While not as sexy as the initial “Vault 7” leak, WikiLeaks’ newest CIA dump shows that the spy agency was working on hacking iPhones just months after they first launched in 2007 and that the CIA had even hacked Apple dongles and adapters. Named “Dark Matter,” the new WikiLeaks release includes information on the CIA’s efforts to infiltrate smart devices, …

Studying the Republican party and their actions is nothing if not a study of the definition of insanity: trying something again and again, expecting different results. The newest example of this practice of insanity is the Republican party’s malicious plan to extend their prejudicial treatment of welfare recipients to those seeking unemployment benefits. Over the weekend, Republican Speaker of the House …

In the United States, roughly 10% of all infants are born prematurely. And while premature infants face a number of health problems in their first few weeks, one of the most devastating and preventable illness is a condition called Retinopathy of Prematurity. This is a condition that can cause permanent blindness in infants, and it is also one that an …

Unsealed court documents have been released that reveal emails between Monsanto and officials at the Environmental Protection Agency showing the two groups working together to draft reports saying that RoundUp’s active ingredient glyphosate does not cause cancer.  Monsanto was allowed to ghostwrite the reports themselves, and that’s why the federal agency refused to label the product as carcinogenic. Ring of …

With the exception of CBS, every major media outlet in the United States shares at least one board member with at least one pharmaceutical company. To put that into perspective: These board members wake up, go to a meeting at Merck or Pfizer, then they have their driver take them over to a meeting with NBC to decide what kind …

Responding to the newly-released Congressional Budget Office report on the Republican-proposed AHCA plan, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said that the numbers released on the Republican’s plan show that the Obamacare replacement is “disgusting and immoral.” What’s more, the Senator repeated past criticism of the Republican plan to repeal the ACA, declaring that without access to healthcare, “thousands of Americans will die.” Appearing downtrodden …

Kellyanne Conway is back from her White House-imposed exile from the media, and she told Fox News that people really need to stop calling the GOP’s healthcare replacement plan “Trumpcare.”  Might not be a bad idea considering how many things that have carried the Trump label have failed. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this. Transcript of the above video: …