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Friday, April 17, 2026

Abbott: New data at AACR sets advancements in Cancerguard® Multi-Cancer Early Detection Test





Abbott (NYSE: ABT) reported AACR 2026 data showing its Cancerguard multi-cancer early detection test uses a multi-biomarker methylation-plus-protein approach to improve detection across stages. In a case-control study, signals were 47.1% methylation-only, 7.4% protein-only, 45.5% combined; false positives were 2.6% and none were positive for both markers. The AACR award noted DETECT-A multiyear outcomes with ~4-year median follow-up, where treated stage I–II patients remained alive and cancer-free.

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Sellas Sparks Retail Buzz Ahead of AACR Presentation On Experimental Cancer Therapy

Sellas is slated to announce preclinical data on its experimental cancer therapy SLS009 in a poster session at the conference which started on April 17 and is slated to go till April 22 at the San Diego Convention Center. 

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Judge rejects Bayer injunction to block J&J alleged false statements on prostate cancer drug

 A federal judge rejected Bayer's request for an injunction to block Johnson & Johnson's alleged false advertising that its multibillion-dollar drug cuts the risk of death from prostate cancer in half.

In a Friday night decision, U.S. District Judge Dale Ho in Manhattan said Bayer was unlikely to succeed on the merits of its claims, which included that Johnson & Johnson's campaign for its drug Erleada caused irreparable harm and threatened to erode trust in Bayer's own drug Nubeqa.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/us-judge-rejects-bayer-s-bid-to-block-johnson-johnson-prostate-cancer-drug-claims/ar-AA219K9M

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Green pushers should cheer oil supply disruptions and price increases, so why are they whining today?

 by Jack Hellner

In 1970, during a period of strong growth in oil use and gas-powered vehicles, the earth experienced a global cooling period. The doom and gloom crowd put out dire predictions, with the great help of the complicit media and others, saying billions would die from starvation because of a coming ice age.

Around 1980, the dire predictions switched on a dime, to disastrous “global warming.”

Since 1980, most of the media, educators, entertainers, other Democrats, and some naive Republicans have continually bombarded students and others with talking points that the earth and humans had only a few years left if we didn’t give up our use of oil, coal, and natural gas because of global warming—which shortly after that, changed to “climate change.”

They said the science was settled. Anyone who disagreed by truthfully saying the climate has always changed cyclically and naturally was falsely labeled a climate change denier and anti-science. Scientists mostly went along because they knew that it was the only way they could get money—lots of money.

The UN had annual gabfests where billionaires and other green pushers flew in on their private jets telling others, including poor, underdeveloped countries to stop using oil. You see, these rich people were special. They really cared. After all, sometimes they would pay to plant trees or buy worthless pieces of paper called carbon credits to pretend they reduced the carbon footprint of their jets, mansions, and yachts.

As a result of these dire warnings:

No new significant refineries have been built in the U.S. since the 1970s while 123 have been closed since 1982, going from 254 to 131 today.

More than 30 refineries have been closed in Europe since 2009. Since 1980, refining capacity in Europe has declined by 8 million barrels per day, or down by a third. The last major refinery in Europe was built in 1975.

Great Britain has banned new drilling in the North Sea.

Joe Biden campaigned on stopping the use of oil, natural gas, and coal (what are described as fossil fuels) by 2050, with the non-attainable zero emission goal. As soon as he took office he signed executive orders to strictly regulate oil and to block pipelines. The media, other democrats and green pushers cheered these actions. The price of crude oil and gasoline took off as soon as Biden was elected yet somehow, there were not daily complaints in the media about how harmful these actions were to consumers and overall inflation.

The high prices for oil greatly helped Iran and Russia finance wars and terrorism.

But now, as we finally have a president who is trying to destroy Iran, which everyone used to say was dangerous, and the price has gone up some and suppliers are temporarily limiting supply, many of these green pushers are whining like stuffed pigs. They do nothing to help open the supply route and they want to help Iran survive. Here’s what Fatih Birol, head of a world energy organization, had to say, via RedState:

‘In Europe, we have maybe six weeks or so (of) jet fuel left,’ he said. ‘If we are not able to open the Strait of Hormuz ... I can tell you soon we will hear the news that some of the flights from city A to city B might be canceled as a result of lack of jet fuel.’

…

The impact will be ‘higher petrol (gasoline) prices, higher gas prices, high electricity prices,’ said Birol, speaking in his Paris office looking out over the Eiffel Tower.

