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Former Prosecutor Worries That ‘Pre-Trial Publicity’ Creates ‘Issues’ For Prosecution In Charlie Kirk Case– dailycaller.com

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Former Prosecutor Worries That ‘Pre-Trial Publicity’ Creates ‘Issues’ For Prosecution In Charlie Kirk Case– dailycaller.com
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Former federal prosecutor Jim Trusty warned Tuesday that the prosecution of Tyler Robinson for the Sept. 10 assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk could be difficult due to media coverage.

Utah County District Attorney Jeffrey Gray announced Robinson was charged with aggravated murder, committing a violent offense in the presence of a child, obstruction of justice and witness tampering on Tuesday in relation to Kirk’s assassination during an event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10. Trusty said that the “remarkable amount of detail” in the probable cause statement might cause problems.

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“You can summarize and still have enough for probable cause so he has the best of both worlds,” Trusty told “The Story” guest host Bill Hemmer. “I’m afraid in the long run we will see a motion to change venue, which is almost automatic in death penalty cases of high-profile, but he probably fueled that fire. I am talking about how he gave all of these vivid details, and you point to the case of the Boston marathon bomber, whose death penalty recently got reversed by the court of appeals because of the pretrial publicity problem in picking a jury.”

Signs Demanding Violence Against Republicans Posted In DC– thefederalist.com

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Signs Demanding Violence Against Republicans Posted In DC– thefederalist.com
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The nation’s capital is a crossroads where elected officials meet with their constituents or special interest groups, where hecklers and protesters are a fact of everyday life, and where visible efforts to maintain law and order contrast starkly with numerous signs calling for left-wing violence.

“Call the exterminator. The White House is full of vermin!” is a new sign that appeared to show up Monday morning, ostensibly calling for the extermination of not just President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance, but every cabinet secretary on down to the lowest-level political staffer who works there. It seems to have been posted just days after the country witnessed the political assassination of Charlie Kirk, in the wake of years of similar left-wing rhetoric that has fueled such political violence.

With left-wing political violence at a fever pitch and their acts of domestic terrorism growing closer and closer together, it is time for the U.S. Capitol Police, the D.C. Metropolitan Police (MPD), and other authorities to take apparent threats more seriously.

Man Who Claimed to Have Shot Charlie Kirk Hit with Multiple Child Sexual Exploitation Charges– www.westernjournal.com

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Man Who Claimed to Have Shot Charlie Kirk Hit with Multiple Child Sexual Exploitation Charges– www.westernjournal.com
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The man who was taken into custody at Utah Valley University last week after falsely claiming that he had shot Charlie Kirk has now been charged with possessing graphic sexual photos of children as well as felony obstruction of justice.

The Utah Valley Sheriff’s Office said in a Tuesday news release that shortly after Kirk’s assassination, George Zinn, 71, approached officers, saying he was the shooter.

UVU police took him into custody and took him to the police office on campus. While there, he complained of chest pains and was transported to a local hospital, where he confessed he had not shot Kirk, but was trying to create a distraction to give the real assassin time to flee.

BREAKING: Utah Authorities Announce Seven Charges Against Charlie Kirk Assassin Tyler Robinson, Will Seek Death Penalty– conservativeroof.com

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BREAKING: Utah Authorities Announce Seven Charges Against Charlie Kirk Assassin Tyler Robinson, Will Seek Death Penalty– conservativeroof.com
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Utah authorities announced on Tuesday that Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson faces seven charges and that they will be seeking the death penalty.

Tyler Robinson, 22, was taken into custody last Friday for assassinating TPUSA founder and conservative activist Charlie Kirk during an event at Utah Valley University.

Robinson will be held without bail as authorities prepare for trial. “I am filing a notice of intent to seek the death penalty. I do not take this decision lightly, and it is a decision I have made… based solely on the available evidence and circumstances and nature of the crime,” Utah County District Attorney Jeff Gray said during a press conference.

