A new video showing people casually discussing gene editing and designer babies is making waves because of its source: the government-funded group leading efforts to set standards for the ethically dicey science. The National Academy of Sciences posted the video earlier this week along with a tweet it later removed. The tweet read: “Dream of […]
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The Oakland Raiders are upset about the lengthy suspension handed down to linebacker Vontaze Burfict for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Indianapolis tight end Jack Doyle. Burfict was suspended Monday for the final 12 games of the season and any playoff games for “repeated violations of unnecessary roughness rules” in the most severe penalty ever handed
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It’s official: Biggest. Debate. Ever. The next Democratic presidential primary debate, on Oct. 15 in Westerville, Ohio, will feature a super-size lineup of a dozen candidates onstage at once, party officials said on Wednesday. Never before have so many presidential candidates shared a single stage in a primary debate, according to political historians who keep
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Tesla’s electric car sales accelerated again during the summer, but the company is still lagging behind the pace it needs to reach CEO Elon Musk’s goal for the entire year. The company delivered 97,000 vehicles from July through September, more than in any other three-month period in its history. The performance increased Tesla’s sales for
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A federal judge ruled Wednesday that supervised injection sites designed to prevent overdoses do not violate federal drug laws, giving advocates in Philadelphia and perhaps elsewhere a boost in their efforts to open them. U.S. District Judge Gerald A. McHugh said there’s no evidence that Congress intended 1980s-era drug laws to cover sites where people
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“Joker” director Todd Phillips seems frustrated that his signature brand of bro humor isn’t cool anymore. The director who made a name for himself with comedies like 2003’s “Old School” and 2009’s “The Hangover” told Vanity Fair for its November cover story that he is leaving comedy behind because of “woke culture.” Phillips said in
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Tesla reported on Wednesday that it delivered 97,000 new cars in the third quarter, a rise of almost 2 percent from the second quarter. The total puts Tesla in position to approach or reach the range it forecast for the full year. Tesla delivered 79,600 Model 3 sedans in the quarter, an increase of 2.6
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He owned one of the oldest franchises in professional and rarely talked about it. William V. “Bill” Bidwill would much rather tell stories about growing up in Chicago, his days in the Navy or the great restaurants in St. Louis than about the current state of his Arizona Cardinals, a franchise that struggled for decades
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Mr. Sanders on Tuesday night visited an outdoor memorial in Las Vegas that’s dedicated to victims of the city’s 2017 mass shooting. He also hosted a grass-roots fund-raiser at the Shiraz restaurant. The restaurant’s owner, Raja Majid, said in a phone interview that Mr. Sanders spoke to a crowd of about 250 people. As he
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Image copyright PA Image caption Concerns have previously been raised surrounding ambulance handovers An ambulance crew had to wait more than 11 hours to offload a patient at a hospital where A&E delays have prompted safety fears. On the same day, 34 ambulance patients waited more than an hour to be booked in at Worcestershire
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