Scientists in China have genetically engineered mice with two male parents.

The mice were created using manipulated embryonic stem cells.

According to a Reuters report, the mice had “significant developmental abnormalities,” but some lived until adulthood.

Reuters reports:

In the new study, mice were created through genetic editing of mouse embryonic stem cells targeting a class of mammal-specific genes known as imprinted genes, of which there are about 200, the researchers said.

Stem cells are cells that can develop into various bodily tissues. Embryonic stem cells, present in early-stage embryos, have the capability of developing into all the cell types of the developing fetus. Most kinds of stem cells are less versatile and may help to sustain and restore only the tissues and organs in which they are situated.

The researchers said they modified 20 of the imprinting genes and used cloning technology in order to create the bipaternal mice.

“Generally speaking, imprinted genes have been thought to serve as a ‘lock’ preventing mammals from undergoing unisexual reproduction. However, this widely accepted hypothesis had not been conclusively proven before,” developmental biologist Wei Li of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who helped lead the study, told the outlet.

Li claimed that the study was only focused on animals and that there are “no plans” to try to do it with humans.

“This is a fundamental science study focused on animal models. There are no plans to extend this type of experimentation to humans,” Li said.

For the study, the scientists created 1,081 embryos, and 12 percent of them survived until birth—84 males and 50 females. Over half of them died before becoming fully grown.

“Those reaching adulthood all had developmental defects, experienced a shortened lifespan and were sterile,” the report said.

“The bipaternal mice exhibited developmental disorders, including craniofacial deformities, where their facial width-to-length ratio was broader compared to normal mice. They also had difficulty suckling,” developmental biologist and study co-author Guan-Zheng Luo of Sun Yat-sen University said.

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President Trump has a straightforward message to federal employees who refuse to show up for in-person work: “You’re fired.”

As The Gateway Pundit reported on Tuesday, Trump offered buyouts to millions of federal workers if they resign by February 6. The workers who accept Trump’s offer will receive pay and benefits through September 30.

DOGE leader and X owner Elon Musk has pointed out this is a fair and generous deal, especially compared to what happens when private sector workers get canned.

It’s important to note that Trump’s offer does not include postal workers, military personnel, immigration officials, or people in national security roles.

But now, the 47th President is raising the stakes for those who refuse his incredibly generous offer. A short time ago, Trump addressed the media regarding this issue during a press conference, during which he signed the Laken Riley Act into law.

He started by reminding federal employees of their obligation to the American people and pointed out how inefficient public workers are without supervision.

“We have informed the federal workforce that if they are working for the federal government, they must show up to the office on time and on schedule,” Trump began. “We don’t want them to work from home because most of the time they’re not working, they’re not very productive.”

Trump then informed federal workers of the dire consequences if they defied him.

“As federal employees, they must meet a high standard,” he continued. “If they don’t agree by February 6 to show up back to work in their office, they will be terminated.”

WATCH:

PRESIDENT TRUMP: “We have informed the federal workforce that if they are working for the federal government, they must show up to the office on time and on schedule… If they don’t agree by February 6 to show up back to work in their office, they will be terminated.” pic.twitter.com/Kvu9ghYpvn

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 29, 2025

As Trump has proven several times in just over a week, he is a man of his word and will stop at nothing to keep the promises he made to America during his presidential campaign.

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Former Democrat Senator Bob Menendez, 71, sobbed in court as he was sentenced to 11 years in prison for bribery and corruption.

Prosecutors asked SDNY Judge Sidney Stein to sentence Menendez to 15 years in prison.

Bob Menendez’s lawyers initially asked for a 2-year sentence, however, after they changed it to 8 years after the judge sentenced the former lawmaker’s co-conspirators to 7 years and 8 years respectively.

#breaking: Bob Menendez now asking for EIGHT year sentence, up from the two years (or less) he asked for in writing – his lawyer Adam Fee says this is based on what happened this morning, 8 years on Daibes, 97 months on Hana. Inner City Press live tweeting below https://t.co/afqeWqUBAb

— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) January 29, 2025

Menendez sobbed as he begged Judge Stein to have mercy on him.

Menendez: I was consumed by my service, I neglected my two children [sobs] Let me give you examples… bone marrow transplant, from a sister who was a native of El Salvador-
Judge Stein: You got her a visa
Menendez: She was denied twice. I intervened, yes

— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) January 29, 2025

Judge Stein eviscerated Bob Menendez and called him a corrupt politician.

