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Trials for new Ebola vaccines are now underway in Canada and the UK but the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) said Tuesday volunteers are needed to participate in increasing clinical experiments as deaths and cases soar in the largest ever outbreak on record in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Trials for potential therapeutics to fight the Ebola Bundibugyo virus are being conducted on ferrets and monkeys, after which results would be analysed by W.H.O. as the first-in-human trials get underway. The first of four UK vaccine candidates has entered clinical trials which are being developed by biotechnology companies Moderna and Public…

Thursday on MS NOW’s “On the Line,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said Senate Republicans are “queasy” about voting “yes” for Todd Blanche to become the next Attorney General. When asked about Blanche’s confirmation vote, Warren said, “You know, the word I would use over on the Republican side, and they should speak for themselves, is I keep looking over there and seeing a lot of people who look queasy. They are very uncomfortable about putting not just the president’s personal lawyer in charge of the Department of Justice, but the guy who wants to defend the deal that Donald Trump and…

Vice President JD Vance fielded questions on Iran — lots of them — during a closed-door lunch with Senate Republicans Thursday. Vance’s visit to Capitol Hill came as the Senate is trying to wrap up a massive to-do list ahead of a planned five-week recess — including unfinished work on a spending stopgap, Russia sanctions and cryptocurrency regulations, as well as possible votes on a party-line spending bill and the GOP elections legislation President Donald Trump desperately wants enacted. But senators emerging from the lunch said the dominant topic was instead the administration’s ongoing negotiations with Iran over reopening the…

President Donald Trump earlier suggested that the incompetence of local authorities was behind the problems, rather than Iran Hackers have targeted water and wastewater utilities in at least a dozen US states, ABC News has reported, citing multiple sources.The American authorities believe that Iran, which has been in conflict with the US since being attacked in late February, is the main suspect behind the cyberattacks, although its involvement hasn’t been officially confirmed, the broadcaster said on Tuesday.Tehran hasn’t commented on the claims. Over the years, the US has accused Iran of attempting to hack its banks, infrastructure, and communications of…

John Solomon from Just the News broke the news on Wednesday that Majority Leader John Thune and Senator Tom Cotton are blocking DOJ investigator Joe DiGenova from obtaining the transcripts of John Brennan’s interviews with the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence Committees. This is holding up the investigation into Brennan and his role in the deep state coup to take down President Trump in 2016. According to Solomon, the acting Attorney General Todd Blanche refuses to authorize a subpoena to the US Senate to obtain the documents. Solomon made the accusations on The War Room with Steve Bannon. On Thursday Todd…

The Pakistani Muslim child rape grooming gang scandal in Britain has allegedly extended all the way to the South Asian government, with a former Pakistani state minister having reportedly been arrested on suspicion of raping young girls in Manchester in the 1990s. Former Pakistani minister Rukhsar Ahmed, 62, who was re-elected to the Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly last week, is currently on bail after having been arrested in July 2024 over allegations of having raped and trafficked young girls while in a Manchester grooming gang, The Guardian newspaper reported. Two alleged victims of Ahmed reportedly came forward in 2024, claiming that the…

Labor productivity expanded at twice the rate expected in the second quarter, accelerating from the start of the year. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said Thursday that labor productivity, the output per hour of nonfarm employees across the economy, increased at a 1.4 percent annualized rate in the April through June period. That was an acceleration in productivity growth from the first quarter. The first quarter’s growth rate was revised up to 0.8 percent from the preliminary estimate of 0.3 percent. Economists had forecast just 0.7 percent growth in the second quarter. Unit labor costs — what businesses pay employees…

Criminal networks are selling Americans’ white-collar jobs via the huge and complex H-1B visa program, says Anthony D’Esposito, the Inspector General at the Department of Labor. “This is not just fraud: This is a criminal enterprise that stretches far beyond the borders of America,” D’Esposito told Breitbart News during an interview in his D.C. office. He explained: Without revealing too much of an investigation, I think that when complete, one of the things that will probably make the American people most angry… and will probably lead to the biggest change from lawmakers — they will probably bring oversight to this — [is] the fact that many…

Three Democratic House lawmakers unveiled legislation Thursday to tax artificial intelligence companies and use the proceeds to fund a jobs program aimed at offsetting AI’s impact on workers, marking one of Congress’ most ambitious efforts yet to redistribute the industry’s gains. The AI Tax and Work Protection Act, championed by Reps. Greg Casar (Texas), Valerie Foushee (N.C.) and Sara Jacobs (Calif.), would impose a levy on AI developers to fund the program, which is dubbed the Work Protection Administration. The bill comes amid a growing push from progressive lawmakers on Capitol Hill to tax AI companies. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)…

Manny Rutinel/ Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license./Author: Andybosselman Democrat Manny Rutinel, running for Congress in Colorado’s 8th Congressional District, which accounts for 26% of the state’s beef and cattle output, and with 75% of its 2.5 million acres devoted to farming and raising livestock, is under fire for a resurfaced paper that attacks his constituents’ livelihoods. The paper, Reducing Animal Agriculture Emissions: The Viability of a Farm Transition Carbon Offset Protocol by Rutinel and Sebastian Quaade, was published in 2022 and suggests that the Paris Agreement’s goals on fossil fuels are not enough and that there should be…