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Inspired by the work of the RNA Therapeutics Institute at UMass Chan Medical School and the development of the COVID vaccine, Marcus Ruscetti, PhD, and Chaitanya Naimesh Parikh, PhD’26, have developed an immunotherapy using a cocktail of messenger RNAs (mRNA) that could potentially be transformative for pancreatic cancer treatment. The study, published in Nature Communications, combines immune cytokine and tumor-associated antigen mRNAs into a single injection to treat pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Approximately 50 percent of mice with pancreatic cancer treated with the mRNA immunotherapeutic cocktail saw complete tumor responses and more impressively, remained disease free for a year, even after...

What Europe has been suffering for years — parallel neighborhoods, pressure on freedom of speech, tensions over incompatible values, and a slow erosion of social cohesion with extreme violence affecting particularly the working classes — is no longer exclusively a European phenomenon. It is now attacking the heart of the West — the United States — in an increasingly undisguised way. Mass immigration from majority-Muslim countries, combined with low assimilation rates and the ideological defense of “diversity” by the progressive left and the Democrat party, is importing doctrines and loyalties that clash head-on with the principles of American freedom. This...

Her final date will be with the executioner. A serial spouse-slayer nicknamed Iran’s “Black Widow” has been sentenced to death after a lethal marriage spree that left at least 10 husbands in the graveyard over two decades. Kolthoum Akbari, 56, confessed to much of the horrific body count, the Mazandaran Province public relations office told Iranian state media last Sunday. It’s unclear how many of her former spouses perished, but the number is as high as a dozen or more and only one is believed to have lived, authorities said. Most were killed using rubbing alcohol, sedatives and other meds....

I asked Grok how the red states and blue states performed economically between 2000 and 2026. It only gave me up until 2024, but if trends continued, the red states have continued to close the gap and may actually be higher income economies than blue states. Approx. Real GDP CAGR 2000–2024 Yearly Red-leaning group ████████████████ ≈ 2.3–2.6% Blue-leaning group ██████████████ ≈ 1.9–2.2% U.S. overall ███████████████ ≈ 2.1% Approximate cumulative real GDP growth (total multiplicative increase) These are simple compounds of representative average annual rates over 24 years: Red-leaning group (~2.4% average annual): Growth factor ≈ 1.77 → ~77% total cumulative...

SpaceX's Starship Expansion Is Getting Ridiculous, with four more Starship launch pads now being built or upgraded across Starbase and Florida. SpaceX Is Building a Starship Empire it seems, all while they prepare for Starship Flight 14 and the first-ever Ship catch attempt. They've even revealed Project Ignition answering where the Florida "Massey's" equivalent will be set up. In the meantime they are still doing the recovery attempt for Starship Ship 40 after Flight 13, and we even have major Starlink V3 deployment plans. Elsewhere this week, Rocket Lab unveils its portable GHOST launch system, China suffers a dramatic Long...

Maine US Senate candidate Troy Jackson Maine’s far-left Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Troy Jackson is facing explosive new allegations of domestic violence just weeks after Democrats scrambled to install him as their candidate against Republican Sen. Susan Collins. Kim McBreairty, an Allagash man who has known Jackson for decades, told The Maine Wire he personally witnessed the progressive logger open-hand slap his longtime partner, Lana Pelletier, outside a pub in neighboring St. Francis years ago. Kim McBreairty said he was approaching the entrance one evening when he saw Jackson standing with Pelletier. “He just open-hand slapped her beside the head,”...

She denies Jesus is the Messiah, believes abortion and homosexuality are fine, and thinks Christians have bore false witness about the Pharisees, promising to rehab their image. The Catholic Biblical Association of America has spent nearly ninety years shaping how American Catholics read the Bible. It publishes the Catholic Biblical Quarterly, supplies scholarship to seminaries, helps train the people who train priests, and is well within the institutional machinery Rome uses to teach Scripture to Catholics. Last month, they acquired a new president. Amy-Jill Levine became the first Jewish scholar elected to lead the Catholic Biblical Association. Levine joined the...

A sanctimonious liberal like any other respectable 16-year-old, I made a seminal lurch to the right the first time I opened a pay slip. I was manning the register weekends for the Ice Capades Chalet in Atlanta and made about $40 a week. Or so I imagined. Then where the hell was it? The significantly lighter payment was my rude introduction to taxation at source. Indignation at being fleeced at a minimal income persisted into my adulthood. I lived on a wing and a prayer for decades, and having to pitch anything whatsoever in the communal pot was consternating. I...

