Justice Dept. describes man arrested on gun charges as top MS-13 leader: President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi hailed the arrest of the 24-year-old Salvadoran man as a major victory over gang activity. - "Attorney General Pam Bondi said that the suspect oversaw the gang’s East Coast operations. But court records unsealed later that day — which identified the man as Henrry Josue Villatoro Santos, 24 — made only scant reference to his alleged gang ties and did not accuse him of any specific gang-related activity. Instead, Villatoro Santos was charged with being in the country illegally while possessing a gun.
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"Carlos Garcia, a journalist who is writing a book on the Salvadoran gangs, said after checking his database and talking to people familiar with MS-13 that he did not consider Villatoro Santos a particularly significant figure on an international level.
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"Youngkin criticized the Biden administration for providing “little to no help” with immigration enforcement efforts in his state. But Prince William County Police Chief Peter Newsham, whose agency was involved in the investigation, said in an interview that it began before Trump returned to the White House."
Vaccine critic’s apparent selection to head HHS autism study shocks experts: Like RFK Jr., David Geier has long clung to debunked assertions, scientists say - "Geier and his father, a physician who lost his medical license in multiple states, have promoted claims that use of the preservative thimerosal in vaccines led to an increase in autism diagnoses. A raft of studies has refuted the allegation, and autism rates have not declined in the more than 20 years since thimerosal was phased out of most vaccines in the United States. For a time, the two treated autistic children with unproven therapies, including a drug licensed for prostate cancer that induces chemical castration."
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving: More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada. - "Institutions outside the United States are taking advantage of the Trump turmoil, the researcher says. 'From what I’m hearing from the places we’re talking to, and other people who are looking to take international jobs, a lot of universities in these countries are seeing this as a once-in-a-generation opportunity,' he says. “I think it has gone from 'Can we recruit a few people?’ to ‘How many people can we actually take?' — because the demand is there.'"
Trump promised scientific breakthroughs. Researchers say he’s breaking science.: NIH funding for biomedical research has abruptly fallen by billions of dollars, with many grant decisions on hold. Trump officials say they’re reviewing the agency. - "The model that underpins NIH and other federal agencies was conceived by Vannevar Bush, a scientist who helped oversee efforts to develop an atomic bomb during World War II. As he turned his gaze to a postwar environment in 1945, Bush urged President Harry S. Truman to spur innovation by funneling grants to universities and research institutions, calling for an 'endless frontier.'
"The strategy positioned the U.S. to achieve breakthroughs in drug development, computer technologies and numerous other fields; the nation’s ample resources also helped lure scientists from around the world to work in its laboratories. The approach also had staunch bipartisan support, with Republicans arguing that scientific innovation was an economic and national security imperative. A half-dozen buildings on the NIH campus bear the name of GOP lawmakers who helped secure federal funding for the research institutes, including former senator Roy Blunt of Missouri, who retired in 2022."
The Worst Thing a MAGA Warrior Can Do: The response to Signalgate reveals a disjuncture between the seriousness with which MAGA treats foreign enemies and perceived domestic ones. - "The Fox News host Jesse Watters appeared to have the same prioritization in mind when he shared the story with his audience. 'This wouldn't surprise me if Goldberg sneaked his way in,' he suggested, implausibly,. 'He's the lowest of the low.' From a national-security standpoint, this theory is the opposite of reassuring. If Goldberg could 'sneak his way in' to a highly sensitive discussion about a secret military operation, shouldn't we worry that Chinese or Russian or Iranian spies, who possess espionage capabilities perhaps even greater than those of a journalist, might also sneak their way in? But the fear of infiltration by foreign enemies pales beside the much deeper fear of a Trump adviser having spoken with a journalist."
- "If Trump, as president, can violate the First Amendment's prohibition on viewpoint discrimination when it comes to foreign students, Americans lose that limit on state power too. Even the anti-immigrant firebrand Ann Coulter objected to the administration's actions. 'There's almost no one I don't want to deport,' she wrote on X, 'but, unless they've committed a crime, isn't this a violation of the first amendment?'
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"As the historian Timothy Snyder recently wrote, 'If you are a citizen and you are casting doubt on the importance of due process, remember this: you need due process in order to prove that you are a citizen.'"
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