Scientists believe that starving cancer cells of their favorite foods may be an effective way to inhibit tumor growth. Now, a group has developed a new molecule called Glutor that blocks a cancer cell’s ability to uptake and metabolize glucose. The drug works against 44 different cancers in vitro…
October 9, 2019
The Toll Mounts From a Mystery Disease Some Call “The New Polio”…
October 9, 2019
It’s new enough that it didn’t even have a formally accepted name until 2014. When it got one, it was one of those names that is more or less just a clinical description of what the disease is: acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), a sudden inflammation of spinal tissue resulting in flaccid paralysis of the muscles of the limbs, neck, face and often diaphragm. It’s a lot like polio but it’s not polio; it’s a little like meningitis and Guillain-Barré syndrome but it’s not them either.
Indeed, no one knows exactly what it is. For the moment it remains rare: In the U.S., where AFM is closely tracked, the disease attacks fewer than one in a million people even in peak years, and it very rarely kills. But in the past seven years, it’s been striking more and killing more, and there is a tick-tock certainty to when it will hit next.U.S. Army Is Treating Two Soldiers for Vaping-Related Lung Illness, days after most of the military banned e-cigarette sales at base exchanges….
October 9, 2019
The Army is the first branch of the U.S. military to report cases of an ailment that has been linked to at least 23 deaths in the U.S., according to federal and state officials. The illness has affected more than 1,000 people nationwide and in most cases has been linked to vaping products containing THC, the psychoactive compound in marijuana. Marijuana use is prohibited among service members. Army officials said they are still investigating the cases of the two soldiers and haven’t determined the substances they used. They declined to discuss further details, citing privacy concerns.
An upcoming book has promised to reveal 43 new allegations of inappropriate behavior against President Trump, including 26 instances of unwanted sexual contact…
October 9, 2019
A sneak preview of the bombshell book titled All the President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator and provided by Esquire explains that "journalists Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy draw on over 100 interviews, many of them exclusive, to craft a detailed history of Trump's relationships with women, stretching back to his childhood and education as well as his rise through real estate, entertainment, and politics." The exclusive excerpt from the book alleges that the early days of Trump's courtship of first lady Melania Trump were marred by instances of infidelity and unwelcome advances by Trump on multiple women...
Turkey launches military assault in Syria as Kurdish fighters say warplanes are bombing region…
October 9, 2019
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan tweeted that the maneuvers being carried out against Syrian Kurdish forces – which Ankara considers terrorists allied with a Kurdish insurgency within Turkey – are part of Operation Peace Spring. "Our mission is to prevent the creation of a terror corridor across our southern border, and to bring peace to the area," he said in a tweet. "#OperationPeaceSpring will neutralize terror threats against Turkey and lead to the establishment of a safe zone, facilitating the return of Syrian refugees to their homes."
A spokesperson for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces says Turkish warplanes have "started to carry out airstrikes on civilian areas", causing a "huge panic among people of the region."
Sea “boiling” with methane discovered in Siberia: “No one has ever recorded anything like this before”…
October 9, 2019
Bernie Sanders’ Daughter-In-Law Passed Away Just Two Days After Being Diagnosed With Cancer…
October 9, 2019
Just one day after independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders returned to his home state, recovering from a heart attack, his daughter-in-law died at 46... Riggs had reportedly fallen ill several weeks earlier, but doctors struggled to determine the root cause of her symptoms. She was finally given an official diagnosis of neuroendocrine cancer just two days prior to her death.
Whistleblower had ‘professional’ tie to 2020 Democratic candidate…
October 9, 2019
Under questioning from Republicans during last Friday's impeachment inquiry interview with Atkinson, the inspector general revealed that the whistleblower's possible bias was not that he was simply a registered Democrat. It was that he had a significant tie to one of the Democratic presidential candidates currently vying to challenge President Trump in next year's election... All three sources said Atkinson did not identify the Democratic candidate with whom the whistleblower had a connection. It is unclear what the working or professional relationship between the two was.
Senator Lindsey Graham plans ‘sanctions from hell’ to hit Turkey over Syria operation…
October 9, 2019
Graham told media outlet Axios in an interview published on Wednesday that the sanctions would strike the Turkish economy and military. He predicted the Senate could marshal the votes to override any potential presidential veto.
Adult White House Official “Visibly Shaken” By Trump-Zelensky Call We All Read…
October 9, 2019
The official was “visibly shaken by what had transpired,” the C.I.A. officer wrote in his memo, one day after Mr. Trump pressured President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in a July 25 phone call to open investigations that would benefit him politically.
A palpable sense of concern had already taken hold among at least some in the White House that the call had veered well outside the bounds of traditional diplomacy, the officer wrote...
Shaking, eh. Is that what they employ at the CIA nowadays?
French charity publishes deepfake of Trump saying ‘AIDS is over’…
October 9, 2019
Matt Lauer accused of raping colleague Brooke Nevils in Ronan Farrow’s new book…
October 9, 2019
In the book, obtained by Variety, Nevils alleges that at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, Lauer anally raped her in his hotel room... Nevils tells Farrow: “It was nonconsensual in the sense that I was too drunk to consent,” she says. “It was nonconsensual in that I said, multiple times, that I didn’t want to have anal sex.” In his letter, Lauer responded: “I had an extramarital affair with Brooke Nevils in 2014,” Lauer says. “It began when she came to my hotel room very late one night in Sochi, Russia. We engaged in a variety of sexual acts. We performed oral sex on each other, we had vaginal sex, and we had anal sex. Each act was mutual and completely consensual.”
A Philadelphia jury has ordered healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson to pay $8 billion in damages to a Maryland man who developed female breast tissue after taking anti-psychotic drug Risperdal as a child…
October 9, 2019
The Philadelphia jury awarded the punitive judgment in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas after finding Janssen, the pharmaceutical subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, had improperly marketed Risperdal and failed to warn physicians and healthcare providers of the risk that gynecomastia, the technical name for the enlargement of breast tissue in men, could develop in male children who took the drug...
US Government Blacklists 28 Chinese Facial Recognition and AI Companies…
October 9, 2019
The US Commerce Department has updated its “Entity List” with 28 more Chinese firms, most of which are known for producing AI and facial recognition systems. This means companies like Hikvision Digital Technology and Zhejiang Dahua Technology will be unable to get technology or services from US firms.
According to the US government, it took the action because these companies aid “implementation of China’s campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention, and high-technology surveillance against Uighurs, Kazakhs and other members of Muslim minority groups.”...
Durham investigation into origins of 2016 Trump campaign surveillance expands its scope…
October 9, 2019
Fox News previously reported that Durham would be reviewing the days leading up to the 2016 election and through the inauguration. However, based on what he has been finding, Durham has expanded his investigation adding agents and resources, the senior administration officials said. The timeline has grown from the beginning of the probe through the election and now has included a post-election timeline through the spring of 2017, up to when Robert Mueller was named special counsel.