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Alabama shooting: Teenager killed and 16 people injured in US university attack | US News
10Nov By Aditi PawarNo Comments
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Alabama shooting: Teenager killed and 16 people injured in US university attack | US News

One person has been killed and 16 others were injured in a shooting at a US university.Homecoming week at Tuskegee University, in Alabama, was marred early on Sunday by the attack on campus. An 18-year-old man died in the assault. He was not a university student, but some of the injured were.Of the 16 wounded, 12 were hurt by gunfire, authorities said."The parents of this individual [killed] have been notified. Several others including Tuskegee University students were injured and are receiving treatment at East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika and Baptist South Hospital in Montgomery," the university said in a statement. No arrests were immediately announced by police and the FBI has joined the investigation.The injured included a female student who was shot in the stomach and a male stu...
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Researchers develop new genetic model to decode breast cancer
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Health

Researchers develop new genetic model to decode breast cancer

A team of US researchers has developed a new genetic model for breast cancer that could help scientists better understand why and where cancer metastasises.  Professor Eran Andrechek from Michigan State University in the US has been researching the E2F5 gene and its role in the development of breast cancer. Based on findings from Andrechek’s lab, the loss of E2F5 results in altered regulation of Cyclin D1, a protein linked to metastatic breast tumours after long latency. The study, published in the journal Oncogene, also demonstrated that the removal of E2F5 in the mammary gland leads to tumour formation. As scientists better understand how genes impact breast cancer, they could also learn why cancers metastasize and where cancers are likely to spread. According to Andrechek, while a ...
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US election: Trump’s 2024 victory revealed voter shifts that could reshape America’s political landscape
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World News

US election: Trump’s 2024 victory revealed voter shifts that could reshape America’s political landscape

By Eric Bradner, CNN Donald Trump's victory improved Republican margins nearly everywhere. Photo: JIM WATSON Former president Donald Trump won across the map - improving on Republican margins nearly everywhere and delivering on his promises to win over more non-White voters on his way to defeating Vice President Kamala Harris. Now that the dust has settled on the 2024 presidential election, a dive into CNN's exit polls and county-by-county results compared with previous races offers an even more detailed glimpse at how Trump won. And perhaps more important for Democrats, the results paint a daunting picture of a party whose national coalition has fractured - with suburbs where they've won squeezed as tight as they can be, Latinos rapidly realigning with the GOP, and Trump posting the...
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US election: Bitcoin hits $136,000. Why Trump is boosting crypto
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US election: Bitcoin hits $136,000. Why Trump is boosting crypto

By David Goldman, CNN Bitcoin is up 80 percent this year. Photo: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images via CNN Newsource Bitcoin on Monday hit a new record above US$80,000 (NZ$136,355). The world's largest cryptocurrency surged in the run-up to last week's US presidential election, rose sharply immediately on election night after it became clear Donald Trump would win and has continued rising in the days since his victory. Bitcoin is up 80 percent this year, dwarfing the S&P 500's still-electric 25.7 percent gain this year. After briefly touching the US$80,000 milestone, bitcoin was trading just below it overnight Monday. The crypto industry believes Trump's victory is a bullish sign for bitcoin and other digital currencies. Although Trump was once a bitcoin sceptic, once saying it "was...
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Dozens killed and wounded in Israeli strike in northern Gaza, medics say
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Dozens killed and wounded in Israeli strike in northern Gaza, medics say

By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Reuters The Israeli strike on Jabalia in the northern Gaza strip killed or wounded dozens of people, Palestinian medics said. Photo: AFP / Omar Al-Qattaa Israeli strike kills dozens, Palestinian medics say Israeli military says strike targeted militants in Jabalia Hamas denies using civilians for military purposes Ceasefire efforts stalled, Qatar pauses mediation efforts Dozens of people were killed and wounded in an Israeli strike on a house in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip at dawn on Sunday, Palestinian medics said. Footage circulating on social media, which Reuters could not immediately verify, showed about a dozen bodies wrapped in blankets and laid on the ground at a hospital. Residents said the building that was hit had housed at least 30 people...
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Now that Trump is going to be president again, what will this mean for music? – National
10Nov By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Entertainment, Movies

