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Minnesota prosecution of ICE officer faces new political obstacles under Trump

The Trump administration made its opinion known almost immediately after an ICE agent shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday: The officer acted heroically in defending himself from Renee Nicole Good, who was intent on running him over with her Honda Pilot in an act of “domestic terrorism.” “The officer, fearing for his […]

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Jan 9 • 9:37 AM EST • Politics • minnesotareformer.com
The wide-ranging fallout from the Supreme Court’s new terrorism decision, explained

The Court’s Republican majority fractured in a case that could impact everyone from immigrants to consumers.

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Apr 22 • 5:35 PM EDT • Politics • vox.com
Colombia’s new president takes office vowing to ‘crush’ narco-terrorism
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Aug 7 • 9:15 PM EDT • Politics • aljazeera.com
Hochul calls on federal government to restore counterterrorism funds

Last year, Hochul the federal government cut about $187 million in counterterrorism and homeland security funding.

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Sep 1 • 5:09 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Trump administration now classifies Antifa and left-wing networks among ‘major’ terror groups

The Trump administration has classified left-wing networks like Antifa among “three major types of terror groups” the US faces, according to a counter-terrorism plan released Thursday.

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May 7 • 11:58 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Billionaire Mark Cuban’s 5-step plan to make healthcare affordable targets drug middlemen’s ‘contractual terrorism’

The Cost Plus Drugs cofounder told Texas lawmakers that insured patients are often better off paying cash—and laid out five fixes built around price transparency.

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Oct 21 • 3:15 AM EDT • Health • fortune.com
Analyst assesses Iran politics as US launches attacks

Terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler describes Iran's leadership as a "multipolar system" that will be hard to break through.

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Feb 28 • 8:01 AM EST • Politics • dw.com
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Ex-counterterrorism chief advocates for Trump to 'walk away from' Iran war, yank troops out of Middle East

Former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent is advocating for President Donald Trump to get the U.S. out of the Iran war and remove U.S. troops from the Middle East.

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Aug 19 • 3:15 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Fact-Checking 3 Competitive Senate Races in Maine, Michigan and Ohio

Republican attacks have focused on terrorism and illegal immigration, while Democrats have sought to capitalize on the unpopularity of President Trump’s cuts to Medicaid.

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Aug 8 • 5:02 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Man convicted in U.S. political assassination plot he tied to Iranian paramilitary

The jury needed little more than two hours to convict Asif Merchant, 47, of murder-for-hire and terrorism charges that carry the possibility of life in prison.

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Mar 6 • 6:55 PM EST • Politics • abc7ny.com
U.S. to press allies to bolster counterterrorism efforts under new strategy

A new counterterrorism strategy, signed by President Trump on Tuesday, seeks to crack down on Islamist terror groups, drug cartels and violent domestic political groups.

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May 6 • 12:03 PM EDT • Politics • cbsnews.com
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World leaders meet in D.C. to discuss left-wing political violence

Leaders from roughly 60 countries gathered in Washington, DC, to discuss what top Trump administration officials are calling an urgent threat: far left terrorism.

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Jul 17 • 4:43 AM EDT • Politics • npr.org
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California bill increases penalties for fake liens used to harass politicians, businesses

A California lawmaker introduced a bill Monday to crack down on fake liens filed against politicians, court employees and businesses that can force victims to spend thousands of dollars in legal fees to clear their names and repair their credit.

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Jan 6 • 8:00 AM EST • Politics • latimes.com
Rubio convenes countries on left-wing political violence

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday convened leaders from more than 60 countries to take part in the Trump administration's latest effort to quell what it calls "left wing" political terrorism.

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Jul 17 • 2:15 AM EDT • Politics • npr.org
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Business Group on Health taps BioRadar to boost workforce readiness for emerging threats

Biological threat intelligence is increasingly becoming a workforce and business issue, not just a public health concern. | Biological threat intelligence is increasingly becoming a workforce and business issue, not just a public health concern. Emerging threats—infectious disease outbreaks, pandemics and potential bioterrorism events—can cause workforce and operational disruptions.