It is a true joke when Kamala, Newsom, and others all of a sudden complain about high gas prices after their policies intentionally limited supplies and raised prices.

Thankfully, we have a president who understands the dangers of Iran, the importance of reasonably priced and abundant energy and that the green policies were always a scam to transfer massive amounts of money to green pushers and to embed more government control over the people.

There has never been one piece of scientific data that shows a direct link between the amount of oil we use, the number of vehicles on the road, or the number of cows and temperatures, sea levels, floods, droughts, or storms. And, if there is no correlation, there is no causation. That is science!

The media is also reporting that Spirit Airlines is collapsing and blaming the spike in jet fuel prices over the last couple of months because of Trump. The fact is Spirit has been in trouble for years, twice filing bankruptcy. Sadly, the Biden administration was so incompetent and economically illiterate that they blocked a merger with Jet Blue because they thought it might raise prices and reduce competition. From an article at AP in 2024:

The prospect of a JetBlue-Spirit Airlines merger took a major hit in court on Tuesday when a federal judge sided with the Biden administration and blocked the $3.8 billion deal.

The judge ruled that JetBlue’s purchase of Spirit, the nation’s largest low-cost airline, would harm competition — and increase prices for air travelers as a result. Meanwhile, JetBlue has maintained that it needs such a deal to compete with industry rivals.

So, now many small airports will have no airline because of the Biden administration?

When will the people be told the truth instead of always having the media campaign for Democrats and peddle their radical agenda? Who knows? That would take an intellectually honest media, and we are far from having that.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/04/the_green_pushers_should_be_cheering_oil_supply_disruptions_and_price_increases_so_why_are_so_many_whining_today.html

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Carville tells Democrats to keep it quiet on their plan to seize permanent power

 by Monica Showalter

There's a reason why Democrats have been so persistently enflamed by Fidel Castro and his failed communist regime in Cuba.

It's a one-party state. And its rule is permanent. The island has been ruled continuously on this model for 66 years.

Wittingly or not, they are now advocating for the same model to be imposed on the United States of America.

Top political operative James Carville, who has organized many successful elections, is saying the quiet part out loud, according to legal affairs commentator Jonathan Turley:

Various Democrats have been openly discussing their plans after retaking power to change the system so they never lose power again.
 
Democratic strategist James Carville has been one of the most vocal and returned to the subject this week in laying out how they will make D.C. and Puerto Rico states and pack the Supreme Court with a liberal majority.
 
On his podcast with Al Hunt, Carville explained, “If the Democrats win the presidency and both houses of Congress, I think on day one, they should make Puerto Rico [and] D.C. a state, and they should expand the Supreme Court to 13. F— it. Eat our dust.”
 
Notably, this week, New Jersey just elected a radical new member, Analilia Mejia, who ran on packing the Court and other radical agenda items.
 
While some of us have written about the expansion of the Court, these politicians and pundits are pushing for the packing, not just gradual expanding, of the Court. However, Carville (curiously on a national podcast) seriously suggested that Democrats should keep the plan quiet: “Don’t run on it. Don’t talk about it. Just do it.”

What they want is to deceive Americans into voting for them on the Abigail Spanberger model, and then let them have it, good and hard, once they ensconce themselves into power, securing their power and ending any consideration of free market ideas.

Inclusion? Not this time. Diversity? Not of ideas. Equity? Only in poverty.

And it would be a grotesque regime such as Fidel Castro ran, that of a small billionaire class required to be party-loyal or die, and a vast populace with neither money, nor power, nor even a right to associate around ideas. Spies would be omnipresent. There would be only fist-waving for the party glory, and the mass penury that speaks for itself. Corruption would be embedded within the system. The rich would be harvested by the state to nothing. The young and strong would flee. But unlike Cuba, there would be no state to flee to.

We already see a lot of that in one-party states such as California and Minnesota, where fraud is embedded in the system. and a kakistocracy rises to the top. Think: 'Swalwell,' 'Newsom,' 'Schiff,' 'Katie Porter,' 'Rob Bonta,' 'Tim Walz,' 'Keith Ellison,' 'J.B. Pritzker,' 'Kathy Hochul,' 'Zohran Mamdani.'

How did such repulsive, unfit, morally depraved people rise to high and in such copious numbers? It's the one-party state which rewards crapulence, which favors the unfit.

Now Carville wants that model taken nationally. Democrats know they can't win elections based on ideas. So they focus on rigging, taking on permanent power so they no longer need to be held accountable.

