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‘No credibility’: Obama’s top Iran negotiator torched by State Department after ripping Trump war plan
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As the leader of President Barack Obama’s negotiating team on the nuclear agreement with Iran, Wendy Sherman launched a no-holds-barred attack on President Donald Trump’s Iran strategy over the weekend.
Sherman, who served as undersecretary of state for political affairs during the Obama administration and as deputy secretary of state under President Joe Biden, took aim at Trump’s Iran policy in recent interviews.
Sherman’s assault on the Trump administration’s war strategy in a Bloomberg News interview raised eyebrows because it comes at a time when the administration is inflicting enormous economic pressure on Tehran’s rulers via the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
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Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman answers a question from a reporter at the State Department in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 18, 2021. (Andrew Harnik/Pool via Reuters)
Having played a key role in sealing the widely criticized 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, which Trump withdrew from in 2018, she slammed Trump’s Iran plan in the Bloomberg interview. «He doesn’t have a strategy. He’s very tactical [and] very transactional — as he was as a developer. In this case, I don’t think that approach will work.»
She added, «He has cost our alliances, American taxpayers, 13 American lives, our inventory of weapons, our ability to project power abroad.»
In response to her controversial comments, State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott strongly pushed back, telling Fox News Digital, «She was literally part of the team that handed the Iranian regime billions of dollars and a roadmap to a nuclear weapon. She has no credibility. The facts: Under the previous administration, wars broke out, and our enemies grew stronger. Under President Trump, historic peace deals have been signed — including an unprecedented peace plan for Gaza — and the Iranian regime will never obtain a nuclear weapon.»
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Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, who just dropped his Democratic Party membership by registering as a Republican, told Fox News Digital: «She is the primary villain of the deal that gave Iran a nuclear bomb. She has no credibility. If Iran develops a bomb, it should put her name on it.»
Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, Secretary of State John Kerry and Undersecretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, second from right, at a hotel in Vienna, Austria, on June 28, 2015. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
Adding to the growing anti-Israel sentiment among Democrats, Sherman also attacked Israel in the interview. She said, without giving any evidence, «I also believe that Prime Minister [Benjamin Netanyahu] has led us down a road — and we have been part of it — that has, in essence, created a genocide in Gaza that has destabilized the Middle East.»
When asked about Sherman’s criticism of Israel, Dershowitz said, «She is a bigot and anti-Israel. She sees everything through the lens of Barack Obama.»
Obama faced criticism during his tenure for his alleged anti-Israel policies, including allowing an anti-Israel U.N. Security Council resolution to pass in the last days of his presidency.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith)
In a Wall Street Journal opinion article last week, Dershowitz wrote: «The Democratic Party has become the most anti-Israel party in U.S. history. Last week, all but seven Senate Democrats voted for an arms embargo against the Jewish state… There is no denying that the hard left, anti-Israel wing of the Democratic Party has moved from the fringe to the mainstream.»
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Asked to respond to the criticism of her remarks on Iran, Israel and Dershowitz’s comments, Solveig Reeker, a representative for Sherman, told Fox News Digital, «I’m sorry Ambassador Sherman is not available at this time and must decline.»
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Dem Senate hopeful ripped for trashing Middle America in unearthed social media posts: ‘Ticks me off’
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Harmeet Dhillon, U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, discusses the DOJ’s investigation into voter fraud in Michigan’s Wayne County, citing instances of fraudulent voting and non-compliance with the Help America Vote Act.
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A Democratic Senate hopeful in Michigan reportedly deleted thousands of social media posts, including one disparaging the middle-American communities she is asking voters to elect her to represent.
Mallory McMorrow, who indicates in her 2025 autobiography that she «relocated permanently» from the Los Angeles-area to Michigan in 2014, shared in the deleted posts about dreaming that the elite coasts would annex themselves from middle America. In the now-archived posts, McMorrow also mused about how she wished she «never left California» and said there were days since moving to Michigan «that make me miss California even more.»
Meanwhile, McMorrow described herself in 2016, after she claimed to have relocated to Michigan, as a constituent of Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu, repeatedly referenced voting in California’s June 2016 Democratic Primary and urged other voters to do the same. McMorrow referenced voting in person in November 2014 in the Los Angeles area as well, even though in 2024 she chided someone on social media who said they voted in a state they no longer lived in.
