Trump celebrates 19-point Iowa lead in Coralville: Trump chose a stop in Coralville to talk about the latest poll showing that 51 percent of Iowa Republicans support him as their party’s presidential nominee, a month before the state’s caucuses. (News From the States).
Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal of city conversion therapy ban: A psychologist’s assertion that bans on conversion therapy infringe on the rights of private therapists will not be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, which turned down the appeal by a 6-3 vote. Read Central Illinois Proud’s story on the decision.
Synthetic alternatives may lessen toll on horseshoe crabs for vital medication research: After decades of the world’s horseshoe crab population suffering as the species’ blood is drawn for research on pivotal medications, new synthetic alternatives are finally being adopted by the corporations conducting the research and generating the medications, reports The Conversation.
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