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from Big Think
Scientists found a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease by testing an existing drug used for another illness. Researchers from Lancaster University in the UK discovered that a drug developed for type 2 diabetes has "significantly reversed memory loss" in mice. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia and affects nearly 44 million people around the world, according to 2016 stats from Alzheimer’s Disease International. In the United States alone, 5.3 million people suffer from the illness. And these numbers are expected to keep rising.
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
There were high expectations that Trump would leave Marijuana policy up to the states. Sadly, these promises appear to be up in smoke, with Attorney General Sessions deciding to blaze a different trail. Congress needs to make a joint decision to fix our federal drug laws.
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from EUobserver
Kosovo's EU future at risk in war crimes dispute
Leading EU countries and the US have warned Kosovo of "severe consequences" if it walked away from a special tribunal on war crimes allegations.
Turkey seeking better EU ties as journalists await prison
Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in Paris on Friday (5 January) as part of a broader charm offensive to mend ties with the European Union. Erdogan is set to meet French president Emmanuel Macron where the two plan to discuss security and defence among other issues. Erdogan's move follows a continued government led-purge of the country, as some 17 journalists were put on trial over Christmas for their alleged role in a terrorist organisation. Around 150 journalists are now imprisoned in Turkey, more than any other country.
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Kosovo's EU future at risk in war crimes dispute
Leading EU countries and the US have warned Kosovo of "severe consequences" if it walked away from a special tribunal on war crimes allegations.
Turkey seeking better EU ties as journalists await prison
Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in Paris on Friday (5 January) as part of a broader charm offensive to mend ties with the European Union. Erdogan is set to meet French president Emmanuel Macron where the two plan to discuss security and defence among other issues. Erdogan's move follows a continued government led-purge of the country, as some 17 journalists were put on trial over Christmas for their alleged role in a terrorist organisation. Around 150 journalists are now imprisoned in Turkey, more than any other country.
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from First Things
Recently, Ross Douthat raised some important questions about the future of evangelicalism in and after the Trump era. Douthat, who is Catholic, cites evangelicals Jared Wilson and Alan Jacobs in order to argue that Trump has forced a “crisis” in evangelicalism. His analysis is thoughtful and intriguing. But Douthat, Wilson, and Jacobs all seem to assume that evangelical support for Trump is a sign of heresy and hypocrisy. This assumption presumes a great deal about evangelical voting behavior in an increasingly fractured political culture. Elite observers should allow for the possibility that evangelical voters are capable of making a range of prudential judgments—which may not qualify as hypocrisy, even if they are out of step with elite opinion.
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from The Heritage Foundation
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, think tank in Washington, D.C
U.S. Must Condemn Iranian Regime, Back Protesters
It’s not its perceived “enemies” in the United States, in Israel or Saudi Arabia that Iran really fears — it’s a liberating counterrevolution to the repressive 1979 Islamic Revolution that Tehran’s thuggish theocrats really dread. The people of Iran have lots of good reasons to be fed up with the regime’s tyrannical political, economic and social policies that it has meted out on them without their consent for nearly four decades now. We shouldn’t expect that the regime will relinquish its death grip on Iran, but it’s important that the Iranian people — and the world — understand that the United States backs their desire for political, social and economic rights and liberties.
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U.S. Must Condemn Iranian Regime, Back Protesters
It’s not its perceived “enemies” in the United States, in Israel or Saudi Arabia that Iran really fears — it’s a liberating counterrevolution to the repressive 1979 Islamic Revolution that Tehran’s thuggish theocrats really dread. The people of Iran have lots of good reasons to be fed up with the regime’s tyrannical political, economic and social policies that it has meted out on them without their consent for nearly four decades now. We shouldn’t expect that the regime will relinquish its death grip on Iran, but it’s important that the Iranian people — and the world — understand that the United States backs their desire for political, social and economic rights and liberties.