It's as far from representative democracy as it's possible to get. But they will stop at nothing, and the grotesque thing is, connected people like Carville are quite convinced that the election is in the bag for them.

According to the Daily Beast:

A veteran political strategist thinks the midterms will be a nightmare for President Donald Trump.

James Carville, the 81-year-old former consultant for Bill Clinton, said the numbers show that Republicans will get “slaughtered” in November while Democrats will take both the House and the Senate “with ease.

In an interview on The Daily Beast Podcast, Carville said Democrats’ double-digit overperformances in special elections and Trump’s flailing approval rating point to a potential 55-seat majority for Democrats in the Senate, where margins are already razor-thin.

The White House had an appropriate response, stated at the bottom of the piece:

 
“James Carville is a stone-cold loser who clearly suffers from a severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain,” spokesperson Davis Ingle said in a statement to the Daily Beast on Friday.

But the fact remains, his argument was supportable, based on recent special election wins.

Which tells us Democrats will be ruthless if they retake power in November. Every member of the electorate should be made aware of this. Shout it from the rooftops if necessary. The head of the Democrat snake is out and it's the Havana Model. That is ugly.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/04/carville_tells_democrats_to_keep_it_quiet_on_their_plan_to_seize_permanent_power.html

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Former Axios reporter says the outlet ignored her story about Swalwell

 by Andrea Widburg

One of the problems in today’s political world is that it’s very difficult to rely on what media outlets churn out. To their credit, few affirmatively lie, although it’s always possible to make mistakes. However, many of them fail to report on newsworthy stories if those stories might harm their preferred candidate or issue. You can call it a lie by omission.

With Eric Swalwell having been swept off the political playing board, it’s coming out that—just as with Joe Biden’s dementia—everyone in the Democrat world knew what was going on. However, they kept quiet because it was politically expedient. Most recently, a former reporter for Axios, one of the new “trust us” media outlets, seemingly admits that she brought the story to Axios, which conveniently ignored it.

In 2016, Jim VandeHei, Michael Allen, and Roy Schwartz founded Axios. Although there’s little online about Schwartz, both Vandehei and Allen were previously affiliated with the left-leaning Politico. Vandehei was Politico’s former executive editor and co-founder, while Allen was a former chief political reporter for Politico. Before Politico, Vandehei wrote for The Washington Post, while Allen wrote for The New York Times. Neither is likely to be politically conservative.

Axios was designed to let people see stories at a glance, with bullet-point paragraphs that spell out the key points of the story. Its articles are short, punchy, and ostensibly very factual. It once used the tagline, “Smart, efficient news worthy of your time, attention, and trust.” (Emphasis mine.)

Its “vision” page continues that theme:

We're in a post-news era. America’s information ecosystem is badly broken, deeply polluted and increasingly dangerous. 

Too many people are lost. They don’t know what or who to trust, what actually matters — or what’s even real. Confusion, anxiety and mistrust are soaring. AI will make this worse before it gets better.


Why it matters: Axios is hellbent on being part of the solution.

What traditional news media companies can do is be useful, trusted, illuminating sources of vital information that’s vetted by experts held to high standards of accuracy and truthfulness. That calling is more important than ever. 

  • That’s what Axios aspires to every day. We’re imperfect — but proud of how we’ve helped millions get smarter, faster on what matters most. And proud we did this without an opinion page pumping out more partisan noise.  


Thank you for caring about truth & reality.

And on its “ethics” page, it assures people:

Axios strives to be worthy of our audience’s trust. Our duty is to report news fairly using journalism’s best practices and to always be transparent in what we do.

We take our audience’s trust very seriously in everything we do. All of our journalists pledge to follow our Code of Ethics, part of which we share below.

Truth. Trust. Facts. It’s all there at Axios. But is it really?

Recently, Bethany Allen, a former Axios and Foreign Policy reporter, attacked Fox, Breitbart, and Newsmax for not digging up the Swalwell story:

Yes, it certainly would have been nice if they’d done so. Having said that, it seems that Swalwell’s propensities were well known in Democrat circles, and might not have been leaked out to conservatives. As we learned during the #MeToo movement, leftists tend to talk only when it’s time to un-person something. Other than that, everybody knows, but nobody says anything.

In other words, this should have been a story that an enterprising, trustworthy, fact-oriented left-leaning outlet broke. And that’s where another Bethany Allen tweet comes in.

