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BREAKING:
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrat Cindy Holscher wins election for governor in Kansas.
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An international team led by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has developed an experimental blood test that detects early-stage breast cancer with 95 percent accuracy for localized tumors under two centimeters (about 0.8 inches).
The test also outperforms conventional tissue biopsies in assessing the risk of recurrence after treatment.
Read more on The Times of Israel.
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Today the American Cancer Society made important changes to their prostate cancer screening guidelines: Men 50 to 69 should get a PSA test every two years; Black men and men with a family history of prostate cancer should get one every year starting at 45; and starting at age 70, men should talk to their doctors about what's right to them.
I know firsthand the toll of this disease, and I know that catching it early saves lives.
So talk to your doctor, get screened, and let’s keep working to end cancer as we know it.
As rates of advanced prostate cancer continue to rise, the American Cancer Society is recommending that most men ages 50 to 69 get screened every other year. nbcnews.com/health/cancer/ne…
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A month ago, our daughter Yustyna came into our lives. She was born in a country at war, but above all, she is a child of immense hope and love. It is hard to put into words how much happiness a child brings, especially in times like these. Having her in our lives gives us so much joy and even more reason to keep going.
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Many news articles are rightfully noting that Scott Colom becomes the first Black senator elected in Mississippi “since Reconstruction.”
I think it’s worth more fully articulating why that is and the history tucked into that two-word phrase.
Mississippi has always been one of the Blackest (by population %) states in the Union, and after the Civil War, in 1870, it elected as senator America’s first Black member of Congress — AME minister Hiram R. Revels. Four years later, he was replaced by Blanche Bruce, a former slave, who became the country’s second Black senator.
Then, in 1890, state lawmakers in Mississippi called a state Constitutional convention in order to functionally strip Black residents access to the ballot box — introducing a $2 annual poll tax as well as literacy tests.
As a result, Black voter participation plummeted. These were innovations, and became the inspiration for similar “Jim Crow” laws across the South during the period that followed Reconstruction.
For the next 136 years, Black voter registration and turnout would be a major focus of civil rights efforts in Mississippi — including the work of Medgar Evers and Fannie Lou Hamer — often in response to acts of racial violence including the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till.
Even so, no Black official had managed to be elected to a statewide office in Mississippi since the 1890 convention until yesterday, when Scott Colom was declared the winner of the 2026 Senate race.
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I’ve been raising children for Lo these 42 years and this is the funniest email I’ve ever gotten from school.
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Glad this man is doing well. But this is a big, big problem and it has real costs for people who are fighting for their lives.
Cancer patient pushing for further action to reduce critical lab results wait times, technologist shortage in Ontario ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/c…
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Our producer Emma tracked down the mastermind behind Mississippi Senator-elect Scott Colom’s viral “Pick Another Protein” ad, content creator Ryan Sayles.
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Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot say they will meet Thursday for a security and diplomatic briefing. Eisenkot, who is trying to form Israel’s next government, had sought regular briefings. Keshet Neev and James Genn report for The Jerusalem Post (11:28 live entry).
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On the Death of the Beloved
Though we need to weep your loss,
You dwell in that safe place in our hearts,
Where no storm or night or pain can reach you.
Your love was like the dawn
Brightening over our lives
Awakening beneath the dark
A further adventure of colour.
The sound of your voice
Found for us
A new music
That brightened everything.
Whatever you enfolded in your gaze
Quickened in the joy of its being;
You placed smiles like flowers
On the altar of the heart.
Your mind always sparkled
With wonder at things.
Though your days here were brief,
Your spirit was live, awake, complete.
We look towards each other no longer
From the old distance of our names;
Now you dwell inside the rhythm of breath,
As close to us as we are to ourselves.
Though we cannot see you with outward eyes,
We know our soul’s gaze is upon your face,
Smiling back at us from within everything
To which we bring our best refinement.
Let us not look for you only in memory,
Where we would grow lonely without you.
You would want us to find you in presence,
Beside us when beauty brightens,
When kindness glows
And music echoes eternal tones.
When orchids brighten the earth,
Darkest winter has turned to spring;
May this dark grief flower with hope
In every heart that loves you.
May you continue to inspire us:
To enter each day with a generous heart.
To serve the call of courage and love
Until we see your beautiful face again
In that land where there is no more separation,
Where all tears will be wiped from our mind,
And where we will never lose you again.
John O’Donohue, poet, philosopher and former Catholic priest.
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@CNN piece on climate is worth a read: "This winter, it’s polar vortex versus El Niño. Round one starts now" Canada is going to get slammed over the next 30 years and we are unprepared and Mother Nature will be much harder on our economy than anything Donald Trump can do.
Here is the climate change driver of this.
A heating planet and a rapidly warming Arctic shrink the temperature gradient between the poles and the south. This weakens the polar jet stream, the high-altitude winds driving North America's weather, and destabilizes the polar vortex. As a result, frigid Arctic air spills southward, causing severe deep freezes like the January 2024 blast that burst water pipes across Regina.
RT @WorldJewishCong: The @UN just elected the Islamic Republic of Iran to the committee that shapes its priorities on women’s rights and te…
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This Mississippi mom talking about what Scott Colom winning means for parents and kids across Mississippi is so powerful and represents what so many parents in “deep red” states feel.
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Sunday I came across a grave in Massachusetts with a math equation carved on it.
Robert Cohen. Army, 1943. 106th Infantry. France, Germany. Battle of the Bulge.
He came home, college, taught math. Married 65 years.
"Granite character, diamond intellect, heart of gold."
On Veterans Day, I’m thinking about him. I never knew him, but I get to raise my son in the country he fought for.
Thank you, Robert. Thank you to every veteran. 🇺🇸
