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Photos Show 'Apocalyptic' Floods Submerging South Brazil
The southern state of Rio Grande do Sul is in the midst of some of its worst flooding in modern history.
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Why Housewives Fans Are Calling BS on Dorit and PK Hemsley's Separation Announcement
Housewives fans have a lot to say about Doris and PK's recent announcement regarding their relationship.
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Stormy and the bookkeepers
On this week's episode, the crew discusses adult film actress Stormy Daniels' testimony about her sexual encounter with the former president, and whether the prosecution went too far in asking for specific details. And senior video journalist Jorge Ribas joins the show from outside the Manhattan courthouse where the trial is taking place, to reveal what it's like covering the trial and what reporters can actually see. Plus, video journalist Blair Guild breaks down former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's regular TikTok live broadcasts – a surprising move from one of the prosecution's key witnesses.
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Biden betrays Israel for the feeling of a few clueless college students
By withholding arms shipments to Israel President Biden made it clear that he does not want Israel to achieve its military objectives in the final battle of Rafah.
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Albany lawmakers pitch fix to undo Harvey Weinstein decision fallout
Harvey Weinstein is causing a retake on sex crimes laws in Albany. Lawmakers are racing to update trial procedures for accused perverts, after New York’s highest court threw out the disgraced movie mogul’s 2020 sex crimes conviction last month on a technicality. A group of legislators joined with some of Weinstein’s alleged victims Thursday to...
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Bodycam footage shows Florida cop gun down airman in his own home without warning
Roger Fortson's family said that the 23-year-old had armed himself with his own legal handgun in response to suspicious knocks at his door that turned out to be a sheriff's deputy.
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Two political operatives struck plea deals in Henry Cuellar bribe case
Newly unsealed documents show that Cuellar’s former campaign manager and a San Antonio businessman made plea agreements in March.
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Kaylee Gain recovering — but missing part of her skull — after vicious beatdown by classmate, family says
“The portion of Kaylee's skull that was removed still has not been put back in place," her family's attorney said.
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Rangers can’t keep counting on penalty kill to bail them out
Ten times the Rangers trudged to the penalty box in the first two games of this second-round series and 10 times the team escaped harm.
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Tom Brady Made One Topic Completely Off Limits At Roast, Says Comedian
Tom Brady was the center of a comedy roast, but he made one topic completely off-limits according to comedian Andrew Schulz.
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Bodkin’ On Netflix, Where A Trio Of Podcasters Find More Than Just A Cold Case In A Tiny Irish Village
Will Forte, Siobhán Cullen and Robyn Cara star in the first scripted series from the Obamas' Higher Ground Productions.
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A ‘Real Housewives’-ian Twist: Stormy Daniels Makes the Trump Trial Sexy
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Reuters/BravoAt The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, we think the ongoing Trump Trial is about as gossipy and enthralling as any episode of The Real Housewives. With that in mind, we’re recapping the drama like we’d write about any weekly Bravo show—with plenty of wit and snark.You absolutely hate to hear it, but Stormy Daniels kind of made the ongoing trial of Donald J. Trump…sexy. Yes, I said sexy—but not at all in the way you may think. (Hint: The term “sexy” definitely does not refer to her recounting intercourse with Trump.)Daniels made her grand return to the witness stand Thursday following her debut on Tuesday, which really made a splash. The adult film star talked about spanking Trump, called seeing him in his boxers a “jump scare,” and detailed how she forced him to change out of his wildly inappropriate silk jammies. Really, all laughable bits here. SNL will have a field day. You can’t make this stuff up!Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Justin and Hailey Bieber renew wedding vows before announcing pregnancy
They began their on-off relationship in 2016, going on to get engaged in the Bahamas in July 2018 and say "I do" two months later in a New York City courthouse.
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Should you try Kourtney Kardashian’s postpartum routine? A doula weighs in
The mom of four has been outspoken about her most recent postpartum experience, reflecting on the "pressure" women put on themselves to "bounce back."
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Drugged-out Florida man arrested after biting off piece of cop’s head at music festival
Suspect James Anderson was allegedly under the influence of PCP, LSD, ketamine, mushrooms and ecstasy, according to the Holmes County Sheriff's Office.
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Jewish students say they wanted more from MCPS at antisemitism hearing
Jewish students say they wish lawmakers questioned Montgomery County Public Schools’ response to antisemitism more thoroughly during Wednesday’s hearing.
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'Black Twitter: A People's History' tells how humor and hashtags fostered a subculture
The three-part Hulu docuseries traces how Black people have used the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, now X, as a means of communal expression.