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Sep 21 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • fiercehealthcare.com
WATCH: Sen. Schiff asks Noem to justify her claims of 'domestic terrorism' after Minnesota shootings

The senator focused on comments Noem made in the aftermath of the killing of two U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, by federal agents weeks apart in Minneapolis.

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Mar 3 • 3:01 PM EST • Politics • pbs.org
Joe Kent's resignation over Iran war reignites antisemitism fears and debate over Israeli influence

It was no surprise when Joe Kent showed up on Tucker Carlson’s podcast a day after quitting his counterterrorism job in President Donald Trump’s administration. But before long, the conversation moved in a different direction as Kent nodded to conspiracy theories that pro-Israel forces were behind the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

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Mar 19 • 2:15 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
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Man accused of plotting Trump assassination claims Iran forced him to

A Pakistani businessman accused of plotting to assassinate President Donald Trump testified that he was coerced by Iran and feared for his family's safety.

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Mar 5 • 8:44 AM EST • Politics • foxnews.com
WATCH: Johnson refutes outgoing counterterrorism official's claim that Iran posed no imminent threat
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Geoff Mason, Sports Producer Thrust Into Covering Terrorism, Dies at 85

He played a critical role in ABC Sports’s reporting on the attack by a Palestinian group at the 1972 Summer Games in Munich that left 11 Israeli team members dead.

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Jan 28 • 6:30 PM EST • Sports • nytimes.com
Ex-counterterrorism chief warns of 'major problem' that could force US 'back into the war on Iran’s terms'

Ex-counterterror official Joe Kent warns keeping U.S. forces near Iran puts U.S. at risk of being 'forced back into the war on Iran’s terms'

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May 28 • 11:24 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Shooting outside Austin bar leaves 3 dead and 14 injured, FBI investigates possibility of terrorism

A gunman opened fire outside a bar in a popular entertainment district in the Texas capital of Austin, killing two people early Sunday in a shooting that the FBI said is being investigated as a potential act of terrorism.

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Mar 1 • 12:18 PM EST • Entertainment • pbs.org
FBI investigating ‘potential nexus to terrorism’ in deadly mass shooting in downtown Austin

By Chris Boyette, Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — The FBI is investigating a “potential nexus to terrorism” in a deadly mass shooting that erupted just before 2 a.m. CT Sunday in Austin’s entertainment district, leaving at least three people dead, including the suspected gunman, and 14 others wounded. “Obviously, it’s still way too early in

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Mar 1 • 8:12 AM EST • Entertainment • ktvz.com
WATCH: Rubio speaks at conference on political terrorism
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Jul 16 • 3:58 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Iran’s efforts to mount attacks against US extend far beyond its military. Here’s what to know

As the US sends large numbers of troops to the Middle East, preparing for a possible ground incursion, Iran’s willingness to inspire lone-wolf attacks, lead cyber hacks, and conduct assassination operations abroad is likely to increase, terrorism experts and US law enforcement officials told CNN.

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Mar 28 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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Trump can declare Iran victory now and withdraw troops, former counterterror official argues

Former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent continues to call for President Donald Trump to remove U.S. forces from the Middle East.

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Aug 3 • 9:11 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Rubio Stresses Need for U.S. Security Work With Greece on Migration and Terrorism

Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised Greece for spending more on defense, while saying it needs to address “mass migration.”

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Oct 7 • 10:04 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Bruce Springsteen brings 'Streets of Minneapolis' home to launch a political US tour

a e p n terrorism politics immigration u-s-news general-news entertainment | Talk Radio 1210 WPHT

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Mar 31 • 1:12 PM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
F.B.I. Investigates Joe Kent, Whose Resignation Over Iran War Angered Trump

Mr. Kent is under investigation for a possible intelligence leak, according to people familiar with the situation. The inquiry is said to predate his resignation this week as the top U.S. counterterrorism official.

