Man Who Wrongfully Spent 28 years in Prison Receives $28M Settlement After Death š±
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Never Don and Never Ron: The rest of the GOP field looks for a Third Lane
Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and former Vice President Mike Pence have begun more aggressively criticizing positions held by Trump, and now DeSantis, on a range of foreign and domestic issues. They have been aided, their respective teams believe, by DeSantisā decision to leave little daylight between himself and Trump on key topics, from the war in Ukraine to entitlement reform. (read more at Politico)
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Family of the Man Who Wrongfully Spent 28 years in Prison Receives $28M Settlement One Year After His DeathĀ
William Virgil spent three decades professing his innocence in the 1987 murder of a Veterans Administration nurse in Newport, Kentucky. Last week, the city of Newport finally settled his wrongful conviction with a record-setting pretrial amount of $28 millionā¦.the settlement comes over one year after Virgil diedā¦ (read more at Black Enterprise)Ā
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Frozen cells reveal a clue for a vaccine to block the deadly TB bugĀ
Now, scientists at South Africa's University of Cape Town have taken a major step toward creating an mRNA vaccine against TB that could work for people of all ages. The key to their breakthrough: An unusual set of blood samples that were kept in deep freeze for nearly two decades ā until the vital information they contained could finally be unlocked thanks to some new technology. (read more at NPR)
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