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6 big takeaways from Day 14 of Trump's hush money trial
Stormy Daniels on Thursday concluded nearly seven hours of dramatic testimony in the former President Trump's criminal hush money trial.
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Iowa law lets police arrest migrants. The federal government and civil rights groups are suing
The U.S. Justice Department sued Iowa over its new law that would give the state the authority to arrest and deport some migrants.
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Rick Carlisle’s referee, small-market groans are hilariously moronic
One thing Carlisle hasn’t mentioned is just how grotesquely outcoached he has been in the series.
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Mother of the Bride’ on Netflix, a Destination Wedding Rom-Com Starring Brooke Shields
This destination-wedding comedy is set in Phuket, and this review really really wants to mispronounce the name of that city.
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2 skiers killed, 1 rescued after Utah avalanche
One skier was rescued and two were killed following an avalanche Thursday in the mountains outside of Salt Lake City.
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Fox News, Trump Agree: ‘Far-Left’ Is Worse Than ‘Any Foreign Adversary’
Jeenah Moon/GettyGoing out of their way to let Donald Trump know that they have his back, several Fox News hosts voiced their agreement on Thursday with the former president’s latest claim that the “far-left” is far more dangerous to America than “any foreign adversary.”Just as he’s done for weeks now, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee addressed the press before the start of Thursday’s proceedings in his hush-money trial. At one point, Trump fumed to reporters that America’s “problem is from the left and not from the right,” adding that progressives from “within the country” are a “bigger danger than China or Russia.”Teasing a segment about Trump’s comments on Fox News’ midday chatfest Outnumbered, host Emily Compagno cheerfully noted that the ex-president had just warned the public “that the far left is a far greater threat to America than any foreign adversary.” Before throwing it to commercial, she declared: “We’ll tell you why we agree.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Vox podcasts tackle the Israel-Hamas war 
Israeli forces’ flares light up the night sky in Gaza City on November 6, 2023. | Abed Khaled/AP Looking to understand the Israel-Hamas war? Start with these Vox podcast episodes. The Israel-Palestine conflict goes back decades, but this latest war has taken an unprecedented toll in terms of the number of people killed, and represents a significant step back from any hopes of securing a two-state solution and a permanent peace. Vox podcasts are covering the conflict in depth, offering our listeners context and clarity about the history of the conflict, a deeper understanding of the players in Israel and Palestine and on the world stage, and the toll of Hamas’s attack and Israel’s retaliation on the people in the region. Today, Explained, Vox’s daily news explainer podcast, has been covering the conflict since it began, with an episode posted right after Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel that took the lives of around 1,200 people and resulted in the kidnapping of an estimated 240 hostages. The show has since continued to cover many threads in this story, from where Hamas comes from to how false information about the conflict has spread on social media and how information warfare is used in the Middle East. Vox podcasts The Weeds and The Gray Area have also been covering the unfolding crisis, its stakes, and its impact. You can find those and all our other episodes on the topic below; we’ll continue to add more as new episodes are published. Biden’s breaking point on Gaza May 9, 2024 | President Joe Biden says the US won’t supply further weapons if Israel is going to use them in Rafah. Axios reporter Barak Ravid explains what that means for the war. Israel, Gaza, and Eurovision May 7, 2024 | The pop music competition is facing boycott calls over Israel’s participation. Switched on Pop’s Charlie Harding and historian Tess Megginson explain why the apolitical event keeps getting political. Is divesting from Israel possible? May 6, 2024 | Yes, but it’s hard. Inside Higher Ed’s Josh Moody and UC Merced’s Charlie Eaton explain. Columbia’s free-speech fight April 24, 2024 | Daily Spectator news editor Sarah Huddleston reports on the protests at her university. AAUP President Irene Mulvey explains the stakes for campus free speech. Why Iran attacked Israel April 15, 2024 | The Economist’s Gregg Carlstrom explains. Jerusalem-based journalist Noga Tarnopolsky explores whether the unprecedented attack hurts or helps Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel’s attack on World Central Kitchen April 4, 2024 | The Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Kalin explains what happened, and Refugees International president Jeremy Konyndyk lays out what this means for Gazans. How Israel is upending Democratic races March 5, 2024 | Super Tuesday is the biggest day of the presidential primary campaign, but the biggest race in the biggest state isn’t about Biden or Trump. Instead, the leading candidates for California’s open Senate seat — three Democrats and a Republican — are finding themselves talking a lot about Israel, Palestine, and the war in Gaza. The protest vote against Biden February 27, 2024 | Michigan’s primary today will test President Biden’s viability with Muslim voters amid the war in Gaza. One Arab American leader says the community is abandoning Biden and looking for alternatives — Donald Trump