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Mar 18 • 10:08 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Almost half of terrorism arrests in Great Britain since 9/11 have been in past year

Increase coincides with proscription of Palestine Action last year which has led to thousands of arrests for allegedly supporting the protest group

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Sep 1 • 3:00 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
Iran«s president delivers wartime address at UN: We have been »victims of terrorism

Iran’s president said Wednesday that his people have been ‘victims of terrorism’ by the United States.

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Sep 23 • 11:15 AM EDT • Politics • opb.org
Results from the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism

Read the U.S. State Department's ministerial results on the resurgence of political terrorism and international security cooperation.

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Oct 11 • 11:17 PM EDT • Politics • smallwarsjournal.com
Rubio targets what he calls left-wing political violence

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has convened leaders from over 60 countries to take part in the Trump administration’s latest effort to quell what it calls “left-wing” political terrorism.

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Jul 16 • 1:10 PM EDT • Politics • apnews.com
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Telegram Briefly Removed From Apple’s App Store Over Alleged Child Sexual Abuse Content

Telegram has been mired in other recent controversies including allegations by Russia of aiding terrorism and criticism by Australia over its handling of violent content.

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Aug 4 • 1:45 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com
Who are Joe Kent and his first wife, Shannon? Intel head quits over Iran war

Joe Kent resigned from his post as the president's top counterterrorism official over the Iran war. Here's what to know about him.

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Mar 17 • 1:13 PM EDT • Politics • usatoday.com
Business Group on Health taps BioRadar to boost workforce readiness for emerging threats

Biological threat intelligence is increasingly becoming a workforce and business issue, not just a public health concern. | Biological threat intelligence is increasingly becoming a workforce and business issue, not just a public health concern. Emerging threats—infectious disease outbreaks, pandemics and potential bioterrorism events—can cause workforce and operational disruptions.

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Sep 21 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • fiercehealthcare.com
Top counterterrorism official Kent resigns over Trump's Iran war, says Iran posed no imminent threat

The director of the National Counterterrorism Center has announced his resignation, saying he “cannot in good conscience” back the Trump administration’s war in Iran

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Mar 17 • 9:50 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
53 Dems vote against declaring Iran a state sponsor of terror

A total of 53 House Democrats voted against a resolution this week that called the Islamic Republic of Iran "the largest state sponsor of terrorism."

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Mar 6 • 8:18 AM EST • Politics • foxnews.com
He fought terrorism as an FBI agent, now he is fighting cancer and for the health of his fellow 9/11 responders

When American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the Pentagon, Jeffrey Miller rushed to the scene, spending weeks on site recovering evidence from the burned wreckage.

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Sep 10 • 10:58 AM EDT • Health • 6abc.com
Rubio to convene meeting on ‘far-left political terrorism’ with representatives from 65 countries

Facing what Secretary of State Marco Rubio will describe as a “resurgence” of “far left political terrorism,” according to a State Department official, Rubio will convene diplomats from around the world in Washington on Thursday to discuss a response.

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Jul 16 • 4:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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Ukraine’s Academy of Sciences warns against Russian cooperation after attack

