The fight against cancer made a great stride with the approval of the first cancer-fighting gene therapy. The treatment makes use of the patient’s immune system to fight leukaemia. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the treatment that genetically alters the patient’s cells to fight the cancerous cells. This is a milestone that will…
If you keep chickens in your backyard, then you have to be careful to avoid contracting salmonella from them. There are many ways your backyard chickens can catch salmonella. The first is known as the horizontal transfer. If this is the case with your chickens, then it is really no fault of yours. Horizontal transfer…
Sanction after sanction has not been enough to deter the North Korean Supreme Leader from going ahead with his nuclear enrichment, yet U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is calling for further sanctions after a recent, powerful nuclear test explosion. This comes shortly after North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan, further increasing the tension in…
The rift between Donald Trump and his party leadership is far from being resolved. In fact, the once family grievance has snowballed into public view. The rift is ill-timed as the senior party figure who is at the receiving end could lose his two-seat majority in the Senate. Donald Trump recently took to twitter to…
Donald Trump’s Republican Party controls the House. Ever since Trump won the election, many people, for many different reasons, have been calling for his impeachment. The path to impeaching a president is long and twisted especially if the president’s party controls the House like in the current situation. In fact, the likelihood of that happening…
Donald Trump made a number of campaign promises during his electoral campaign. These include the changes his administration proposed to make on individual taxes. Some of the key issues listed included: Trump’s tax reform plan, a one-page list tagged “The Biggest Individual and Business Tax Cut in American History” which was released on 26th April…
There is no act of valor greater than dying on the battlefield for your country. The US army published photographs captured by Specialist Hilda Clayton, 22, a combat photographer, just before she and four others lost their lives to the accidental blast. Other victims of the blast were an Afghan military photographer she was training…
President Donald Trump, in his short stay in office, has made a number of decisions that have left many astonished. In July this year, Trump sent out a series of tweets that announced transgender people will no longer be allowed to serve openly in the military. The pronouncement sent a wave of shock and sadness…
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program was instituted under President Obama’s administration. Now, President Trump has announced its end. DACA was a program that allowed children who entered the United States illegally to remain in the country. The business community and various other people have been reacting to the rollback of the program…