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View More NewsIn January, following the shootings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti by federal officers in Minneapolis, David Streever sent an email to the publicly available address of acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons, calling Lyons a “monstrous human being” and comparing him to Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Holocaust. He also labeled Lyons a “sad, despised man” who will “never know peace.” Five months after his email, ICE agents appeared at Streever’s home in Rochester, New York, to serve him a warning notice that his email may have been a “VIOLATION OF…
In brief Owners of BIG3 NFTs have sued Ice Cube’s 3-on-3 professional basketball league over allegedly unfulfilled promises. NFT purchasers, who paid as much as $25,000 apiece, expected to earn a share of team sales and get other benefits. The suit alleges they haven’t, and seeks damages and restitution as BIG3 aims to go public via SPAC deal. NFT buyers expecting to have some ownership stake in professional 3-on-3 basketball teams from rapper and actor Ice Cube’s BIG3 league have filed a class action lawsuit against the league in the Superior Court of California—challenging the league’s past promises as it…
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Science does not often advance in sudden epiphanies that yield “Eureka” moments. More typical are years of failed experiments, dogged hypothesis-testing, and incremental discoveries that are, at best, inconclusive. And then, sometimes, eventually, the accumulated knowledge results in a breakthrough. Two recent examples are stunning advances in cancer medicine—one for pancreatic cancer, the other for melanoma—that are rewriting what doctors can promise their patients. But to understand why these achievements matter so profoundly, it is instructive to appreciate how long they took.A Pill That Doubled Survival for the Disease That Kills Almost EveryonePancreatic cancer is the third-leading cause of cancer…
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