The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine has urged the international scientific community not to “restore or legitimise institutional cooperation with Russian state scientific and educational structures,” after a Russian drone hit its Presidium building in central Kyiv, killing at least two people and injuring several others. The drone strike took place in the early afternoon on September 28 while staff were working.The academy called the strike, one of several Russian attacks on Ukraine’s capital using jet-powered drones in recent days, an act of terrorism. “It is a strike [. . .] on the very idea that knowledge, research, and the search for truth should serve life, not its destruction,” it said in a statement.The academy thanked the global scientific community for its solidarity following the attack and warned against any temptation to normalise scientific relations with Russia.“Science cannot exist outside of moral responsibility. There can be no ‘ordinary scientific cooperation’ with a state that kills people and destroys scientific institutions of another country,” it said.“We urge not to create opportunities for Russian state institutions to return to the international scientific community as if nothing happened. There can be no ‘science beyond politics’ when science is attacked with weapons.”After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Europe almost entirely cut institutional ties and joint programmes with Russian science, although personal academic contacts are still ongoing.Related articlesRussia widens targeting of European research centresHow geopolitical rifts cut scientific collaborationThe European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA), for instance, continues to exclude the Russian Academy of Sciences from its network.ALLEA condemned the latest attack as a “barbaric act” and part of a broader “systematic targeting of Ukraine’s scientific and cultural infrastructure.” This is a “deliberate attempt to erase the conditions under which free inquiry, knowledge, and democratic life are possible,” it said in a statement.Since Russia’s full-scale invasion, more than 4,650 educational institutions across Ukraine have been damaged, and a further 423 have been destroyed, according to ALLEA.National academies across Europe joined ALLEA in condemning the attack. “Science is about the pursuit of knowledge for the benefit of humanity, so this is an attack on civilisation itself,” said Paul Nurse, president of the UK’s Royal Society.Attacks on scientific, university and cultural institutions “are attacks on the foundations of society and constitute a clear violation of international law,” wrote the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.The presidents of the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine also released a joint statement condemning the attack and pledging to continue to support the Ukrainian research community.The targeting of the Ukrainian academy prompted outcry from European leaders. “Today, science became a target for Russia,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wrote on social media.“These strikes are the latest illustration of the Russian regime’s hostile contempt for science and truth,” said French President Emmanuel Macron.

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Sep 29 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencebusiness.net
Bruce Springsteen brings 'Streets of Minneapolis' home to launch a political US tour

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Mar 31 • 12:05 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
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He fought terrorism as an FBI agent, now he is fighting cancer and for the health of his fellow 9/11 responders

The retired FBI special agent is advocating changes to the WTC Health Program.

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Sep 9 • 9:37 PM EDT • Health • abcnews.com
London sports clubs modify security measures after UK terrorism threat level raised

The threat level was raised after two members of the Jewish community were stabbed in Golders Green, north London, on Wednesday.

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May 1 • 10:22 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
How September 11 Changed American Politics Forever

As the memory of the attacks faded, it was inevitable that counterterrorism measures would draw more scrutiny — and voter priorities would shift.

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Sep 10 • 6:30 AM EDT • Politics • nationalreview.com
FEMA can’t condition security grants on election changes, judge says

The Trump administration had sought to limit anti-terrorism funding for local governments that didn’t check the citizenship status of voters.

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Sep 28 • 6:31 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Bruce Springsteen brings 'Streets of Minneapolis' home to launch a political US tour

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Mar 31 • 12:05 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
The year in review: Influential people who have died in 2026

As director of the FBI, Robert S. Mueller III transformed the agency into a terrorism-fighting force after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. But Mueller, who died in March, is perhaps

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Apr 6 • 2:59 PM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com
Opinion: Our responsibility to science communication

When we think of global threats, we don’t think of poor science communication. We think of climate change, of pandemics or perhaps of terrorism. I would be shocked if science communication cracked your top 10. And yet, we all lived through the COVID-19 pandemic. Think of how 20 years ago, vaccines were largely apolitical, but...

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Dec 7, 2025 • 9:00 AM EST • Science • thesandb.com
Trump says U.S. has entered deal with Venezuela to control 65 billion barrels of its oil reserves

The announcement of the deal comes nearly nine months after the U.S. military at Trump’s direction carried out an operation to capture Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro and spirit him to the United States to face federal narcoterrorism and drug trafficking charges.

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Aug 28 • 7:35 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
The Beauty Of Settled Science

