Jory Rand

ABC7 Eyewitness News Anchor/Reporter, @tvmarci's husband, Brooks, Nicki and Saviana’s dad, foster parent, vegan, former college hockey player, friend of animals

[Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk @LACountyRRCC]

@MarshaCollier The “accepted” message confirms your ballot was received and cleared for counting. Counting does not occur until after the polls close. All mail ballots accepted through Sunday were included in the initial vote returns first released this evening.

[Arash Markazi @ArashMarkazi]

Aaron Donald just texted Pat McAfee on ESPN on comeback rumors after the Myles Garrett trade:

"It for sure got me thinking...35, removed two years ago, gotta see if that fire can light back up." 👀

[Andrew Fillipponi @ThePoniExpress]

It looks like Aaron Donald. One of the 5 greatest players in Pitt history. And a man who invited me to his draft party. Is plotting a return to the NFL. With the Rams. They might go 17-0.

[trey wingo @wingoz]

Let’s just say that’s more than just imagination……..all I can tell you right now.

[Jory Rand @ABC7Jory]

Myles Garrett to LA!

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

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Bombshell: The Browns are finalizing a trade that will send two-time Defensive Player of the Year Myles Garrett to the Los Angeles Rams, per @rapsheet, @TomPelissero and me.

In exchange for Garrett, the Rams are expected to send Pro-Bowl edge Jared Verse, a 2027 first-round pick and other draft-pick compensation still being negotiated to the Browns.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Cancer patients who happened to get a regular COVID shot kept outliving the ones who didn't. The lung cancer patients who got it lived about 37 months. The ones who skipped it lived 21. A flu shot did nothing, only the COVID kind, and nobody planned it.

Doctors at MD Anderson, one of the top cancer hospitals in the US, dug through more than a thousand patient records. Everyone in the group had advanced cancer and was on the same kind of treatment, called immunotherapy, which turns your own immune system loose on the tumor. The only difference was whether they'd also gotten a Pfizer or Moderna shot within about three months of starting. The ones who had lived far longer. Three years in, 56 out of 100 vaccinated lung cancer patients were still alive, against 31 out of 100 who weren't.

The shot doesn't teach your body what the tumor looks like. It just trips an alarm. Your immune system sends cells into a tumor, and a lot of them go quiet and stop fighting. The mRNA in the vaccine, the same stuff in the COVID jab, acts like a fire alarm. It wakes those cells up, pulls them back to the lymph nodes where the immune system regroups, and sends them out hunting. The cancer gets caught in the sweep.

That accident is the seed of what people now call a universal cancer vaccine. The goal is one shot that works against any cancer, precisely because it isn't aimed at a specific one. It wakes the body up and lets the body do the rest.

A University of Florida team led by Dr. Elias Sayour has been after this for more than eight years. In 2018 they found that even random genetic instructions, nothing to do with any tumor, could stir the immune system in mice. In 2024 they ran their first human test, a custom-built version, on four patients with one of the deadliest brain cancers, and watched it switch the immune system on within days. Last year they built a one-size-fits-all version that erased tumors completely in some mice with skin, bone, and brain cancer.

It's early, and a little caution is fair. The tumor-erasing results are still in mice. The human survival numbers come from digging through old records, not a clean head-to-head trial. That trial is being set up now.

The detail that stuck with the researchers: the people who gained the most were the ones whose cancer the immune system usually walks right past. In that group, a plain COVID shot lined up with being nearly five times as likely to be alive three years later.

[Jory Rand @ABC7Jory]

President Trump has twice been found liable for defamation against E. Jean Carroll and been ordered to pay her $88.3 million in damages. Today he reposted this which calls Carroll “a habitual liar”:

[Jeremy Carl @realJeremyCarl]

For Memorial Day, do yourself a favor and take three minutes of your time to listen to this Civil War letter from Maj. Sullivan Ballou to his wife.

I just started re-watching the Ken Burns series, which debuted in 1990 to a record-breaking audience of 40 million, for the first time since it originally aired.

