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Scientists have tracked the lineages of cancer cells in the past by comparing shared mutations and other variations in their DNA blueprints. These methods...depend to a certain extent on there being enough naturally occurring mutations or other markers to accurately show relationships between cells. ... Instead of simply hoping that a cancer lineage contained enough lineage-specific markers to track, the researchers decided to use Chan’s method to add in markers themselves. “Basically, the idea is to engineer a cell that has a genomic scratchpad of DNA, that then can be ‘written’ on using CRISPR,” Weissman says. This ‘writing’ in the...

In the wee hours of the morning on Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, an arsonist spray-painted the message, “Jesus is Black” in a Roman Catholic Church in Toledo, Ohio, while setting fire to parts of the church. Police later caught up to the suspect, 27-year-old Christopher A. Harris. Harris shot and killed a police officer in a shootout that also claimed his life. Harris’s Facebook account includes multiple posts with the message, “Jesus is Black,” and one post evoking King’s assassination days before the church arson. Shortly before 2:30 a.m. on Monday, a vandal reportedly attempted to set fire...

Good Afternoon And WELCOME To The Todd Feinberg Show, HOME of the RANT LINE.

Two years ago, while on a hospital gurney, my mother told me that she had to be cynical to be Black and survive in this country. With scent of antiseptic wafting in the air and alarms blaring out codes and directions, she took the hectic moment to explain that there was a part of you — or her, anyway — that would always want to feel safe here but expect to be disappointed. You would love to trust the law, even as the regularity of police brutality built up your reasons not to. And that someday you’d find a health...

A FIRST-TIME DECLINE IN THE NATION’S WHITE POPULATION The most recent Census Bureau estimates by race show a small decline of 16,612 in the nation’s white population over the 2010-to-2019 period. If this trend is confirmed with the full 2020 census, the 2010-to-2020 decade would be the only decade since the first census was taken in 1790 when the white population did not grow.

Carnival Cruise Line has released a major update on ship deployments. This includes several changes for when ships will return after their dry dock and some deployment changes. Unfortunately, most of it is not so good as the cruise line has already announced a further suspension until May and further delays ships. Carnival Cruise Line Deployment Changes The Miami-based cruise line has made a number of changes, and original plans have been thrown out the window with further delays due to dry docks. The global pandemic and the impact on the industry are not making it easy, so ships have...

While speaking with the Riders Alliance on Monday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) discussed the timing of passing the next round of coronavirus relief, the American Relief Act, and said that “we’ll try to get that passed in the next month, month-and-a-half.” Schumer said, [relevant remarks begin around 20:00] “[I]n the new bill, which President Biden has put together with my help, there are lots of other — there’s more money for transit and other things. It’s called the American Relief Act, and we’ll try to get that passed in the next month, month-and-a-half.”

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Updated at 2:57 p.m. ET Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., will preside over former President Donald Trump's trial in the Senate, a Senate source tells NPR. Leahy, 80, is the president pro tempore of the Senate, a constitutional role given to the longest-serving lawmaker in the majority party. The president pro tempore is third in the line of presidential succession, after the vice president and House speaker. "I have presided over hundreds of hours in my time in the Senate," Leahy told reporters. "I don't think anybody has ever suggested I was anything but impartial in those hundreds of hours." Leahy...

(Jan. 25, 2021) — Iconic bass and guitar intro. “They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway….” When I was in elementary school that song played in the background of a Radio Free Europe advertisement. (1) I listened to it on a little transistor radio that was given to me at Christmas when I was around nine years old. That 30-second radio spot had a huge impact on me. At that tender age I became cognizant that people existed who were not free and who were not allowed to talk. Around the same time The Diary of Anne Frank...

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President Vladimir Putin has denied owning a sprawling luxury estate by Russia's Black Sea, after opposition figure Alexei Navalny accused him of hiding the property due to corrupt financing. In an almost two-hour-long film shared on YouTube last week, Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) showed drone footage of an opulent 68-hectare (168-acre) "secret palace" that boasts an enormous mansion, two helipads, an arboretum and an underground ice hockey rink. The film alleged the property, which is worth $1.35 billion, was paid off through an intricate web of illicit funds orchestrated by Putin and his allies.

In 2018, the last year for which a complete picture can be discerned, the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded nearly a thousand research grants devoted in whole or part to 'diversity, inclusion, and equity' (DIE) aims, to the tune of more than $1.3 billion. From 2010 to 2018, a total of more than $4 billion have been awarded to more than 2,200 DIE-oriented grants...DIE now holds the trump card in deciding what science is worthy of funding. No matter how stellar the science, the message is clear: gobble up the DIE brainworm, or your funding will dry up, and your...

I believe the time has come to realize or at least consider; whatever reaction one may or may not have; that the people in power are going to keep some variation of CV-19 going for a long, long time. Today, Newsom (CA) stated that 50% of the new cases in Los Angeles are of the new, UK, more contagious variety. It's isn't a matter of whom you are gonna vote for, or whom you wish to blame. It's a matter of the swamp et al realizing that they can now control the masses with a word: "Hey, there's a new...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed an order Monday reversing a Trump-era Pentagon policy that largely barred transgender individuals from serving in the military. The new order, which Biden signed in the Oval Office during a meeting with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, overturns a ban ordered by President Donald Trump in a tweet during his first year in office. It immediately prohibits any service member from being forced out of the military on the basis of gender identity. The decision comes as Biden plans to turn his attention to equity issues that he believes continue to shadow nearly all aspects...

Dominion Voting Systems on Monday sued Rudy Giuliani, accusing former President Donald Trump’s personal attorney of carrying out “defamatory falsehoods” about Dominion in part to enrich himself through legal fees and his podcast. The company said it seeks to “set the record straight, to vindicate the company’s rights under civil law, to recover compensatory and punitive damages, and to stand up for itself, its employees, and the electoral process.” “Although he was unwilling to make false election fraud claims about Dominion and its voting machines in a court of law because he knew those allegations are false, he and his...

More than 200 Antifa protesters repotedly descended on Tacoma, Washington, Sunday evening Video and images showed broken glass scattered on sidewalk outside of businesses and graffiti on buildings Protesters started at least two fires in the area using a barricade for one and an American flag for the other The group gathered to protest Tacoma police after an officer drove over a man during an incident Saturday Police said they were responding to reports about drag racers when the group swarmed a patrol car Tacoma Police patrol car - surrounded by people - surged forward, and knocked five people to...

A 26-year-old man had just gotten off a bus from Atlanta when he was attacked by a group of about a dozen suspects who beat him, cut him several times and stole his clothes, including his underwear, cops said Sunday.The group of males and females began assaulting the victim around 11:30 a.m. Friday near Canal and Allen streets in Manhattan, cutting him with an unknown object, police said.Police released video of the suspects and are seeking witnesses. The attackers took the man’s cellphone and removed his pants, underwear and shoes.

The 107 page lawsuit against Giuliani was filed in the Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., on Monday morning. Dominion claims that allegations of election fraud were “demonstrably false.” It also brought up the protest at the Capitol on January 6 for some reason. In fact their announcement to attack Rudy Giuliani reads like something from a far-left publication. Later this morning Rudy Giuliani responded to the Dominion Voting Systems announcement. Rudy says he looks forward to investigating their history, finances and practices fully and completely. Via WABC Radio: Giuliani, who is also a host for WABC radio, issued the...

I just watched todays' briefing with the new Press Secretary. She really didn't have ANY answers to any of the questions asked, always just saying, "I have no knowledge on that" or "I will have to get back to you. Anyone else see that?