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30-04-2026 Vol 19

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Sen. Cornyn sounds the alarms about potential for startup firm to make gene-edited designer babies

Texas Sen. John Cornyn sounded the alarm that a biotech startup firm that has raised some $30 million to study diseases in embryos is working on gene-editing techniques for...

‘Anti-capitalist’ New Year’s Eve LA terror plot suspects lived in upscale California suburbs

Despite their extremist anti-capitalist ideology, the suspects who were arrested for allegedly plotting a bombing campaign in and around Los Angeles on New Year's Eve appear to hail from...

Thune eyes spending package to tackle military helicopter safety issue

Senate Majority Leader John Thune suggested Monday that he wants to tackle a contentious provision on military helicopters in a separate spending package — and not by axing it...

Goldman Sachs taps Robert Sobelman — prosecutor on scrapped US corruption case against Eric Adams — to run investigations at bank: sources

Sources close to Sobelman, an alum of Colgate University and Brooklyn Law School, said he is to join the David Solomon-led lender "imminently." Sources close to Sobelman, an alum...

Senate Banking will not vote on crypto bill this week

Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott is abandoning a push to hold a committee vote on a major cryptocurrency bill this week, punting the issue to next year. A spokesperson...

What is Turtle Island Liberation Front, the extremist anti-government group whose offshoot planned a NYE terror attack

Multiple splinter cell members of the radical Turtle Island Liberation Front, which posts disturbing slogans such as "Death to America" on social media, were arrested last Friday for allegedly...

DC police chief accused of fudging crime data ‘by any means necessary’ in blistering report

The findings cast doubt on city data showing violent crime fell by 35% and property crime by 11% last year. The findings cast doubt on city data showing violent...

Trump announces executive action classifying fentanyl as ‘weapon of mass destruction’

"There's no doubt that America's adversaries are trafficking fentanyl into the United States in part because they want to kill Americans. If this were a war, that would be...

Columbus High School students celebrate Fernando Mendoza’s Heisman Trophy

Columbus High School students were among those who were expressing their pride on Monday in Miami-Dade County after Fernando Mendoza’s Heisman Trophy win. Mendoza, a quarterback for the Indiana...

US close to ‘strongest ever’ Ukraine security guarantees in Russia peace deal that won’t ‘be on the table forever’: officials

The sweeping peace framework features “Article Five-like” security guarantees, a multibillion-dollar rebuilding plan, progress on tough territorial disputes, and a possible 50/50 split of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. The...