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Microglia and Beta Amyloid An image of brain immune cells called microglia (green) clustering around a build-up of toxic beta-amyloid (red). Credit: LKCMedicine/NTU Singapore Researchers have discovered a “metabolic switch” in the brain’s immune cells that could serve as a target for Alzheimer’s disease treatment. A recent discovery of an “energy switch” within immune cells in the brain holds promise for the creation of drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease, which is the most widespread form of dementia. Scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have uncovered that by blocking and deactivating the aforementioned “switch”, microglial immune cells in the brain...

Degenerative retinal disease is a problem for millions of people worldwide, as light-sensitive cells called photoreceptors at the back of the eye die without being replaced. Thanks to new research, a solution to the problem might not be far off. Scientists in Canada have come up with a way to transform dormant support neurons called Müller glial cells into tissues that work like cone photoreceptors, which are required for color perception and visual acuity. While the process has only been tested on mice cells, it could eventually be developed into a therapy that can restore vision in people. Part of...

Prosecutors originally claimed they were not seeking a gag order against Trump, rather they just wanted to make sure he did not "misuse" their evidence. President Donald Trump has been banned by a New York judge from posting on social media concerning evidence in a criminal case related to alleged hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels. According to Bloomberg, State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan's ordered that anyone with access to the evidence in the case cannot "copy, disseminate or disclose” the evidence to any third party, including social media, without court approval. The judge ordered that Trump is...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk traveled to Texas on Monday to celebrate the groundbreaking of the company’s new lithium refinery that the electric vehicle maker hopes will give the company more control over its supply chain. Musk said the facility, which will be one of the largest of its kind in the world, will produce lithium for "about a million vehicles" and have more lithium refining capacity than "the rest of North American refining capacity combined." He explained that the refinery’s capacity could be expanded above the one million vehicle mark and noted that while Tesla will still use other suppliers...

Attorneys for the Internal Revenue Service whistleblower who alleges the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden has become corrupted by lies and politics reportedly met with members of Congress. Sources told CNN the conversation on Friday with investigators from the GOP-led House Ways and Means Committee and Democrat-controlled Senate Finance Committee helps lay the groundwork for what could be a formal disclosure involving sensitive tax information in the near future. “The process is proceeding on a bipartisan basis with ranking member [Mike] Crapo’s staff,” Ryan Carey, a spokesman for Senate Finance Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR), told the news outlet. “Chairman [Jason]...

From statehouses to the presidential campaign trail, Republicans are escalating their political attacks on transgender people – a reflection of what they see as a cultural fight their base is eager to wage. Despite a poorer-than-expected showing in last fall’s midterm elections when various GOP candidates campaigned on anti-transgender rhetoric, many conservatives have only amplified their attacks this year. And in recent days, those attacks have turned into new forms of mockery and political retribution, as Republicans seek to turn transgender rights into a flashpoint by seizing on social media controversies and exercising their rule-making power in statehouses where they...

A jury has found that Donald Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll. The panel of six men and three women also found that Trump injured advice columnist Carroll in a Manhattan Bergdorf Goodman dressing room and defamed her, ordering the former President to pay her $5million in damages. Trump has been accused of sexual misconduct or assault by more than two dozen women, but this has so far been the only case to end up before a jury. Carroll, 79, sued for battery under the Adult Survivors Act, a law passed in New York that allowed a one year window...

On January 22, 2023, TGP in an article authored by Jerome Corsi, broke the story that Dr. David Mantik, M.D., Ph.D., has completed a thirty-year study of the three JFK autopsy films in the Kennedy Assassination collection at the National Archives. Now, TGP can report that Mantik and Corsi are writing a book that will prove that shots from the front and back hit JFK’s head. That JFK was killed in a crossfire proves there were multiple shooters on November 22, 1963. Multiple shooters prove JFK was killed in a crossfire. Drs. Mantik and Corsi’s new book will be titled...

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday was found liable of sexual abuse and defamation — and ordered to pay more than $5 million in damages — by a federal jury in writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit accusing him of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room decades ago. The nine person jury — three women and six men — decided the case after three hours of deliberations that began just before noon Tuesday. The jurors found that Carroll, 79, proved her 2019 lawsuit claiming that the 45th president raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room — most likely...

