• Rabies immunization costs Vietnamese $8mn in Jan-Mar

    “Rabies not only has a high mortality rate on humans, but also places a burden on the economy"

  • BMW Thinks Its High-End EVs Are Immune To Electric Downturn

    Firm expects top-end BMW and Rolls Royce EVs to contribute to growth even when its luxury rivals are seeing electric sales slow

  • Trump Attorneys Find 'Fatal Defect' in Court's Immunity Theory

    Donald Trump's legal team said it identified a "fatal defect" in the Washington, D.C., Court of Appeals ruling that rejected the former president's argument that he is protected from prosecution over conduct that occurred during his time in office.Trump's attorneys submitted a 52-page briefing to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ahead of the high court's ruling on the former president's push for absolute immunity as he faces criminal charges accusing him of unlawfully attempting to remain in...

  • Trump makes case for Supreme Court to grant him immunity from prosecution

    Donald Trump filed a brief to the Supreme Court Tuesday before it begins to hear his claim that he should be immune from criminal prosecution for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.His argument has already been dismissed by two courts. The High Court has agreed to hear his appeal starting April 25.While it was known Trump was appealing, the former president's legal argument contained in the brief is turning some heads already. After a quick...

  • Immuneering (NASDAQ:IMRX) Price Target Cut to $16.00

    Immuneering (NASDAQ:IMRX – Get Free Report) had its target price reduced by Chardan Capital from $21.00 to $16.00 in a research report issued to clients and investors on Friday, Benzinga reports. The brokerage presently has a “buy” rating on the stock. Several other research firms have also issued reports on IMRX. Jefferies Financial Group reissued […]

    • Time

    Germans Thought They Were Immune to Nationalism After Confronting Their Nazi Past. They Were Wrong

    Many Germans believed their country developed an immunity to nationalism after confronting the horrors of its Nazi past. They were wrong.

  • 'Worked so far': Legal experts flatten Trump's SCOTUS immunity argument

    In his Tuesday filing to the U.S. Supreme Court, Donald Trump continues to argue that without absolute immunity from criminal prosecution every president would be subject to bribery — if not fully hindered from making any decisions.And legal analysts continue to call the theory bunk. Taking to the internet after the filing from Trump's lawyers, former Justice Department senior prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said that in nearly 250 years, lack of immunity hasn't yet been a problem for a U.S....

  • Trump asks Supreme Court for 'absolute immunity' in election interference case

    WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday told the Supreme Court he should be granted absolute immunity for his effort to overturn the 2020 election results that culminated in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, saying a ruling against him would "incapacitate every future president." Trump's legal team filed a brief outlining its legal arguments ahead of oral arguments on April 25, saying Trump should enjoy absolute immunity for any official acts he undertook as president. "The...

  • Cross-species insights: Study finds calcium link in plant and animal immunity

    A new study provides insights into how a family of immune proteins in plants confers disease resistance. The study builds on previous research by the same research group, which highlighted the structural similarities of this protein family between plant and animal immune systems.

    • MSNBC

    Trump's Supreme Court immunity brief leans on Kavanaugh’s not remembering his own argument

    In his immunity brief to the Supreme Court, Donald Trump name-checks two articles by Brett Kavanaugh from before Trump appointed him to the high court. The citations were obviously meant to support the former president’s broad immunity claim. But a closer reading — beyond the quotes Trump's lawyers plucked from them — shows that Kavanaugh's words actually support the notion that former presidents can be prosecuted. The first Kavanaugh article cited in Trump's brief is titled “Separation of...

    • CNN

    Trump tells Supreme Court that rejecting immunity claim ‘would be the end of the presidency as we know it’

    Former President Donald Trump told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that future presidents could be vulnerable to “de facto blackmail and extortion while in office” if the justices did not accept his sweeping view of immunity against special counsel Jack Smith’s election subversion charges. However, the presumptive 2024 GOP White House nominee also floated an alternative route for the justices – if they were unwilling to accept his maximalist theory of presidential immunity – that would still help...

  • Trump tells SCOTUS it must give him immunity or presidents will face blackmail

    Former President Donald Trump's lawyers on Tuesday issued a blistering declaration to the Supreme Court about Trump's controversial assertion of sweeping immunity to criminal prosecution.In particular, Trump's legal team claimed that if the high court were to find that former presidents do not hold "absolute immunity for criminal prosecution for official acts" then future presidents could be effectively blackmailed."A denial of criminal immunity would incapacitate every future President with de...