Now that Trump is going to be president again, what will this mean for music? – National

The first thing I thought when I awoke Wednesday morning was that there’s now an SNL Curse. Any female U.S. presidential candidate — even one who appears to be cruising to the White House — will ultimately lose the election if she appears on Saturday Night Live. First Hillary Clinton in 2016 and now Kamala Harris in 2024. 8:00 Kamala Harris makes surprise SNL appearance as U.S. election looms I’m curious how music will react to the new Trump administration. Culture is always just downstream from what’s happening in society. Historically, things shift depending on whether the White House (and 10 Downing Street, for that matter) is occupied by ...
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Israel tells citizens not to attend cultural and sports events abroad after Amsterdam violence | World News
10Nov By Aditi PawarNo Comments
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Israel tells citizens not to attend cultural and sports events abroad after Amsterdam violence | World News

The Israeli government has told its citizens not to attend cultural or sports events abroad over the next week following violence in Amsterdam.The office of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed it has intelligence that pro-Palestinian groups overseas intended to harm Israelis in cities in the Netherlands, the UK, France, Belgium and others. The travel advice covers events which involve Israelis.It comes after Israeli football fans were attacked in the Dutch capital on Thursday following a match between local side Ajax and Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv.Explained: What we know about violence in Amsterdam On Sunday, more than 100 pro-Palestinian protesters were taken away by police during a banned demonstration in Amsterdam after "antisemitic" violence in the wake of the game.Hu...
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Lois Gibson: How anger at attacker propelled the world’s most successful forensic artist
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World News

Lois Gibson: How anger at attacker propelled the world’s most successful forensic artist

Forensic artist Lois Gibson says helping other victims and witnesses seek justice has been therapeutic. Photo: Capehart Photography 2024 Lois Gibson is the holder of the 2017 Guinness World Record for most positive identifications by a forensic artist. More than 1300 perpetrators correctly identified more than 1000 convictions, 750 criminals put behind bars. She's been helping the Houston Police Department in the United States catch criminals for nearly 40 years. But there's a harrowing reason why. When she was a 21-year-old model and dancer in LA, she was raped, tortured and left for dead by a serial rapist and murderer. Seeing her attacker get arrested for another crime, fight with the officers and beaten into submission was like a "miracle". "After that, I could work crime, because I...
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Canada may need to let Trump be ‘senior partner’ in U.S. relations: GOP critic – National
10Nov By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Politics

Canada may need to let Trump be ‘senior partner’ in U.S. relations: GOP critic – National

Ottawa may have to let U.S. president-elect Donald Trump act as the “senior partner” in the Canada-U.S. relationship, even if that makes Canadians “bristle,” a prominent Republican critic of the incoming president says. Jeff Timmer, a longtime Republican official and strategist in Michigan who helped lead efforts aimed at defeating Trump in the past two U.S. elections, says the Canadian government will need to treat Trump as “the guy in charge” to ensure Canada’s interests are safeguarded during what’s expected to be a protectionist U.S. administration.“I think Donald Trump is an easy guy to read and an easy guy to play poker with,” he told Mercedes Stephenson in an interview that aired Sunday on The West Block. “You have to treat him in a way that he likes to be treated.“I know that it’s ...
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Benjamin Netanyahu says he and Donald Trump ‘see eye to eye’ on Iran | World News
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Business

Benjamin Netanyahu says he and Donald Trump ‘see eye to eye’ on Iran | World News

Benjamin Netanyahu says he and Donald Trump "see eye to eye" on Iran.Israel's prime minister said he has spoken to the US president-elect three times since the election with the aim of tightening the alliance between their nations. Follow latest: Final US state delivers election result"These were good and very important conversations," Mr Netanyahu said in a statement."We see eye to eye on the Iranian threat in all its components, and the danger posed by it. We also see the great opportunities before Israel, in the field of peace and its expansion, and in other fields." Image: The aftermath of an Israeli strike outside a Gaza hospital where people have been living in tents. Pic: Reuters Israel and Iran have traded strikes ...
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