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Northeast Arkansas jails to lose mental health services as provider will not renew contract

Hundreds of inmates across Northeast Arkansas jails will lose access to mental health services after Arisa Health announced it will not submit to a new contract.

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May 8 • 11:01 PM EDT • Health • kait8.com
California to provide hundreds of free diapers to all newborns

California will become the first state in the nation to provide free diapers to all newborns.

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May 8 • 1:35 PM EDT • Health • sfchronicle.com
Big weekend for baseball, basketball and volleyball across Twin Cities

Hundreds of teams at the AAU, club and high school level will compete in marquee events at various venues this weekend.

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May 8 • 1:29 PM EDT • Sports • varsity.startribune.com
Mozilla says Anthropic's Mythos found hundreds of flaws

Mozilla says Anthropic's unreleased Claude Mythos AI found security flaws that automated testing systems missed for years.

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May 8 • 1:05 PM EDT • Technology • businessinsider.com
College Sports Commission nears approval of $250 million in NIL deals for NCAA athletes

The College Sports Commission continues to clear money-making deals for NCAA student-athletes to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars

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May 8 • 12:59 PM EDT • Sports • usatoday.com
The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.

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May 8 • 4:36 AM EDT • Politics • politico.com
Verizon cuts hundreds of jobs in latest round of layoffs

Verizon cuts hundreds of jobs across the US, impacting less than 1% of its head count, as it continues to reduce costs beyond 2026.

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May 7 • 1:24 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Texas council says more resources needed to address complaints against behavioral health providers

The agency that oversees behavioral health and social work providers has about 1,000 "pending" complaints against providers — hundreds more than it has received in previous years. Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council leadership told lawmakers it may need support from the state to handle the volume.

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May 7 • 9:21 AM EDT • Health • houstonpublicmedia.org
Science diplomacy lessons from a North Korean volcano