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The Babylon Bee is taking New Mexico to court over a state law that requires warning labels on certain AI-generated political content, arguing the mandate threatens political satire by forcing comedians to explain the joke before readers can laugh. The Christian satire site filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against New Mexico officials, with backing from Alliance Defending Freedom, challenging provisions of House Bill 182, the 2024 law that amended the state’s Campaign Reporting Act to regulate what it calls “materially deceptive media.” The law requires covered political advertisements that use artificial intelligence to generate or manipulate images, video, or audio...

From sexting to rape, there is a disturbing uptick in sexual misconduct by public school teachers and other staff against students across the United States.The growing problem was recently highlighted by an audit of Chicago public schools where dozens of staff members ranging from teachers, administrators, and counselors, to security officers—even a sign language interpreter—were found guilty of committing a variety of sex crimes against students while in school.The audit was conducted by the Sexual Assault Unit of the Chicago school’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG).The OIG did not respond to inquiries by The Epoch Times about the audit’s...

Americans should not fear the past. I remember the first time I came across a “trigger warning.” I was on a university campus in the ‘90s, attending the first lecture of a new history professor. As I perused her course syllabus, I was impressed with the reading list and organization. Then I spotted an incongruous “warning” to women and African Americans suggesting that they might find some of the material offensive. At first, I thought it was an inappropriate joke. I asked someone about it, and I was informed that “trigger warnings” had become increasingly common in the classrooms of...

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A father-son fishing trip at Ridley Park Lake in Delaware County is now gaining national attention. 69 News Reporter Julianna Furfari spoke with Michael Coffey about his son's surprising catch. Coffey says his 8-year-old son Seamus is an avid fisher. The pair always goes to the same spot on Ridley Park Lake; this time they were using shrimp in an attempt to catch catfish.

A shooting involving multiple suspects and five people shot at Virginia State University prompted a campus lockdown early Saturday. The shooting happened near the university’s Quad Annexes, and both campus police and Chesterfield County police are actively investigating. County police said officers discovered five people suffering from gunshot wounds outside campus dormitories when they arrived. The five victims were transported to hospitals, and one initially listed as having life-threatening injuries has been upgraded to critical condition, county police said. The other victims sustained non-life-threatening injuries, police said. The university said in a statement that the shooting involves “multiple suspects.” The...

According to US Energy Secretary Chris Wright, an average of 9 million barrels of oil are passing through Hormuz daily, while between 5 million to 7 million barrels are reaching consumers through “newly upgraded pipelines and export facilities.” Many ships moving covertly through Hormuz with US Navy assistance, going uncounted by analysts who rely solely on open-source data. It also ignores the spectacular transformation of the oil export route that’s currently underway. The United Arab Emirates is fast-tracking a new west-east pipeline to Fujairah, which will allow exports to bypass Hormuz at minimal cost lies outside the strait. The Abu...

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Idaho — What started with a lightning strike ended with the Tartar Fire burning more than 158,000 acres across Washington County. But some ranchers say the wildfire wasn't the only source of their losses. Kirk Chandler, who has lived on his family's ranch his entire life, says ranchers spent days working to protect their property as the Tartar Fire moved through the area. "If you're the third one to call or the second one to call for help, they're not available, and so you just have to take care of yourself," Chandler said. That meant protecting cattle, sheep...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (8/15/26)[Prayer]Personalities2 Samuel 4:1-29Ish-Bosheth Murdered 4 When Ish-Bosheth son of Saul heard that Abner had died in Hebron, he lost courage, and all Israel became alarmed. 2 Now Saul’s son had two men who were leaders of raiding bands. One was named Baanah and the other Rekab; they were sons of Rimmon the Beerothite from the tribe of Benjamin—Beeroth is considered part of Benjamin, 3 because the people of Beeroth fled to Gittaim and have resided there as foreigners to this day. 4 (Jonathan son of Saul had a son who was lame in both...

How the WNBA became another battlefield in America’s culture war. merica has invented a new spectator sport, and unlike basketball, it requires no court, no referee, and no athletic ability. All it requires is a smartphone, a social media account, and the confidence to determine within seconds whether another person is defending civilization or destroying it. The arena changes every week. A university classroom. A corporate boardroom. A school board meeting. Now, apparently, it is a basketball court. Sophie Cunningham did not become a national talking point because of a jump shot. She became one because she stepped into the...

Friday on MS NOW’s “On the Line,” host Alicia Menendez said Democratic candidates have made Secretary of War Pete Hegseth “the new boogeyman on the campaign trail.” Menendez said, “Calls are growing for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to lose his job over horrific conditions facing our service members aboard the USS Lincoln. The aircraft carrier has set a modern day record for consecutive days at sea. It has been deployed for nearly nine months as part of President Trump’s war of choice with Iran. Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer says Hegseth must be fired immediately, and he is not alone....