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Drug strategy, shown to produce hemoglobin in lab animals, could rival costly, risky gene therapies

The protests of the excluded and alienated will count on and beyond Election Day. The relative momentum of movements is likely to matter not only in voter turnout but also in the potentially tumultuous events that may follow November 5.

“[T]he court rightly held that the Mississippi Legislature used the redistricting process to dilute the power of Black voters. Those legislative districts denied Black Mississippians an equal voice in state government.”

"Trump is now desperately trying to run from his deep ties to Project 2025... MAGA extremists' radical wish list for a second Trump term," President Joe Biden's campaign said.

In exchange for loyalty, the president allows the military to drain public finances, while propping up a genocidal Israel in service of the West.

In our "challenge study," one gene produced much more of a specific protein in volunteers who did not develop a sustained COVID infection. This finding has significant implications for future treatments and for vaccine development.

The left needs to put pressure on this government from day one, to ensure commitments to abolish anti-union laws and boost workers’ rights are kept, and to break with Tory spending rules that will hobble attempts to solve urgent social crises.

Ayman Odeh was 16 when he was called in for chats with the Shin Bet security service. In his 40s, he was Israeli Jews' favorite Arab politician. Now he is bowing out of party politics, but not because he has abandoned the dream of a better future.

Those who wish to preserve the American constitutional republic should also recall the past.  A good start would be just to recall the five basic political lessons of 1933. Recalling history, we act for a future that can and will be much better.

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