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Neuroscientists in the US have successfully adapted mice to have functioning human cells inside their own brains. The researchers hope that potential treatments for psychiatric and neurodevelopmental diseases that only occur in humans could now be tested on the laboratory rodents. While mice with brains that are partly human might sound like a Kafkaesque experiment, the scientists said these are not "mice that think like humans". The animals are genetically engineered - and surgically altered - so that some of their brain tissue is human. ... First, they genetically-engineered mice to develop almost none of their own cerebral cortex –...

Brownstone Institute@brownstoneinst·7hDr. Meryl Nass just secured a massive legal victory for Covid dissidents.She pierced the immunity of the medical board that suspended her license over Covid “disinformation.”A judge ruled she can now sue the board members personally.“Their broad immunity that they thought would protect them has been pierced.”“The judge said, ‘You can go after them for damages, even potentially including punitive damages.’”This sets a groundbreaking precedent.“There were a whole lot of doctors out there that had similar attacks.”“Somebody had to do it.”@nass_meryl @Polyface_Farms

Zo-and-tell! City Hall officials must cough up their emails and texts with the powerful Rent Guidelines Board that Mayor Zohran Mamdani allegedly bigfooted into fulfilling his promised rent freeze, a judge ruled Wednesday. Judge Brendan Lantry — the former chair for the Staten Island GOP — granted a narrow order for the behind-the-scenes communications to see if supposedly independent rent board members illicitly colluded with Mamdani’s team. “The question naturally arises: how would the Mayor comply with his ‘guarantee’ to the voters to ‘freeze’ the rent unless he, or his staff, communicated with the Board to ensure that the Board...

Wanjun Xie, chairman of the China Democratic Party, has claimed in a post on X that Chinese president Xi Jinping fainted during the Brics summit hosted by New Delhi and was taken back to China on a special flight for medical treatment. Xie claimed that after receiving emergency treatment from his accompanying medical team, Xi ended his visit to India early and returned to China on a special plane. According to the post, upon the plane's arrival at Beijing airport, authorities did not arrange for a large group of officials to greet Xi or organise a welcome ceremony. Instead, "a...

Switzerland’s upper house of parliament wants to hand the Federal Council, the country’s executive body, the power to decide how much capital UBS needs to hold. The motion... would allow the government to set banking capital regulations through ordinance rather than requiring full parliamentary approval. The stakes are substantial. Government estimates peg the additional Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) capital requirement at roughly $20 billion, with some analyses suggesting the figure could climb to $22 billion. At issue is how much of a financial cushion UBS must maintain at the parent level to fully back its foreign subsidiaries. CET1 capital...

Crude oil prices dropped Wednesday as the Trump administration tried to reassure the market that Saudi Arabia's damaged East-West pipeline will restart operations in days. U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures shed 3.2% to close at $102.43 per barrel. Brent crude, the international benchmark, lost 2.7% to settle at $105.83 per barrel. Prices have rallied more than 16% this month as fighting has sharply escalated in the Persian Gulf. U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright told CNBC on Tuesday that the pipeline outage is a "brief and temporary interruption" that "will be measured in days." But independent analysts warned the pipeline could...

The bloc’s offer of “associate member” status to Ottawa shows how U.S. allies are pulling closer together. But their plans face significant obstacles. The European Union’s invitation Wednesday for Canada to become an “associate member” of the bloc shows just how intent these traditional United States allies are on pursuing a more stable future by binding closer together. “We must urgently reimagine our partnerships,” Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, said in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, a beaming Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada sitting just to her side. But there are no guarantees they...

DHS confirmed Lester Noe Perez-Amador was living in the US illegally and is urging his transfer to ICE for deportation An illegal immigrant is behind bars after investigators say he kidnapped a 6-year-old girl from her home in the middle of the night and sexually assaulted her. A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Fox News Digital the agency lodged a detainer against Lester Noe Perez-Amador, 27, following his arrest. The horrific incident happened in Washington Borough, New Jersey, officials said. She was taken to the hospital for treatment. Investigators say they "developed additional evidence supporting allegations...

Democratic and Republican U.S. senators asked President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday to declassify and release all information about a proposed agreement with Saudi Arabia on civil nuclear energy, including two ​classified “side letters” reached with Riyadh. In a letter to Secretary of State Marco ‌Rubio and Secretary of Energy Christopher Wright, which was seen by Reuters, the senators noted that the government has reached dozens of these so-called 123 nuclear agreements with other countries without withholding such information. “Access to the full text is required for the Senate and the public to have ‌a ​clear understanding of the commitments...

