Ward: Politics

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The Second GOP Debate Could Be Smaller, With Or Without Trump

The second Republican presidential primary debate is less than two weeks away, so time is running out for GOP contenders to meet the Republican National Committee’s qualification criteria. To make the Sept. 27 debate, each candidate must have at least 3 percent support in two qualifying national pol…

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Judge in Fox News-Dominion defamation trial: 'The parties have resolved their case'

The judge just announced in court that a settlement has been reached in the historic defamation case between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems.

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Unusual carbon build-up found in lungs of COPD patients

Scientists have discovered that people with COPD have lung cells that contain over three times as much soot-like carbon as those of smokers without the disease. These overloaded cells are larger and trigger more inflammation, suggesting that pollution and carbon buildup not just smoking may drive th…

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US restores some medical research grants, says top Trump official

A senior US health official on Tuesday admitted President Donald Trump's administration had gone too far in slashing biomedical research grants worth billions of dollars, and said efforts were underway to restore some of the funding.

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American billionaire Frank McCourt on his potential bid to buy TikTok

The deadline for China-based ByteDance to either sell TikTok's U.S. business or face a nationwide ban is nearing. President Trump has twice extended the deadline, which is now June 19. American billionaire Frank McCourt and his partners are one of several groups organizing bids to take over the app'…

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Tentacles of ‘0ktapus’ Threat Group Victimize 130 Firms

Over 130 companies tangled in sprawling phishing campaign that spoofed a multi-factor authentication system.

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STAT+: National Resilience, startup hoping to reinvent drug manufacturing, to ‘wind down’ many of its facilities

National Resilience, a startup that has raised over $2 billion by promising to transform drug manufacturing, said it would “wind down” many of its facilities.

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El riesgo de consumir marihuana aumentaría en los adultos mayores

Treinta y nueve estados y el Distrito de Columbia permiten ahora el consumo de cannabis con fines médicos, y en 24 de esos estados, y en el distrito, el consumo recreativo también es legal.

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The Download: funding a CRISPR embryo startup, and bad news for clean cement

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Crypto billionaire Brian Armstrong is ready to invest in CRISPR baby tech Brian Armstrong, the billionaire CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, says he’s …