A new Alzheimer’s vaccine developed by scientists at the University of Texas, Southwestern could conceivably cut the number of dementia cases in half.
Unlike a previous attempt that caused swelling in the brain when DNA was injected into the test mice’s muscles, the new vaccine was administered by injecting it superficially into the skin.
Alzheimer’s, which is expected to strike triple the number of people by 2050, cripples the brain as human beings age, as beta-amyloid proteins in the brain get stuck together and tau proteins start to tangle, both of which inhibit neural connections. The new vaccine, injected into the skin, triggers the skin cells to produce a three-molecule chain of beta-amyloid. The immune system is then catalyzed to produce antibodies to fight beta-amyloid; the antibodies also fight tau proteins.. This means the body anticipates the Alzheimer’s plaques and tangles before happen. . .
Dr. Roger Rosenberg, founding director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Center at University of Texas Southwestern, said the new vaccine “is the culmination of a decade of research that has repeatedly demonstrated that this vaccine can effectively and safely target in animal models what we think may cause Alzheimer’s disease.” He added, “I believe we’re getting close to testing this therapy in people.”
Study senior author Dr Doris Lambracht-Washington said: “If the onset of the disease could be delayed by even five years, that would be enormous for the patients and their families. The number of dementia cases could drop by half.” (Read more from “New Vaccine Could Cut Number of Alzheimer’s Cases in Half” HERE)
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By The Daily Caller. Ret. Lt. Cmdr. and Republican candidate Dan Crenshaw defeated his Democratic challenger Todd Litton on Tuesday to win Texas’s 2nd Congressional District.
Despite consistently polling ahead of Litton by double digits, Democrats were optimistic the area would flip blue due to the rapidly changing demographics of Harris County. Ultimately, Crenshaw beat out Litton.
The district has been represented by Republican Rep. Ted Poe who announced his retirement in November 2017. Poe flipped the seat red when he first took office in 2005 and it has since been a GOP stronghold. Litton, a director of an education non-profit, announced his run for the seat prior to Poe’s retirement. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi showed her support for the Democrat by pledging $7,000 to his campaign.
Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL, served five deployments overseas — while on his third combat tour, he was hit by an IED blast during a mission in Afghanistan that destroyed in right eye and badly injured his left eye. After multiple surgeries, Crenshaw retained sight in his left eye and went on to deploy two more times, first to the Middle East, then to South Korea. (Read more from “Former Navy SEAL Dan Crenshaw Wins Big in Texas” HERE)
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Alyssa Milano Says Since Beto Lost ‘Now He Can Run for President’
By The Daily Caller. Alyssa Milano says it’s okay that Democratic Texas Sen. candidate Beto O’Rourke lost to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz because “now he can run” against President Donald Trump.
“Beto lost? That’s ok. Now he can run for President,” the 45-year-old actress tweeted to her millions of followers Tuesday night, shortly after news outlets called the Senate race for the incumbent Sen. Cruz.
The former “Charmed” star has been very politically active over the last year. Not just voicing her support for tons of Democrat candidates like Beto, but using her social media account to criticize President Donald Trump and other members of the administration. (Read more from “Alyssa Milano Says Since Beto Lost ‘Now He Can Run for President’” HERE)
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On Thursday night, Project Veritas Action Fund released a blockbuster video that raises serious questions about the misuse of Beto O’Rourke campaign funds. In the latest installment in the Veritas election 2018 sting series, members of the Texas Democrat’s U.S. Senate campaign appear to be “covering up the true nature of spending of campaign funds and intentionally misreporting them. This violates the FEC’s rules against personal use and misreporting,” according to an attorney for Project Veritas Action Fund who reviewed the undercover footage.
The attorney added that the penalties for this crime include fines of up to $10,000 and up to five years of prison.
Staffers for O’Rourke’s campaign were caught on tape indicating that they used campaign funds to purchase food for migrant asylum seekers and conspired to falsely report those expenses to the Federal Elections Commission (FEC).
The video shows a man identified as O’Rourke campaign field manager Dominic Chacon organizing campaign staff to deliver supplies to members of the Honduran caravan, who he says have already arrived in the United States and claimed asylum.
“There’s, a, you know, that migrant caravan? A few of them got here already, and they’re dropping them off like really close to Missouri,” Chacon says. Prompted by the undercover Project Veritas journalist, Chacon clarifies that he’s speaking about the migrants from Honduras.
“She’s going to text me the address. Um, I’m going to go get some food right now. Like, just some stuff to drop off, ’cause they need food and blankets. … We got permission to give them some of these waters, so we’re going to take some of these waters too.”