Judge Stein: Almost half a million dollars in your house, cash stuffed in shoes, gold bars… Hubris, you’ll have to figure it out yourself. General deterrence is important. The sentence I intend to impose is 11 years

— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) January 29, 2025

The judge sentenced Menendez to 11 years!! This is pretty much a life sentence for 71-year-old Menendez.

The judge did not impose a fine on Menendez.

Menendez’s co-conspirators were sentenced to prison on Wednesday. Wael Hana was sentenced to 8 years and Fred Daibes was sentenced to 7 years.

Bob Menendez just arrived at Manhattan Federal Courthouse.

—Prosecutors are asking for a 15 years in prison.

Wael Hana sentenced to 8 years.

Fred Daibes sentenced to 7 years.
Both bribed Menendez and wife with cash and gold. @News12NJ pic.twitter.com/7aMqLAX4sE

— Chris Keating (@ChrisKeatingNJ) January 29, 2025

Menendez resigned on August 20 after then-Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other powerful Democrats pressured him to step down following his conviction.

New Jersey’s Democrat Governor Phil Murphy appointed his former Chief of Staff George Helmy to temporarily replace Menendez for the remainder of the term. In November Democrat Andy Kim won the senate election to serve with Cory Booker.

“While I fully intend to appeal the jury’s verdict, all the way and including to the Supreme Court, I do not want the Senate to be involved in a lengthy process that will detract from its important work,” Menendez wrote in his resignation letter to New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy.

“Furthermore, I cannot preserve my rights upon a successful appeal, because factual matters before the ethics committee are not privileged,” Menendez wrote.

“I am proud of the many accomplishments I’ve had on behalf of New Jersey, such as leading the federal effort for Superstorm Sandy recovery, preserving and funding Gateway and leading the federal efforts to help save our hospitals, State and municipalities, as well as New Jersey families through a once in a century COVID pandemic,” Menendez wrote.

Last summer convicted Senator Bob Menendez on all bribery and corruption charges.

The jury returned the verdict following a 9-week trial. Menendez did not testify.

In October 2023 Bob Menendez was charged with acting as a foreign agent in a superseding indictment.

The indictment filed by a federal grand jury in Manhattan claims Menendez “provided sensitive U.S. Government information and took other steps that secretly aided the Government of Egypt.”

Menendez was previously hit with a second superseding indictment for praising Qatar in exchange for luxury watches.

Bob Menendez and his wife Nadine Menendez were charged with obstruction of justice in an 18-count indictment.

Special agents discovered $500,000 of cash stuffed into envelopes in closets. “Some of the cash was stuffed in the Senator’s jacket pockets. Menendez’s wife Nadine Menendez was given a “no-show” or “low-show” job, a Mercedes Benz and other things of value, US Attorney Damian Williams said last year.

“This case has always been about shocking levels of corruption, hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in the form of cash, gold bars, a Mercedes Benz. This wasn’t politics as usual, this was politics for profit. And now that a jury has convicted Bob Menendez, his years of selling his office to the highest bidder have finally come to an end,” US Attorney Damian Williams said outside the courthouse in Manhattan last year.

Nadine Menendez is set to be sentenced in March.

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In the 2024 Election, President Donald Trump garnered 16% of the Black vote, double the amount from the 2020 (8%).  In a new poll published earlier this week by AtlastIntel from January 21-23rd, 69% of Black voters so far approve of President Trump’s performance.

President Trump has come out the gate with “shock and awe,” signing a plethora of Executive Orders and taking action against the immigration crisis that is wearing down major metropolitan areas and testing the limits of their constituents, especially minority citizens.

In his first term, President Trump championed the Black community by signing long-term funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), securing them $255 million in annual, permanent funding and forgiving $322 million in disaster loans for a handful of schools.

He signed the First Steps Act, which reduced mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenses and granting credits for good behavior.  Almost 90% of those impacted by this law were Black.

President Trump also created Opportunity Zones, bringing in billions of dollars in private investment to help ignite economic growth in many minority communities.  He brought Black unemployment to an all-time low, advocated for school choice programs, and established a $1 billion fund for minority-owned businesses though the Commerce Department.

But the high approval rating, the doubling of vote share among Blacks, and the promise to be a President for all American citizens didn’t dissuade the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts from going full-blown political with a race-baiting billboard depicting John Lewis and protesters being confronted by Alabama State Troopers in the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” march.

