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Researchers at University of New Mexico researchers are working on a vaccine they hope could prevent Alzheimer's disease, reports CBS Albuquerque affiliate KRQE-TV. UNM's Health and Sciences Department Associate Professor Kiran Bhaskar, who's been passionate about studying the disease for the last decade, says the work started with an idea in 2013. "I would say it took about five years or so to get from where the idea generated and get the fully functioning working vaccine," he said. Bhaskar and his team started to test the vaccine on mice. It has not yet been shown if it works in people....

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said the GOP has “hacked away” too many pieces of Roe v. Wade, so she called for a bill to make it the law of the land during an appearance at a Planned Parenthood forum at the University of South Carolina Saturday. Warren said progressives have been on “defense,” defending Roe v. Wade for 47 years and strictly relying on the courts. That, she argued, needs to change. “But the truth is, we’ve been on defense for 47 years, and it’s not working,” she said. The GOP, she claimed, has “chipped away” and “hacked away” at...

Attorney George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, declared Saturday that the latest rape allegation against President Donald Trump is more credible than Juanita Broaddrick’s claim against former President Bill Clinton. On Friday, journalist and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll accused President Trump and former CBS CEO Les Moonves of sexual assault in an excerpt of her forthcoming book excerpted Friday in New York magazine. She said then-real estate tycoon Trump approached her in 1995 or 1996 at Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan. Recognizing each other, she said he asked her for help buying a gift...

LGBTQ+ Americans have historically received unjust treatment by the United States government, but some politicians are now looking to correct past wrongs. On June 20, Massachusetts Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren introduced the Refund Equality Act, a bill that would benefit same-sex couples formerly discriminated against through the U.S. Tax Code due to unequal marriage laws. If the act passes, LGBTQ+ couples married in states where their union was recognized before gay marriage was legalized nationwide in 2013 could amend their past tax returns to receive IRS refunds. According to NBC News, that's approximately $57 million in total...

On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation,” 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden questioned President Trump’s account of the decision to not strike Iran by saying that the military doesn’t work that way. Biden said, “If, in fact, the military did not brief him…[on] what was happening, I just don’t believe it. The military doesn’t do that. They sit down and say, Mr. President, do you want us to do A? … This is the consequence. Your decision, Mr. President. We recommend or not. But the idea that they would say to him when he said, go ahead...

BACKSTORY: A little more than a week ago President Trump identified former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Tom Homan, as a likely candidate for the position of border czar. “He’ll be a border czar, he’ll be very much involved in the border, he’ll be reporting directly to me,” Mr. Trump said. However, in a follow up interview with Lou Dobbs, Tom Homan said there were discussions, and he wants to support the president, but he would only take the position if certain “structural changes” within the internal DHS system were made. In essence, Homan appeared to...

A St. Paul City Council member is being urged to resign for past anti-gay posts on Facebook. Gay advocates from Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party are presenting a resolution Sunday at the party's convention in St. Paul asking for Kassim Busuri to resign. The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports Busuri was appointed to represent Ward 6 in January. Busuri says his Muslim faith does not support homosexuality and that criticizing his previous posts amounts to Islamophobia. [SNIP]

Here is a sentence one does not often get the opportunity to write: Bill de Blasio is right. Sen. Cory Booker demands an apology, because apologies under duress are an important part of the political ritual of 2019, and to be able to command an apology signals that a politician is a real player. But Booker isn’t... The Al Gores and John Kerrys of the world enjoy rubbing elbows with Bill Gates at the World Economic Forum. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez couldn’t find Davos on a labeled map, doesn’t want to and doesn’t need to. Democrats may not be ready to comfort...

The Yacht Rock playlist is rapidly expanding over at the juggernaut Yacht Rock channel (ch. 70) on Sirius/XM, which is said by some to be the most listened to channel on the satellite radio network. Yacht Rock is a relatively newly coined genre of music that is used to describe a breezy, smooth set of pop songs - mostly recorded between the years of 1976-1984 - that are conducive to listen to while on a boat and not just yachts, but schooners, skiffs, catamarans and sailboats. Pontoon boats, not so much (refer to country music). We are talking upscale boating...

