President Donald Trump signed several executive orders (EOs) on nuclear energy proliferation and an order removing political considerations from public-sector science, as conservatives claimed the latter was scandalized in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Trump also signed restoring “gold standard science” as the cornerstone of federal research.  A senior White House official said on Friday there has been a decline in “disruptive research” and investments in biomedical...

Former President Joe Biden struggled to get through filming campaign videos, or quick, filmed keynote addresses for various groups during the 2024 campaign due to his declining health, according to a new book.  The book, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” said that Biden stumbled through filming campaign videos so much that the footage was ultimately deemed “unusable.” The nonfiction...