CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired

Centers for Disease Control cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health in U.S

EIS officers investigate disease outbreaks and health threats in the U.S. and abroad

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Opinion | The Pharmaceutical Industry Heads Into Elon Musk’s Wood Chipper Who needs N.I.H. grants? A lot of red-state universities, for one.

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I just took the oath of office for a fourth term in the House.

It’s the honor of my life to serve the people of Texas.

Let’s get to work.

Six years ago, Greg Abbott came to this school and promised to invest in public education.

Now this school is at risk of closing.

Abbott is no longer working for the nearly 6 million school children of Texas — he’s working for the billionaires who write $6 million checks.

Greg Abbott and his billionaire mega-donors know private school vouchers are unpopular in Texas.

So they’ve paid for a poll-tested rebrand to sell their scam.

Here’s how to debunk their “school choice” slogan in 60 seconds…

Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.

US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more.

- US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID
- $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes.
- Food stranded in Houston
- Aid stopped in transit.

The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

Here Is What to Know About U.S. Foreign Aid and the Trump Freeze Critics say a Trump administration order calls into question the United States’ global standing and reliability.

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Opinion | Samantha Power: Killing U.S.A.I.D. Is a Win for Autocrats Everywhere The attacks on the agency are cruel and counterproductive.

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Sen Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) letter to chair of Senate Judiciary Cmte, which is poised to vote on confirmation of Kash Patel:

“We regret that you have rejected our efforts to inquire into the first-ever invocation of Fifth Amendment protection by a nominee seeking to lead the FBI”

Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.

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Murphy: "Let's not pull any punches about why this is happening. Elon Musk makes billions off of his business with China. And China is cheering at this action today. There is no question that the billionaire class trying to take over our govt right now is doing it based on self-interest."

What will the next wave of democratization of AI look like?

Chinese AI groups get creative to drive down cost of models 01.ai, Alibaba and ByteDance have cut ‘inference’ costs despite Washington curbs on accessing cutting-edge chips

Driving down inference cost is the #1 requirement to enabling great AI-first apps. 01.ai's new model Yi-Lightning is ranked #7 in the world, and costs only ~5% cost of its peers. www.ft.com/content/0a6d...