“Don’t ever repeat this,” O’Rourke campaign field organizer AnaPaula Themann tells Chacon on tape. She goes on to explain how she could use campaign funds to pay for the supplies.
Themann: “Don’t ever repeat this and stuff, but, like, if we just say we’re buying food for some event, like the Halloween events …”
Chacon: “That’s not a horrible idea, but I didn’t hear anything. Umm, we can wait until tomorrow for that.”
Themann: “Well that’s exactly the food we need. And I will just mark it as … I do have dozens of block walkers.”
Chacon discusses using campaign prepaid credit cards to pay for food for the migrants.
“I think we can use that with those cards to buy some food [inaudible] — all that s**t can be totally masked like, oh, we just wanted a healthy breakfast,” he explains.
Later in the video, Themann raises a concern about campaign staff wearing “Beto stuff” and being identified as members of O’Rourke’s campaign while they distribute the supplies to the migrants. She says, “I don’t want it to make it seem like all of us are from [the O’Rourke campaign] … I just hope nobody that’s the wrong person finds out about this.”
Jody Casey, O’Rourke’s campaign manager, was aware that her campaign’s staff was aiding the migrants, according to Chacon. But she was unaware that they used a “prepaid card” to do so. Chacon describes receiving a text message from Casey explaining that she was “happy that we have a staff that, you know, gets it.” He added that “she doesn’t know we used the prepaid card, but it’s okay … she doesn’t need to know.”
Chacon also considers using campaign vans to pick up more migrants.
“We could probably get away with using the vans. … Nobody needs to know,” he says. “For me, I can ignore the rules and I’ll f**k it. I don’t mind breaking the rules.”
Later in the video, Project Veritas’ undercover journalist raises the issue of using “campaign resources” to help the migrants with Casey. “Don’t worry,” Casey says.
Another campaign field manager, Andrea Reyes, appears to reveal on video that she has text messages approving the use of campaign prepaid cards to buy food for migrants.
“Charity and helping your fellow man are things we applaud at Project Veritas Action,” Project Veritas Action president James O’Keefe says. “The problem is, you can’t break the law when you do it.” (For more from the author of “Video: Democrat Staffers Appear to Make Plans to Mask Use of Campaign Funds for Honduran Migrants” please click HERE)
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The Texas Democratic Party asked non-citizens to register to vote, sending out applications to immigrants with the box citizenship already checked “Yes,” according to new complaints filed Thursday asking prosecutors to see what laws may have been broken.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation alerted district attorneys and the federal Justice Department to the pre-checked applications, and also included a signed affidavit from a man who said some of his relatives, who aren’t citizens, received the mailing.
“This is how the Texas Democratic Party is inviting foreign influence in an election in a federal election cycle,” said Logan Churchwell, spokesman for the PILF, a group that’s made its mark policing states’ voter registration practices.
The Texas secretary of state’s office said it, too, had gotten complaints both from immigrants and from relatives of dead people who said they got mailings asking them to register. . .
The PILF publicly released complaints it sent to Hidalgo and Starr counties asking for an investigation. The organization also provided copies of pre-marked voter applications and the affidavit from the man who said his non-citizen relatives received the mailing. (Read more from “Texas Dems Ask Noncitizens to Register to Vote, Send Applications With Citizenship Box Pre-Checked” HERE)
Special elections aren’t the best gauges for predicting the results of an election year, but since the liberal media touted such wins as a harbinger for the GOP apocalypse, let’s pop the champagne for the clutch win in Texas last night. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has to be happy. This special state Senate election saw a Republican win in a district that’s remained in Democratic hands for 139 years. The GOP wasn’t even supposed to be competitive in this race; they ended up winning it by 6 points. Oh, and Clinton carried this district in 2016 by 12 points. Needless to say, Democrats were a little shell-shocked (via San Antonio Express-News):
A retired game warden, [Pete] Flores defeated former state and U.S. Rep. Pete Gallego for the Senate District 19 seat after receiving backing from some of the state’s most prominent politicians, including Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, and U.S. Sens John Cornyn and Ted Cruz.
“We conservatives are conservative in the way we make approaches. The gunfight’s not over until the last shot’s fired,” Flores told the Express-News after Gallego conceded in a phone call just before 9 p.m. “The last shot’s been fired.”
According the Secretary of State’s website, Flores won with 53 percent of the vote to Gallego’s 47 percent with 44,487 ballots cast.
