The Daily Populous

Tuesday June 21st, 2022 day edition

image for Elon Musk's child seeks name change to sever ties with father

SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during a conversation with legendary game designer Todd Howard (not pictured) at the E3 gaming convention in Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 13, 2019.

June 20 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's transgender daughter has filed a request to change her name in accordance with her new gender identity and because "I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form.".

The petition for both a name change and a new birth certificate reflecting her new gender identity was filed with the Los Angeles County Superior Court in Santa Monica in April.

It came to light recently in some online media reports.

There was no further explanation of the rift between Musk's daughter and her father, the Tesla (TSLA.O) and SpaceX chief who is attempting a $44 billion takeover of social media platform Twitter (TWTR.N).

Neither a lawyer who represents Musk nor the Tesla media office immediately responded to Reuters emails requesting comment on Monday.

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Ted Cruz Heckled at Texas GOP Convention, Called 'Coward' in Viral Video

Authored by newsweek.com

Texas Senator Ted Cruz was confronted and called a coward and a globalist who doesn't love America while at the Texas GOP convention.

A video of the man confronting Cruz has now gone viral on Twitter and has been viewed over 430,000 times.

"Ted Cruz gets heckled and harassed by a right winger at Texas State GOP Convention, who calls him a coward and a globalist, asks him how he can like Trump after he called his wife ugly, then finished with Cancun," commentator Ron Filipkowski wrote as he shared the video on Twitter. »

Kremlin press secretary says Geneva Conventions would not apply to two Americans feared captured in Ukraine

Authored by cbsnews.com

Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov said Monday that the Geneva Conventions — a series of agreements on, among other things, international standards for the treatment of people captured during war — would not apply to the two Americans believed to have been captured by Russian or pro-Russian forces in Ukraine in recent weeks.

They were reportedly captured by Russian forces during fighting in eastern Ukraine in June 2022.

The U.S. State Department said last week that it's also looking into reports of a third American missing in Ukraine. »

Harvard Scientists Have Developed a Revolutionary New Treatment for Diabetes

Authored by scitechdaily.com
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University of Missouri scientists are partnering with Harvard and Georgia Tech to create a new diabetes treatment that involves transplanting insulin-producing pancreatic cells.

Scientists have also recently discovered a new treatment method that holds promise.

“Type 1 diabetes develops when the immune system misidentifies the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas as infections and destroys them. »

The Banality of Putin and Xi | Yaron Brook and Elan Journo

Authored by iai.tv

But surely the most consequential examples today are Xi Jinping and especially Vladimir Putin.

Trump has described the Ukraine invasion as "genius," later praising Putin for having "taken over a country for $2 worth of sanctions.".

This is a severe misreading, and the most obvious evidence can be seen in the battlefields of Ukraine. »