According to 1819News.com:

Billboards apparently sponsored by the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts have popped up in the Montgomery area, featuring President Donald Trump’s popular “Make America Great Again” slogan pasted over a picture of the infamous Bloody Sunday in Selma.

The photo appeared on at least one billboard observed by 1819 News, but other reports state identical billboards are scattered throughout the county; all featuring the name of the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) pasted at the bottom.

On March 7, 1965, approximately 600 civil rights activists set out to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in protest of racial discrimination in voting.  They were attacked by the Alabama State Troopers, some on horseback, using tear gas and billy clubs.  The protest led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.  By a percentage, more Republicans supported the bill than Democrats.

The billboard hosting the race-baiting ad is owned by Lamar Advertising, which is also listed as a “Sustaining Guarantor,” meaning they donate at least $25,000.

According to the museum’s 2023 Annual Report, the most recent one published, the City and County of Montgomery fund the museum with $3.182 million dollars, approximately 69% of its annual revenue.  The museum received $437,014 from “Federal, State, and Local Grants” as well.

Selma ‘Bloody Sunday’ scene with ‘Make America Great Again’ inscribed featured on Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts billboards
By @CraigMonger1819 https://t.co/NxlGJDimqx

— 1819 News (@1819News) January 28, 2025

It’s all they have. Democrats will keep racism alive forever, unless we stop them.

Vote against racism, vote against Democrats.

https://t.co/4BAW8F2s5X

— NoMorningJoeFan (@MorningJoeFan) January 29, 2025

On the left – Democrats; on the right – Republicans. I can accept this billboard as accurate. https://t.co/2k3FFV24El

— @ChampionHill (@BakerCreek63) January 29, 2025

JUST LAUNCHED: Our #TeamUnity billboard featuring President @realDonaldTrump, @JDVance, @RobertKennedyJr, @TulsiGabbard, @ElonMusk, and @VivekGRamaswamy who are all committed to restoring the American Dream!

Together, we will SAVE AMERICA! pic.twitter.com/QonwfkJ5Ef

— Republican Party of Arizona (@AZGOP) September 19, 2024

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President Donald Trump has announced that he is going to sign an executive order for the Department of Defense and Homeland Security to send illegal aliens to a detention center in Guantanamo Bay.

The facility will be able to hold up to 30,000 people who are in the United States illegally.

Trump said that the detention center will be used to house the “worst of the worst.”

“We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people,” Trump said.

#BREAKING: President Trump is ordering the Defense Department to prepare 30,000 beds in Guantanamo Bay for illegals

It’ll house the “WORST OF THE WORST” — illegals from countries Trump does NOT trust to keep the illegals in custody.

This is HUGE. pic.twitter.com/NdhbEMYU3p

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 29, 2025

The president continued, “Some of them are so bad we don’t even trust the countries to hold them because we don’t want them coming back; so, we’re going to send them out to Guantanamo.”

Trump explained that the order will take us “one step closer to eradicating the scourge of migrant crime in our communities once and for all.”

Trump announced the bill just before he signed the Laken Riley Act into law.

The Trump administration has issued a quota of 1,800 arrests per day by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) nationwide.

According to a report from the New York Post, the agency’s 25 offices must make at least 75 arrests each day to meet the quota.

Trump Admin Gives ICE an Arrest Quota of 1,800 Illegal Aliens Per Day Nationwide

Since President Trump took office less than 10 days ago, ICE has made approximately 4,500 arrests.

Speaking to CNN on Tuesday, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller explained that the quota is a "floor, not a ceiling."

“So first of all, the numbers you cited are a floor, not a ceiling. Very importantly, they’re a floor. The goal is to arrest at least that many, but hopefully many more,” Miller said.

Stephen Miller: ICE arrest quotas are "floor, not a ceiling"
Watch the full video here: https://t.co/nmTeJ5sucW pic.twitter.com/VGBiJ56uHc

— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) January 29, 2025

The Washington Post reports:

An ICE official who was not authorized to discuss the quota said the agency’s list of criminal suspects was sufficiently long, so officers would be able to continue prioritizing public safety and national security threats to meet quotas.

Last year, ICE told lawmakers there were about 670,000 immigrants on its caseload who had criminal convictions or faced criminal charges. Some are serving sentences in jails and prisons.

Appearing on ABC’s "This Week," border czar Tom Homan said the number of deportations will steadily increase.

"The aperture right now is constrained to public safety threats, national security threats as a smaller population," Homan said. "We're going to do the same priority base as President Trump's promise. But as that aperture opens, there'll be more arrests nationwide."

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