February 9th, 2020

The bureau said in a statement that last month's year-on-year jump in consumer prices was due to the Lunar New Year festivities, an outbreak of a new coronavirus and lower base of comparison with last year's prices. China's pork prices have been climbing on the back of an outbreak of African swine fever, which killed a large number of the country's hog population. Demand for pork — a staple in the Chinese diet — typically increase ahead of the Lunar New Year.

The new study, led by researchers from MD Anderson Cancer Center was published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine and used a type of immune cell, called a Natural Killer (NK) cell. The NK cells were engineered to target a protein called CD19 found on B-lymphoblasts and which can become cancerous and cause several types of blood cancer. The study tested the treatment on 11 patients with either chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or non-Hodgkins lymphoma (NHL), finding a 73% response rate. Of the 8 people who responded, 7 maintained a complete response over a year after the initial treatment.

CBS News went to court on debt collection day. They wouldn't allow our cameras in, but we watched more than 60 people swear they didn't have enough money to pay, and only one of them had an attorney representing them...

Scientists have discovered the first fast radio burst that beats at a steady rhythm, and the mysterious repeating signal is coming from the outskirts of another galaxy.

In an interview with Pitchfork, Third Man Records co-founder Ben Blackwell said the Apollo fire “will present a problem for the vinyl industry worldwide.” He noted that Apollo was one of just two companies that make lacquer discs, and that the other, MDC in Japan, “already had trouble keeping up with demand before this development. I imagine this will affect everyone, not just Third Man Pressing and Third Man Mastering, but to what extent remains to be seen,”...

Sanders laughed at the clip and called Trump a "pathological liar." "I'm not a communist," he said. He also said that he did not get married in Moscow, but was there to create "a sister city program with the city of Yaroslavl." Sanders did travel to the Soviet Union for his honeymoon, where he helped set up the program and criticized the United States' foreign and domestic policy...

His latest budget, which will be released on Monday, is a blueprint for his spending proposals that is unlikely, again, to be passed, particularly in an election year... Aid to Ukraine would remain at its 2020 levels under the new proposal, the official said... Administration officials told Reuters that Trump would request an increase in funding for the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) to $700 million compared to $150 million the previous year. The DFC was formed in large part to counter China’s growing economic influence.

Updated results released by the party released on Sunday show Buttigieg captured 14 delegates, while Sanders won 12. Sen. Elizabeth Warren finished in third with eight delegates, and former Vice President Joe Biden placed fourth, capturing six, according to the numbers.

...his distrust of the market runs deep: This is, after all, the guy who thinks it’s deeply wrong that you can buy so many different kinds of deodorant. But Medicare-for-All, which means outlawing all private insurance, isn’t the only “let Uncle Sam run it” policy he’s pushing... On the other hand, he also calls his energy plan a “10-year, nationwide mobilization centered on equity and humanity.” Which rather gives away the truth that, as with the Green New Deal, the point is use the fight against climate change as an excuse for what he really thinks is needed: government control of, well, everything...

The lawsuit — one of more than 400 filed against tech companies big and small in the past five years — alleged that Facebook broke Illinois' strict biometric privacy law that allowed people to sue companies that failed to get consent before harvesting consumers' data...

Little notice has been paid to the fact that Joseph Cofer Black, a former CIA operative, served as Romney’s special adviser in his 2012 campaign for President...

Rudy Giuliani sits down with Andrii Telizhenko, one of possibly as many as 12 witnesses who can testify that the State Department, DOJ, and FBI were not interested in evidence of Democrat bribery, extortion, money laundering, and illegal interference in the 2016 election.

The Space Fence, located on the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific, will also help the military monitor space junk, keep track of enemy satellites, and help prevent satellites from colliding with one another... A previous version of the Space Fence, shut down in 2013 due to budget cuts, could only track items in low-Earth orbit. The new Space Fence is designed to detect objects as small as four inches from low-Earth orbit (roughly 99 to 1,200 miles) but also medium-Earth orbit (1,200 to 22,000 miles) and geosynchronous orbit (22,000 miles and beyond).

"The analogy is a duct tape dispenser," researcher Axel Günther told Smithsonian Magazine at the time, "where instead of a roll of tape you have a microdevice that squishes out a piece of tissue tape."

On Tuesday, the team published the promising results of its latest trial of the device on pigs in the journal Biofabrication – putting it one step closer to actual use in burn clinics.