Robinson was charged with:

– Count 1: Aggravated murder (capital offense);
– Count 2: Felony reckless discharge of a firearm causing bodily injury;
– Count 3: Felony obstruction of justice for hiding the firearm;
– Count 4: Felony obstruction of justice for discarding the clothing he wore during the shooting;
– Count 5: Witness tampering for asking roommate to delete incriminating messages;
– Count 6: Witness tampering for demanding trans roommate stay silent, and not speak to police;
– Count 7: Commission of a violent offense in the presence of a child.

Tyler Robinson’s Chilling Last Messages With ‘Lover’ Revealed– trendingpoliticsnews.com

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Tyler Robinson’s Chilling Last Messages With ‘Lover’ Revealed– trendingpoliticsnews.com
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Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old Utah man who has been accused of murdering conservative activist Charlie Kirk, has been formally charged with a slew of offenses, including aggravated murder. When formally announcing the charges, prosecutors confirmed that they intend to seek the death penalty and shared a number of new pieces of evidence in the case.

Robinson, 22, has also been charged with felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily injury, obstruction of justice, two counts of witness tampering and commission of a violent offense in the presence of a child, Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray announced on Tuesday. Gray described the Kirk murder as an “American strategy” and stressed that pursuing the death penalty is not a decision that was taken lightly.

“Robinson’s father reported that when his wife showed him the surveillance image of the suspected shooter in the news, he agreed it looked like their son,” according to the charging documents. When Robinson’s father saw photos of the weapon recovered by the FBI, he noticed that it looked like a rifle that was given to Tyler as a gift and asked his son to send a photo of the weapon.

First Man Arrested in Charlie Kirk’s Murder Hit With Child Porn Charges – RedState– redstate.com

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First Man Arrested in Charlie Kirk’s Murder Hit With Child Porn Charges – RedState– redstate.com
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Remember George Zinn, that… person, who tried to distract cops, to mislead them away from Charlie Kirk’s murderer? He’s a real piece of work, it turns out (he’s a piece of something else, too, but this is a family-friendly site). Last Wednesday, after he attempted to distract the cops – thankfully, in the end, he was unsuccessful –  he was briefly detained and then released.

It’s uncertain, as yet, as to whether or not he will face any federal charges of being an accessory after the fact. We covered that possibility earlier on Tuesday:

Well, later on Tuesday, we learned that George Zinn is in trouble again. Now he’s being hit with child pornography charges.

The elderly rabble-rouser who allegedly hindered Utah authorities’ response after Charlie Kirk was fatally shot is now accused of keeping “graphic” sexual photos of children on his phone, according to law enforcement.

George Zinn, 71, was charged with four counts of sexual exploitation of a minor Monday after investigators found more than 20 images of kids as young as 5 years old, at least partially naked and “posing” in a “sexual” way, the Utah County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Tuesday.

“Zinn admitted … that he gets sexual gratification from viewing and sharing [child sexual abuse material] images with others, and that his preferred victim age is 5 to 12 years old,” the agency alleged.

‘ARTIC FROST”: FBI Anti-Trump Project Targeted 92 Republican Groups Including Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point– gellerreport.com

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‘ARTIC FROST”: FBI Anti-Trump Project Targeted 92 Republican Groups Including Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point– gellerreport.com
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The term “Arctic Frost” was a FBI investigation targeting President Trump and his allies.

In a major revelation, Senator Chuck Grassley revealed that an FBI whistleblower confirmed a Bureau project named “Arctic Frost” targeted groups such as Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA.

The Democrat regime weaponized the government and sought any and all corrupt means to destroy Trump.

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“It was the vehicle by which partisan FBI agents and Department of Justice prosecutors could achieve their partisan ends and improperly investigate the entire Republican political apparatus.”

“In total, 92 Republican targets, including Republican groups and Republican linked individuals were placed under investigative scope of Arctic Frost.”

“On that political list was one of Charlie Kirk‘s groups, turning point usa. In other words, arctic frost wasn‘t just a case to politically investigate Trump.”

“It was the vehicle by which partisan FBI agents and Department of Justice prosecutors could achieve their partisan ends and improperly investigate the entire Republican political apparatus.”