Mount Paektu, a mythic, active volcano on the border between North Korea and China, is almost the epitome of a scientific challenge that crosses political lines. In 946 CE, it erupted in one of the five biggest volcanic events of the past 10,000 years, kicking up huge quantities of ash and sending destructive mud flows down river channels for hundreds of kilometres. Should this happen again, the entire region, including easternmost Russia, South Korea and even Japan could be hit. “It’s definitely got the potential to be big,” said James Hammond, a professor of geophysics at Birkbeck, University of London. An eruption on the scale of 946 would have “huge regional impact.” For the past 15 years, Hammond has helped lead a groundbreaking collaboration with North Korean scientists to study the volcano, navigating scientific sanctions, tough export controls on scientific equipment and a long, pandemic-enforced exodus from the country. Although he seems more at home on far-flung research expeditions – before speaking to Science|Business, Hammond was camping out on a Greenland ice sheet – he has also advised the European Commission on its changing science diplomacy strategy. His long experience with North Korea has made Hammond sceptical of blanket bans on science collaboration, no matter the country.This is a live question in Europe, where in the wake of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, institutional ties with Russian universities were almost entirely severed, although some scientists fear this could undermine our understanding of climate change’s impact on the Arctic. Here, Hammond tells the story of the Mount Paektu mission and the policy lessons he takes from it. Ominous rumblingsThe genesis of Hammond’s collaboration came in 2002, when Mount Paektu began to rumble ominously. Earthquake activity picked up and the volcano began to emit unusual gases. North Korean scientists took notice. “People felt we need to know more about this volcano,” said Hammond. In 2011, North Korean vulcanologists put out a request for international expertise to help them learn more. At the time, Hammond and his collaborator, Clive Oppenheimer, were working on a vulcanology project in another sanctioned country, Eritrea, and so decided to answer the call. Within a month, they had flown into Pyongyang. “It was pretty incredible,” recalls Hammond (left). “We were made to feel like honoured guests, and invited to official celebrations.” The scientific opportunity was huge. Paektu is unusually positioned, a thousand kilometres from where tectonic plates rub against each other in the Pacific. “It was an incredibly interesting volcano, but not much research had been done, at least not in the international community,” he said. “There was so much we felt we could do. And we had these partners that were super keen to engage.”The mission received an unusual visitor in the form of volcano-obsessed filmmaker Werner Herzog, who accompanied Hammond and Oppenheimer while directing his 2016 film Into the Inferno about volcanos across the world. Four days into the trip, the German director delivered a long speech about reunification to his North Korean hosts, recalls Hammond. “He got to the heart of the Koreans and how they felt, and how they thought, in a way that I'm not sure I ever will,” he said. UN sanctionsHowever, Hammond realised he’d been “naïve” about how difficult it would be to collaborate with North Korea, which was sanctioned far more heavily than Eritrea. “We didn’t fully appreciate the all-encompassing nature of restrictions,” he said. In 2016, as tensions escalated over Pyongyang’s nuclear tests, a United Nations resolution banned all joint scientific work with North Korea. However, the UN sanctions did allow countries to request carve outs, and the UK successfully requested an exemption for Hammond’s work. Related articlesEU pushes for joint science diplomacy, but care needed to avoid gridlock, experts sayRussia severs its last ties with German scienceAnchor Greenlanders in Arctic climate research, experts tell EU ahead of policy updateExport controls have also delayed Hammond’s work. In one case, it took 18 months to get approval from the UK government to take seismometers, which measure earthquakes, to North Korea. “It was frustrating,” he said. “But they didn’t just say no.” However, one instrument, called an induction coil, used to measure how the earth conducts electricity, was blocked entirely because it can in theory be used to detect submarines. Karaoke bondingSince the collaboration started in 2011, Hammond has visited the country around 15 times, although the pandemic closed off North Korea for more than five years. A trip last November was Hammond’s first since the outbreak. Despite this lengthy interlude, Hammond has deep bonds in the country. The North Korean scientists Hammond works with are somewhat isolated, as they struggle to access the latest research papers and travel to international conferences. That said, they are “excellent geophysicists” and are “very well trained in the field,” he said. Over karaoke and chats about their families, “we’ve made friendships, for sure,” he said. The authorities have to sign-off things like the placement of seismometers, for example, but Hammond said these requests have been approved. “Everything that we've asked for within a scientific context has been delivered.”Scientific backchannels? These kind of personal links between scientists across political lines are one purported benefit of science diplomacy. During the Cold War, some historians argue, scientific contact between the US and Soviet Union laid a groundwork of trust for other cooperation, such as on arms control. Hammond agrees that backchannel contacts to North Korean geophysicists are hardly likely to defuse a military crisis on the Korean peninsula, but the simple fact of the scientific collaboration makes contacts between diplomats that little bit easier. “It creates opportunities to understand each other a little bit better,” he said. “When maybe you have those more difficult discussions as diplomats, it's coming from a slightly better place.” Cutting tiesDrawing lessons from the Mount Paektu mission for today’s links with Russian science isn’t simple. The analogy is far from exact, Hammond said, “because one is essentially a Cold War, versus a pretty hot war in the case of Russia.” But Hammond’s broader argument is that the challenges we face, such as climate change, pandemics, biodiversity loss, pollution and so on, have globalised in an unprecedented way, making blanket shutdowns in collaboration with any country unwise.He’s somewhat critical of the UN scientific sanctions imposed on North Korea in 2016, even though they did allow for exceptions. “I think a blanket halt to some of these things, when we face big global challenges [. . .] that’s quite a risky thing to do,” he said.Institutional endorsement?European academics are still by and large free to work individually with Russian counterparts. However, official, institutional partnerships have largely ended. Shortly following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian university rectors wrote a public letter endorsing the war, meaning European universities fear official collaboration could also be seen as a kind of endorsement. Hammond acknowledges there is a risk of legitimising regimes, and state-controlled universities, through scientific cooperation. “That’s the trade off you have to make,” he said. Strategic projectsWith Russia, instead of giving a green light to restart all Arctic science, a middle ground might be firing up a few carefully selected “strategic” projects, said Hammond. After all, European countries are still collaborating with Russia on the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, an experimental nuclear fusion plant in the south of France. However, even if Europe did try to revive Arctic science with Russia, there’s no guarantee Russian scientists would play ball. A series of high-profile arrests of physicists in Russia accused of sharing their findings with the outside world has made collaboration fraught. Even before the invasion of 2022, “the Russian regime made it increasingly difficult, and this sort of discouraged people,” Dag Rune Olsen, rector of the Arctic University of Norway, told Science|Business last year.

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May 7 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencebusiness.net
Shipping firms are being whipsawed by changing stances and risks as they wait for Hormuz to reopen

With hundreds of vessels still stuck in the Persian Gulf and costs piling up, shipping companies are being whipsawed by uncertainty over how and when the Strait of Hormuz might reopen more than two months into the Iran war.

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May 6 • 1:09 PM EDT • Politics • ksat.com
Seattle’s Waterfront Park releases summer events lineup

Waterfront Park, which will serve as one of the fan celebration zones during the World Cup, announced hundreds of free events to come this summer season.

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May 6 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com
Scientists stunned by 'sheer spectacle' as sea creatures flood beaches

Scientists still have much left to learn about the creatures, even as hundreds of thousands of them wash ashore.