In total, McMorrow deleted roughly 6,000 social media posts, according to CNN’s K-File investigative unit, which reported that the posts appeared to have been deleted in 2025 following New York Post reporting on several of McMorrow’s social media comments, including the one about dreaming that fly-over country would annex itself from the coasts.
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Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow speaks on the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Ill., on Aug. 19, 2024. Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to formally accept the party’s nomination for president during the convention running from Aug. 19-22 in Chicago. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
In addition to appearing to bash the part of the country she seeks to represent, McMorrow’s deleted tweets covered a variety of other topics, including Trump, whose governing style she compared to Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler, according to a review of the now-archived posts.
A spokesperson for McMorrow’s campaign, Hannah Lindow, suggested the social media posts exposed in K-File’s Wednesday report were light-hearted and often jokes. One post included McMorrow complaining about the cold Michigan weather, while another quipped that she was «pushing for a future without cars» in response to a thread about Uber drivers.
«These are normal tweets by a normal person,» Lindow told Fox News Digital. «Normal people complain about the weather. The Michigan sky does in fact sometimes ‘s— ice.’ She stands by that.»
Meanwhile, Lindow pointed to a Democratic strategist who argued «every adult decision Mallory has made» says that she loves Michigan.
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«As Michigan’s Senate Majority Whip, Mallory has spent the past eight years fighting and delivering to make people’s lives better: higher wages, universal pre-K, no kid going hungry in schools, comprehensive gun violence prevention laws, and more,» Lindow said. «And she’s tweeted about that too.»
Both Michigan and California were states that experienced a lot of outbound moves in 2023. (Left: (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images), Right: (Photo by Earl Gibson III/Getty Images), Right: (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images))
The CNN reporting ignited backlash against McMorrow from conservatives online and Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., who is also running for the Michigan Senate seat. In response to McMorrow’s now-deleted social media posts, she posted a long X thread explaining why she is proud to be a native Michigander, taking a few thinly-veiled shots at McMorrow.
«I’m a born and raised Michigander and damn proud of it. I love everything that makes us Michiganders, from our manufacturing heritage to our lakes and yep, even our accent. That’s why I have pretty thick skin about people making fun of the way I talk or the clothes I wear—because this campaign isn’t about me,» Stevens said.
«It’s about the amazing people who live in this state. About them having a real champion in the Senate. So what actually ticks me off,» she continued. «Someone who wants that job— representing Michiganders—talking crap about us and our state.»
In a social media post appearing to reference the deleted social media posts, McMorrow’s Democratic primary candidate for U.S. Senate, Abdul El-Sayed, posted a photo of himself pointing to someone off-screen and laughing. The post also included the following caption: «Born in Michigan, hallelujah. Raised in Michigan, hallelujah. Believe cars should exist, hallelujah.»
«The death of a campaign, brought to you by, the campaign,» Chris Gustafson, the Senate Leadership Fund and One Nation spokesperson, posted on X.
«How can McMorrow represent the people that she hates?» the research arm of the Republican National Committee posted on X.
«One of my greatest fears for my home state is the Travese-City-ification of the great Up North,» Parker Thayer, an investigative researcher at the Capital Research Center, posted on X. «Costal libs like Buttigieg and McMorrow have realized how beautiful it is here, and they’ve decided they can tolerate out «backwards» midwestern ways if they balkanize the state.»
«As I’ve told you the ‘elites’ hate your guts if you are culturally in the space between West of the George Washington Bridge and East of the Golden Gate Bridge,» Conservative radio host Andrew Wilkow posted on X
Fox News Digital clarified that McMorrow and her husband made the decision to move from California to Michigan in 2014, but did not vacate their California apartment until 2016. Public records also show McMorrow registered to vote in Michigan in August 2016. In California, the law prohibits non-residents from voting in its elections.
«I had a dream that the U.S. amicably broke off into The Ring (coasts + Can + Mex + parts Mich/Tex) and Middle America,» one of her now-deleted posts from December 2016 stated, according to archived versions reviewed by Fox News Digital. «Oh and The Ring nominated Obama as Prime Minister and everyone was given $1,000 and six months to pick a side.»
