News in :90 – March 5, 2019

Hillary Clinton has ruled out a 2020 rematch with Donald Trump. Clinton says she won’t run for president in 2020, but vows she’s “not going anywhere.”

The former secretary of state, senator and first lady has spoken with several of the candidates seeking the Democratic presidential nomination and offered advice.

In London, a man appears to be free of the AIDS virus after a stem cell transplant, the second success including the “Berlin patient,” doctors reported.

The therapy had an early success with Timothy Ray Brown, a U.S. man treated in Germany who is 12 years post-transplant and still free of HIV. Until now, Brown is the only person thought to have been cured of infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

Such transplants are dangerous and have failed in other patients. They’re also impractical to try to cure the millions already infected.

Democrats launched a sweeping new probe of President Donald Trump on Monday, an aggressive investigation that threatens to shadow the president through the 2020 election season with potentially damaging inquiries into his White House, campaign and family businesses.

The broad investigation could be setting the stage for an impeachment effort.

On campus, St. Thomas students voted on Feb. 12 and 13 in a special election to fill nine open positions on the Undergraduate Student Government general council.

Kayla Mayer can be reached at maye8518@stthomas.edu.