Commenters convinced me I made a subtle mis-step in my framing of Psychology Research Is Mostly Fine. My framing emphasized that social priming studies had failed to replicate, but that many other subfields of psychology hadn’t. This naturally led commenters to point to failed replications in other subfields. Although none of these were as bad as social priming, few or none were entirely problem-free. Instead of emphasizing the difference between social priming and other subfields, I should have emphasized the difference between settled science and novel research. Here are some of my favorite psychology findings: The brain is sculpted by reinforcement learning, and a key driver of this learning is a prediction-error-based algorithm located in the nucleus accumbens and implemented through dopamine. Psychedelic drugs exert their effects through 5-HT2A receptors, pointing to a role for these receptors in some sort of construct like the balance between priors and new evidence. Certain cognitive functions are localized to certain brain areas (for example, impulse control to the frontal lobes; linguistic structure to Broca’s area, linguistic meaning to Wernicke’s area. But injure one of these areas, or render a certain function useless (eg a blind person having no more use for their visual cortex), and these mappings can gradually shift - suggesting that neurons are general-purpose compute whose specialization is a contingent fact about convenience and efficiency rather than a necessity. Most personality traits and general capabilities are about 50% genetic and 50% random, with little role for family environment or childhood history, with a few notable exceptions like partisan preference. Recent research complicates this story, but the further you go from this basic picture, the gnarlier the chains of indirect causation you require. Neurons fire together in “brain waves”, whose exact frequency corresponds with the character of consciousness; These divide neurons into natural subpopulations and linked graphs. The gamma rhythm corresponds surprisingly well to items in conscious awareness. GABA receptors seem to be involved in something like relaxation. By hitting different GABA receptors in different ways, you can modulate the exact type of relaxation you produce. Hitting GABA-A directly is too powerful and can cause dangerous levels of sedation, but allosteric modulation of GABA is an incredibly fruitful strategy that underlies drugs from benzos to barbituates to alcohol. If you know your GABA-A subunits, you can target specific subtypes of relaxation; for example, Ambien hits GABA-A1 and induces sleep. Memory divides somewhat fuzzily into bins of immediate-sensory, short-term, and long-term, with separate retrieval and storage functions, and separate systems for declarative vs. procedural learning. These can be harmed selectively, usually by hippocampal injury, so that some patients can remember their life stories but not form new long-term memories, or learn new skills like bike-riding but not new facts. The exact substrate of memory is unclear but seems to involve new synaptic connections between neurons in at least some way. The ability of modern psychology and psychiatry to treat mental illness is real but limited. SSRIs work for half or slightly fewer than half of patients; antipsychotics work with extreme side effects; benzodiazpines work but produce addiction and tolerance in many (not all) people. Most supplements are stuck in Poor Quality Study Replication Crisis Hell, but melatonin and l-theanine stand out as especially promising. Psychotherapy works with moderate effect size, but (with a few exceptions) seems to be more about the relationship with the provider than the details of the therapy itself. Mental hospitalization can sometimes defuse immediate crises but work less well than mental hospitals would like, with some studies showing overall negative effects. Schizophrenia is mostly genetic, but risk also increases with prenatal infection (especially rubella) and obstetric complications; there is suggestive evidence for roles of social stress and drug use (with psychedelics and marijuana making things worse, and nicotine if anything making things better). Bipolar and schizophrenia are so closely linked on a pathophysiological level that it seems like they might be the same disease; on the clinical level, they do seem to follow two separate courses/prognoses but can sometimes surprise clinicians by eg someone who seemed condemned to permanent schizophrenia unexpectedly recovering. The brain’s native reinforcement learning algorithms cash out in the phenomena of classical and operant conditioning; different reinforcement schedules reinforce at different levels, which can be exploited by bad actors to make especially compelling products (eg slot machines). None of these are immune to doubt. A few are speculative; one or two are genuinely unorthodox. But they’re all a step above one p = 0.049 paper that might not replicate. If they get overturned, they’ll be overturned by the same sort of genuine scientific shift that replaced Ptolemy with Copernicus or Lamarck with Darwin, not some sort of sordid discovery about someone entering random numbers into a spreadsheet. In 2008, Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote about The Beauty Of Settled Science: If you only care about scientific issues that are controversial, you will end up with a head stuffed full of garbage. The media thinks that only the cutting edge of science is worth reporting on. How often do you see headlines like “General Relativity still governing planetary orbits” or “Phlogiston theory remains false”? So, by the time anything is solid science, it is no longer a breaking headline. “Newsworthy” science is often based on the thinnest of evidence and wrong half the time—if it were not on the uttermost fringes of the scientific frontier, it would not be breaking news. Scientific