#Approved

Max Doppelt: In January 2025 my mom’s lung cancer spread to her brain. The drug with the best chance of helping her was approved in China but not here. A doctor told me, almost as an aside, that if she were Chinese she could buy it at a pharmacy.…

The French parliament approved an amendment treating a swap from crypto into a stablecoin like USDC or EURC as a taxable disposal. It cleared 38 to 37, and the rate is the standard 31.4% flat tax, 12.8% income plus 18.6% social charges.…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Last month, Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixson ordered Meta to hand over the command histories of the servers it used to torrent pirated books.…

BBC Verify's Ben Chu explains why energy prices are so high, and what Jackdaw could mean for your bills.

foodwatch laboratory tests reveal the presence of pesticide residues in everyday foods — including substances not approved in the EU.

Learn how to use Mimesis library to generate a balanced, counterfactual dataset that helps analyze potential bias in your models.

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from CNBC: The U.S. has cleared around 10 Chinese firms to buy Nvidia's second-most powerful AI chip, the H200, but not a single delivery has been made so far, three people familiar with the matter said,…

The approval paves the way for the revision — a top priority for the government — to be submitted to the current parliamentary session.

You can build useful provenance with citations, schema versions, approved values, and generated artifact lineage before adding a full review UI.

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of directors approved extensions and updates to five contracts, emphasizing the need for speed, flexibility and scale in promoting the destination.

The UK approved more early construction funding for power-grid projects, as part of efforts to boost renewables generation and secure equipment amid supply-chain snarls and competition from other nations.

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Readers are reporting surprisingly generous approvals for Citi new premium credit card. The Strata Elite currently offers an initial bonus and credits I value at $2,300 total in the first cardmember year, making it one of the most lucrative new card…

Chase has brought back a 100,000-point bonus on the Ink Business Preferred, giving small-business owners and those of you with a side hustle one of the strongest bank card offers available right now.…

Planning an ADU in Los Angeles? Use this checklist to compare pre-approved ADU plans, source links, provider details, and site-specific review needs.

Learn what pre-approved ADU plans are, what they do and do not guarantee, and how homeowners can use ADU Plan Finder to compare source-backed plan listings.

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Virginia voters recently approved a new congressional map designed to help give Democrats as many as four additional seats in Congress. But on Friday, the state's Supreme Court narrowly struck down those maps. Ed O'Keefe has details.

A massive outcry in Box Elder County, Utah after a three-person county commission unanimously approved construction of a massive “hyperscale” data center that opponents worry could lead to devastat…