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Backed candidate's 'monkey' comment draws fire in Florida race
Gillum asked the crowd after his improbable victory. "Greene was making in-kind contributions to Andrew Gillum ", laughed Mac Stipanovich, a longtime GOP strategist who dislikes Trump. Both parties have become more ideologically aggressive and anti-establishment, but the bigger surprise is that Democrats nominated Gillum, the mayor of Tallahassee and a boldly liberal African American candi... [Full Article...]
Medics Warn about Deadly Kissing Bug Disease as It Continues to Spread
The parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi, is especially risky not only because it can cause strokes, heart failure, and heart disease, but mainly because many people don't show any symptoms of this illness when treatment is imminent. Most common symptoms include swollen eyelids, headaches, fatigue, rash and body aches, but about 60 to 70 people infected don't develop symptoms. Kissing bugs mainly live in... [Full Article...]
Scientists have made an incredible discovery in the human brain
The results appear in the journal Nature Neuroscience . The newly identified brain neurons have been dubbed " rosehip neurons " because the surrounding dense bundle of nerve fibres resembled a rose that had shed its petals. All of the technologies the research groups are using "tell you complementary things about a cell that can potentially tell you how it functions in the brain", said co-aut... [Full Article...]
Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum shocks Democratic rivals, wins nomination for governor
His decision sets up a showdown in the Democratic primary with Rep. Darren Soto, the first Florida congressman of Puerto Rican descent, who succeeded Grayson after he made an unsuccessful Senate bid in 2016. According to Politico, DeSantis appeared on the network more than 100 times this year. Putnam is the candidate of the state's Republican establishment. [Full Article...]
'Very concerning' new record as 2.3m STD cases diagnosed in US
The CDC report shows nearly 2.3 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis were diagnosed in the U.S.in 2017. "Sadly, it's not a surprising trend", said Rob Stephenson, a professor and director of the Center for Sexuality and Health Disparities at the University of MI in Ann Arbor, who was not involved in the new CDC research. [Full Article...]
White House Flag Is Lowered a 2nd Time
McCain will be buried Sunday at his college alma mater, the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Sen. Chuck Schumer speaks about John McCain on the Senate floor, August 27, 2018. "I think this would be a particularly good one, but I want to make sure the family is OK with it", Flake said. The Latest on President Donald Trump's response to the death of Sen. [Full Article...]
John McCain: White House urged to lower flags for senator
Trump campaigned on a promise to build a wall across the USA border with Mexico and force Mexico to pay for it. The extraordinary letter was a defiant coda to the years-long battle between the two men. The service will also include a performance of the Irish ballad "Danny Boy" by opera singer Renée Fleming. McSally is decidedly right-wing, but she isn't as much of an extremist as the other Re... [Full Article...]
MS reports three new West Nile virus cases
That might lead one to think there's less water pools for mosquitoes to lay eggs in, and as result, less of a chance of contracting West Nile virus. So far this year, human cases have been reported in Adams (2), Calhoun (2), Copiah, Forrest (2), Harrison (1), Hinds (10), Itawamba, Jones, Madison, Marion, Oktibbeha, Pearl River, Walthall and Washington counties. [Full Article...]