Another Mueller indictment on the way? Plus the ethics of editing babies, the actual meaning of the term emotional labor, and more
Mueller Watch: Another indictment may be coming from Special Counsel Robert Mueller, this time for a defiant associate of the Trump-campaign confidant Roger Stone: “I will not sign a statement that says I willfully and knowingly lied, because I did not,” Jerome Corsi told Natasha Bertrand. Read her story on what adds up and what doesn’t, here. President Donald Trump has been on the defensive as the final report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U. S. election looms.
Editing Babies: A Chinese scientist claims to have for the first time successfully created two babies whose DNA had been altered through a gene-editing technique known as CRISPR, eliminating a gene that could make the babies resistant to HIV. The claim hasn’t been formally confirmed, and the scientist’s own institution called the experiment a “serious violation of academic ethics and standards.