“So, today Senator Johnson and I are making these records public for the entire country to see. I hope a lot of people are interested in seeing what government can do when various agencies have a political agenda.”

Fox News Hosts: Universities Turn Students Against Christians– crooksandliars.com

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Fox News Hosts: Universities Turn Students Against Christians– crooksandliars.com
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Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy spread false information about Charlie Kirk’s shooter and then blamed college education for making students hate Christians and conservatives.

Rachel Campos-Duffy is one of the most prolific spreader of lies and hyperbolic conspiracies on Fox News. Her husband has been taking a page out of her book as Demented Donald’s Transportation Secretary.

I want to point something else out. You heard the family members say that this man became more political, this young man became more political in recent years.

What did he do in recent years?

He went to college. That’s where kids are getting radicalized, it’s not just online. Our campuses are where a lot of radicalization, hate and intolerance starts from.

And so when he says it’s an attack on all of us, I’m going to say this, no, it’s an attack on conservatives.

It’s an attack on Christians.

AI reveals how toughest protein bonds behave– cosmosmagazine.com

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AI reveals how toughest protein bonds behave– cosmosmagazine.com
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Proteins can form “catch-bonds” that tighten under force, much like a finger trap. Credit: Rafael C. Bernardi, Auburn Physics

Researchers have used artificial intelligence to help uncover how certain protein interactions act like a finger trap, gripping tighter the harder they are pulled.

These interactions, known as catch-bonds, are essential in how the body holds together under stress and how bacteria attach to cells.

The researchers suggest that a better understanding of these bonds could help inform the design of new medications and biomaterials.

Scientists have been unsure as to whether these catch-bonds activate straight away or if they need to be stretched to a certain threshold before they ‘switch on’.

The new study discovered that these bonds activate almost immediately after a force is applied.

Israel begins ground offensive in Gaza City, thousands of residents flee – National– globalnews.ca

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Israel begins ground offensive in Gaza City, thousands of residents flee – National– globalnews.ca
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The Israeli military began its ground offensive in Gaza City on Tuesday, slowly closing in on the Palestinian territory’s largest city, where block after block has already been destroyed in the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Thousands of people streamed out in vehicles laden with their belongings, but hundreds of thousands more remain.

The operation marks yet another escalation in a conflict that has roiled the Middle East for nearly two years and likely pushes any ceasefire farther out of reach. The military wouldn’t offer a timeline for the offensive, which it says aims to “destroy Hamas’ military infrastructure,” but Israeli media suggested it could take months.

It began the same day that independent experts commissioned by the United Nations’ Human Rights Council accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. Israel fiercely rejected the allegation, calling the experts’ report “distorted and false.”

Israel committing ‘genocide’ in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says – National– globalnews.ca

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Israel committing ‘genocide’ in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says – National– globalnews.ca
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A team of independent experts commissioned by the United Nations’ Human Rights Council has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, issuing a report Tuesday that calls on the international community to end the genocide and take steps to punish those responsible for it.

The deeply documented findings by the three-member team are the latest accusations of genocide against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government as Israel carries on with its conflict in Gaza, which has killed tens of thousands of people. Israel rejected what it called a “distorted and false” report.

The Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, which was created four years ago, has repeatedly documented alleged human rights abuses and violations in Gaza since the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in Israel led by Hamas, and other Palestinian areas.

While neither the commission nor the 47-member-country council that it works for within the U.N. system can take action against a country, the findings could be used by prosecutors at the International Criminal Court or the U.N.’s International Court of Justice.

Charlie Kirk murder investigation widens to Discord chatroom users– www.foxnews.com

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Charlie Kirk murder investigation widens to Discord chatroom users– www.foxnews.com
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FBI Director Kash Patel revealed that the investigation into the assassination of conservative speaker Charlie Kirk has expanded, with the bureau looking at numerous individuals who may have communicated with the suspect in online chats.

Speaking at a Senate hearing Tuesday, Patel said some of those under scrutiny are linked to an online chatroom where the suspect, Tyler Robinson, allegedly shared his plans.

