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News discussed:

A year after treatment with stem cells, a 25yr old woman that had type 1 diabetes is producing her own insulin 

Giant Sheep Cloner gets $24k fine and 6 months

Harris: nuke the filibuster to protect abortion

Mark Robinson, the NC Republican Senate Candidate, is real weird

NYC Mayor Eric Adams indicted

Lots of NYC corruption, follows fire chiefs, police commissioner 

AI News:

Gavin Newsome vetoed SB 1047

OpenAI is going for-profit, more top talent leaves including last of the original board

Raised 6.6B in latest round, investors can pull that money back if they don’t transition to for-profit within 2 years

David’s war corner:

Israel took out leader of Hezbollah, and three of his successors, none of which lasted more than 36 hours

Israel launched ground offensive into Lebanon

Also hit a shipment of Russian weapons very close to a Russian base

Iran launched 180 missiles at Israel

Head of Iranian counter-mossad unit was a mossad agent

US strikes Houthi strongholds in Yemen to protect shipping in Red Sea after Houthis resume attacking USN vessels in Red Sea (15 targets)

China: nuclear sub sank during construction, tested ICBM

China hacks US federal wiretapping network, in some vague way. Feds ain’t talking, but broadband providers breached in a way that targeted wire-tapping requests. Reminder that building backdoors into encryption or tech means creating that door for anyone dedicated enough to unlock it.

Longshoremen are striking because f**k you

“In today's world I'll cripple you. I will cripple you and you have no idea what that means."

Maryland Police paid out $2.75 million in back pay for having standards

The test was pathetically easy and focused on police work

Happy News!

Thailand first in South East Asia to recognise same-sex marriage

First new schizophrenia drug in 70 years!

Russian F16 buzzes US fighter jet

New Mozart piece found

Hemophilia B cured (70% improvement) with a single-course gene therapy, approved by FDA!

Twitter is right, you can land a plane if you gotta, as anon lady proves

“Poopa Scoopa Luca” 6yr old boy runs his own business to adopt a kitty

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