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April 29, 2025

 
TODAY'S BIG QUESTION

Critics say the president is weaponizing the Justice Department

 
 

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THE EXPLAINER

The case arose after the FBI admitted to raiding the wrong house in 2017

 
 
quote of the day

'No one from America is going to go into science with its lack of stability, and we already have people in Europe turning down job offers.'

Don Ingber, the director of Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, on the impact of academia's tensions with the federal government, including pending lawsuits, immigration crackdowns, and the freezing of $2.2 billion in research funding to the university

 
 
IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Critics say the researchers flouted experimental ethics

 
 
UNDER THE RADAR

Plummeting birth rates and ageing population leaves closed-off country 'no choice' but to admit foreign workers, but tensions are growing with newly arrived Muslims

 
 
Picture of the Day

Switching back on

People use flashlights while shopping for groceries during a widespread power outage in Madrid, Spain. Portugal and Spain experienced the worst blackout in their histories yesterday, cutting power to 6.4 million people. While most of the electricity has been restored by now, the cause of the massive outage remains under investigation.
Diego Radames / Anadolu via Getty Images

 
 
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