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In another Jan. 2017 post, after she was already permanently living in Michigan, McMorrow responded to a social media user that there are days she has in her new home «that make me miss California even more,» according to an archived version reviewed by Fox News Digital.
«California should have its own diplomats» to «make sure we don’t get nuked because of morons from the other side of the country,» the user said, before McMorrow responded: «There are days like these that make me miss California even more.»
In another one of the now-deleted tweets, from November 2016, McMorrow wrote: «I wish I never left California,» in response to another user’s comments about diversity in Detroit.
State Senator Mallory McMorrow, a Democrat from Michigan, holds up a Project 2025 book during the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. The race for the White House will reach a fever pitch this week, with Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican nominee Donald Trump battling for momentum, and attention, around the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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McMorrow, besides appearing to bash the part of the country she seeks to represent, also deleted other tweets on a variety of topics that could potentially pose a liability for her candidacy.
For example, some of the deleted posts from McMorrow included comparisons between the United States under Donald Trump’s leadership and Nazi Germany.
«Dr. Seuss, 1941. We’ve been here before, America. #AmericaFirst #NoMuslimBan,» McMorrow posted shortly after Trump began his first term in 2017, alongside a Dr. Seuss cartoon referring to Nazi Germany. In a separate post a few months later, McMorrow responded to someone lamenting they had no faith that the minds of Trump supporters could be changed.
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Michigan Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow enters a Democratic convention on Sunday accompanied by a marching band amid a tight primary race (Team McMarrow via X)
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«Agreed. But how do we fight back? Hitler had supporters. Stalin had supporters. Putin has supporters. No one will change their minds,» McMorrow replied, according to archived versions of the post.
In an Oct. 2020 post, McMorrow also pleaded with her followers to watch a video «that a dear friend created,» which featured a Holocaust survivor drawing parallels between Nazi Germany and Trump’s «authoritarian aspirations.»
The posts from McMorrow, exposed by K-File and the New York Post, stand in stark contrast to remarks on her campaign’s website that indicate «choosing to put roots down» in Michigan «is the best decision I’ve ever made.»
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Murió Craig Venter, el científico que ayudó a descifrar el genoma humano y creó vida en un laboratorio
En mayo de 1998, Craig Venter anunció que su empresa terminaría de descifrar el genoma humano, el conjunto completo de información genética que contiene el ADN de la especie, antes que el proyecto oficial financiado por los Estados Unidos, Reino Unido, Francia, Alemania, Japón y China.
La comunidad científica quedó en shock. Ese era Venter. El científico y empresario, que murió ayer en San Diego, California, a los 79 años, “tras una breve hospitalización por efectos secundarios inesperados derivados del tratamiento de un cáncer diagnosticado recientemente”, según el comunicado oficial de su instituto de investigación.
Venter fue científico, empresario e imposible de ignorar. Quienes lo apreciaban decían que nunca filtraba sus pensamientos. Quienes no, lo llamaban egómano y hombre superficial.
Había nacido el 14 de octubre de 1946 en Salt Lake City, Utah, y creció en un suburbio obrero al sur de San Francisco, en una casa junto a las vías del tren.
En la escuela secundaria se destacó en los talleres prácticos, no en las aulas. Tras graduarse, se enroló en la Marina durante la Guerra de Vietnam y fue destinado al hospital de Da Nang durante la ofensiva del Tet.
“La guerra de Vietnam cambió totalmente mi vida. La vida era tan barata allí. De ahí viene mi sentido de urgencia”, diría años después.
Tras dos estancias en el calabozo por desobedecer órdenes, estudió en la Universidad de California en San Diego y terminó la carrera de grado y el doctorado en apenas seis años.
En 1984 fue contratado por los Institutos Nacionales de Salud (NIH) de los Estados Unidos, donde desarrolló el método EST para identificar genes de forma más rápida y barata que el Proyecto Genoma Humano que acababa de arrancar.
La polémica fue inmediata: el NIH intentó patentar fragmentos de genes cuya función aún se desconocía, lo que desató un debate internacional.
El director del proyecto, James Watson, se opuso y renunció. Venter dejó el NIH, fundó su propio instituto sin fines de lucro, el TIGR, y en 1998 lanzó la empresa privada Celera Genomics con un objetivo claro: ganarle la carrera al mundo.
