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#GeneEditing #RareDiseases #MedicalInnovation
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David Liu unlocks the power of gene editing to treat rare genetic diseases
A chubby-cheeked baby called KJ made medical history last year. Faced with a life-threatening metabolic disease, KJ's doctors at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia sprinted to create a personalized therapy aimed at fixing the genetic typo at the root of his illness.
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#USRussiaRelations #NuclearDiplomacy #MilitaryDialogue
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U.S., Russia to resume high-level military talks
President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine address the news media at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, in January.
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#Psychedelics #Microdosing #MentalHealth
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Opinion | The alarming trend of psychedelic microdosing
You're reading The Checkup With Dr. Wen, a newsletter on how to navigate medical and public health challenges. Click here to get the full newsletter in your inbox, including answers to reader questions and a summary of new scientific research.
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#Midterms2024 #TexasPolitics #DemocraticStrategy
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Texas special election emboldens Democrats heading into federal midterms
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) on Jan. 8 at the U. S. Capitol. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)
The outcome of a state Senate special election in Texas has emboldened Democrats as they seek to score upsets in five congressional districts redrawn to the advantage of the GOP ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.
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#FederalReserve #MonetaryPolicy #EconomicPolicy
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Opinion | Senators should ask Trump's Fed nominee these tough questions
Before confirming him to one of the most critical jobs in government -- chairman of the Federal Reserve -- senators should ask Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump's nominee, these questions:
In 2007, at the beginning of the Great Recession, when you were on the Fed committee in charge of monetary policy, you warned about the danger of increased inflation.
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#CatherineOHara #SitusInversus #HealthAwareness
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What to know about the rare condition Catherine O'Hara had
Catherine O'Hara in West Hollywood in September. (Michael Tran/AFP/Getty Images)
Catherine O'Hara, the actress and comedian who got her start on the Canadian sketch series "Second City Television" and then went on to play iconic moms in "Beetlejuice," "Home Alone" and "Schitt's Creek," died last week at age 71.
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#NearDeathExperience #ScienceAndSpirituality #MedicalResearch
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When patients see the line between life and death, should we believe them?
After she dropped to her knees outside her home in Midlothian, Virginia, suffocating, after she was lifted into the ambulance and told herself, "I can't die this way," and after emergency workers at the hospital cut the clothes off her to assess her breathing, Miasha Gilliam-El, a 37-year-old nurse and mother of six, blacked out.
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#NearDeathExperience #ScienceAndSpirituality #MedicalResearch
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When patients see the line between life and death, should we believe them?
After she dropped to her knees outside her home in Midlothian, Virginia, suffocating, after she was lifted into the ambulance and told herself, "I can't die this way," and after emergency workers at the hospital cut the clothes off her to assess her breathing, Miasha Gilliam-El, a 37-year-old nurse and mother of six, blacked out.
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#Diversity #HigherEducation #Inclusion
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Faculty diversity push at universities led to modest gains before Trump ban
To report this story, The Post analyzed federal data, surveyed the top 187 U. S. research universities and spoke with over two dozen experts to determine how many schools had made commitments to diversify their faculties, how successful they were and whether they had rolled back those commitments.
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#DrugTrafficking #Fentanyl #Extradition
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Mexican cartel scion, wanted in journalist's death, sentenced to 5 years
Damaso Lopez Nunez is detained by police in Mexico City in 2017 in this image taken from video. (Jorge Barrera/AP)
A federal judge sentenced the son of a top Sinaloa cartel leader to five years in prison Wednesday for trying to distribute fentanyl while still under federal supervision for an earlier drug trafficking conviction.
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#America #PoliticalEconomy #SocialIssues
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Opinion | Life, liberty and the pursuit of misery
Nicholas Eberstadt is the Wendt chair in political economy at the American Enterprise Institute. This column is adapted from the preface to his November essay collection "America's Human Arithmetic.
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#GovernmentShutdown #ImmigrationReform #DHSFunding
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Standoff over ICE tactics could trigger another partial government shutdown
Congress is staring down another partial government shutdown in 10 days unless Democrats strike a deal with President Donald Trump and Republicans over new restrictions on federal immigration authorities -- and some key lawmakers in both parties are not optimistic.
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#HousingShortage #HousingAffordability #RealEstate
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Why nobody really knows the scale of the U.S. housing crisis
The Adams Morgan neighborhood in Washington on Jan. 26. Quantifying the nation's housing need rests on assumptions about how much a home should cost, how many people it should hold, and how big a footprint it should have.
