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Entertainment

CBS Invests in Local Investigative Reporting with Fentanyl Special

On New Year’s Day, three CBS-owned television stations in California will carry something that hasn’t been seen much from the Golden State’s major TV stations in recent years: an investigative documentary report examining the inner workings — and dysfunction — of the California statehouse in Sacramento. The half-hour news special, “California’s Fentanyl Fight: Politicians V. […]

Lifestyle & Culture

Elon Musk Doesn’t Want Tesla to Have to Do Car-Crash Reporting, and—What Do You Know—the Trump Transition Agrees

Elon Musk spent more than $250 million to help reelect Donald Trump, and he now has a job running the Department of Government Efficiency. Separately, Musk’s Tesla has long wanted federal safety regulators to drop a car-crash reporting requirement, and—what’s that we’re hearing? The Trump transition agrees! Reuters reports that the president-elect’s transition has recommended […]

Science

Clinical-trial reporting is on the rise

Reporting the results of all trials is essential to improve transparency, say researchers.Credit: James MacDonald/Bloomberg/Getty When Malcolm MacLeod made it his personal mission to update the results of every clinical trial ever registered at the University of Edinburgh, UK, he didn’t realize that the effort would take years. Eager to improve on what he refers […]

Politics

Takeaways from The Associated Press’ reporting on extremism in the military

An Associated Press investigation examined extremism among members of the U.S. military and veterans. Here are highlights from the reporting. The AP received exclusive access to data collected and analyzed by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, or START, at the University of Maryland. According to this data, there […]