Good news on health, seabirds, discovery (glowing trees!)
Among the dozens of items in the subscriber section of this week’s Fix the News:
— Treating leukemia in children has meant extended chemotherapy, with side effects that can last a lifetime, says Fix the News. But in what’s being described as one of the most significant advances in pediatric oncology in decades, a drug called blinatumomab connects cancer cells to immune cells so the patient's own body destroys the cancer.
— As the only global treaty focused exclusively on migratory species, the Convention on Migratory Species has a vital role in turning international commitments into action, supporting governments to protect species, restore habitats and maintain the ecological connections that migratory species depend on.
And at its meeting in Brazil at the end of March, there were major breakthroughs, including the formal recognition of marine flyways as a new inter-governmental framework to safeguard seabirds, BirdLife International reports.
— For more than 70 years, scientists have suspected that treetops glow during thunderstorms. Now Penn State researchers have documented it. Check out the pictures!
Also in the news
EU approves $106 billion loan package to help Ukraine after Hungary lifts its veto
Millions of Americans now also may be considered Canadian under new Canada law
AP live: Israel, Lebanon extend ceasefire, Trump issues ‘shoot and kill’ order in Strait
Amnesty International, dozens of U.S. civil and human rights groups issue World Cup travel advisory for the U.S.
’The Pentagon is trying to silence me,’ says Stars and Stripes ombudsman Jacqueline Smith
NYTimes: Justice Department targets hundreds of citizens in new push for denaturalization
Trump threats against Iran are a boon for prediction markets, including some backed by his oldest son
U.S. soldier charged with using classified intelligence to win $400,000 Polymarket bet on Maduro raid
White House easing mandatory requirements for preserving presidential records
Trump FCC seeks comment on whether to flag shows with trans or non-binary ‘programming’
Senate GOP releases new proposal to extend Section 702 of FISA for 3 years without a warrant requirement
Trump directs Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to be coated in a swimming pool surface colored 'American flag blue’
Civil rights groups condemn Southern Poverty Law Center indictment and prepare for legal fights
ProPublica: Unfounded health concerns are powering backlash against large solar developments
Heather Cox Richardson on the firings of Navy Secretary Phelan, Stars and Stripes ombudsman Smith, more
Robert Reich: 'The worst neo robber baron of them all’ is Jeff Bezos … 'you might share this post and boycott Amazon’
Trump reclassifies state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug, in historic shift
FDA approves first gene therapy for genetic hearing loss — and drugmaker says it will be free to U.S. patients
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