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“Really?” Those hopes were dashed during Schwartz’s confirmation hearing last month when she repeatedly failed to answer questions directly and say with conviction that she would push back on Kennedy’s anti-vaccine and anti-science agendas. Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of Schwartz’s testimony came when senators repeatedly asked her what she would do if (or when) she’s put in the same position as Monarez. Schwartz responded as if it hadn’t happened and would never happen. “I do not believe that the president or the secretary would ever do what you just mentioned,” she told Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at one point,…

The NDC presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and his running mate, Rabiu Kwankwaso, (BBC) * Say they spoke truth to power *Urges Tinubu to embrace constructive criticism By Vincent Ujumadu The presidential candidate of Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Peter Obi, and his running mate for the 2027 election, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, have defended the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, and John Cardinal Onaiyekan for speaking truth to power when they met President Bola Tinubu at Aso Villa in Abuja penultimate Tuesday. They described the development as the growing intolerance of dissent by the federal government. Recall that the Presidency had…

Cell lines and cultureHAP1 cells were cultured in Iscove’s modified Dulbecco’s medium (IMDM) (Thermo Fisher Scientific) supplemented with 10% heat-inactivated fetal calf serum (FCS) (BioSell) and 1% penicillin–streptomycin–glutamine (PSG) solution (Thermo Fisher Scientific). 293T (HEK293T), A549, HeLa, U2OS, BJEH and HCT116 cells were maintained in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM) (Thermo Fisher Scientific) supplemented with 10% heat-inactivated FCS and 1% PSG. SH-SY5Y cells were maintained in DMEM supplemented with 15% FCS, 1% PSG and 1 mM sodium pyruvate. K562 cells were maintained in Roswell Park Memorial Institute 1640 (RPMI) medium (Thermo Fisher) supplemented with 10% heat-inactivated FCS and 1% PSG. K562…

Joe Ward had the world at his feet. He was an amateur boxing sensation, he had a golden future laid out before him. Until disaster struck, over and over again.In 2011 Ward made history, becoming the youngest Irish boxer to win a gold medal at the senior European Championships. Even at that early stage hype was building for what Ward could accomplish at the London Olympics. But at the 2012 qualification event, tucked away in Trabzon in Turkey, the teenage Ward lost a contentious decision to the host nation boxer. Captivate This content is provided by Captivate, which may be…

Igby Rigney is exhausted.  It’s a day before “The Shards” launches, and he’s just gotten back from Berlin, the final stop of a global press tour that also took him to New York and London. When the series debuts on FX on Aug. 5, he’ll be celebrating at the official launch party at a roller rink in Los Angeles.  Right now, during this brief moment of calm, he’s home in L.A. and resting with his cat, Plusha, who meows throughout our Zoom interview. “I feel like a Bond villain,” he says, petting the animal in his lap. Rigney plays Bret…

Military authorities have declared some senior commanders of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) wanted, following forensic analyses of electronic devices recovered during recent combat operations in the Lake Chad region of Borno State.In a statement issued on Wednesday, Mohammed Goni, the acting spokesperson for Operation Hadin Kai, a joint task force in the North-east, said the breakthrough followed recent offensive operations against ISWAP fighters in northern Borno. Mr Goni, a captain, said troops recovered several technical devices and other intelligence materials, including a camcorder allegedly used by ISWAP members to record propaganda videos and document operational activities. According…

Nato is working to get Ukraine the air defences it “urgently needs”, its secretary general has said, after Kyiv failed to shoot down a single Russian missile in an attack on Wednesday, and as Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Moscow was seeking to significantly boost missile ⁠production ahead of winter.Speaking at a National Security and Defense Council meeting on winter resilience, the Ukrainian president did not rule out the idea that stalling missile supplies from western allies were “aimed at making Ukraine, so to speak, more willing to compromise” in peace talks with Russia.After meeting Nato’s Mark Rutte, Zelenskyy said: “It…

NewsFeedUS President Donald Trump attacked Michigan’s Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, repeatedly calling him a ‘hater of Jews’ and ‘a hater of Israel.’ El-Sayed won the Democratic nomination on Tuesday, overcoming millions in campaign spending from pro-Israel lobbying groups.Published On 6 Aug 20266 Aug 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

Gov. Oborevwori ..Transcorp, Manitoba, InfraCredit, CNG Initiative pledge investmentsBy Babajide Komolafe, Economy Editor & Egufe Yafugborhi, Ochuko AkuophaASABA—Delta State yesterday unveiled a roadmap to unlock its nearly 3,000 megawatts of installed electricity generation capacity, with plans to establish a Delta State Electricity Regulatory Commission and a Delta State Rural Electrification Agency, as major investors in the power sector pledged support for the state’s electricity market. Unveiling the roadmap at the Delta State Economic and Investment Summit, Mrs. Uche Okafor, Consultant to the Delta State Government on Electricity Market Development, said the state’s Electricity Sector Law had created the legal foundation…

Andre Lavoie joined SpaceX in 2009 as an engineer, designing the pressure tanks that help power its rocket. He was paid partly in stock – a common trade-off at start-ups as a hiring incentive.Some 17 years on, those 200,000 shares he was given are worth about $23m (£17m) – and the 63-year-old says he’s ready to start cashing them as soon as he can.”Every chance I get going forward, I’ll sell a little bit more,” he tells the BBC. “The shares have been going up so radically it keeps messing up my life plans – you really can’t know the…