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Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Former President Donald Trump is launching a cryptocurrency platform, he announced Thursday in a post on Truth Social. Trump’s post included few other details, but he and his sons have suggested it will targeted at unbanked and underserved communities. “For too long, the average American has been squeezed by the big banks and financial elites,” the post reads. “It’s time we take a stand — together. #BeDefiant.” The name of the platform, the DeFiant Ones, is a play on “decentralized finance.” Trump’s Truth Social post links to a Telegram channel for the as-of-yet unreleased platform, which has posts dating back to August 15th calling it the “only official Telegram channel for the Trump DeFi project.” There are no details about what the... Continue reading…

New research has identified a persistent problem that has hindered studies of the origins and patterns of human evolution. Specifically, there seems to be a mismatch between the spots where most ancient human fossils have been collected and the locations where most human ancestors lived in the greatest numbers. In a new paper just published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, researchers W. Andrew Barr and Bernard Wood from the Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology at George Washington University lay out the case that our understanding of human evolution is more limited than many scientists imagine. A problem they identify as ‘spacial sampling bias’ in the collection of fossils from eastern Africa is the source of the distortion, and they argue it has real consequences for those seeking a detailed and accurate picture of humanity’s true origins. Denizens of South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind: The First Walking Apes Modern Human Ancestry Won’t Be Traced to a Single Point Read moreSection: NewsEvolution & Human OriginsRead Later 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services Secretary would likely dismantle the 13 agencies HHS oversees and rebuild them with like-minded people and stop the National Institutes of Health from studying infectious diseases and instead study chronic diseases.

The maker of Jack Daniel's whisky is pulling back on its DEI initiatives, dodging an "anti-woke" boycott threat led by a conservative activist, the New York Post reports.

Sen. Joni Ernst. R-Iowa, told IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel this week that the agency "continuously fails to serve Americans" by refusing to provide information on the groups backing pro-Palestinian protests, The Daily Caller reports.

Beachgoers found a rare oarfish off California two days before an earthquake, mirroring folklore that says the deep-sea creatures are "doomsday fish."