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#Fiji #HIVcrisis #DrugAddiction
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On a paradise island in the Pacific, meth and HIV epidemics rage
SUVA, Fiji -- The methamphetamine drop-offs to a squatter settlement here followed a routine.
Once a week, according to residents, a black Dodge truck with tinted windows pulled up to a tent on the edge of the community, a dense maze of tiny shacks connected by muddy paths, slick from the persistent summer rain.
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#NuclearArms #NewSTART #ArmsControl
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The treaty limiting U.S. and Russian nuclear arms is expiring. What to know.
For decades, the world's two largest nuclear arsenals have been constrained by a series of treaties. But that's set to change Thursday, when the last remaining nuclear arms limitation treaty between the United States and Russia, the New START Treaty, expires.
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#TransgenderRights #GenderTransition #HealthcarePolicy
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First major medical group opposes gender transition surgeries for youth
A person holds a transgender pride flag outside the Supreme Court on Jan. 13. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons has issued a broad recommendation against gender transition surgeries for youths, becoming the first major medical association in the United States to narrow its guidance on pediatric gender care amid a crackdown by the Trump administration.
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#ScoutingAmerica #Pentagon #MilitarySupport
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Pentagon warns Scouts to restore 'core values' or lose military support
Reach the reporters securely on Signal: Tara Copp at taracopp. 06 and David Ovalle at davido. 38
The Pentagon issued a warning late Monday to Scouting America, formerly known as the Boy Scouts, saying the organization risks losing its long-standing partnership with the U.
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#ViolenceIntervention #NonprofitAccountability #PublicSafety
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How D.C. allowed 'completely inappropriate' spending by anti-violence group
It was 2023, homicides in D. C. were spiking to levels not seen in a generation, and the city was spending millions of dollars to deploy violence interrupters to the neighborhoods where shootings were endemic.
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#ElonMusk #SocialMedia #Cybercrime
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Paris police raid X offices as part of expanded criminal probe
Elon Musk attends the U. S. -Saudi Investment Forum in Washington in November. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)
French investigators raided X's Paris headquarters on Tuesday as part of an expanded criminal probe involving seven alleged offenses including spreading Holocaust denial content and involvement in distributing child pornography.
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#Immigration #FamilyDetention #ChildProtection
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Trump's immigration crackdown means more children detained by ICE
A protester outside the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, on Wednesday. (Moises Avila/AFP/Getty Images)
SAN ANTONIO -- The 5-year-old boy, in a blue knit bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack, was returning from preschool when immigration officers detained him late last month in Minneapolis.
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#Google #AIethics #IsraeliMilitary
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Google helped Israeli military contractor with AI, whistleblower alleges
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google breached its own policies that barred use of artificial intelligence for weapons or surveillance in 2024 by helping an Israeli military contractor analyze drone video footage, a former Google employee alleged in a confidential federal whistleblower complaint reviewed by The Washington Post.
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#Immigration #LegalRights #HomelandSecurity
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Trump administration fights judge's ban on green card interview arrests
Homeland Security Secetary Kristi L. Noem. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit is weighing whether to overturn a lower court order in Maryland that bars immigration officials from arresting certain people during green card interviews with their U.
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#Iran #USRelations #MiddleEastPolitics
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Iranian missiles pose deadly threat to region, Gulf allies warn U.S.
People on motorbikes drive past banners in Tehran bearing anti-U. S. and anti-Israel messages. (Vahid Salemi/AP)
As the Trump administration pressures Iran with a massive military buildup in the region, Persian Gulf states are warning U.
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#ImmigrationReform #HumanRights #JusticeSystem
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Judge orders release of 5-year-old detained by ICE in Minneapolis
People protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Dilley, Texas, on Wednesday. (Joel Angel Juarez/Getty Images)
A federal judge has ordered 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, to be released from federal immigration custody after the pair were detained in their driveway in Minnesota last week, sparking outrage nationwide and protests at the family detention center in Dilley, Texas, where they have been held.
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#GovernmentFunding #Bipartisanship #ShutdownAvoidance
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Column | Republicans relearn the lesson that shutdowns go poorly for them
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) in October. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)
Just two-and-a-half months removed from a painful government shutdown, Republicans have learned a lesson that these standoffs almost never break their way politically and should be avoided whenever possible.
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#EnergyPolicy #CoalIndustry #UtilityBills
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Opinion | Trump's pro-coal directives could raise energy prices by billions
President Donald Trump is protecting the coal industry from market forces, driving up utility bills for Americans.
On energy policy, the administration's most obvious sin has been picking losers.