Su estrategia estaba basada en el método llamado “shotgun”: cortar el ADN en miles de fragmentos pequeños, leerlos por separado y armar el rompecabezas.
El investigador Lluís Montoliu, del Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC) de España, matizó que aquella batalla fue, en realidad, algo distinto: “No existió tal batalla y fue más una colaboración que una competición”, dijo hoy a Science Media Center España.
Celera necesitaba el mapa físico del proyecto público para saber dónde colocar sus millones de fragmentos, y el proyecto público necesitaba esos fragmentos para completar el genoma.
“Ambos proyectos se necesitaban”, explicó Montoliu. El resultado fue una publicación doble: el 15 de febrero de 2001, el consorcio público publicó el genoma en la revista Nature; un día después, Celera publicó el suyo en la revista Science.
Un detalle lo dice todo sobre quién era Venter: su propio ADN fue la principal fuente entre las cinco personas usadas para construir el genoma de Celera.
Venter nunca supo quedarse quieto. En 2010, su equipo construyó desde cero el genoma completo de una bacteria, lo fabricó con componentes químicos a partir de un archivo de computadora, lo introdujo en una célula y logró que esa célula viviera y se reprodujera.
“Un médico puede salvar cientos de vidas en toda su carrera. Un investigador puede salvar al mundo entero”, sostenía Venter.
La bacteria, llamada Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0, fue la primera forma de vida controlada por un genoma diseñado digitalmente.
El campo que abrió ese experimento se llama “biología sintética”, con aplicaciones hoy en medicina, energía y alimentación.
A través de la expedición Sorcerer II, Venter y su equipo recorrieron los océanos del planeta para analizar el ADN de millones de microorganismos.
El resultado fue el descubrimiento de millones de genes desconocidos y una comprensión más profunda de la vida microscópica que sostiene los ecosistemas marinos.
Apenas tres meses antes de morir, en enero pasado, Venter lanzó su última apuesta: Diploid Genomics, Inc., una empresa que combina inteligencia artificial, secuenciación genómica e imágenes médicas para hacer los diagnósticos de enfermedades complejas más precisos y personalizados.
El doctor Montoliu lo describió como “uno de los científicos más influyentes, vehementes, agresivos y ambiciosos” de su época.
Añadió que merece ser recordado “no por sus frecuentes posicionamientos personalistas, sino por sus aportes”: haber demostrado que los seres humanos son la primera especie capaz de leer e interpretar su propio genoma.
En diálogo con Infobae, el doctor Lino Barañao, ex investigador en biotecnología del Conicet y la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires y actual vicerrector de la Universidad Maimónides, recordó al científico y empresario: “Conocí a Craig Venter cuando viajamos en una misión con Marcelo Criscuolo y Marcelo Argüelles, de Biosidus, para hablar sobre el proyecto de secuenciación de la bacteria antártica. Ese proyecto, llamado Genoma Blanco, se concretó en 2008 y fue la primera secuencia de un organismo local argentino en publicarse, algo que se presentó incluso en Casa de Gobierno. Fue un hito y, de alguna forma, el puntapié inicial al desarrollo de la genómica en Argentina”.
Barañao añadió: “Venter era un personaje fuera de serie. Tenía una foto de él mitad con guardapolvo y mitad con traje de empresario, y eso resumía bastante bien lo que era. Contribuyó a instalar la figura del científico empresario y a demostrar que ambos roles no eran incompatibles. Para él, la única manera de que los descubrimientos científicos llegaran a la población y tuvieran impacto real era a través de ese puente entre el laboratorio y el mercado”.
La participación en la carrera por el genoma humano en la década de 1990 “aceleró los tiempos y tuvo un efecto mediático enorme. Sin esa competencia entre lo público y lo privado, difícilmente la opinión pública habría prestado tanta atención. En ese sentido fue positivo”.
Aclaró que la decodificación del genoma “no fue el negocio que Venter esperaba. ”Recién ahora empiezan a comercializarse productos basados en genes específicos. Pero Venter tuvo esa visión y dejó una contribución real: cambiar el estereotipo del científico como alguien ajeno al mundo de los negocios”.
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