"Gray is at the hospital because she volunteered for one of the most anticipated medical experiments in decades: the first attempt to use the gene-editing technique CRISPR to treat a genetic disorder in the U.S."
So how's our greatest healthcare system in the world going? "After Kim Lauerman was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, doctors wanted to give her a drug that helps prevent infections and fever during chemotherapy. Her insurer said no."
"Mass shootings like the one that struck the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California, have become the 'new normal' in the US, James Gagliano, a CNN law enforcement analyst, said Monday." Ain't that fucking happy.
"Opus Bono established itself as a counterpoint to the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests and other groups that have accused the church of trying to cover up the scandal and failing to support victims of clergy misconduct. Opus Bono focuses on what it considers the neglected victims: priests, and the church itself." Uh, yeah, Bob.
"Often described as a 'slow-moving disaster,' the problem is caused by an iron sulfide known as pyrrhotite, which causes concrete to crack and break gradually as it becomes exposed to water and oxygen. The material containing pyrrhotite has been traced to a Willington quarry used between 1983 and 2015 by a now-defunct concrete company."
How goes Brexit? "Britain is turbo-charging its no-deal Brexit preparations and will be ready to leave the European Union with or without a deal on Oct. 31, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Monday." For a country that sometimes bemoans the loss of empire, I'm not sure they'll realize just how much they'll miss where they were 3 years ago.
"U.S. central bankers are expected to lower borrowing costs this week for the first time since the depths of the financial crisis more than a decade ago. That’s the easy part." Chickens. Basket. Hatching. Hell. Going to. Counting. "One reason: No clear consensus from Fed officials about why they need to cut rates in the first place, particularly with the U.S. unemployment rate near a 50-year low and the American economy puttering along as the best-in-class performer among developed nations."
"Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats on Sunday announced his plans to step down in a letter to President Trump."
"The Trump administration determined that more than 500,000 children would no longer be automatically eligible for free school meals under a proposed overhaul to the food stamp program, but left that figure out of its formal proposal, according to House Democrats." Fuckers. (Grokked from Jim Wright)
"US President Donald Trump has denied being a racist after remarks he made about a black Democratic Congressman and the US city of Baltimore." Prominent racists says he doesn't hate anybody so can't possibly be racist. As to why the row started, uh, Rep. Cummings just won approval to subpoena Ivanka and Jared's emails where the conducted government business using their private email accounts. Naughty naughty.
"The goal is a new round of "working-level" talks between experts from the two nations. President Trump and North Korean president Kim Jong Un agreed to make such an effort during their dramatic meeting in June at the fortified boundary between North and South Korea." Low energy, no-followthrough.
"Four days after being arrested by Russian authorities, Alexei Navalny, a longtime critic of President Vladimir Putin, has been hospitalized with what his spokeswoman has described as an 'allergic reaction.'" For those of you born after the fall of the Iron Curtain, "allergic reaction" is Kremlin speak for "poisoning" (and possibly radiation poisoning).
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