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May 6 • 6:05 AM EDT • Science • usatoday.com
Camden County homeowners and business owners oppose plans for a new data center

Hundreds of people in Camden County publicly rejected a proposal to build a new data center near their communities. Opponents of the proposed data center said t

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May 5 • 6:07 PM EDT • Business • krcgtv.com
States Eye Aid To Prop Up Distressed Hospitals Amid Federal Medicaid Cuts

Hundreds of hospitals nationwide are bracing for Medicaid cuts as a result of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Some state lawmakers are eyeing loans and other forms of financial aid to distressed hospitals in rural and urban areas, as healthcare providers warn of cuts to critical services and scramble for funding.

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May 5 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • kffhealthnews.org
Met Gala 2026 Livestream: Watch The Red Carpet Arrivals

Hundreds of the biggest names in entertainment and fashion are descending upon the Metropolitan Museum of Art tonight for the annual Met Gala. The 2026 event is co-chaired by Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, V...

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May 4 • 6:51 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
San Antonio vendors affected by Painted Tree Boutiques closure face limited protections, expert says

Hundreds of small business owners are still trying to recover their inventory and their income after the sudden closure of Painted Tree Boutiques in April.

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May 4 • 5:09 PM EDT • Business • ksat.com
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Delta canceling flights: Memo shows crew, scheduling challenges

Delta is canceling hundreds of flights — far more than its rival airlines. An internal memo reveals crew and scheduling challenges.

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May 4 • 5:09 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
The Latest: Trump launches a new effort to reopen the Strait of Hormuz

U.S. forces have launched an effort to guide commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz, where hundreds have been stuck since the Iran war began.

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May 4 • 10:05 AM EDT • Politics • ksat.com
New Orleans youth sports group, facing funding cuts, could slash programs

A popular youth sports nonprofit may have to cut hundreds of kids from its rosters amid a loss of local and federal funding and a lack of facilities to accommodate growing demand.

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May 4 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • nola.com
Pols & Politics: Hundreds more layoffs announced by Massachusetts businesses

Hundreds of more layoffs are being announced by four Massachusetts companies as the Bay State has seen a flurry of outmigration by residents and businesses.

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May 3 • 4:26 AM EDT • Business • bostonherald.com
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Pols & Politics: Hundreds more layoffs announced by Massachusetts businesses

Hundreds of more layoffs are being announced by four Massachusetts companies as the Bay State has seen a flurry of outmigration by residents and businesses.

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New York Road Runners Mindful 5K focuses on mental health awareness

Over 6,000 adult athletes and hundreds of youths are estimated to participate in today's New York Road Runners Mindful 5K.

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May 2 • 11:31 AM EDT • Health • abc7ny.com
Cesar Chavez Boulevard signs removed impacting local businesses a second time

A corridor in southeast Fresno is undergoing another name change, impacting local businesses as the city removes and replaces hundreds of Cesar Chavez street signs.

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May 2 • 2:18 AM EDT • Business • abc30.com
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The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.

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May 1 • 1:00 AM EDT • Politics • politico.com
Should a California union dictate how clinics spend money? Employers sue to block ballot measure

California health clinics are suing to stop a union ballot measure that would dictate how they spend money — and they say it could force hundreds of clinics to close.

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Apr 30 • 8:35 PM EDT • Health • calmatters.org
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Senate Bans Prediction Markets for Its Members and Staff

Senators voted unanimously to prohibit betting practices in the chamber after some users made hundreds of thousands of dollars online by accurately predicting U.S. military actions.

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Apr 30 • 6:13 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
No immediate plan after Laurel Ridge cuts hundreds of beds in Bexar County

SAN ANTONIO - Growing concern is mounting in Bexar County as leaders and mental health experts warn that a major reduction in psychiatric beds could deepen what

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Apr 29 • 8:10 PM EDT • Health • news4sanantonio.com
Community leaders talk business at Lake to River meeting

It brought together hundreds of businesses, community leaders and elected officials from throughout the region.

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Apr 29 • 4:47 PM EDT • Business • wkbn.com
Rising premiums push younger workers to rethink employer health plans

Rising health insurance costs are prompting some younger, healthier workers to reconsider employer-sponsored coverage, creating new strains for workers and warning signs for employers, Bloomberg writes. As premiums climb and take-home pay tightens, some employees are opting for alternatives, such as medical cost-sharing plans, limited-benefit coverage or going uninsured altogether to save hundreds of dollars […]

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Apr 29 • 9:57 AM EDT • Health • businessreport.com
Supreme Court hears arguments over temporary protected status for Haitian and Syrian migrants

The court’s decision could affect hundreds of thousands of people who benefit from Temporary Protected Status.

