Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:

Elon Musk’s first brain chip patient plays online chess with his mind

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

4 years later, experts are just beginning to ‘scratch the surface’ of understanding long COVID

If Biden Wants to Win, He Needs to Talk About COVID

Ignoring the pandemic’s emotional toll might be worsening America’s national malaise.

Politics:

Trump’s Invite to Donors Prioritizes His Legal Bills

Donald Trump’s new joint fundraising agreement with the Republican National Committee directs donations to his campaign and a political action committee that pays the former president’s legal bills before the RNC gets a cut.
The unorthodox diversion of funds to the Save America PAC makes it more likely that Republican donors could see their money go to Trump’s lawyers, who have received at least $76 million over the last two years to defend him against four felony indictments and multiple civil cases. Some Republicans are already troubled that Trump’s takeover of the RNC could shortchange the cash-strapped party.

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Inside Garland’s Effort to Prosecute Trump

In trying to avoid even the smallest mistakes, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland might have made one big one: ending up in a race against the clock.

Judge Gives Trump Organization’s Babysitter ‘Enhanced’ Control

Barbara S. Jones, a former federal judge, now has the authority to review the company’s “day-to-day operations,” internal records, and financial accounting.

U.S. Backs Ukraine Bond Using Frozen Russia Assets

The U.S. proposed to its Group of Seven allies that they create a special purpose vehicle to issue at least $50 billion of bonds backed by the profits generated by frozen Russian sovereign assets and use the proceeds to support Ukraine.

Women Ditching Birth Control Due to Misinformation

Physicians say they’re seeing an explosion of birth-control misinformation online targeting a vulnerable demographic: people in their teens and early 20s who are more likely to believe what they see on their phones because of algorithms that feed them a stream of videos reinforcing messages often divorced from scientific evidence.

Social Security head warns against raising retirement age after GOP proposal

Orbán congratulates Putin on his rigged election win