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Four people were arrested in connection with the alleged rape of Madison Brooks, a Louisiana State University student who was fatally hit by a car shortly after the suspects dropped her off in an East Baton Rouge subdivision. Lee is Washington's uncle, the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office said. Carver told investigators that he, his friends and Lee did not know Brooks prior to meeting her at Reggie's, the report said. When they were about to leave, Brooks asked for a ride home, Carver told detectives. He told CBS affiliate WAFB of Baton Rouge that a rape did not occur.

☆ Trump Hit With $1 Million Fine for Lawsuit Deemed Frivolous
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Byron Tau | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—A federal judge in Florida levied a nearly $1 million fine this week on former President Donald Trump and his attorney, Alina Habba, over their filing of what he called a frivolous lawsuit alleging a political conspiracy during the 2016 election. “This case should never have been brought,” U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks wrote in a scathing 46-page order imposing sanctions against the former president and his legal team. He called Mr. Trump “a prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries” and declared the former president jointly liable with his lawyer for paying the fine.

☆ Little-Known Surveillance Program Captures Money Transfers Between U.S. and More Than 20 Countries
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Dustin Volz | Byron Tau | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON—Hundreds of federal, state and local U.S. law-enforcement agencies have access without court oversight to a database of more than 150 million money transfers between people in the U.S. and in more than 20 countries, according to internal program documents and an investigation by Sen. Ron Wyden . The database, housed at a little-known nonprofit called the Transaction Record Analysis Center, or TRAC, was set up by the Arizona state attorney general’s office in 2014 as part of a settlement reached with Western Union to combat cross-border trafficking of drugs and people from Mexico. It has since expanded to allow officials of more than 600 law-enforcement entities—from federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement to small-town police departments in nearly every state—to monitor the flow of funds through money services between the U.S. and countries around the world.

☆ Here's where to look for the next developments in the fight against Alzheimer's disease
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Christina Cheddar Berk | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 5.8 million Americans were living with the disease in 2020 . BIIB 6M mountain Biogen's stock is trading well above its lows Leqembi treats Alzheimer's disease by targeting amyloid-beta plaques in the brain. Attention shifts to Eli Lilly Shares of other Alzheimer's drug developers have often mirrored Biogen's moves. Small drug developers Smaller Alzheimer's drug developers have also been boosted by research developments. Still in an early stage of its research, Prothena has traded as a proxy for developments in Alzheimer's treatment.

☆ George Santos Raised Money for Company the SEC Says Was a Ponzi Scheme
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-14 | by ( Byron Tau | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

George Santos was hired in 2020 by Harbor City Capital, where his job was to bring in investors for the company’s financial offering, according to people familiar with the matter. WASHINGTON—Embattled Rep. George Santos persuaded at least one person to make a six-figure investment in a Florida-based company that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission later said was a Ponzi scheme, according to people familiar with the matter and documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Santos was hired in 2020 to raise capital for the company, Harbor City Capital , and landed at least one significant investment from a wealthy investor, the people said. When the investment failed to deliver on the promised returns, according to one of the people, Mr. Santos sought to reassure the investor by saying he had personally raised nearly $100 million and had invested his own family’s money in Harbor City.

☆ Eli Lilly has spent years and billions of dollars in search of an effective Alzheimer's drug. But success is not all or nothing for the stock
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +22 min

Eli Lilly (LLY) has spent decades researching Alzheimer's disease without successfully bringing to market a treatment that slows the memory-destroying condition. For Eli Lilly as a company, an Alzheimer's drug is an important pursuit. Lilly's Alzheimer's history Eli Lilly's "first real foray" into Alzheimer's came in the 1990s, according to Dr. John Sims, Eli Lilly's head of medical development for donanemab. Financial implications for Lilly LLY mountain 2021-10-08 The Club started a new position in Eli Lilly (LLY) in October 2021. The Eli Lilly logo is shown on one of the company's offices in San Diego, California, September 17, 2020.

Congressman-elect George Santos of New York, looking to the side, attended the opening session of the 118th Congress in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday. Embattled Rep.-elect George Santos (R, N.Y.) spent his first day in Congress dodging reporters and voting in the contentious race for speaker, while Brazilian authorities said they intended to reopen a criminal investigation into allegations that he committed check fraud there in 2008. Mr. Santos, a 34-year-old who won a narrow victory for Republicans in a district of Long Island usually dominated by the Democrats, has faced scrutiny in recent weeks after admitting that he had lied to voters about his work and education history.