In a back-and-forth with Stephen L. Miller, Bethany stated that she brought news about Swalwell’s sexual escapades to her employer, only for the publication to bury it:

The way Stephen L. Miller frames this, her employer at the time seems to have been Axios:

So far as I can tell—and I stand ready to be corrected—no one has rebutted Miller’s statement that it was Axios that buried the story.

If my understanding of this thread is correct (and I think it is), everybody (on the left) knew about Swalwell’s offensive behavior. And nobody on the left, including the leftist media, wanted the American public to know.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/04/a_former_axios_reporter_says_the_outlet_ignored_her_story_about_swalwell.html

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The Latest On The Redistricting Battles

 by Jackson Richman & Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Despite the midterm season underway, the lines of congressional maps have not been finalized as redistricting battles continue nationwide.

Since Texas’s opening salvo, lawmakers in both parties from Florida to California have pushed for partisan redistricting in their states as a high-stakes midterm election season approaches.

Here is the latest on states redrawing their congressional maps.

Virginia

The Democratic-led General Assembly passed in February a new U.S. House map that will only go into effect if voters approve a referendum to allow the state to do mid-decade redistricting.

The state Supreme Court has yet to rule whether the effort is valid, but said the vote on the constitutional amendment can proceed. Before the court is an appeal of a county judge’s ruling that the amendment is illegal because lawmakers violated their own rules while passing it.

Florida

Gov. Ron DeSantis has called a special legislative session to begin Monday on redrawing the state’s congressional map. Republicans haven’t yet publicized what the lines would look like. However, the state constitution states that redistricting cannot favor or disfavor a political party or incumbent.

Texas

The Lone Star State last year added five congressional districts that favor Republicans after Trump urged the state to redistrict and after the Department of Justice suggested that several districts in the state unconstitutionally grouped minorities to make a majority. The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the new map.

California

Voters in November approved a referendum that circumvents an independent commission by adding five congressional districts that favor Democrats.

The U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal from Republicans, who claimed that the map favors Hispanics. The high court said the map could be used in this year’s election.

Missouri

Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe signed a revised House district map into law last September, a move that could give Republicans an additional seat.

A county judge ruled that the new map will remain in effect while election officials review whether a referendum petition meets constitutional requirements and includes enough valid signatures for a statewide vote.

The Missouri Supreme Court has already dismissed a lawsuit arguing that mid-decade redistricting is unlawful. The court is set to hear arguments in May over claims that the new districts fail to meet compactness standards and should be paused pending a possible referendum.

Ohio

A bipartisan panel, largely made up of Republicans, voted in October to approve a revised House map that could boost the party’s chances of gaining two additional seats. The redraw was required under the state constitution ahead of the 2026 election after Republicans enacted the previous map without enough Democratic backing following the last census.

North Carolina

The Republican-controlled General Assembly gave final approval in October to revised district lines that could help the party gain an additional seat. In November, a federal court panel declined to block the new map from being used in the midterm elections.

Utah

A judge in November ordered new House district boundaries that could give Democrats an opportunity to pick up a seat. The court found that lawmakers had sidestepped voter-approved anti-gerrymandering rules when drawing the previous map. In February, both a federal court panel and the state Supreme Court rejected Republican challenges to the court-imposed districts.

Maryland

While Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, has pushed the state legislature to redistrict the state’s single Republican seat, the push has so far failed to gain steam.

On April 13, the state legislature’s session ended without the passage of a bill to redistrict Maryland’s congressional map despite Moore’s encouragement. The state House had passed the bill, but it stalled in the state Senate.

New York

Though New York Gov. Kathy Hochul had pushed for the state to redraw its congressional boundaries, any such change has been blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court.

In March, the Supreme Court overturned a lower court order that had called on the state legislature to redraw Rep. Nicole Malliotakis’s (R-N.Y.) 11th congressional district seat.

Indiana

The Indiana legislature failed to pass redistricting legislation. The measure failed in December 2025 after 21 state Senate Republicans joined all 10 Democrats in the chamber to defeat the measure in a 31–19 vote.

It means the previous maps will remain in place for the upcoming elections.

Kansas

Though some Republicans in the GOP-dominated Kansas state legislature had pushed for the state to redraw its single Democrat-held seat, the push failed in late 2025 due to opposition from Gov. Laura Kelly.

Kelly vowed to veto any mid-decade map.

Illinois

While Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker indicated that the state was musing on redrawing maps to further favor Democrats, no push to that end has gained momentum. This year, Illinois is expected to use the same congressional maps it did in 2024.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/latest-redistricting-battles

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