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., directly pressed Patel on whether Kirk’s suspected killer acted alone.

“So others could have been involved?” Kennedy asked.

FBI Director Kash Patel testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 16, 2025. Patel was questioned about last week’s assassination of Charlie Kirk and his social media posts related to the investigation of the shooting. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

“Yes, sir,” Patel responded.

The Media’s Duty After Charlie Kirk: Help Rebuild Civil Society | American Enterprise Institute– www.aei.org

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The Media’s Duty After Charlie Kirk: Help Rebuild Civil Society | American Enterprise Institute– www.aei.org
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National traumas can reveal our best instincts—and our worst. The assassination of Charlie Kirk, who was gunned down while engaging in political debate on a college campus, has done both. Many responded with compassion for his family and calls for greater civility. Others, disturbingly, cheered his murder.

As Matthew Continetti of the American Enterprise Institute observed, the shooting “struck at the ties that hold a free society together,” for it was an assault not just on a man but on the practice of open and civil discourse. The Free Press put it bluntly: “The principles we once took for granted in this country…feel endangered in a way they didn’t a decade ago.”

Via Associated Press.

What explains the acceptance and celebration of political violence? It would be easy to blame overheated political rhetoric. But something deeper is at work. Surveys show that one in three college students today expresses some support for the use of violence to silence a campus speaker—a 50 percent increase from just a decade ago. This shift reflects more than partisan anger: It signals a corrosive set of ideas, nurtured in classrooms and amplified in public forums, that reject the foundations of Western civilization.

These corrosive doctrines—rooted in postmodernism and critical theory—deny any source of morality outside the self, dismiss the intrinsic worth of every human, and reduce politics and law to raw quests for power. In such a worldview, silencing an opponent—even through violence—can seem not only permissible, but virtuous.

Man in custody after allegedly damaging Charlie Kirk memorial at Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix– boingboing.net

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Man in custody after allegedly damaging Charlie Kirk memorial at Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix– boingboing.net
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I recently ventured to the Charlie Kirk memorial at the Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix Arizona. I was there on Sunday afternoon, so I missed the arrest that happened earlier in the day. While I was there I did see some presence of officers and cars from the Phoenix Police Department, but hadn’t yet heard about the events that happened earlier Sunday morning. — Read the rest

Suicidal pensioner survives balcony plunge after landing on woman who was tragically killed while cushioning his fall– www.thesun.co.uk

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Suicidal pensioner survives balcony plunge after landing on woman who was tragically killed while cushioning his fall– www.thesun.co.uk
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A WOMAN was killed after a pensioner jumped from a fourth-floor apartment – landing on her and surviving the fall.

Francesca Manno, 83, tragically died while walking through the courtyard of the building in northern Italy.

A 70-year-old man fell directly onto Ms Manno in the Baggio district of Milan on Sunday afternoon at around 6pm local time.

The man had climbed over his balcony railing in the building where both he and Ms Manno lived, according to Corriere Milano.

In the immediate aftermath, investigators feared it was a double suicide, with a couple having jumped together, the Italian newspaper reports.

But the military later confirmed that the man and woman were strangers.

It is now understood that the man had attempted suicide and that Ms Manno’s death was the result of a tragic accident.

Passersby alerted emergency services who rushed to the scene.

Putin spokesman makes chilling WW3 comments as NATO ‘at war with Russia’– www.mirror.co.uk

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Putin spokesman makes chilling WW3 comments as NATO ‘at war with Russia’– www.mirror.co.uk
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NATO countries are “at war with Russia” over Ukraine, the spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.

“NATO is at war with Russia,” Dmitry Peskov told Russian state media on Monday. “This is obvious, and it does not require any additional evidence. NATO provides direct and indirect support to the Kyiv regime.” Peskov’s comments reiterated a familiar Kremlin narrative that Western backing of Ukraine amounts to active participation in the conflict.

Tensions soared last week between NATO’s Eastern European allies and Russia. A total of 19 Russian drones flew over Poland overnight on Wednesday, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said, adding that at least three were shot down by Polish and NATO aircraft.