controversies are problems so difficult that even people who’ve spent years mastering the field can still fool themselves. That’s what makes for the heated arguments that attract all the media attention. Worse, if you aren’t in the field and part of the game, controversies aren’t even fun. Don’t be embarrassed to read elementary science textbooks, either. If you want to pretend to be sophisticated, go find a play to sneer at. If you just want to have fun, remember that simplicity is at the core of scientific beauty [...] A steady diet of science news is bad for you: You are what you eat, and if you eat only science reporting on fluid situations, without a solid textbook now and then, your brain will turn to liquid. Psychology isn’t centrally the new paper in Annals Of Recently-Breaking News saying that an n=5 study showing that large portion sizes increase support for terrorism. Psychology is centrally ideas like brain waves, GABA receptors, reinforcement learning, twin studies, and connectionism. People who think differently are worrying too much about BREAKING NEWS!!!, and should stop. The key distinction isn’t “recent research in social psychology” vs. “recent research in cognitive/bio/behavioral psychology”, as my essay last week unfortunately implied. It’s recent research in general vs. the deposit of settled science, battle-tested hypotheses, and carefully-earmarked speculation. And part of the reason social priming in particular was such a disaster was that it defied that heuristic, building itself up over hundreds of studies until it approached or even entered the pantheon of settled science - before collapsing (5-HTTLPR was also sort of like this). This isn’t a claim that settled science is always right - Freud was “settled science” for a long time - just that there’s an intuitive distinction between the level of credence you should have in the existence of power posing vs. the existence of Broca’s Area. (I compounded this error by calling the last post “Psychology Research Is Mostly Fine”, which suggested I was talking about the new research rather than the settled science. I actually meant to distinguish between research-psychology-the-field vs. clinical-psychology-aka-therapy, but this framing unintentionally pushed against the point I wanted to make) Some commenters on the previous article understood this point, but challenged its weight. It’s very cool, they said, to know how many neurons are in which brain lobe, but the main way that Psychology affected their lives was through bad clickbait studies used to buttress dumb policies; some p = 0.049 study says that exposure to microaggressions makes minorities’ brains shrivel into raisins, and now their company has to implement punitive DEI or be sued for hazardous work conditions. I won’t dispute this as an accurate description of how the sausage gets made, but it’s worth examining the trains of thought that connect this observation to a campaign against psychology in general: The dumb woke psychology was wrong and bad, and I don’t have good heuristics for distinguishing dumb woke psychology from other psychology, so I’m going to assume it’s all wrong and bad. The dumb woke psychology was wrong and bad; it seems useful to punish/discredit psychology as a whole to assist my campaign against it, so for propaganda purposes I will try to discredit psychology as a whole. To people in the first camp, my response is: come on, your heuristics aren’t that bad. “Microaggressions makes minorities’ brains shrivel up like raisins” is in the woke category; “the hippocampal theta rhythm seems to be associated with both memory and pathfinding, suggesting an unexpected yet surprisingly compelling relationship between the two” is in the not-woke category, don’t play dumb here. To people in the second camp, my response is: deliberately exaggerated propaganda campaigns are bad and this is a confession, not an excuse. Inability to view science through anything but a political lens was what got us into this problem; doubling down on it is a temporary solution but a recipe for permanent disaster. If you pronounce entire fields of science to be acceptable collateral damage in your campaign against bad political actors, you will alienate not just scientists but patients, clinicians, and general lovers of truth. Instead, you can say the thing you mean - that woke partisans shouldn’t try to occupy and exploit the otherwise-noble science of psychology for their own political gain - and wage the same campaign with a halo rather than a comic-book-villain goatee. From the font of oracular wisdom that is Weird Sun Twitter: [ Vessel Of Spirit@VesselOfSpirit i love you all conditionally but i love the good part of you unconditionally. even if it becomes a very small part 2:11 AM · Jan 22, 2015 1 Reply · 5 Reposts · 29 Likes ](https://x.com/VesselOfSpirit/status/558084551772471298) This is how I feel about psychology1, too, but with a touch more optimism. The good part of psychology is enormous, a hoard of endless treasures. You just have to look past the headlines! 1 To play devil’s advocate - should one always be so magnamious? Astrology? Phrenology? These seem different in that their entire orientation was flawed from the start; they didn’t simply fail to find the correct constellation-personality connections, the whole project of searching for connections between constellations and personality was doomed from the start. More difficult might be asking the same question about education research, which is notoriously bad. I don’t know enough about education research to know if there’s some settled science of correct and enlightening results lurking in the background beyond the day-to-day froth of poorly-conducted and politically-motivated studies. I think if it’s 90% bad, 10% good, it’s correct to call it bad as a compact way of communicating a useful truth; I think psychology is better than that, but admit it’s a tough judgment call.

