For the first time, U.S. and Chinese scientists have created embryos that are part human, part monkey, in an effort to find new ways to produce organs for transplants.
[....] "Today's court-authorized removal of the malicious web shells demonstrates the department's commitment to disrupt hacking activity using all of our legal tools, not just prosecutions," Assistant Attorney General for national security John C. Demers said [....]
UN Chief Backs Wealth Tax on Rich Who ‘Profited’ From Pandemic. Guterres cites $5 trillion increase for world’s richest. UN leader says he wants to reduce ‘extreme inequalities’. https://t.co/V5WAdnfLdM via @bpolitics
the political situation outlined here should be of interest for all "blue cities" with rising crime rates and policing issues
'There's Still a Question About His Agenda': The Reelection Hurdles Facing Philadelphia's Progressive Incumbent DA Larry Krasner https://t.co/Yh52P3izVw
Clearing and closing encampments is an incredibly expensive and ineffective solution, unless sweeps are paired with permanent housing, according to a first-ever federal report on tent cities: https://t.co/X62qBWsNg3
A Texas man who boasted that he was at the United States Capitol when a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in January has been charged with plotting to blow up an Amazon data center in Virginia, the Justice Department said on Friday.
Iran's Ali Akbar Salehi calls outage at nuclear plant an act "nuclear terrorism". @MarkTFitz tells me Israel is taking matters into its own hands to show there are ways other than diplomacy to slow Iran's nuclear progress https://t.co/0MEMjkYn5Z
Breaking News: President Biden will create a panel to study expanding the Supreme Court in an effort to balance the conservative majority created by Donald Trump. https://t.co/uXBSCZpdu6
[....] Democrats have only a 2-point lead in party identification and 43 percent still approve of his behavior — unchanged after the insurrection. Fully 58 percent are Trump Loyalists who strongly approve of Trump and another 12 percent Trump-alignedwho “somewhat approve” of him but are very conservative or Evangelical
In confidential interrogation reports, Iraqi detainee M060108-01 is depicted as a model prisoner, “cooperative” with his American captors and unusually chatty. At times, he seemed to go out of his way to be helpful, especially when offered a chance to inform on rivals within his organization, then known as the Islamic State of Iraq.
Scoop: The DOJ officials' memo on the domestic terror bill says it could put witnesses and law enforcement trainers in danger, and inadvertently reduce the number of lawyers working on domestic terror caseshttps://t.co/Gkgkd5I0iH
AND BOY IS IT JUICY! John Boehner served as speaker of the United States House of Representatives for nearly five years (January 2011-October 2015)....; this essay is adapted from his bookON THE HOUSE, to be published by St. Martin’s Press on April 13, 2021.