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Apr 29 • 9:13 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Mercedes inks deal with BNP to sell leasing business

Mercedes-Benz has signed a deal to sell its leasing subsidiary Athlon ​to France's BNP Paribas and is ‌expected to free up hundreds of millions of euros in liquidity, the German company's finance ​chief said on Wednesday.

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Apr 29 • 5:45 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com
Apple Vision Pro Used in World-First Cataract Surgery

Apple's Vision Pro has hit another medical-use milestone, with a New York ophthalmologist becoming the first surgeon to perform cataract surgery using the spatial computing headset. Dr. Eric Rosenberg of SightMD completed the initial procedure in October 2025 and has since performed hundreds of additional cases using ScopeXR, a surgical platform he co-developed for Apple's mixed reality device.

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Apr 28 • 10:51 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
UC STEM Fest to Inspire Kids with Science and Engineering

Hundreds of local schoolchildren will get hands-on exposure to science, technology, engineering and math at the 2026 UC STEM Fest, to be held Saturday, May 2 from 9 a.m. to noon at Rex & Margaret Fortune Early College High School in Elk Grove.

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Apr 27 • 6:19 PM EDT • Science • ucdavis.edu
Facebook Has a Health Scam Problem

A new report found hundreds of thousands of scam ads for medical products, some of which were illegal or had been deemed dangerous.

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Apr 27 • 1:32 PM EDT • Health • nytimes.com
Cellular Rejuvenation Has the Potential to Reverse Aging

A new therapy has the potential to cure hundreds of diseases — and even reverse aging.

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Apr 27 • 9:42 AM EDT • Science • nytimes.com
Fourth annual MI Healthy Climate Conference celebrates and inspires

EGLE’s Office of Climate and Energy welcomed hundreds to Detroit with an action-focused agenda.

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Apr 27 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • michigan.gov
$1 billion over 5 years: Director of NH’s new rural health program rolls out goals for federal funds

Donnalee Lozeau, director of GO-NORTH, said her philosophy in distributing the hundreds of millions of dollars the federal government is giving New Hampshire to spend on its struggling rural healthcare system will be about long-term investments, not short-term fixes.

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Apr 27 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • newhampshirebulletin.com
Security at Correspondents’ Dinner Worked as Intended, Experts Say

Officials pointed to the fact that the suspect never made it into the hotel ballroom, where President Trump and hundreds of journalists were gathered for the White House correspondents’ dinner.

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Apr 26 • 6:00 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Hellish conditions, damaging delays and uncertain justice fuel mental health crisis in SC jails

Hundreds of mentally ill people are languishing for months in South Carolina jails, deprived of needed treatment in a legal purgatory that feeds a cycle of incarceration, despair and avoidable deaths, a Post and Courier investigation has found.

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Apr 26 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • postandcourier.com
Gunman Was Tackled by Law Enforcement Near Correspondents’ Dinner Security Checkpoint

The gunman did not make it inside the hotel ballroom where President Trump, top officials and hundreds of journalists had gathered for dinner.

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Apr 25 • 10:54 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
President Trump evacuated after security incident

The Secret Service and other authorities swarmed the banquet hall as guests ducked under tables by the hundreds

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Apr 25 • 8:45 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
DNA research just rewrote the origin of human species

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral population in Africa. By analyzing genetic data from diverse modern African groups—especially the highly distinct Nama people—and comparing it with fossil evidence, researchers found that early humans likely evolved from multiple intermingling populations over hundreds of thousands of years. Rather than a clean split, these groups stayed connected, exchanging genes even after beginning to diverge around 120,000–135,000 years ago.

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Apr 25 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
700ft Underwater Camera Reveals Terrifying ‘Real-Life Monsters’ off Indonesia (Video)

What happens when you drop a night-vision camera hundreds of feet below the surface of Nusa Penida in Indonesia? Some bizarre marine life shows up.

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Apr 25 • 9:20 AM EDT • Technology • yahoo.com
AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance

A once-robust H.I.V. treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble.

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Apr 25 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • nytimes.com
How much surging jet fuel prices have cost US airlines

United, Delta, American, and Southwest reported fuel costs up by hundreds of millions, and told investors how they plan to combat that.

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Apr 24 • 8:42 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Gouldsboro aquaculture business selected for blue technology accelerator

Springtide has trained hundreds of seaweed farmers in the U.S., Europe, Australia and Asia. It supplies seaweed seed to industry and research institutions throughout the U.S.

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Apr 24 • 8:28 AM EDT • Business • mainebiz.biz
The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.

