FDA Moves Against Electric Shock Devices Used on Autistic Students Amid Long-Running Ethical Debate : A quiet but significant regulatory shift is resurfacing uncomfortable questions about how far behavior-control practices should go in special education settings. At the center is a controversial device designed to deliver electric shocks to students with severe behavioral disabilities—an intervention now facing renewed federal scrutiny after years of legal and medical debate.
Strait of Hormuz Standoff Raises Quiet Fears of a Wider Breakpoint : Something isn’t lining up in the waters that carry nearly a fifth of the world’s oil. Even as talk of restraint surfaces, the movements on the ground—and at sea—suggest something far less stable is unfolding behind the scenes.