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Aug 4 • 5:33 PM EDT • Science • astralcodexten.com
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He fought terrorism as an FBI agent, now he is fighting cancer and for the health of his fellow 9/11 responders

When American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the Pentagon, Jeffrey Miller rushed to the scene, spending weeks on site recovering evidence from the burned wreckage.

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Sep 10 • 10:58 AM EDT • Health • abc7news.com
Two senior FBI agents ousted over investigation into alleged harassing calls to wife of Trump adviser Stephen Miller

Two veteran FBI agents overseeing counterterrorism operations in the nation’s capital have been removed from their jobs and reassigned over the handling of an investigation involving Katie Miller, the conservative podcaster and wife of senior White House adviser Stephen Miller, according to two people familiar with the move.

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Sep 26 • 9:42 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Health alert issued for dengue outbreaks spreading in travel hotspots

The CDC has issued a Level 1 dengue fever warning covering 15+ countries, urging spring break travelers to take precautions against mosquito bites.

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Mar 25 • 4:07 PM EDT • Health • foxnews.com
Takeaways from former Trump administration counterterrorism chief Joe Kent’s extensive interview

Former US National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent sat Wednesday for an extensive interview with former Fox News host and right-wing podcaster Tucker Carlson, his first public comments since he resigned from his post, citing concerns about the war with Iran.

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Mar 18 • 10:18 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
25 Years of Business Income Insurance Coverage Claims Since the Attacks of Sept. 11, 2001

The 9/11 attacks reshaped business income insurance, spurring decades of litigation over loss calculations, restoration periods, expert evidence, and terrorism coverage. These disputes continue to influence claims and policyholder protections after major catastrophes.

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Oct 5 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • law.com
Joe Kent, top counterterrorism official, says Iran posed no imminent threat as he resigns over Trump's war

Kent, a former political candidate with connections to right-wing extremists, said he “cannot in good conscience” back the Trump administration’s war.

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Mar 17 • 11:35 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Michigan Dem AG turns on El-Sayed over terror attack response, warns of mentality that 'bothers me a lot'

Dana Nessel says Abdul El-Sayed's response to the Temple Israel attack appeared to make excuses for domestic terrorism targeting Jewish worshippers.

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Aug 27 • 10:53 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
DeSarno: Keep politics out of counterterrorism strategy

The 2026 U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy politicizes national security, abandoning operational clarity and institutional discipline.

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Aug 13 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • dallasnews.com
Israeli scholars bring expertise in politics, peace building, terrorism, more to San Diego college campuses

The professors are part of the largest-ever cohort of Israeli-faculty coming to local universities through the Murray Galinson San Diego-Israel Initiative.

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Oct 20 • 1:45 PM EDT • Politics • timesofsandiego.com
US removes all Air Force bombers from Fairford base amid terrorism concerns

The United States has moved long-range bombers back to their American home stations days after the British government arrested a number of individuals in connection with an alleged Iranian plot to target the UK airbase where the planes had been stationed.

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Oct 4 • 5:24 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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Responding to Today's Gaps for Tomorrow's Health Emergencies: 2026 Ready or Not Report

Join Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) for a Congressional Briefing and National Webinar on the latest information on public health emergency readiness and findings from TFAH’s upcoming report, Ready or Not 2026: Protecting the Public’s Health from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism – releasing May 7th. The past year alone saw the U.S. facing the most […]

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Apr 21 • 2:47 PM EDT • Health • tfah.org
SkyCity Entertainment Starts Strategic Review of Adelaide Casino

SkyCity Entertainment Group will start a strategic review of its Adelaide casino after resolving years of regulatory scrutiny over matters including governance standards and compliance with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws.