[Catholic Caucus] The Pain of a Seminarian A young seminarian writes to us and tells us about things happening in the synodal Church. It is so sad that someone who dedicates his life to God at such a young age feels this unease. In our brief chat, we encourage him to maintain his faith and love for the Church. We remind him that Our Lady has promised that in the end Her Immaculate Heart will triumph, and that he shouldn't let his guard down because we need holy priests. He agrees, although he says that many things in the Church...

The Swiss government says it supports a uniform, national ban on so-called conversion therapy, and it’s moving ahead to consider federal legislation to outlaw the discredited practice. A report from the government published last week details a number of current national regulations addressing the practice, as well as a patchwork of laws or procedures in various cantons (independent member states) across the country, which include their own administrative or criminal measures and corresponding legislative proposals that have been initiated, the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation reports. ... The patchwork of Swiss laws makes a national ban on the practice worth considering at...

James Talarico's Minister admits Talarico is COVERING UP his Left-wing views to trick Texans into voting for him: "I can guarantee you that once he gets elected, he'll change his tune back to where he was."

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released internal records from the Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) revealing HHS knowingly sent two unaccompanied migrant children to a household with established connections to the violent MS-13 gang. Grassley is also making public the referral he shared with federal law enforcement containing evidence of potential child trafficking facilitated by HHS’ Unaccompanied Children (UC) program. Grassley, a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and co-chair of the Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus, acquired the records through legally protected whistleblower disclosures made by former HHS UC program staff. “HHS, Congress...

07.12.2025 Grassley Report Concludes Secret Service Failure to Share Threat Information Allowed for Preventable Tragedy in Butler, Identifies Path Forward for Agency ImprovementsSecret Service received threat intel 10 days before Butler rally; Major gaps in internal policies and procedures contributed to massive security breakdownBUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today released a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report compiled at his request in the wake of the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024.The Grassley-requested report states senior-level U.S. Secret Service (USSS) officials received classified intelligence...

President Donald Trump posted on Wednesday afternoon, as he was widely expected to do, fuming about the Federal Reserve’s decision to raise interest rates. “Interest Rates in the United States should be 1%, or less, because we are the Best Credit in the World — BY FAR. Our Country is BOOMING with new Investment!” wrote Trump on Truth Social, adding: If we stopped Trading with every country that we have a Deficit with, which is most of them, we would make, at least, 1.5 Trillion Dollars a year. The word “Deficit” is nothing more than a fancy word for LOSS....

Former Vice President Kamala Harris plans to campaign with Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan next week in the party’s latest push to unify voters in a key battleground state that will help determine control of the Senate. Harris and El-Sayed have spoken multiple times since she endorsed the progressive Democrat after his primary victory, but this is the first time they’ll appear publicly together. Harris and El-Sayed will attend a roundtable focused on Black maternal health on Tuesday, according to his campaign spokesperson. El-Sayed is a doctor and the former head of health departments in Detroit and Wayne...

Disturbing video footage captured the bloody campus brawl that left three students injured and two in custody at Westchester Community College on Wednesday. Several students are seen scuffling on the ground outside the David Swoope Student Center at the suburban college – with one stumbling away and falling to the ground covered in blood as other students repeatedly yell, “Stop!” “They had a knife,” one woman is heard yelling. “I was just on my way back to class and then we see a fight break out,” one student eyewitness said. “The two boys dropped to the floor, and there was...

Texas education officials have approved a sweeping rewrite of high school social studies standards that Muslim students, civil rights advocates and some academic advisers say embeds anti-Muslim bias into public school classrooms, including language linking so-called “radical Islam” to the 9/11 attacks and portraying early Islamic history through warfare and slavery. The Republican-controlled State Board of Education finalized the standards after days of contentious debate, brushing aside calls from Muslim Texans to revise language they warned could stigmatize students and reinforce stereotypes about Islam. Among the most disputed provisions is a requirement for students to learn that “radical Islam” motivated...

Rumors are flying in China over Xi Jinping begin taken ill during his visit to India. They include claims that he suffered a minor illness to experiencing a stroke worsened by by failure to treat early. Some wild claims say rival group armies are mobilizing for civil war. No confirmation but Treasury Sec Bessent is meeting with Chinese counterparts today and we’ll see if the summit for Sept. 24 is still on

Leaks the past few months out of David Ellison‘s inner circle said the CEO would take his Paramount ball and leave California if state attorneys general didn’t back off on their antitrust suit to stop the $111 billion merger with Warner Bros Discovery. And now it looks like the ball really is in play. Paramount brass have told key officials and stakeholders the company is “deadly serious” about leaving California and the home of Hollywood after over 100 years, sources tell me. Among those told a deposit has been put on the moving trucks is L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and...