The Illusion of ConsensusScience is the process by which we learn about the workings of material reality. Though modern innovations – built on the fruits of science – would look like magic to people living only decades ago, they result from the time-tested scientific method. Contrary perhaps to media portrayals of science, the scientific method depends not on the existence of a mythical consensus but rather on structured scientific debates. If there is a consensus, science challenges it with new hypotheses, experiments, logic, and critical thinking. Ironically, science advances because it believes it has never arrived; consensus is the hallmark...

Former Vice President Mike Pence is poised to seek the Republican nomination for president in 2024 and will formally announce his candidacy in June according to a report. Newsmax revealed that Pence spoke to a Northeastern Republican donor and said he was going to announce in June. The outlet reported that Pence previously had reservations about jumping into the race after being loudly booed at the NRA convention last month in his home state of Indiana. Pence certainly did not help himself after having a meltdown at a dinner back in March. While at the Gridiron Dinner, an annual event...

The city of Phoenix will begin clearing the city's largest homeless encampment in the wake of a court ruling after neighbors brought a lawsuit against the local government. The homeless camp, known as The Zone, is located steps from the state Capitol building and the Arizona Diamondbacks' stadium. The city's Democratic Mayor Kate Gallego said in April that she agreed with the demolition of the camp 'in spirit.' While in March, Arizona's liberal Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a bill that would ban people setting up tents in public spaces. The lawsuit could be used to help other city's attempts to...

A Jewish woman who appeared to be attempting to commit suicide was shot dead after she dressed as a terrorist and appeared to attack a security force on Mount Hebron Tuesday evening. The young woman dressed in black clothes and arrived on foot from the Yatir settlement towards the security guards at the Metzadot Yehuda checkpoint on Mount Hebron. At one point, she pulled out an air gun and started running while shouting "Allahu Akbar" at the security guards and then was neutralized by them. Before the incident, the young woman consulted with a friend about her intentions. The friend...

A retired U.S Navy commander who serves on the Naval Academy’s Alumni Association Board of Trustees defended the Navy enlisting a drag queen influencer to appeal to recruits. According to a report by Fox News Digital, Commander (Ret.) Julianna Vida said the Navy using Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley as a Navy Digital Ambassadors (NDAs) is a “critical” method of welcoming “traditionally excluded segments of our population.” Kelley is an active-duty enlisted sailor and a drag queen who goes by the stage name “Harpy Daniels,” and says he has performed on ships during deployments for fellow sailors. Visa said using...

The Manhattan jury hearing evidence in E. Jean Carroll’s federal lawsuit accusing former President Trump of raping her decades ago has reached a verdict. The nine-person panel — three women and six men — reached the decision Tuesday after three hours of deliberations that began Tuesday May 9 following eight days of trial in Manhattan federal court. The jurors were tasked with determining if the 45th president is liable for battery in the “Ask E. Jean” advice columnist’s case accusing him of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room, most likely in 1996. They also needed to determine whether...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has unaffiliated himself with his Florida political committee and the millions of dollars in its war chest, marking one of the last steps needed before he announces his likely presidential bid. Federal law prohibits politicians from transferring funds from state accounts to a presidential campaign one, and candidates are generally barred from raising money through their state accounts. Instead, DeSantis could avoid scrutiny by ceding control of the state account before moving the money into a PAC that supports his candidacy. $14 million raised in the first three months of this year could be transferred into...

BREAKING: Verdict reached in the Donald Trump rape trial. The verdict will be read at 3 p.m. ET - Washington Post

BROWNSVILLE, TX — With unprecedented numbers of migrants lined up at the southern U.S. border, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas was seen heading there to fire a starter's pistol the moment Title 42 is to expire.

... American Action Network, a nonprofit issue advocacy group that is aligned with Republicans, launched a $250,000 cable ad campaign on Monday to urge Biden to negotiate on the debt. The the advertisement, which charges that Biden’s “refusal to negotiate could lead America to its very first default,” is running heavily on CNN and MSNBC in the Washington, D.C., market. the advetisement

A new “disinformation office” has been quietly established by the Biden administration. This office will have the authority to arrest and prosecute citizens of the United States who publish content online that is deemed to be “false” by so-called fact checkers.According to the announcement made by Director Avril Haines on Thursday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has established a new office to oversee the efforts being made by the intelligence community to combat “disinformation” in the United States.Haines made the announcement during a hearing with the Senate Armed Services Committee. The Foreign Malign Influence Center (FMIC)...