While I had forgotten all of the specifics of the show over the years, I NEVER forgot this letter or this moment, which closed the first episode.

Burns kept a copy of the letter in his wallet for 25 years.

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[ABC7 Eyewitness News @ABC7]

Evacuation zones are being re-evaluated after the catastrophic explosion threat at a Garden Grove chemical tank was eliminated, officials said. Despite the update, residents are urged not to return to current evacuated areas, with more details expected at a 6 p.m. Monday press conference.

https://t.co/Pa0iUQeqBT

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

This claim is a LIE. Congress created adjustment of status in 1960. It's not a loophole. In fact, @USCIS's OWN WEBSITE says that getting a green card from inside the United States was expressly intended by Congress!

Just wait; give it 24 hours and they'll erase that history.

[ABC7 Eyewitness News @ABC7]

In an update on Sunday evening, Orange County Fire Authority officials said they have discovered multiple cracks in an unstable chemical tank at GKN Aerospace, not just one. AIR7 video shows firefighters climbing a ladder up to the top of the tanks.

Read more: https://t.co/ubdMPVfyS6

[Selina Wang @selinawangtv]

I was in the middle of taping on my iPhone for a social video from the White House North Lawn when we heard the shots. It sounded like dozens of gunshots. We were told to sprint to the press briefing room where we are holding now.

[Jory Rand @ABC7Jory]

The Trump tax cuts will save billionaires $117 billion in 2026. Meantime Trump is making it harder for poor people to get food.
https://t.co/4agqYZbnh6

[ABC7 Eyewitness News @ABC7]

Hundreds of thousands of Californians could lose food assistance starting June 1 due to new federal rules that require CalFresh recipients to work at least 80 hours per month to qualify. https://t.co/jPNpIsh9n5

[Jory Rand @ABC7Jory]

America, 2026

[Erin Burnett OutFront @OutFrontCNN]

CNN’s @KFILE reveals the man leading the hantavirus response in the U.S. is a specialist in penile implants with little public health experience and hosted a podcast called “Erection Connection.”

[Jory Rand @ABC7Jory]

STUNNING.
$1.7 billon of taxpayer money, with little oversight & no transparency, to pay anyone who feels harmed by Biden’s Justice Dept including the convicted insurrectionists from Jan. 6.
Oh, and Trump can fire anyone on the commission running the fund.

[Jory Rand @ABC7Jory]

STUNNING.
$1.7 billon of taxpayer money, with little oversight & no transparency, to pay anyone who feels harmed by Biden’s Justice Dept including the convicted insurrectionists from Jan. 6.
Oh, and Trump can fire anyone on the commission running the fund.

[ABC News @ABC]

President Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion IRS suit in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund for victims of governmental "weaponization," sources say. https://t.co/23J3AfcbX2

[Jory Rand @ABC7Jory]

President Trump to a reporter asking a question about the White House ballroom:
"I doubled the size of it, you dumb person. Double the size. You are not a smart person."

[Akayla Gardner @gardnerakayla]

I asked @POTUS how the rising price of his ballroom (nearly x2 original estimate) and reflecting pool makeover (x7 original estimate) are any different than why he wanted to remove Fed Chair Jerome Powell for 30% cost overruns.

Here’s his response:

[Jack Prandelli @jackprandelli]

The CEO of Chevron just said it out loud.

"We're starting to see risks of supply outages in some of these economies."

Europe is already there.
Flights canceled. Schedules gutted. Jet fuel "very, very tight" in his words.

Now Chevron's CEO is telling Americans directly: the US is next.
"It's a global market."

Energy independence doesn't mean price independence and it doesn't mean shortage independence either.

When US exports hit records to fill gaps abroad, when the same barrels are being bid on by Europe, Asia, and American refiners simultaneously the market clears at one price.

That price is going higher📈

The CEO of the company that literally operates in Venezuela, the Gulf of Mexico, and Kazakhstan is telling you the system is starting to crack.

The physical shortage everyone modeled as a tail risk is becoming the base case.

link for the full article in replies 👇

[Ricky G @jrichardgoodman]

How was she not the first pick ?