“This situation brings us the closest we have been to open conflict since World War Two,” Tusk warned. The incident marked the first time Russian drones were downed over NATO territory since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022.

In response to the incursion, Warsaw invoked NATO’s Article 4 on Thursday, which calls for discussions among allies over threats to territorial security. This is a step short of Article 5, which requires collective military defence from allies if a member state is attacked. Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski described the drone attacks as a test of the alliance’s resolve by Russia.

California passes bill to shield abortionists who send illegal pills to pro-life states– www.lifesitenews.com

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California passes bill to shield abortionists who send illegal pills to pro-life states– www.lifesitenews.com
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(LifeSiteNews) — California legislators recently passed legislation to protect rogue abortionists who illegally send abortion drugs into states with protections for preborn babies. Governor Gavin Newsom has until mid-October to sign the legislation.

Assembly Bill 260, passed on a party line vote last week, “would authorize a pharmacist to dispense mifepristone or other drug used for [chemical] abortion without the name of the patient, the name of the prescriber, or the name and address of the pharmacy, subject to specified requirements,” according to a legislative summary.

While the pharmacy would maintain some information, the law “would prohibit the disclosure of the information to an individual or entity from another state.” Law enforcement could see the logs only with a subpoena.

The law has come under criticism from pro-life experts.

“California’s AB 260 seeks to shield abortion providers from accountability, even when their actions harm women and destroy innocent lives across state lines,” the California Family Council wrote in its analysis. “This dangerous law puts profit and ideology above the safety of children and families.”

The first person to get a Neuralink chip in his brain says he met Elon Musk on the day of his surgery: ‘He’s a cool dude’– fortune.com

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The first person to get a Neuralink chip in his brain says he met Elon Musk on the day of his surgery: ‘He’s a cool dude’– fortune.com
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Attendees at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference last week witnessed a demonstration of both technological innovation and human resilience when Noland Arbaugh, the first human recipient of Neuralink’s brain-computer interface (BCI) chip, played chess using only his thoughts. Arbaugh also shared candid insights into his pioneering journey, including his memorable first encounter with Neuralink’s cofounder and the world’s richest man, Elon Musk.

Arbaugh’s journey began with a diving accident at a summer camp in 2016, which left the former Texas A&M student paralyzed from the shoulders down and largely dependent on his family. For years, Arbaugh lived what he describes as a severely limited existence.

“I would stay up all hours of [the] night, just sleep in whenever, wake up whenever I wanted to because I didn’t really have anything planned, didn’t have anything going on in my life,” he told Fortune senior writer Jessica Mathews during their conversation. Arbaugh said he left his house only a couple of times per year.

“Before Neuralink, I thought I would never travel again,” he said. “[I] thought I would just stay in my room.”

JD Foster: Trump Is Right In Calling For The End To Quarterly Reporting– dailycaller.com

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JD Foster: Trump Is Right In Calling For The End To Quarterly Reporting– dailycaller.com
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Sometimes, it’s the little things. Sometimes, it’s bigger things. This time it’s the quarterly earnings report required by law of America’s publicly traded companies. And it’s President Trump suggesting on Truth Social that we should do away with quarterly earnings statements in favor of bi-annual statements. He’s right.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires publicly traded companies to report their earnings quarterly. In contrast, the hyper-regulative European Union and United Kingdom require six-month reporting, though corporations are allowed to make quarterly statements if they want.

Quarterly reporting is just one of the hundreds of rules U.S. publicly traded companies face that privately held companies don’t. Nearly all of these rules make some sense in isolation, but collectively they represent an enormous burden, one effect of which is that even as the American economy has grown steadily over the years, the number of publicly traded companies had fallen by half. Houston, we have a problem.

Quarterly reporting is expensive to the corporation and a major time burden for senior management. These are relative nuisances.

Drug shows promise against aggressive cancers in trial– www.futurity.org

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Drug shows promise against aggressive cancers in trial– www.futurity.org
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An immunotherapy drug eliminated aggressive cancers in a clinical trial, researchers report.