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Apr 24 • 1:00 AM EDT • Politics • politico.com
Gamers sue Nintendo over tariff refunds, saying consumers should get the money back

Two gamers have filed a class action lawsuit against Nintendo, alleging that the company will be unjustly enriching itself with any refund it secures from the U.S. government over widespread tariffs last year that, among other things, hiked the prices of Nintendo hardware and accessories. “Unless restrained by this Court, Nintendo stands to recover the same tariff payments twice—once from consumers through higher prices and again from the federal government through tariff refunds, including interest paid by the government on those funds,” the suit states. Nintendo sued the U.S. government to secure a tariff refund in March, after the Supreme Court struck down the tariffs a month prior, saying they were illegally implemented by President Donald Trump.. The gamers who have sued, California-based Gregory Hoffert and Washington-based Prashant Sharan, both say they purchased Nintendo goods that had increased in price due to tariffs, according to the complaint. They filed their suit in the Western District court of Nintendo of America’s home state of Washington and are seeking class action status to represent all people in the U.S. who purchased price-hiked Nintendo goods between February 1, 2025 and February 24, 2026. They allege that Nintendo’s recovery of any tariff refunds would constitute unjust enrichment and violate Washington state consumer protection law. Similar class action lawsuits pressing companies to pass on tariff refunds have been previously filed against FedEx, UPS and eyeglass importer EssilorLuxottica. The tariffs were announced in early April, and by mid-month, Nintendo had announced $5 price increases for controllers for the then-forthcoming Switch 2. In August, it raised the price of the original Switch. In their suit, the gamers cite comments from Nintendo executives connecting the tariffs to price increases. In May 2025, a month after the tariffs were imposed, Nintendo CEO Shuntaro Furukawa told investors “Our basic policy is that for any country or region, if tariffs are imposed, we recognize them as a part of the cost and incorporate them into the price.” Nintendo’s March lawsuit, along with tariff-recovery suits from hundreds of other companies was immediately put on hold pending the implementation of a refund system. The U.S. government announced the beginning of the refund process earlier this week. Companies could receive as much as $160 billion, per CNBC. In March 2026, after Nintendo filed its lawsuit to recover the cost of the tariffs, I asked the company if they planned to pass their refund on to customers who’d paid increased prices. The company’s response acknowledged the existence of the lawsuit but avoided answering that question: “We can confirm that we filed a request. We have nothing else to share on this topic.” Even a promise to consumers may not have spared Nintendo this week’s lawsuit. FedEx previously promised to pass its tariff refunds on to consumers. They’ve been sued over them anyway.

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Apr 22 • 9:57 AM EDT • Technology • gamefile.news
Zeldin picks leader for EPA’s new science office

A vast reorganization of the office last year ended its larger research program and spurred the departure of hundreds of scientists.

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Apr 21 • 1:16 PM EDT • Science • eenews.net
Area grade schoolers see money burn (among other experiments) at annual Badin Science Carnival

Hundreds of elementary students from area private schools recently watched, learned and even joined in dozens of science experiments by Badin High School students as part of the school’s annual

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Apr 21 • 8:40 AM EDT • Science • journal-news.com
The Death of Public Health

During the recent measles outbreak, the largest in more than 30 years, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. refused to clearly recommend the measles vaccine, saying instead that it was a “personal decision,” and that parents should “do their own research.” Similarly, during her recent confirmation hearing for United States Surgeon General, Casey Means was questioned by Senator William Cassidy (R, La). “You’re the nation’s doctor,” said Cassidy. “Would you encourage [a mother] to have her child vaccinated!” “I’m not an individual’s doctor,” Means said. “And every individual needs to talk to their doctor before putting a medication in their body.” In June 2025, Marty Makary, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), said that COVID vaccines for pregnant women should be a “personal choice”, even though every other country in the world recommended the COVID vaccine during pregnancy due to a higher risk for severe disease. It doesn’t end there. On January 5, 2026, RFK Jr. reduced the number of routinely recommended vaccines from 18 to 10. For vaccines that protected against influenza, COVID, and rotavirus, parents were urged to speak with their doctors—to make an individual choice. (On March 16, 2026, in a ruling by a federal court in Boston, RFK Jr.’s revised schedule was invalidated.) What’s happening? Why are public health officials moving away from making recommendations for the public? The origin of this change might be rooted in the first two years of the COVID pandemic. In 2020, during the first year on the pandemic, we didn’t have anything to stop a virus that was killing hundreds of people a day and could be spread asymptomatically. We didn’t have antivirals until October, monoclonal antibodies until November, and vaccines until December. All we could do was restrict travel, close businesses, shutter schools, and mask, isolate, quarantine, test, and social distance. During the second year of the pandemic, when we had vaccines to prevent COVID, people couldn’t go anywhere without their vaccine cards. They couldn’t go to their favorite bar or restaurant or sporting event or place of worship without proof of vaccination. Some people were fired from their jobs for refusing to get vaccinated. For many, this was seen as massive government overreach and energized what has been called the “medical freedom movement.” Indeed, a headline in the New York Times declared, “How Health Freedom Became a Winning Rally Cry.” As expressed in the comments of RFK Jr., Casey Means, and Marty Makary, the medical freedom movement focuses on the individual not the community—the opposite of public health. In an article titled “Ethics and Social Value Judgments in Public Health,” ethicists from Yale University distinguished public health from medical freedom. “Public health policies,” they wrote, “are population oriented. Because individual health affects the health of others, public health measures regulate individual behavior to achieve population health goals. All raise questions about how individual autonomy and freedom should be balanced against public health interests…which respects individuals’ sovereignty over their bodies and actions as long as their actions do not harm others.” The medical freedom movement fails to recognize that it often limits the freedom of others. For example, a parent who is afraid to send a child to school where many of the students are unvaccinated. Or immune compromised children who depend on those around them to for protection. The question then becomes “Freedom for whom?” Is it your right, in the name of medical freedom, to catch and transmit a potentially fatal infection—and in so doing, take away the freedom of others? In Four Essays on Liberty, Isaiah Berlin sums it up best. “Liberty for the wolves,” he wrote, “is death to the lambs.” Thanks for reading Beyond the Noise! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Subscribe