The results are in: she only wanted to try that hot new restaurant. A new study published Friday in the Society for Personality and Social Psychology journal found that a quarter to a third of heterosexual women have gone on a date with a guy they weren’t interested in — just for a free meal. “Foodie calls,” can happen when money’s tight, the grocery store is out of a favorite frozen meal, or a must-try entree is just too extravagant to justify — when the tab comes out of your own bank account. Two studies, the first conducted with 820...

Halle Berry damn near returned to her home to find the locks changed and a strange man living inside. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... 59-year-old Ronald Eugene Griffin first showed up at an L.A. property owned by the actress in January and allegedly fiddled with the locks, but took off when he was approached by Halle's gardener. A couple months later, in March ... cops received a trespassing call from workers at Berry's pad, who said Griffin was there with a locksmith trying to get in, claiming he was the new owner of the home and had the deed...

Joe Biden is pleading for party unity after a week of harsh attacks from his presidential rivals. “Here’s the deal — whomever the Democratic nominee is, we have to stay together,” he said at a South Carolina event on Friday night, where 20 other Dem candidates also converged. “You all know in your gut this election is more important than any one you’ve ever been involved in,” he said in a 2-minute speech. “Not because any one of us are running, but because of the man who occupies that office.” Biden’s campaign has been in damage-control mode since Tuesday night,...

A Palestinian professor takes a group of Arab students to visit Auschwitz.

The Franken & Davis ShowPete Tagliani/Himself…..Al FrankenWinfield Adcock/Himself…..Tom Davis [ open on animated “The Franken & Davis Show” title card ]Announcer: It’s time for “The Franken & Davis Show”, starring Al Franken and Tom Davis. And now, here’s Al and Tom! [ dissolve to Al and Tom standing on stage ]Al Franken: Thank you, thank you! Good evening, ladies and gentlemen! It’s GREAT to be back!Tom Davis: That’s right. And, tonight, we’d like to stick our necks out a little bit on national television, and call for a violent overthrow of the United States government! [ he bows, as...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un received a "personal letter" from President Donald Trump, according to North Korean state news agency KCNA. KCNA reported that Kim "said with satisfaction that the letter is of excellent content," after reading it. "Kim Jong Un said that he would seriously contemplate the serious content" and appreciated the "extraordinary courage of President Trump," KCNA added. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit from an Alabama woman who claimed President Donald Trump kissed her against her will while she worked for his campaign. Alva Johnson claimed then-candidate Trump “forcibly kissed” her during a 2016 campaign stop in Tampa, Florida. Johnson, who served as Trump’s director of outreach to coalitions for Alabama, also claimed the campaign engaged in pay discrimination against female and African-American employees. U.S. District Court Judge William Jung said Johnson’s complaint centered too much on political attacks, according to a report in Politico. “As currently stated, the Complaint presents a political lawsuit, not a...

I think I've figured out how the Democrats can get some attention for their "debate." I think they should all be made to come on stage in a small car and pop out one at a time. It would be the most entertaining and characteristic way they could possibly do it.

Happy Birthday Dianne Feinstein DOB 22 June 1933.....well?

MIDTOWN, NY — Dozens of people were arrested during a climate change protest in Times Square outside The New York Times building on Saturday. Demonstrators staged a die-in in front of the newspaper building and hung a banner on the facade. The Guardian reported that the protest briefly blocked Eighth Avenue between Port Authority and the Times building. Photos and videos posted to social media showed a group of people lying on the ground outside the newspaper's office. Some protesters climbed on the awning of the Times building to hang signs. Amanda Holpuch, a reporter for The Guardian, noted that...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Friday night that an explosion at a Philadelphia oil refinery was due to climate change, arguing that the incident underscores the urgency of her Green New Deal. A vat of butane ignited and eventually exploded around 4:00 AM Friday at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining Complex, followed by a series of smaller explosions as the fire worked its way through a mass of pipes carrying fuel across the complex.