The former vice chairman of the Postal Board of Governors testified Thursday that the Trump administration “politicized” the Postal Service and used Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to inappropriately influence the organization for policy purposes that ultimately hurt customers and businesses. Service will have damage intended to serve. David Williams, former …
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Fight cancer with rejection-resistant, ‘off-the-shelf’ therapeutic T cells
Scanning electron microscopy image of a human lymphocyte. Credit: National Cancer Institute Personalized cancer treatments are no longer just options of the future. In recent years, researchers have made significant advances in ‘learning’ the body’s immune T cells to recognize and kill specific cancer cells, and human clinical studies have …
Read More »The Celtics have the No. 14 pick in the 2020 NBA Draft. What now?
COMMENTS We finally know for sure how many picks the Boston Celtics will have in the 2020 NBA Draft. The Celtics traded Jeff Green to Memphis in 2015, and the Grizzlies sent back a first-round pick. Thursday’s draft lottery confirmed that selection will transfer to the Celtics this year in …
Read More »Carol Burnett, 87, is seeking care of teen granddaughter
At 87, TV comedy legend Carol Burnett would be able to relax and enjoy her sunny years. Instead, she found that she could not get over the trouble with her family members’ drug use. Burnett and her husband, Brian Miller, have filed documents to become the caretaker of their 13-year-old …
Read More »Feds to appeal verdict, seek death for Boston bomber
WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice will try to reinstate a death sentence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man convicted of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, Attorney General William Barr said Thursday. In an interview with The Associated Press, Barr said the Department of Justice would appeal the …
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