Flores and Gallego competed in Tuesday’s runoff after emerging from an eight-candidate field in first- and second-place, respectively, in July’s special election to replace former Sen. Carlos Uresti. The longtime lawmaker vacated his seat in June after being convicted of 11 felony charges.
(Read more from “Blue Wave Receding? TX GOP Wins Special Election in District Held by Democrats for 139 Years” HERE)
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A neighborhood in Texas has been consumed with mystery after a security camera recorded a barefoot woman wearing only a T-shirt and what appears to be wrist shackles frantically ringing the doorbell of a home in the early hours of the morning.
The incident, which occurred after 3 a.m. on Friday, was captured by a doorbell cam recently installed at a home in the Sunrise Ranch subdivision, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office. The unidentified woman, seeming somewhat panicked, appears suddenly out the bushes and rings the bell a few times before the seconds-long clip cuts out.
The home’s resident later reviewed the footage from a private security system and passed it along to authorities, who are now working to find and identify the woman, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Another homeowner in the area, who did not wish to be identified, said her doorbell rang at least 20 times Friday night, prompting her husband to make his way downstairs and to their front door. . .
Since authorities shared the footage — which was also published on the neighborhood’s Facebook page over the weekend — they’ve received numerous tips suggesting the woman could be a missing person in various cases, some of them as far away as Canada, Montgomery County Sheriff’s Lt. Scott Spencer told the Chronicle. (Read more from “Texas Police Search for Mystery Woman Recorded Ringing Doorbell in Only a T-Shirt and What Appears to Be Restraints” HERE)
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By The Daily Caller. . .Michelle Booker-Hicks was at a gas station in Dallas on Wednesday night when the attendant alerted her that a carjacker had begun to drive her car away, reported Dallas Morning News. She was able to jump into the back seat and after a brief altercation, she pulled a gun from her glove compartment.
The suspect, Ricky Wright, 36, was shot in the head and immediately crashed the vehicle into a utility pole. Wright was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
“I should have just emptied the whole clip but I didn’t. I didn’t. I just wanted to give him warning shot, that was it,” Booker said to KTVT-TV. “I’m not a killer or anything like that, but I do believe in defending what’s mine.”
(Read more from “Man Tries to Steal Car With Kids Inside — Then the Mom Shows up and Grabs Her Gun” HERE)
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‘I Had to Do What I Had to Do,’ Says Dallas Mom Who Shot Man Trying to Steal SUV With Kids Inside
By Dallas News. A woman shot a man in the head as he tried to steal her SUV with her two children inside Wednesday night, Dallas police say. . .
The mother was identified by KDFW-TV (Channel 4) as Michelle Booker-Hicks. She told the station she had recently gotten the gun to defend herself. . .
She said she told the man her children were in the back seat and to pull over but he didn’t listen, so she went to the glove compartment and grabbed the gun.
The suspect, 36-year-old Ricky Wright, was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening. He faces two counts of unlawful restraint and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.
The woman and her children, ages 2 and 4, were not injured, police said. (Read more from “‘I Had to Do What I Had to Do,’ Says Dallas Mom Who Shot Man Trying to Steal SUV With Kids Inside” HERE)
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First lady Melania Trump made an unannounced visit to a Texas facility Thursday to get a first-hand look at some of the migrant children sent there by the U.S. government after their families entered the country illegally.
The first lady’s stop at Upbring New Hope Children’s Center in McAllen came the morning after President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting the practice of separating these families. Trump had come under pressure to stop the practice, including from GOP allies and the first lady herself, following a public outcry sparked by widespread images of children held in fence-like structures.
The trip was intended to lend support to those children who remain separated from their parents, said Stephanie Grisham, the first lady’s spokeswoman.
“She wanted to see everything for herself,” Grisham said.
Accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, Mrs. Trump met with the executive director of the facility and other staff in a makeshift conference room where she was told the staff treated the 58 children housed there as if they were their own.
The first lady asked that the children be reunited with their families “as quickly as possible.”
The trip came together within the past 48 hours, Grisham said.
“She told her staff she wanted to go and we made that happen,” she said.
The president, speaking at a Cabinet meeting, said that his wife was “down at the border,’” and Grisham said the first lady had the full backing of her husband.
“She told him ‘I am headed down to Texas’ and he was supportive,” Grisham said.
Mrs. Trump, whose focus as first lady is on child well-being, appears to have been among those pushing her husband to act.
Grisham released a statement last weekend saying the first lady “hates” to see children separated from their families and “believes we need to be a country that follows all laws, but also a country that governs with heart.”