Over the past 20 years, a class of cancer drugs called CD40 agonist antibodies have shown great promise—and induced great disappointment. While effective at activating the immune system to kill cancer cells in animal models, the drugs had limited impact on patients in clinical trials and caused dangerously systemic inflammatory responses, low platelet counts, and liver toxicity, among other adverse reactions—even at a low dose.

But in 2018, the lab of Rockefeller University’s Jeffrey V. Ravetch demonstrated it could engineer an enhanced CD40 agonist antibody so that it improved its efficacy and could be administered in a manner to limit serious side effects.

The findings came from research on mice, genetically engineered to mimic the pathways relevant in humans. The next step was to have a clinical trial to see the drug’s impact on cancer patients.

Now the results from the phase 1 clinical trial of the drug, dubbed 2141-V11, appear in Cancer Cell. Of 12 patients, six patients saw their tumors shrink, including two who saw them disappear completely.

“Seeing these significant shrinkages and even complete remission in such a small subset of patients is quite remarkable,” says first author Juan Osorio, a visiting assistant professor in Ravetch’s Leonard Wagner Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Immunology and a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

 

 

Trauma focused therapy shows promise for children with PTSD– cosmosmagazine.com

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Trauma focused therapy shows promise for children with PTSD– cosmosmagazine.com
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A new study has demonstrated how a specific form of therapy can help improve symptoms in children living with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a mental health condition that develops after witnessing or experiencing a traumatic event.

Researchers from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England have examined the effectiveness of trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for treating young children who have been subjected to abuse, violence or serious accidents.

CBT is a treatment for mental health conditions that helps individuals to identify any negative thoughts they may have and teaches them self-help strategies to challenge and reduce these unhelpful thought patterns.

According to the World Health Organisation, roughly 3.9% of the world’s population has experienced PTSD at some stage in their life. While trauma-focused CBT is already used to help treat the disorder in adults, children who experience multiple traumas are often considered harder to treat.

“Recent research has shown that more than 7% of young people in the UK will have developed PTSD at some point by the age of 18,” says Richard Meiser-Stedman, the lead researcher of the study from the University of East Anglia, UK.

Trump’s lowered 15% tariff on cars from Japan to take effect Tuesday– japantoday.com

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Trump’s lowered 15% tariff on cars from Japan to take effect Tuesday– japantoday.com
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U.S. President Donald Trump’s lowered tariff of 15 percent on automobiles from Japan will take effect Tuesday, the Commerce Department said, about four months after his aggressive trade agenda started damaging the industrial backbone of one of Washington’s key allies.

The department announced the timing of the adjustment on Monday. The U.S. tariff rate for foreign-origin cars rose to 27.5 percent after Trump imposed in April an additional auto tariff on national security grounds, squeezing the margins of Japanese automakers and other manufacturers.

The reduced tariff is part of a trade deal the Trump administration struck on July 22 with Japan, which in return has committed to investing heavily in the United States and increasing imports of American agricultural products during the president’s nonconsecutive second term.

Trump signed an executive order on Sept. 4 formally implementing the trade agreement, which also granted Japan special treatment on what he calls “reciprocal” tariffs.

The department’s notice to be published Tuesday said that as agreed by the two countries, Trump’s additional 25 percent tariff imposed in May on major auto parts, including engines and transmissions, will also be cut to 15 percent for those coming from Japan.

Blood proteins tied to Alzheimer’s disease– www.futurity.org

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Blood proteins tied to Alzheimer’s disease– www.futurity.org
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Researchers have found new clues in the blood that could help explain why Alzheimer’s disease develops and how it affects memory.

The study in Nature Aging examined blood samples from more than 2,100 individuals across four large research cohorts. Using advanced tools, scientists measured thousands of proteins in the blood and linked them to changes in the brain and thinking ability.

Traditionally, doctors have focused on sticky amyloid plaques in the brain as a hallmark of Alzheimer’s.

