WASHINGTON
Cancer panel issues report
A new report outlines a scientific road map for the White House’s cancer “moonshot” initiative — urging research to harness the power of immune-based therapy, and to better tailor treatment by helping more patients get their tumors genetically profiled. Also on the list of recommendations issued Wednesday: Learning what drives childhood cancer, finding ways to minimize the side effects of treatment, and making better use of some proven anti-cancer strategies. The recommendations mark “a bold but feasible scientific proposal,” said Dr. Doug Lowy, acting director of the National Cancer Institute, who will send the panel’s report to Vice President Joe Biden’s cancer moonshot task force.
MANDAN, N.D.
Warrant for Jill Stein’s arrest
A North Dakota judge issued a warrant Wednesday for the arrest of Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, who is accused of spray-painting construction equipment during a protest against the Dakota Access pipeline. Court records show Stein was charged Wednesday in Morton County with misdemeanor counts of criminal trespass and criminal mischief. The same charges have been filed against her running mate, Ajamu Baraka. Activists invited Stein to leave a message at the protest site near the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s reservation on Tuesday, said Stein campaign spokeswoman Meleiza Figueroa, and Stein sprayed “I approve this message” in red paint on the blade of a bulldozer. A court document shows Baraka painted “decolonization” on a piece of construction equipment.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.
Mother confesses to slaying
Authorities say a woman confessed to killing her blind and autistic son, telling investigators she tried to abandon the severely disabled 19-year-old to the care of God before leading him into a field where he eventually died and where she was found lying half-naked nearby. Prosecutors in southwestern Missouri’s Polk County charged Kimberly Lightwine, 42, on Saturday with second-degree murder in Austin Anderson’s death; information about the case wasn’t released until Tuesday. Lightwine, whose bond was set at $250,000, also is charged with elder abuse, a crime that also pertains to acts against disabled adults. Investigators believe Anderson may have died of dehydration and the lack of hydrocortisone for an adrenal gland issue.
Compiled from wire reports.