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Apr 21 • 7:03 AM EDT • Health • substack.com
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Learn how a transfer happens in Minnesota high school sports

Hundreds of athletes transfer every season. How, exactly, does that happen? Here’s a step-by-step explainer of the process.

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Apr 21 • 5:45 AM EDT • Sports • varsity.startribune.com
Glowing ring of plankton surrounding New Zealand islands linked to deadly underwater plateau

A recent satellite photo captured a gleaming halo of phytoplankton encircling the remote Chatham Islands. The stunning sight is the result of a hidden underwater structure, which has also helped kill hundreds of cetaceans.

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Apr 21 • 3:00 AM EDT • Science • livescience.com
Ohio businesses rushing to apply for tariff refunds through newly opened portal

Hundreds of Ohio businesses are among those hoping to get a piece of the estimated $166 billion in tariffs that were collected unlawfully.

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Apr 20 • 10:46 PM EDT • Business • statenews.org
Penn State Wilkes-Barre hosts 2026 Northeast Regional Science Olympiad

The Northeast Regional Science Olympiad returned to Penn State Wilkes-Barre recently, drawing hundreds of middle and high school students to the campus for the annual science competition.

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Apr 20 • 8:54 AM EDT • Science • psu.edu
What weed really does to your brain, according to hundreds of thousands of scans
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Apr 20 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • nypost.com
Hundreds pack Montevideo’s plaza as La Rueda de Candombe caps a breakout run

Every Monday night in Montevideo, hundreds of people gather around a table in a public square, drawn by the pulse of drums, guitars, and voices. La Rueda de Candombe started as a casual jam session...

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Apr 19 • 8:09 PM EDT • Entertainment • newstimes.com
Hundreds pack Montevideo’s plaza as La Rueda de Candombe caps a breakout run

Every Monday night in Montevideo, hundreds of people gather around a table in a public square, drawn by the pulse of drums, guitars, and voices.

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Apr 19 • 7:33 PM EDT • Entertainment • seattletimes.com
Avera Health hosts hundreds of families for NICU reunion

Families with children who spent some of their first days in the NICU got to reunite with those who took care of them.

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Apr 18 • 10:25 PM EDT • Health • dakotanewsnow.com
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Physicists share the glory and the wealth after winning $3M for exploring muon mysteries

A University of Washington professor and hundreds of others who measured the muon's magnetism have won a $3 million Breakthrough Prize.

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Apr 18 • 7:08 PM EDT • Science • geekwire.com
Spring Cleaning: Hundreds of youths join annual spring cleanup in Oneida County

Bradley and Adey were part of a crew of nearly a dozen students from the honor societies in New Hartford High School and Strough Middle School who were out cleaning yards on Saturday. They visited two homes in Rome to rake cleaves, clear paths and pick up sticks leftover from winter — seemingly simple tasks that some seniors either can no longer do themselves or can't afford to hire a professional.

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Apr 18 • 4:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • romesentinel.com
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Hundreds bring their pets to Tuskegee University for annual animal health fair

Veterinary students and professionals gave free health examinations for pets and offered families a variety of vaccinations at a low cost.

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Apr 18 • 3:27 PM EDT • Health • waka.com
Memphis Tigers hope to inspire next generation with Power of Girls in Sports

Hundreds of elementary school-aged girls took part in the Power of Girls in Sports clinic, a joint venture between FedEx and the University of Memphis.

