The Daily Populous

One of the cruellest and most devastating diseases – Huntington's – has been successfully treated for the first time, say doctors.

The new treatment is a type of gene therapy given during 12 to 18 hours of delicate brain surgery.

None of the patients who have been treated are being identified, but one was medically retired and has returned to work. »

After far-right activist Charlie Kirk was killed on a college campus earlier this month, requests to start chapters of his conservative youth group, Turning Point, at colleges and high schools have surged, the organization has said.

Then, Turning Point will help the club get a teacher sponsor and official recognition, and send materials such as an “activism kit”.

“We will be putting TPUSA on every high school campus in Oklahoma,” Walter said in the press release. »

MIAMI (AP) — Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.

The Labor Department has also brought back some employees who took buyouts, while the National Park Service earlier reinstated a number of purged employees.

DOGE identified the agency, which had about 12,000 employees at the start of the Trump administration, as a chief target of its campaign to reduce fraud, waste and abuse in the federal government. »

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Twenty-three workers were rescued Wednesday after spending 43 hours trapped in a collapsed underground gold mine in northern Colombia.

A video released by the ANM shows the first rescued miners walking out under their own power, using a rope to climb the steep entrance to the shaft.

The miners’ families had been waiting for hours and celebrated their rescue with tears and applause. »