Hours before Trump used his executive order to halt family separations, a White House official let it be known that Mrs. Trump had been voicing her opinion to the president for some time, including that he needed to help families stay together.
Trump acknowledged Wednesday that the mother of his 12-year-old son, Barron, had been prodding him.
“My wife feels very strongly about it,” he told reporters after he signed the order.
The pair of statements from the first lady amounted to an unusual public intervention by Mrs. Trump into a policy debate. Her four former living predecessors, seemingly encouraged after Laura Bush authored a scathing opinion piece, followed with sharper commentary of their own condemning the family separations as shameful.
The last-minute trip to Texas marks the first public action by Mrs. Trump since she announced in May an initiative named “Be Best” to focus on the overall well-being of children and help teach them kindness. She had been expected to travel to promote the campaign but was sidelined a week after the announcement following surgery to treat a benign kidney condition. (For more from the author of “Melania Makes Surprise Trip to Texas, Visits Children Housed in Detention Facility” please click HERE)
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By The Blaze. A Texas billboard, which gained national attention for its message that directed liberals to keep on driving until they’ve left the state, will come down soon, according to USA Today.
“Liberals please continue on I-40 until you have left our GREAT STATE OF TEXAS,” the billboard says, as shown in a photo taken by Kyle Mccallie, who noticed the sign while driving to work. . .
“I was shocked that it traveled that fast,” [Randy] Burkett [of Burkett advertising] told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “I believe in free speech, but this country is divided enough as it is. I’ve spoken with the client, and he’s agreed that it should come down. We’ll be reimbursing him.” . . .
In protest, Roman Leal created a GoFundMe account on Tuesday to raise money for a billboard to counter the sign’s message to liberals:
We need a sign that represents the true, hospitable spirit of the great state of Texas. “Texas is for Everyone — Except Bigots” will go up on the Lamar digital billboard at I40 and Coulter. It will be visible to travelers and commuters driving along the interstate in Amarillo, giving us a chance to put our best boot forward. Meeting the campaign goal will keep the billboard up for 4 weeks. Any contributions exceeding the goal will be used to pay for a longer duration.
(Read more from “Billboard Directs Liberals to Keep Driving Until They Leave the State. It’s Coming Down Soon.” HERE)
Texas Billboard That Tells ‘Liberals’ to Keep Driving Will Come Down
By USA Today. A billboard in the Texas panhandle that gained national attention for its message urging “liberals” to keep driving until they leave the state will be coming down.
“Liberals please continue on I-40 until you have left our GREAT STATE OF TEXAS,” the sign reads, according to a photo taken by Kyle Mccallie.
That photo has been shared more than 10,000 times on Facebook.
Burkett Outdoor Advertising, the company that owns the sign, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that the sign would be taken down after all the attention, much of it negative.
“I was shocked that it traveled that fast,” Randy Burkett, the company’s owner, told the newspaper. “I believe in free speech, but this country is divided enough as it is. I’ve spoken with the client, and he’s agreed that it should come down. We’ll be reimbursing him.” (Read more from “Texas Billboard That Tells ‘Liberals’ to Keep Driving Will Come Down” HERE)
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By The Blaze. . .Christina Nichols answered a knock at her front door Tuesday when the teens took her off guard. . .
Two of them held Nichols back while a third aimed a gun at her husband. Nichols, who has been married for more than 50 years, told the TV station she was not prepared to live without her husband. That’s when her fighting instincts took over.
Nichols, who is in her 70s, stomped on the boy who was holding her and bent his thumbs back.
“He dragged me out into this hallway and then he gave me a big shove and I went down,” she told the TV station.
Nichols yelled out to her grandson, who was in another room. But the teens ran out of the home before he could get to them, according to the report. Police believe one of the the intruders may be as young as age 14. (Read more from “Grandmother Fights Back After Teens Force Their Way Into Her Home, Hold Husband at Gunpoint” HERE)
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Texas Grandmother Fights Back After Teens Storm Into Her Home
By CBS DFW. The DeSoto Police Department said on Thursday afternoon, “All three suspects have been identified and charges are being filed for the offense.” . . .
“That’s why I opened the door because all I saw was a young boy standing there,” said Nichols. “Who expects something like this from a young kids. I didn’t even see the other two. They must have been hiding somewhere out of sight.” . . .
“And the other kid grabbed me from behind like on my chin and the other hand went over my mouth,” she said.
The teens ran out of the house before her grandson could get to them.
Nichols has some scrapes and bruises and nothing from her home was stolen. (Read more from “Texas Grandmother Fights Back After Teens Storm Into Her Home” HERE)
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