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Apr 18 • 2:12 PM EDT • Sports • commercialappeal.com
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Young scientists to present at 53rd Upper East Tennessee Science Fair

The 53rd annual Upper East Tennessee Science Fair will bring hundreds of students to ETSU on April 25 to showcase projects that highlight curiosity, hands-on learning and scientific inquiry.

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Apr 17 • 3:50 PM EDT • Science • johnsoncitypress.com
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Hundreds of Candidates Put the “Science” in “Political Science”

More U.S. scientists are running for state and federal office in the U.S. midterm elections than ever before, Nature reports.

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UF Health Florida Recovery Center director dies: ‘He truly brought FRC to life’

Dr. Scott Teitelbaum helped hundreds through addiction recovery

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Apr 17 • 12:11 PM EDT • Health • wcjb.com
A “lost world” beneath the North Sea was once full of forests

Long before rising seas swallowed Doggerland beneath the North Sea, this lost landscape may have been a surprisingly lush and life-friendly haven. New DNA evidence reveals that forests of oak, elm, and hazel were already thriving there more than 16,000 years ago—thousands of years earlier than scientists thought possible. Even more astonishing, researchers detected traces of a tree species believed to have vanished from the region hundreds of thousands of years ago.

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Apr 17 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.

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Apr 17 • 1:00 AM EDT • Politics • politico.com
House considers bill to protect Haitian immigrants, in pushback against Trump administration

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare bipartisan moment, the House has agreed to consider legislation that would extend temporary protections for Haitian immigrants, pushing back against the Trump administration’s efforts to end the program. The bill expected for a vote Thursday would require the Trump administration to extend for three years Temporary Protected Status for Haiti, which would allow hundreds of thousands of qualifying immigrants to remain in the U.S. without fear of deportation. House

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Drugmakers raised prices on hundreds of drugs despite Trump deals, Senate Democrats report finds

The findings raise questions about whether the administration’s “most favored nation” deals are having a meaningful impact on patients.

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Apr 16 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • nbcnews.com
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'This is the majority of my income' | Painted Tree closures leave Houston-area small business vendors scrambling

Painted Tree Boutiques is shutting down locations across the U.S., including six stores in the Houston area, leaving hundreds of small business owners scrambling.

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Houston small business owners blindsided by sudden Painted Tree Boutiques closure

Hundreds of Houston-area small business owners are scrambling after Painted Tree Boutiques, an indoor marketplace with six locations across the Houston area, abruptly shut down all of its stores nationwide with little to no warning.

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Apr 15 • 5:54 PM EDT • Business • click2houston.com
UnityPoint Health outsourcing to eliminate hundreds of jobs

UnityPoint Health says it is cutting IT and revenue cycle positions, outsourcing those functions to reduce costs.

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Apr 15 • 3:23 PM EDT • Health • desmoinesregister.com
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Greater Wausau Chamber set to host Business EXPO Thursday

The Greater Wausau Chamber of Commerce will host hundreds of exhibitors and thousands of attendees at the organization’s annual Business EXPO on Thursday, April 16.

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Apr 15 • 12:14 PM EDT • Business • wsaw.com
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Nature Is Still Molding Human Genes, Study Finds

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA indicates that natural selection continued to shape hundreds of genes.

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Apr 15 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • nytimes.com
These Memphis restaurants got perfect health inspection scores in March

Tennessee Health Department inspectors performed hundreds of health inspections in Shelby County in March. These 46 restaurants earned perfect scores.

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Apr 15 • 6:03 AM EDT • Health • commercialappeal.com
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Microsoft Raises Prices for All Surface PCs, Making Them More Expensive Than Equivalent Macs

Microsoft increased prices for all of its Surface PCs this week, with most models priced hundreds of dollars higher than they were when launching. Windows Central highlighted the increases, which now see Microsoft's mid-range models priced above $1,000 and flagship models priced starting at $1,500. A Microsoft spokesperson said the price increase was due to "recent increases in memory and component costs".

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Apr 14 • 7:21 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Six-figure offers and hundreds of calls, all-conference guard details portal decision

Hudson Mayes had \

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NFL Draft in Pittsburgh expected to boost business in nearby Weirton

The NFL draft will take over the city of Pittsburgh next week, with hundreds of thousands of visitors expected in town for the event.While the bulk of the actio

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Greater Wausau Chamber of Commerce to host annual Business EXPO

The Greater Wausau Chamber of Commerce will host hundreds of exhibitors and thousands of attendees at the organization’s annual Business EXPO on Thursday.

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Personnel note: Ivan Rodriguez-Seda joins Continental Strategy’s Jax office

'He has a proven record of delivering results on complex issues, securing hundreds of millions in funding, and building coalitions internationally.'

