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Obama to introduce $100 million brain mapping initiative

President Barack Obama on Tuesday will unveil the "BRAIN initiative" (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies), a $100 million project aimed to increase understanding of the human brain. Obama was scheduled to discuss the initiative at the White House at 9:55 a.m. ET. The initiative -- a subject the president first referenced during his State [...]

Official: Obama to announce brain mapping project

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is proposing a new investment into research to map the human brain in hopes of unlocking some of its mysteries, a senior administration official says.

Spiritual adviser describes Obama's 'daily Christian walk'

Power Players Joshua DuBois is not your ordinary pastor. For the past four years, the 30-year-old Pentecostal minister was the spiritual adviser to the leader of the free world, praying with President Obama in the Oval Office and leading the administration’s outreach to faith-based groups. “He’s a deeply faithful president and didn’t need a whole [...]


Suspects in Atlanta cheating scandal surrender

ATLANTA (AP) — The first of more than 30 defendants expected to surrender Tuesday in Atlanta's school cheating scandal have turned themselves in to authorities.

North Korea vows to restart nuclear facilities

North Korea vowed Tuesday to restart all mothballed facilities at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex, adding to tensions already raised by near daily warlike threats against the United States and South Korea.


Tourists kidnapped, 1 sexually assaulted in Rio

Two foreign tourists were held for hours and brutalized and one, a woman, was sexually assaulted aboard a public transport van they boarded in Rio de Janeiro's showcase Copacabana beach neighborhood, police said in a statement.


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