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  • Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley defiant after Trump pardons | US crime

    Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley defiant after Trump pardons | US crime

    A reality TV star who was imprisoned for defrauding banks of tens of millions of dollars before being pardoned in May by Donald Trump says there is nothing for him to be sorry about.

    “I don’t have an apology to give you or anyone else over the money that I’ve made,” Todd Chrisley said in an interview with ABC News that was posted online Monday.

    Speaking to the network alongside his wife, Julie, who was also imprisoned and then pardoned by the president, Chrisley’s comments were some of his most extensive comments yet about his and his spouse’s abbreviated experiences behind bars.

    He joked that his first post-pardon shower back home was as exciting as his “first sexual encounter”. And, as his family begins planning to return to television with a new reality show on Lifetime, he said “it doesn’t matter what someone else’s opinion” of him is.

    “No one’s opinion of me has ever caused me to question who I am at the core,” the former co-star of Chrisley Knows Best said to ABC News. “So I don’t worry about someone else’s opinion.”

    Chrisley Knows Best aired on USA Network from 2014 to 2023, depicting Todd as a wealthy real estate developer and entrepreneur who was raising a family with Julie in their suburban Atlanta mansion.

    But in 2019, during Trump’s first presidency, the federal government charged the Chrisleys with tax evasion and bank fraud. Jurors in 2022 convicted the couple of defrauding banks of at least $30m, leaving Todd to be sentenced to 12 years in prison and Julie to seven years.

    The couple’s daughter Savannah Chrisley was a vocal Trump advocate as he successfully ran for a second presidency in November 2024. Trump then pardoned Todd and Julie on 27 May, a little more than four months after he was sworn back into the Oval Office.

    Trump personally called Savannah to inform her of her parents’ pardons, according to a White House video.

    The Chrisleys’ pardons freed them from prison after serving less than three years. Their pardons came amid a series of clemencies that Trump gave to supporters in what evidently was a broader rebuke against a justice system that had convicted him of criminally falsifying business records months before he retook the White House.

    Some particularly criticized the Chrisleys’ pardons because an appeals court had upheld their jury convictions.

    Nonetheless, as ABC News noted, Todd argued that the makeup of the couple’s jury was questionable and the president was right to pardon him and Julie.

    Julie recounted to the network that she had made some everlasting friendships while incarcerated. “I have met some amazing women … that I will be friends with till the day that I die,” she told ABC.

    Yet, unsurprisingly, Todd said he and his wife were relieved to be out of prison early as they weigh whether to move to South Carolina and film themselves converting a mansion into a hotel.

    “You don’t realize how much your freedom means to you until you don’t have it,” he remarked.

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  • Long-term weight change among breast cancer patients treated with chemotherapy: a longitudinal study over 13 years | Breast Cancer Research

    Long-term weight change among breast cancer patients treated with chemotherapy: a longitudinal study over 13 years | Breast Cancer Research

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  • New member of the ERC Scientific Council appointed|ERC

    New member of the ERC Scientific Council appointed|ERC

    Professor Aerts, from the Institute of Astronomy at KU Leuven, Belgium, is a pioneer in asteroseismology whose influential research and leadership have earned her top scientific honours, including the Francqui, Kavli, and Crafoord Prizes. She is also widely recognised for her mentoring, academic teaching and leadership in international space missions. The appointment is for an initial term of four years, starting from 1 July 2025.

    Ekaterina Zaharieva, Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation, said: 

    ‘Professor Aerts is an outstanding scientist and a strong voice for European research. Her deep experience and dedication will be a real asset to the ERC Scientific Council. I warmly welcome her and look forward to working together to support excellence in science.’

    President of the European Research Council Prof. Maria Leptin said: 

    ‘The independent identification committee has again ensured both the quality and continuity of the ERC governing body. Welcome to Conny Aerts as a new member. She brings her stellar scientific track record to our Scientific Council and also her understanding of the challenges scientists face today. We will benefit from her engagement in mentoring the younger generation of researchers, as well as her experience in making basic science relevant to practical applications.’

    Professor Aerts replaces Professor Chryssa Kouveliotou who stepped down at the end of March 2025.  ERC Scientific Council members are appointed by the European Commission based a search carried out by an independent Identification Committee, composed of six distinguished researchers and chaired by Prof. Carl-Henrik Heldin. The mandate of this committee is to identify new members for the renewal of the Scientific Council membership and to maintain a pool of candidates for future replacements of Scientific Council members. The selection process involves consultations with the scientific community.

    The ERC Scientific Council is composed of 22 distinguished scientists and scholars representing the European scientific community. Their main role is to set the ERC strategy and to select the peer review evaluators. The ERC and the Scientific Council is chaired by the ERC President, Maria Leptin.

     

    Biography

     

    Conny Clara Aerts is a Belgian professor in astrophysics. Professor Aerts studied mathematics at Antwerp University and completed her PhD in astrophysics in 1993 at KU Leuven. She was an independent Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) from 1993 to 2001, spending research time at various institutes worldwide, while also acting as an advocate for equal opportunities for women in science. She was appointed as a lecturer at KU Leuven in 2001 and completed the promotion path to full professor by 2007. She has previously been awarded two Advanced Grants and one Synergy Grant by the ERC. She became the first woman to be awarded the Belgian Francqui Prize (2012) and the FWO Excellence Prize (2020) in the category of Science & Technology. In 2022, she became the third woman to be awarded the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics for her pioneering work and leadership in asteroseismology. In 2024, she won the Crafoord Prize in Astronomy for developing methods of asteroseismology and their application to the study of rotating stars.

     

    About the ERC

     

    The ERC, set up by the European Union in 2007, is the premier European funding organisation for excellent frontier research. It funds creative researchers of any nationality and age, to run projects based across Europe. The ERC offers four core grant schemes: Starting Grants, Consolidator Grants, Advanced Grants and Synergy Grants. With its additional Proof of Concept Grant scheme, the ERC helps grantees to bridge the gap between their pioneering research and early phases of its commercialisation. The ERC is led by an independent governing body, the Scientific Council. Since November 2021, Maria Leptin is the President of the ERC. The overall ERC budget from 2021 to 2027 is more than €16 billion, as part of the Horizon Europe programme, under the responsibility of European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation, Ekaterina Zaharieva. 

     

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