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Commercial magnesium comes from evaporating salty brine or seawater, mining dolomite rock, or recycling scrap metal. Until its production plant shut down in late 2021 due to equipment failures, US Magnesium asserted that it was the largest source of primary, non-recycled magnesium in North America.

“There is no other significant producer of primary magnesium in the United States,” said Ron Thayer, the company’s president, in a sworn declaration filed in federal bankruptcy court on September 10, “and primary magnesium is a critical component to United States defense contractors.” It will take a $40 million investment for magnesium production to resume at the Rowley plant, Thayer later testified in a deposition.

For all its natural beauty and popularity as a tourist destination, Okunoshima – uninhabited except for staff working at the solitary hotel and its guests – faces an uncertain future, and so do its four-legged inhabitants.

From 1929 until the end of the second world war, the island hosted poisonous gas research and production facilities run by the Japanese imperial army. The operation was so secret that Okunoshima was not included in contemporaneous maps of Japan.

In January, Kyle Hopkins of the Anchorage Daily News examined why a sexual assault case took seven years to go to trial in Alaska. In March, our video journalists told the stories of three mothers fighting to address America’s stillbirth crisis. In August, a team across the newsroom calculated how deeply President Donald Trump’s administration cut federal health agencies. And in December, Megan Rose and Debbie Cenziper reported how the Food and Drug Administration’s lax generic drug rules put a lung transplant patient’s life at risk.

It’s not that this is the first time since the failure of the patriot movement that anyone has tried to strike up a series of nationalist rallies by cladding them in the aesthetic of Aussie flags and Islamophobic mouth-foaming. It’s not even the hundredth time. I’ve lost count of how many failed attempts at Reclaim 2.0 there have been. Someone just tried to get the patriots back together under the name of Muslim-bashing in July – and all they got was 100 losers, and 4 Nazis, bickering with each other in the rain.

The premise behind the lung float test is simple: If a baby was born alive and then died, air from its first breaths would cause its lungs to float in a jar with water. If the baby was stillborn, the lack of air in the lungs would cause them to sink. But the many critics of the test have long labeled it junk science and drawn parallels between the test and witch trials, where women were deemed witches based on whether they floated or sank.

Kratom and 7-OH products are becoming increasingly popular in the United States. They're available in many smoke shops, but the Food and Drug Administration says certain products are highly addictive — and could lead to the next wave of the opioid epidemic.

This isn't the first time kratom has come under scrutiny.

Nearly a decade ago, the Drug Enforcement Administration, or DEA, wanted to classify the active ingredients in kratom in the same category as heroin. That meant products would have gone from being widely available to highly restricted.

Following the announcement, there was a massive wave of protest from advocates and lawmakers — including people who said they used kratom products to wean themselves off opioids.

The DEA decided not to move forward.

The idea of mutual site visits came after Guichon spoke to Dan Macmaster, head of forestry at Nk’Mip Forestry and a board member of the B.C. First Nations Forestry Council.

Macmaster said the collaboration is a unique opportunity to showcase the lands managed by each company, but also to share forest management practices on both sides.

“I have to say that this kind of partnership was neat,” Macmaster said in an interview, “because it went beyond just sharing ideas about forest management.”

The conversation between nations broadened to include the importance of incorporating Indigenous cultural values, “as well the distinctive ecological and social values” each community brings when working on the land, he said.

Five alleged members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, a small, relatively new leftist organization based in southern California, were arrested December 12 for charges of possession of unregistered destructive devices, conspiracy, and threats in interstate commerce after a paid confidential human source and an undercover FBI employee began monitoring and reporting on the group’s activity. The paid confidential human source is said in the indictment to have been providing information to the FBI since August 2021.

The American Civil Liberties Union says it is the most extreme anti-trans legislation ever considered by Congress: It would put doctors in jail for up to 10 years if they provide gender-affirming care to minors, including prescribing hormone replacement therapy to adolescents or puberty blockers to young kids. The bill also aims to halt gender-affirming surgeries on minors, which is rare.

BILL MOYERS: The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today. They wouldn’t see it this way, and there are exceptions, but the corruption of corporate media, corporate power and government is what makes so vital what the two of you do. I’m serious about that. You don’t have the scope of Meet the Press. I mean, look at Meet the Press. Who’s been on Meet the Press more than any other figure in Washington in the last several years? Newt Gingrich. Newt Gingrich. Newt Gingrich, I later learned, when I was briefly at NBC as an analyst doing commentaries, controversial commentaries, actually came to the brass of NBC and GE. Newt Gingrich has had some nefarious relationship with General Electric, which is one of the huge government contractors, as well as the owner of Meet the Press. And it’s just an example of what I’m talking about. The consensual seduction of the mainstream media with power, corporate power, government power — with exceptions, I repeat — is something that, without the antidote of independent reporting and analysis that you do and others, we would be in — we would be in a dark, dark pit with no light shining on us.

Looking forward, the trajectory for next year is clear: Deepfakes are moving toward real-time synthesis that can produce videos that closely resemble the nuances of a human’s appearance, making it easier for them to evade detection systems. The frontier is shifting from static visual realism to temporal and behavioral coherence: models that generate live or near-live content rather than pre-rendered clips.