The Securities and Exchange Commission, based in Washington, told Arqit Quantum that its action was ‘a fact-finding inquiry,’ the U.K. company said. British cybersecurity company Arqit Quantum Inc. is facing an investigation from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over its merger with a special-purpose acquisition company last year, the company disclosed Wednesday. Arqit saw its market value rise from $1.4 billion to over $4.5 billion soon after it completed the SPAC merger—a form of public listing—in September 2021 as investors embraced the company and its projections of surging revenue and profits in the emerging sectors of digital security and advanced cryptography. Its shares have since fallen significantly amid a broad investor retreat from SPACs and young high-growth companies.

☆ Justice Department Subpoenas State Officials on 2020 Election Communications With Trump
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Byron Tau | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—Local officials in three critical battleground states said they have received subpoenas from the Justice Department that appear to be part of an expanding investigation into efforts by former President Donald Trump and people representing him to reverse the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. Four counties in Michigan, Arizona and Wisconsin received federal grand jury subpoenas, officials there said. The counties—Maricopa in Arizona, Wayne in Michigan and Dane and Milwaukee in Wisconsin—are all in swing states targeted by Mr. Trump and his allies in the aftermath of his loss in the November 2020 election.

☆ What increasing confidence in Biogen's latest Alzheimer's drug means for Eli Lilly
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Donanemab is the name of Eli Lilly's Alzheimer's drug in its own late-stage trials. JPMorgan has a neutral (hold) rating on Biogen shares and an overweight (buy) rating on Eli Lilly shares. What it means for Eli Lilly Eli Lilly has a phase three trial underway for its donanemab Alzheimer's drug that is similar to lecanemab, which is why the Biogen-Eisai data has been interpreted as favorable for the Club holding. Clumps of the protein, known as amyloid plaques, are one of the key markers of Alzheimer's disease. Previous drugs developed around the a-beta hypothesis — including those from Eli Lilly — have failed to meaningfully delay the disease's progression.

☆ Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes Found Guilty of Seditious Conspiracy in Jan. 6 Case
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Jan Wolfe | Byron Tau | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—A jury on Tuesday found two members of the Oath Keepers militia group guilty of seditious conspiracy by plotting to forcefully disrupt the peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election, and convicted three others on lesser charges in the closely watched trial stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol. After a seven-week trial in Washington and three days of deliberations, the jury said Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and one of his co-defendants, Kelly Meggs, plotted to use force to block Congress from formally certifying President Biden‘s election victory.

☆ Rare success for Alzheimer's research unlocks hope for future therapies
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Julie Steenhuysen | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Eisai and Biogen are scheduled to present full data from their lecanemab study on Tuesday at the Clinical Trials on Alzheimer's Disease conference in San Francisco. Lecanemab’s success rests on years of research into the causes of Alzheimer’s as well as advances in measuring amyloid deposits through brain scans and spinal fluids. At least 16 treatments are being tested in clinical trials, with results expected over the next three years, according to a Reuters review of the clinicaltrials.gov registry. The drugmaker has been largely absent from the Alzheimer's space after the high-profile failure of its drug verubecestat five years ago. But several antibody therapies from Lilly, Biogen and AbbVie(ABBV.N) that were designed to slow the rate of tau accumulations failed outright last year.

☆ Improve memory as you age by eating more flavonols, study says
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Sandee Lamotte | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Eating more flavonols, antioxidants found in many vegetables, fruits, tea and wine, may slow your rate of memory loss, a new study finds. The cognitive score of people in the study who ate the most flavonols declined 0.4 units per decade more slowly than those who ate the fewest flavonols. One of the most common flavonols, quercetin, has shown promise in reducing the onset of colorectal cancer and other cancers, according to studies. (For comparison, the average flavonol intake in US adults is about 16 to 20 milligrams per day, according to the study.) The study looked at the impact of the four major flavonols — kaempferol, quercetin, myricetin and isorhamnetin — on the rate of cognitive decline over the seven years.

