MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president called on citizens Friday not to support drug cartels, or oppose the installation of National Guard barracks, after a number of videos surfaced showing residents cheering convoys of cartel gunmen. Several videos have been posted on social media in recent weeks of villages in southern Chiapas, showing farmers lining roadways … Read more
In the face of drug use allegations that could jeopardize million dollar contracts, NASA has come to Elon Musk’s defense, as the space agency waits on a SpaceX lunar lander for its Artemis missions. Tesla Investors Not Happy With Mr. Tweet’s Tweets NASA responded to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal, which claimed … Read more
Photo: Antonio Masiello / Contributor (Getty Images) X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, purged an unknown number of prominent accounts over the last 24 hours with little to no explanation, and then restored the accounts minutes after this article was published. The list includes popular accounts belonging to journalists, writers, and podcasters. Among them … Read more
The beloved UNESCO World Heritage site is being pulled into the booming cocaine trade that’s fueling Ecuador’s violence January 13, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EST An Ecuadorian Coast Guard crew, tasked with intercepting drug traffickers around the Galápagos Islands, brings the Coast Guard vessel Darwin Island back to San Cristóbal Island. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington … Read more
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s two main drug cartels have long taken their deadly rivalry with them as they expand into distant markets from Asia to Australia to Africa, but never before with such intensive street gang violence and a presidential declaration of a state of “internal armed conflict” this week in Ecuador. Gunmen from an … Read more
Matthew Perry allegedly lived “locked up” in his final years, which was part of his “pattern” of drug use. The actor was found unconscious in his hot tub last year, and an autopsy later revealed that his cause of death was “acute effects of the drug Ketamine,” a drug that Perry was using to combat … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave RIGA, Latvia — Russian authorities have arrested a 32-year-old Russian-U.S. citizen over alleged drug charges, the Moscow court press service reported Tuesday. The dual citizen, Robert Romanov Woodland, was born in Russia, adopted as a toddler by an American couple and returned to live in Russia in … Read more
Isomorphic Labs, the London-based, drug discovery-focused spin-out of Google AI R&D division DeepMind, today announced that it’s entered into strategic partnerships with two pharmaceutical giants, Eli Lilly and Novartis, to apply AI to discover new medications to treat diseases. The deals have a combined value of around $3 billion. Isomorphic will receive $45 million upfront … Read more
The Wall Street Journal reported executives across Elon Musk’s companies worry about his drug use. A former Tesla director didn’t seek reelection to the company’s board due to his drug use, per The Journal. The outlet reported Tesla board members were concerned Musk was on drugs when he made his “funding secured” tweet. A former director … Read more
AMMAN — The Jordanian army said Saturday that it killed five drug and weapon smugglers and arrested 15 in a day of clashes with armed groups of smugglers attempting to cross into Jordan from Syria. The army statement said the clashes broke out before dawn between Jordanian border guards and armed organizations “that practice smuggling … Read more