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Kamala Harris Raises Nearly $12 Million In Second Quarter
Trump Accuses Hillary Of
Russian Conspiracy, But It's
Her Response That Goes Viral
Kamala Harris raised nearly $12 million in the sec- ond quarter of the year, her campaign said Friday — lag- ging behind several other top-tier contenders in the money race even as she surges in public opinion polls.
The total about matches what Harris raised in the previous three months of her campaign and reflects the significance of a late fundraising push after a breakout debate perform- ance in the final days of the fundraising period.
Harris raised $2 million just in the 24 hours after the first presidential debate last week, marking an upward turn in her campaign.
Harris’ second quarter total drew on donations from more than 279,000 people,
We can all agree that Donald Trump has one tal- ent: the ability to expose how truly deep the abyss of craven lunacy is. Whether he’s gaslighting the world about how big his hands are, or how smart he is, or how not a pup- pet he is, there is no depth Donald will not sink to.
At a rally in Erie, Pennsyl- vania, on Wednesday night, Trump decided to gaslight the imbeciles before him by saying that Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party col- luded with Russia during the 2016 election.
"There was collusion be- tween Hillary, the Democ- rats and Russia," Trump said, just after his supporters had chanted "lock her up" about Clinton. "There was a lot of collusion with them and Russia and lots of other peo- ple."
Hillary Clinton’s re- sponse is short and sweet— and going viral.
In addition to traditional fundraisers, Sen. Kamala Harris has invested heavily her campaign’s digital infrastructure in an ef- fort to compete with small-dollar fundraising behemoths such as Sen. Bernie Sanders.
HILLARY CLINTON
At this point, Trump’s base isn’t really even listening to anything but the deluded chants of “lock her up” that rattle about their brains whenever the angry feelings come up and they wonder why they aren’t “winning” yet.
including almost 150,000 new donors, her campaign said.
She raised more than $7 million through her digital program, the campaign said. Her average contribution on-
line was $24, and her average contribution overall was $39. Harris’ online store gener- ated nearly $500,000, in- cluding from sales of 1,400 “That Little Girl Was Me” T- shirts, the campaign said.
Arizona Governor Wears Nikes 2 Days
Researchers Say They’re Closer To Finding Cure For HIV After Using CRISPR Technology
After Pulling State Incentives Following
Researchers say they’re one step closer to finding a potential cure for HIV after successfully eliminating the virus in living mice for the first time.
Using a combination of CRISPR gene-editing tech- nology and a therapeutic treatment called LASER ART, scientists at Temple University and the University of Nebraska Medical Center said they erased HIV DNA from the genomes of animals in what they call an unprece- dented study that was pub- lished Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.
“We think this study is a major breakthrough because it for the first time demon- strates after 40 years of the AIDS epidemic that the HIV disease is a curable disease,” said study co-author Dr. Kamel Khalili, chair of the department of neuroscience and director of the Center for Neurovirology and the Com- prehensive NeuroAIDS Cen- ter at Temple University.
About 1.1 million people in the U. S. live with HIV, a virus that attacks the body’s immune system and makes a person more susceptible to falling ill. If HIV is not treated, it can turn into
which were injected with human bone marrow to imi- tate the human immune sys- tem.
The study authors used two different tools to combat the virus: CRISPR technol- ogy and LASER ART.
CRISPR-Cas9 is a gene editing tool that’s been boasted as breakthrough technology that can help re- searchers treat or potentially cure genetic diseases. It gives scientists the ability to change an organism’s DNA, so they can add, remove or change certain genetic mate- rial.
LASER ART is a “super” form of ART that keeps repli- cation of the virus at low lev- els for longer time periods, according to co-author Dr. Howard Gendelman, chair of UNMC’s pharmacol- ogy and experimental neuro- science department and director of the the Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases. The antiretroviral drug is then stored in nanocrystals, which slowly release the drug where the virus is located.
“We’re going at the root cause,” Gendelman said. “We’re going after the virus that’s already integrated in the genome of the host cell.”
Kaepernick-Encouraged Recall
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey really didn’t think about the optics of his July 4 footwear.
Just two days after saying he was pulling state financial incentives from a Nike plant in Arizona after the company recalled shoes with the Betsy Ross-designed American flag on them, the Republican governor showed up to a July 4 event with Nike sneakers on.
Nike pulled the shoes — which never hit store shelves — after Nike endorser and former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick pres- sured the company to do so because the flag was flown in an era of slavery and that it has recently been adopted as a symbol by some white na- tionalist hate groups.
‘Shameful retreat’
When news of the recall broke earlier in the week, Ducey immediately jumped on it, calling it a “shameful retreat” and saying that Nike should be proud of the coun- try’s history. He then said he was pulling state incentives from a plant Nike has com- mitted to building in
GOV. DOUG DUCEY
Goodyear, Arizona. Ducey’s statements
helped Nike become the par- tisan debate of the holiday week as many other Republi- can politicians chimed in with statements against Nike. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz even claimed he would no longer buy any Nikes.
Ducey didn’t call for a boycott, something that a spokesperson for the gover- nor strongly pointed out in a defensive statement to ABC 15 in Phoenix.
AIDS, the late stage of HIV in which the virus badly dam- ages the immune system. People with AIDS on average live about three years after their diagnosis, according to HIV.gov.
The virus is currently treated with antiretroviral therapy (ART), which sup- presses it from replicating and prevents many patients in the U. S. from developing AIDS. ART does not rid the body of HIV, though, and if a patient stops treatment the virus will continue to repli- cate.
But now researchers say they’re able to destroy the virus in “humanized” mice,
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