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from Indian Country Today Media Network
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Senator’s bipartisan bill became law in 2016 to address challenges facing Native children and will address issues of poverty, substance abuse and domestic violence
U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp announced Wednesday that President Trump has appointed Jesse Delmar, Director of the Navajo Division of Public Safety, to the Commission on Native Children, which was created by Heitkamp’s bipartisan bill that became law in October 2016. Delmar joins seven other Commission members already appointed by the President, U.S. Senate Majority and Minority Leaders, and the U.S. House Minority Leader. Once the Speaker of the House appoints three additionally needed members, every position on the 11-member Commission will be filled and the Commission will begin to study strategies to address the challenges facing Native American children ... and offer real solutions to address them.
After the 2018 Spokane Women's March was suddenly canceled, activists scrambled to resurrect it
Twice, it appeared the 2018 Women's March in Spokane was canceled. The first time was a Facebook glitch. The second time it had really been canceled — because of internal division among the group organizing it. Despite continued anger about the Trump presidency, it looked like Washington state's second largest city wouldn't have an official organized protest on the second anniversary of Trump's inauguration. The Spokane Women's March was off. But quickly, Democratic precinct committee officer Cynthia Hamilton and other activists started working furiously behind the scenes to guarantee it would happen.
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Senator’s bipartisan bill became law in 2016 to address challenges facing Native children and will address issues of poverty, substance abuse and domestic violence
U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp announced Wednesday that President Trump has appointed Jesse Delmar, Director of the Navajo Division of Public Safety, to the Commission on Native Children, which was created by Heitkamp’s bipartisan bill that became law in October 2016. Delmar joins seven other Commission members already appointed by the President, U.S. Senate Majority and Minority Leaders, and the U.S. House Minority Leader. Once the Speaker of the House appoints three additionally needed members, every position on the 11-member Commission will be filled and the Commission will begin to study strategies to address the challenges facing Native American children ... and offer real solutions to address them.
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from The Inlander
Twice, it appeared the 2018 Women's March in Spokane was canceled. The first time was a Facebook glitch. The second time it had really been canceled — because of internal division among the group organizing it. Despite continued anger about the Trump presidency, it looked like Washington state's second largest city wouldn't have an official organized protest on the second anniversary of Trump's inauguration. The Spokane Women's March was off. But quickly, Democratic precinct committee officer Cynthia Hamilton and other activists started working furiously behind the scenes to guarantee it would happen.
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from Psephizo (Blog)
Christian doctrine and Schrödinger’s Cat
Erwin Schrödinger was one of the pioneers of quantum theory in the early 20th century, and Schrödinger’s Cat was a thought experiment designed to explain the paradoxical principle of ‘quantum superposition’ in one particular theory of quantum physics. But the illustration has seeped into popular culture, and a great example of this comes in an early episode of The Big Bang Theory. Penny has been asked by Leonard, and she cannot work out whether this is a good thing or not—whether the fact that Leonard (who is short and nerdy) is so different from her previous boyfriends (large, athletic and unfaithful) means the relationship will actually work out or not. Sheldon comes to her rescue with the illustration of Schrödinger’s cat. "Just like Schrödinger’s cat, your potential relationship with Leonard can be thought of as both good and bad. It is only by opening the box that you will find out which it is."
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from The Seattle Times
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, Newspaper in Seattle, Washington
Costco Wholesale has some alternatives at the ready if shoppers feel sticker shock from Seattle’s new tax on sugary beverages. Essentially, consider shopping outside Seattle. Signs apparently posted in the retailer’s Seattle store explain that the newly taxed items are also available at Costco locations in Tukwila and Shoreline.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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from Zero Hedge
CONSPIRACY-PSEUDOSCIENCE, MIXED, financial blog with aggregated news and opinion
FBI Launches New Investigation Into The Clinton Foundation
Exactly two weeks after we reported that Attorney General Jeff Sessions instructed DOJ prosecutors to dig into the FBI's handling of the Uranium One investigation, we learn that the FBI has opened a new investigation of the Clinton Foundation launched by the DOJ - spearheaded by its Little Rock, Arkansas field office, according to John Solomon of The Hill.
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