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Aug 19 • 6:17 PM EDT • Entertainment • bloomberg.com
Watch live: Rubio gathers diplomats for summit on ‘far-left political terrorism’

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday morning will gather diplomats from dozens of countries for a summit on combating the resurgence of “far-left political terrorism.” “The event will focus o…

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Jul 16 • 8:43 AM EDT • Politics • thehill.com
Secy. Marco Rubio Hosts Summit on Political Terrorism

Secretary of State Marco Rubio hosts a summit at the State Department addressing political terrorism.

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Jul 16 • 12:00 AM EDT • Politics • c-span.org
Analysis: Trump 2.0 sees terrorism all over the place

The Trump administration is living in a state of perpetual terror, both foreign and domestic.

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Jan 29 • 4:00 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
State Department hosting international officials to talk left-wing terrorism

Counterterrorism experts say the Trump administration’s focus on the far left lacks context about the full range of threats from extremists across the political spectrum.

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Jul 16 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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Europe’s political Islam debate moves beyond counter-terrorism |

Muslim and human-rights organisations have warned that an expansive definition of political Islam could blur the distinction between legitimate political participation and extremism.

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Sep 17 • 8:00 PM EDT • Politics • thearabweekly.com
Jailed Venezuelan politician's son criticises slow prisoner release

Ramón Guanipa's father was accused of terrorism and treason for challenging the 2024 presidential election result.

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Jan 12 • 5:24 AM EST • Politics • bbc.com
Starlink provides free internet to Venezuela following US arrest of Nicolás Maduro

Starlink offers free internet access to Venezuela through Feb. 3 after U.S. forces arrested President Maduro on federal narco-terrorism charges.

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Jan 4 • 7:59 PM EST • Business • foxbusiness.com
Pakistan’s Punjab allows ‘secret’ terrorism trials: Why it’s controversial

A single unnamed official can order anonymous judges, prosecutors and witnesses in terrorism cases, with no time limit.

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Sep 3 • 3:25 AM EDT • Politics • aljazeera.com
Bruce Springsteen brings 'Streets of Minneapolis' home to launch a political US tour

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Mar 31 • 1:12 PM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
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Trump accused Obama of funding Iranian terrorism. His agreement could grant Iran access to much more money

President Donald Trump’s nascent agreement with Iran is beset by problems right now, but at the top of the list may be the issue of money flowing to Iran.

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Jun 16 • 2:06 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Firings, mismanagement leave FBI unprepared for terrorism

Instead of using targeted enforcement, the Trump administration has favored quantity over quality.

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Apr 3 • 4:31 AM EDT • Politics • usatoday.com
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Joe Kent resigns, says Iran posed ‘no imminent threat’

Joe Kent resigned as director of the National Counterterrorism Center, saying that he cannot in "good conscience" support the Trump administration's war in Iran.

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Mar 17 • 10:08 AM EDT • Politics • seattletimes.com
A New Case Exposed the Clever Workaround the FBI Uses to Read 'Secure' Messages on iPhones

Law enforcement used Apple's push notifications database to gather messages sent through Signal, and convict defendants for terrorism activities.

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Apr 10 • 2:58 PM EDT • Technology • inc.com
Small Wars Journal–El Centro Senior Fellow Designs Software with Computer Science Student to Fight Terrorism and Crime Networks

Small Wars Journal–El Centro Senior Fellow co-authored a software plugin with Sam Houston State University computer science student Braell Dotson that will help law enforcement fight criminal networks. The software is a program for the well-known social network analysis (SNA) software Gephi. Gephi is a free open-source software that law enforcement analysts are trained on to better target criminal … Read more

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Jul 23 • 11:00 PM EDT • Science • smallwarsjournal.com