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Apr 14 • 4:45 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
Opinion: I was recruited to play a sport here, but first, my family had to pay for it

It was a hot summer day in east Long Island. Hundreds of kids and parents from across the country piled into a sports complex consisting of four adjacent turf baseball fields. The gates were manned by a brigade of staff who were commandeering the large crowd. “Are these credentials right?” they asked as they showed...

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Apr 13 • 8:52 AM EDT • Sports • thesandb.com
Turning car battery acid into clean energy: A surprising breakthrough in plastic recycling

Science News: Plastic waste on a global level amounts to hundreds of millions of tonnes annually, although very little of that is recycled. On the other hand, corro.

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Apr 13 • 5:30 AM EDT • Science • timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Country music star says UFOs chased her plane for hundreds of miles

She said the orbs followed her plane from Arkansas to Nashville.

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Apr 12 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • lehighvalleylive.com
Our View: Michigan must stop exporting its mental health crisis

Michigan is sending children hundreds of miles away for mental health treatment because it has failed to build the capacity to care for them at home.

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Bay Area fans celebrate Artemis II splashdown with a roar at Chabot Space Center in Oakland

When the astronauts of the Artemis II splashed down off the coast of San Diego on Friday, cheers were heard around the country -- even in Oakland. Hundreds came out to the Chabot Space and Science Center in the Oakland Hills to celebrate the historical event.

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Apr 11 • 7:27 PM EDT • Science • abc7news.com
Local youth science fair winners to compete in Canada-wide fair next month

Hundreds of Grade 5-12 students gathered at the Olympic Oval on Saturday for the final day of the Calgary Youth Science Fair, which named 17 finalists, who will compete in the national fair next month...

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Apr 11 • 6:53 PM EDT • Science • ca.news.yahoo.com
Hundreds come out to "Politics in the Park" candidate forum in Pine Level

Many local and state officials gathered in Pine Level to campaign and talk with eligible voters Saturday.

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Dark Matter Experiment Reaches Critical Milestone Deep Underground

Hundreds of times colder than outer space.

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Apr 10 • 9:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencealert.com
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Healthdaq: Recruitment platform used by health trusts targeted by cyber attackers

Hackers claim to have stolen hundreds of thousands of files containing personal data from the platform.

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Apr 10 • 7:01 PM EDT • Health • bbc.com
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Hundreds of chimpanzees are killing each other in a 'civil war' — scientists captured the 'lethal violence' for the first time

They're going apes—t.

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Apr 10 • 1:51 PM EDT • Science • nypost.com
New Research Shows Many Social-Science Papers Lean Left. Does That Mean Bias?

A study used AI to analyze hundreds of thousands of abstracts published over the past 64 years.

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Apr 10 • 1:12 PM EDT • Science • chronicle.com
The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.

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Hundreds of Colorado business leaders call for action as nearly 100 companies leave the state
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Hundreds of business leaders call for action as nearly 100 companies leave Colorado
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Sony Pictures Entertainment Will Reportedly Lay Off Hundreds

This is a "targeted and strategic" choice for growth.

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Apr 9 • 4:58 AM EDT • Entertainment • 80.lv
Scientists discover spice synergy that boosts anti-inflammation 100x

Chronic inflammation often works quietly in the background but can fuel serious diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. New research reveals that everyday plant compounds—like menthol from mint, cineole from eucalyptus, and capsaicin from chili peppers—can team up inside immune cells to dramatically boost their anti-inflammatory power. While individual compounds showed modest effects, certain combinations amplified results hundreds of times over by activating different cellular pathways at once.

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Apr 8 • 8:00 PM EDT • Technology • sciencedaily.com
Scientists discover spice synergy that boosts anti-inflammation 100x

Chronic inflammation often works quietly in the background but can fuel serious diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. New research reveals that everyday plant compounds—like menthol from mint, cineole from eucalyptus, and capsaicin from chili peppers—can team up inside immune cells to dramatically boost their anti-inflammatory power. While individual compounds showed modest effects, certain combinations amplified results hundreds of times over by activating different cellular pathways at once.

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Apr 8 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Lebanon conflict drives mental health crisis for displaced women: “We hear, see and feel pain constantly” | UN Women

Escalating conflict in Lebanon has forced hundreds of thousands of women and girls to flee their homes, and women are on the frontlines of the response

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Apr 8 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • unwomen.org
Sony Pictures Entertainment Lays Off Hundreds of Employees in Restructuring

Sony Pictures Entertainment is laying off hundreds of employees from its film studio, TV studios, and division HQ, according to reports

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Apr 8 • 7:05 PM EDT • Entertainment • strata-gee.com