Ready to discard your Christmas tree? You could eat it instead.
Opinion How the battle for democracy will be fought — and won
Opinion They opened the door. The dictators were waiting. - "The GAO has also suggested pressuring perpetrators that benefit from U.S. arms exports by using a provision of the Arms Export Control Act of 1976 barring arms sales to countries engaged in a pattern of intimidation or harassment directed at individuals in the United States. Saudi Arabia and Egypt are among the top 25 arms-transfer recipients."
Fentanyl super labs in Canada pose new threat for U.S. opioid epidemic
A sinking nation is offered an escape route. But there’s a catch.
Complaints about home birth midwives languish amid Maryland backlog: After their babies died, Maryland parents sought help from the state Board of Nursing, which regulates midwives. They’re still waiting. - "The Maryland Board of Nursing licenses certified professional midwives, referring to them as direct-entry midwives. Distinct from certified nurse midwives, who have graduate degrees and nursing credentials, certified professional midwives have no hospital privileges and primarily learn through apprenticeships. They attend the majority of home births in the United States.
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"A physician had delivered Naomi Puckett’s first child via Caesarean section in 2012. When she became pregnant again in late 2014, she wanted 'bodily autonomy, and a natural birth.'" [ed. note: hey, dumbass: stillbirth and dying in childbirth is "natural"]
Florida teen kills sister during fight over Christmas gifts, sheriff says
A rare deer became legendary in Richmond. Then poachers showed up.
After Sandy Hook, they voted no. Now these senators want new gun laws.: Reflecting on a decade of mass killings and surging AR-15 sales, four current and three former senators recant some or all of their 2013 positions on gun laws in emotional interviews with The Post - "In the meeting with the families, Portman told the group that he would not support the background checks measure even though he believed it could save lives.
"Hockley said that she responded with a piercing personal question: 'So, you can vote to protect your son, but you can’t vote to protect mine?'
"Portman, who retired from the Senate this year, declined to comment for this story." [ed. note: Portman is truly gutless]
Rep. Lauren Boebert switches Colo. districts, avoiding likely tough rematch
CAN FLOW BATTERIES FINALLY BEAT LITHIUM?: Nanoparticles may boost energy density enough for EVs
50 YEARS LATER, WE’RE STILL LIVING IN THE XEROX ALTO’S WORLD The Alto transformed computing. And the changes stuck - "As should now be apparent, how the Alto came to shape our lives with computers a half century later isn’t the story of any one individual. In our culture, however, the history of technology is habitually presented as a sequence of remarkable individual achievements. But this is wrong. Innovation is the work of groups, of communities." [ed. note: or, how Steve Jobs most assuredly did not create desktops, laptops, or tablets]
D.C.’s troubled crime lab wins back accreditation
What China’s new defense minister tells us about Xi’s military purge
Russia is working to subvert French support for Ukraine, documents show - "For part of the French establishment, the vision of France leading a grand Europe together with Moscow is 'a dream which will never go away,' said Sylvie Kauffmann, editorial director at Le Monde and author of the recent book 'Les Aveuglés,' or 'The Blinded Ones,' about how France and Germany misread Putin in seeking to build close ties with him. 'In this dream we are a big power and Russia is a big power and we are two big nuclear powers treating each other on an equal footing,' she said."
Trump says Liz Cheney deleted evidence of Jan. 6 troops. There isn’t any.
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