But the new research shows that many other processes are also at play. The team found that proteins related to the immune system, protein disposal, energy use, and the body’s support structure (called the extracellular matrix) were tied to memory and thinking problems.

Importantly, not all of these changes could be explained by known Alzheimer’s brain changes, suggesting that factors outside the brain—like processes in blood and other organs—may contribute to the disease.

“Many of the proteins we found in blood are not directly tied to what we see in the brain after death,” says Erik Johnson, senior author, physician, and researcher at Emory University’s Goizueta Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.

 

 

Both the Left and the Right are Targeted by Political Violence. Who Perpetrates It? – Mother Jones– www.motherjones.com

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Both the Left and the Right are Targeted by Political Violence. Who Perpetrates It? – Mother Jones– www.motherjones.com
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Conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s gruesome killing last week was both a striking visual of our nation’s intensifying polarization and, by some counts, a catalyst for it to intensify more. Even before a suspect had been identified, there was a knee-jerk reaction among some Republicans to blame the Democratic Party for his death. Some even called for retribution.

Importantly, we do not yet—and may never—know the motive, or constellation of motivations, that drove Kirk’s alleged shooter, who has been identified as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson. But we do know that targets of political violence exist across the political spectrum.

Consider some of the recent events of political violence:

  • Just three months ago, Democratic Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were assassinated in their home. Another member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and his wife were also repeatedly shot and wounded; the suspect apprehended for these crimes had a list of dozens of potential targets, including other Democrats and abortion rights advocates.
  • In August, a law enforcement officer died amid a shooting that was directed at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the shooter had blamed his depression on the Covid vaccine.
  • In May, two staffers of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, were fatally shot; the suspect in that case previously expressed strong opposition to Israel’s aggression in Palestine.
  • In April, the residence of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro was set on fire in what prosecutors are calling an attempted murder. The fire took place a few hours after Shapiro, a Jewish Democrat, celebrated Passover.

YouTube’s paid creators $100 billion in four years– mashable.com

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YouTube’s paid creators $100 billion in four years– mashable.com
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There’s a reason creators often try to migrate their audience to YouTube: It pays.

The Google-owned streaming giant said it has paid out more than $100 billion in the last four years to creators, artists, and media companies. YouTube announced the figure at the Made on YouTube event on Tuesday.

“We didn’t just create a platform. We built an economy,” said YouTube CEO Neal Mohan.

As Mashable reported earlier this year, creator jobs have grown 7.5 times in recent years. In surveys, young people also consistently identify being a creator as a popular career goal. And YouTube has played an outsized role in building the modern creator economy.

It pays to be a popular creator and/or influencer on any platform, but YouTube’s widely regarded as the most lucrative social media site when it comes to direct view-to-payment value. And creators are making more money off of folks watching YouTube on traditional TV sets, rather than mobile devices. The company reported that the number of YouTube channels making more than $100,000 from TV screens rose 45 percent year over year.

Clearly, YouTube isn’t just for streamers anymore. Heck, the platform is broadcasting NFL games — arguably the single biggest product in American culture — with great success. But if you want to make it big as a creator, YouTube remains the place where you can carve out a highly lucrative living.

Massive photo of Trump and Epstein unveiled outside Windsor Castle – National– globalnews.ca

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Massive photo of Trump and Epstein unveiled outside Windsor Castle – National– globalnews.ca
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A massive photograph of Donald Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has appeared on the lawn outside Windsor Castle, ahead of the U.S. president’s second state visit to the U.K. on Tuesday.

Footage shared by the British political protest organization Everyone Hates Elon shows several people unveiling the blown-up photograph, which the group says was funded by donations from the British public.

Organizers wrote alongside the footage, “Trump is coming to the UK to AVOID the EPSTEIN story. Unfortunately the British public just crowdfunded the WORLD’S BIGGEST PHOTO of Donald with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.”

“And here it is right outside Windsor Castle, where @realdonaldtrump is staying with the King this week.”

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The King is set to host Trump and the First Lady this week at Windsor Castle, where they will be given a ceremonial welcome and treated to a state banquet.