☆ Secrets of ‘SuperAgers’ with superior memories into their 80s
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-26 | by ( Sandee Lamotte | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Siegler is a cognitive “SuperAger,” possessing a brain as sharp as people 20 to 30 years younger. She is part of an elite group enrolled in the Northwestern SuperAging Research Program, which has been studying the elderly with superior memories for 14 years. Once accepted, colorful 3D scans are taken of the brain and cognitive testing and brain scans are repeated every year or so. A SuperAger’s brain, usually donated to the research program by participants after death, also has bigger, healthier cells in the entorhinal cortex. SuperAger brains had three times fewer tau tangles, or abnormal formations of protein within nerve cells, than the brains of cognitively healthy controls, the study also found.

A federal appeals court will hear arguments Tuesday as it looks to resolve a simmering procedural dispute in the Justice Department’s escalating investigation of former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. Days after Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to take over the investigation, Justice Department attorneys are expected to urge the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to end a document-vetting arrangement, instated by a lower court, that prosecutors have argued has slowed the investigation into the material the FBI seized from the Florida resort in August.

☆ Top Hollywood lawyer Bryan Freedman paid a $40,000 settlement after being accused of gang-raping a 17-year-old while in college
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Kate Taylor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

But clients may not know that Freedman, 58, was accused of sexual assault in the 1980s and paid a $40,000 settlement to the accuser. She said that instead of taking her there, the men brought her to the nearby Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. The plaintiff said she and her friend then returned to Zeta Beta Tau to retrieve her shoe and car key. The 17-year-old and her parents sued Freedman and the two other fraternity brothers, as well as Zeta Beta Tau and Tau Kappa Epsilon. (Zeta Beta Tau and the other college students accused of sexual assault also agreed to pay settlements, none of which admitted liability.)

☆ Trump Lays Out Executive-Privilege Claims on Mar-a-Lago Documents
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Byron Tau | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—Lawyers representing former President Donald Trump and the Justice Department presented dueling views over whether he can shield certain records from his time in office from federal investigators conducting a criminal investigation into the potential mishandling of classified national-security records. In legal briefs made public on Monday, Mr. Trump’s legal team argued that the doctrine of executive privilege protects Mr. Trump from having to disclose certain materials to federal investigators who are probing how records marked as classified came to be transferred to Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s Florida home, after he left office.

The increase in college tuition and predatory lending have created a situation where, unless you’re fortunate to get a full-ride scholarship or come from a lot of money, students are vulnerable. Though Biden’s debt relief focused on federal student loans, there have been problems with private lenders as well, including the suit against student loan giant Navient. Research has shown that student loans increase access to financing and add to student diversity, which is great, but data also shows that women and people of color are disproportionately more likely to have debt. Student debt relief is one way to let people be people, first and foremost, and loanees second. But we need to do these things because we choose to and not because our college system is broken.

☆ Sam Shields: Super Bowl champion regrets playing in NFL; says his head is 'all mushed together' with concussions
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Former Green Bay Packers cornerback Sam Shields has said he regrets playing in the NFL, pointing to the effects concussions and head injuries had on his career and his later life. The spotters “serve as another set of eyes, watching for possible injuries at every NFL game,” according to NFL Football Operations. Concussions and their prevention have become an important issue in recent years due to their connection to brain disease later in life. The neurodegenerative brain disease can be found in individuals who have been exposed to repeated head trauma. The researchers hypothesized about a relationship between head trauma and ALS because of a similar link detected between football and the neurodegenerative disease CTE.

Latinos were 31 percent of the state’s high school graduates that year. But at 31%, the six-year graduation rate for MSU’s Latino students lags far behind CU Boulder, where it was 63 %. On the CU Boulder campus stands a 4-foot-7 memorial to “Los Seis,” six activists, including CU Boulder students, who were killed in two off-campus car bombings in 1974; the killings were never solved. Seventy-two percent, 510, of the middle and high school students enrolled in the program for 2020-21 were Latino. Vela and three other CU Boulder students who spoke with NBC News first learned about the campus through the Aquetza program.

☆ Here's why Biogen's promising Alzheimer's drug data is also good news for Eli Lilly
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

The move helped Eli Lilly notch a fresh 52-week high Wednesday, the only stock in the S & P 500 to do so. Bottom line Biogen's topline data appears to be encouraging, suggesting the Alzheimer's drug helped slowed cognitive decline. Plus, we think Eli Lilly has more going for it overall than Biogen, making it a more attractive investment. Drug background Like Biogen's Alzheimer's drug lecanemab, Lilly's donanemab is an antibody that tries to reduce buildup on the brain of the amyloid beta protein . The Eli Lilly logo is shown on one of the company's offices in San Diego, California, September 17, 2020.

