Author: The Gazette
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Harvard must face lawsuits over theft of body parts by ex-morgue manager, court rules
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -Harvard University can be sued by families alleging it mishandled the bodies of loved ones donated to its medical school and whose parts were then sold on the black market by the former manager of its morgue, Massachusetts’ top court ruled on Monday. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that a…
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Tiana Lowe Doescher projects shutdown layoffs to be ‘good threat’ to Democrats in deadlock
Washington Examiner Commentary Writer Tiana Lowe Doescher suggested that the threat of mass federal layoffs from the White House is “a damn good” strategy during the government shutdown. Doescher appeared on Newsmax’s Wake Up America Early on Monday, the sixth day of the federal government shutdown. Host Alex Kraemer asked Doescher about the seriousness of…
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Armed citizens more effective in stopping shootings than FBI admits
Americans packing heat have stopped active shootings at least 10 times more than the FBI has counted, showing that life-saving actions by armed citizens are much more common than the liberal anti-gun media reports. In a new review of 10 years of active shooter reports, a top public safety think tank said that good Samaritans…
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Mayor Mobolade presents tight 2026 Colorado Springs budget proposal
Colorado Springs is heading into 2026 with an $11 million drop in its general fund and $31 million less in the city budget, a sign of the economic uncertainty and constrictions facing the city. Mayor Yemi Mobolade handed the hundreds of pages of his proposed 2026 budget details over to the Colorado Springs City Council…
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Ex-Marine Amy McGrath launches another run for Kentucky Senate
Former Marine Amy McGrath from Kentucky is taking another shot at running for the Senate. This time, instead of facing off against Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), McGrath is entering a race full of Democrats and Republicans eager to fill McConnell’s seat after he retires. McGrath joins two political outsiders, former Secret Service agent Logan Forsythe…
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The Gaza twins whose whole lives have been war
GAZA (Reuters) -Palestinian twins Uday and Hamza Abu Odah have known nothing but war since they were born in Gaza, less than a month after the conflict began on October 7, 2023. Their lives have been defined and encompassed by Israel’s devastating military offensive, launched in response to the deadly attack on southern Israel by…
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Immune system breakthrough wins Nobel medicine prize for US, Japan scientists
By Johan Ahlander, Niklas Pollard and Ludwig Burger STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -American scientists Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi from Japan won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for work shedding light on how the immune system spares healthy cells, creating openings for possible new autoimmune disease and cancer treatments.…
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Iran shows support for Trump’s Gaza peace plan as negotiators land in Egypt
Iran voiced support for President Donald Trump‘s Gaza peace plan, a move that further pressures Hamas to abide by the peace deal. In a statement, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said it would welcome any ceasefire decision that ensured “halting the genocide,” but repeatedly stressed that the decision was up to Palestinians. It also couched its support…
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Exclusive-US civil rights agency opens sweeping antisemitism probe
By David Hood and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Democrat-led civil rights watchdog agency opened a sweeping investigation into how the federal government has responded to allegations of antisemitism on college campuses, a review that could bring a rare dose of official scrutiny to the Trump administration’s confrontations with Columbia and other universities. The…
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WATCH LIVE: Johnson holds press conference on day 6 of government shutdown
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is holding a press conference on day six of the government shutdown, as Democrats and Republicans refuse to budge. Any compromise to end the shutdown remains as elusive as ever, as Democrats maintain that Republicans are trying to strip the destitute of healthcare, and Republicans maintain that Democrats are trying…