team

RFK removed six vaccines from the recommended list for kids

Hegseth trying to demote Sen. Mark Kelly over the video about disobeying illegal orders

Jerome Powell: Trump is threatening indictments to try to intimidate Fed

Trump probably vetoes a bill for funding a water pipeline in Colorado for vindictive reasons

Happy News!

Small exposure to peanuts works for adults too, to a lesser degree!

Trachoma – the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness – has fallen from 1.5 billion in 2002 to 97.1 million today

Sanitation, diagnosis, and antibiotics have reduced it by 94%

An injection that blocks the activity of a protein involved in aging reverses naturally occurring cartilage loss in the knee joints of old mice

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