As yet another Alzheimer's drug targeting plaque buildup in the brain fails to improve cognition in patients, leading scientists said a significant shift is underway in the search for effective treatments for the disease. By 2050, that number is projected to rise to nearly 13 million, according to an estimate from the Alzheimer’s Association. Alzheimer’s disease is often referred to as “Type 3 diabetes,” a brain-specific form of diabetes that is the result of the brain’s neurons lacking glucose, said John Didsbury, the CEO of T3D Therapeutics. Data from the longest-ever phase 3 trial of exercise on cognition released at the conference on Tuesday found that exercise may stall cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s patients. He said it’s only a matter of time before we see more research discoveries that show potential for slowing Alzheimer’s disease, possibly within the next year or two.

☆ Horoscop 9 Iulie 2021: Gemenii ating succesul pe planul financiar
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-09 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +5 min

Sursa foto: a1.roHoroscop 9 Iulie 2021: Gemenii ating succesul pe planul financiarLuna Nouă din 9 iulie se întâmplă în zodia intuitivă a Racului și aduce schimbarea. Gemenii ating succesul pe planul financiar, Săgetătorii rezolvă unele probleme urgente, iar Peştii sunt sprijinul ideal pentru cei din jur. E o perioadă mai rea la locul de muncă, contractele sunt mai puține, iar noile proiecte stagnează. Azi, crezi în minuni, fie ele și mărunte, potrivit horoscop 9 Iulie 2021. Această atitudine va dezamorsa cearta și va aduce linişte între membrii familiei.

Persons: Gemenii, Berbec, Vei, Scorpion

☆ Ești pasionat(ă) de management, resurse umane, achiziții și inginerie? FabLab Chișinău te invită în comunitatea sa
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-08 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +2 min

Tinerii și tinerele din Chișinău pasionați de management, resurse umane, achiziții și inginerie sunt invitați să devină membrii comunității FabLab Chișinău, o platformă ultramodernă de fabricaţie digitală, design industrial și inginerie. Aici poți să-ți dezvolți proiectele proprii, să înveți cum să proiectezi și să utilizezi instrumentele și mașinile din cadrul hub-ului. În cadrul acestui departament vei contribui la dezvoltarea proiectelor hub-ului, vei contribui la rezolvarea sarcinilor tehnice și vei dezvolta proiectele proprii. Pentru a fi la curent cu toate evenimentele din cadrul hub-ului urmărește pagina de Facebook și Instagram FabLab Chișinău. FabLab Chișinău este susținut de Proiectul TEKWILL și de Proiectul de Competitivitate din Moldova, finanțat de USAID, Suedia și UK aid, în parteneriat cu UTM.

Organizations: Facebook, FabLab, UK, UTM Locations: Chișinău, Machines, Moldova, USAID, Suedia

☆ Concurs de fotografie! Arată cum este viața tinerilor la sat și câștigă premii
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-08 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +1 min

Concurs de fotografie! Arată cum este viața tinerilor la sat și câștigă premiiYouth.md în parteneriat cu Parlamentul Republicii Moldova, Ministerul Educației Culturii și Cercetării al Republicii Moldova și Crunchyroll, te invită să participi la concursul de fotografie „Viața tinerilor la sat”. Astfel, dacă locuiești într-o localitate rurală, ești pasionat(ă) de fotografie și dorești să-ți împărtășești viziunea și cu ceilalți, ești încurajăt(ă) să participi în concurs. Cele mai bune 12 lucrări ce vor fi selectate, vor fi expuse în cadrul unei expoziții organizate pe 12 august, cu ocazia Zilei Internaționale a Tineretului, în cadrul Parlamentului Republicii Moldova. Fiecare participant(ă) va trimite lucrările la adresa de email: [email protected], cu mențiunea „Concurs foto – viața tinerilor la sat”.

Organizations: Ministerul Educației Culturii, Cercetării, Tineretului, Republicii Moldova . Locations: Republicii Moldova, exprimi

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