might be one of them. Rafah, the last “safe” zone February 15, 2024 | Palestinians are trapped in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, where about 1.5 million people have sought refuge. After Israel bombed Rafah this weekend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is threatening a ground invasion. Palestinian journalist Aseel Mousa takes us inside Rafah, and the Economist’s Anton La Guardia explains why diplomatic efforts to halt the fighting have stalled. Iran and the Axis of Resistance January 31, 2024 | Iran-backed militias use drones, missiles, and even TikTok dances to antagonize the United States and Israel. The International Crisis Group’s Ali Vaez explains how the war in Gaza has energized the self-described Axis of Resistance. Israel at the International Court of Justice January 29, 2024 | South Africa took Israel to court over claims of genocide. Courthouse News reporter Molly Quell and the International Crisis Group’s Robert Blecher explain what happened next. How the war in Gaza ends January 18, 2024 | Israel’s war against Hamas has now been raging for over 100 days. According to Ian Lustick, professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, history tells us what it will take to end it. Israel’s next move January 3, 2023 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces trouble at home and abroad. AP correspondent Tia Goldenberg and scholar Hussein Ibish explain the significance of a high-profile killing in Lebanon. The fight over campus antisemitism December 12, 2023 | Three elite university presidents walk into Congress for a hearing on antisemitism. Only two still have their jobs. New York magazine reporter Nia Prater tells us what happened, and a Harvard professor of Jewish history explains why he thinks resignations won’t make campuses safer. How Palestine went global December 4, 2023 | People with no direct connection to the Middle East have taken to seeing the Palestinian cause as an anti-colonial struggle connected to their own experience. Columbia historian Rashid Khalidi explains why “decolonization” is resonating worldwide. The American politics of Israel November 29, 2023 | The Israel-Hamas war is dividing the previously united Democrats and uniting the recently fractured Republican Party. Semafor’s David Weigel explains what that means going into 2024. The hostage deal (brought to you by Qatar) November 27, 2023 | After 50 days of the Israel-Hamas war, both sides took a breather to save lives. And it couldn’t have happened without Qatar. Inside the occupied West Bank November 20, 2023 | With the world focused on Gaza, Israeli settlers and soldiers are increasing attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank. Writer Nathan Thrall and journalist Dalia Hatuqa explain the decades of tension that shape life in the West Bank. A call from Gaza November 14, 2023 | People are desperately trying to escape Gaza as the siege on the strip continues. Mohammed Ghalaieny, a Palestinian British man, tells us why he is choosing to stay, even as other foreign nationals escape through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. A Jew and a Muslim get honest about Israel and Gaza November 13, 2023 | Zack Beauchamp, a Vox senior correspondent who writes about democracy and Israel, speaks with Shadi Hamid, a columnist at the Washington Post, research professor of Islamic studies at Fuller Seminary, and author of The Problem of Democracy: America, the Middle East, and the Rise and Fall of an Idea. They discuss the October 7 attack, the subsequent war in Gaza, what it means for Israelis and Palestinians, and how Jews and Muslims in the United States can find common ground amid their communities’ grief. This conversation was recorded on November 2, 2023. BDS and the history of the boycott November 8, 2023 | If you turn on the news or scroll through your social media feed of choice, there’s a good chance you’ll see the latest on the Israel-Hamas war — and the reaction to it. But there’s one call to action making its way down social media feeds that feels different from all these other responses. It’s called BDS, short for boycott, divest, and sanction. And like just about everything related to this conflict, it’s complicated and controversial. The Weeds host Jonquilyn Hill sits down with Vox senior reporter Whizy Kim to explain the controversial movement, and with Cornell professor and author of Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America Lawrence B. Glickman to discuss the history of boycotts and whether they even work. Ceasefire? November 8, 2023 | Protesters, politicians, and the pope are calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, but the US and Israeli governments remain opposed. Vox’s Jonathan Guyer and Jon B. Alterman from the Center for Strategic and International Studies explain what happens next. The view from Israel November 2, 2023 | Israelis overwhelmingly disapprove of their government’s handling of the October 7 attacks, but their desire for unity keeps Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in power. Michael Koplow of the Israel Policy Forum explains what Israel’s government should do next, and professor Noah Efron of Bar-Ilan University describes the mood among Israelis. Gaza’s humanitarian crisis October 30, 2023 | Cut off from water and power and recovering from a communications blackout, Gaza is plunged deeper into crisis. It’s not just a humanitarian problem, says leading human rights attorney Kenneth Roth — it’s a violation of international law. Why does the US always side with Israel? October 25, 2023 | This was the top question we got when we asked Today, Explained listeners hat they wanted to know about this conflict. Joel Beinin, Middle East history professor emeritus at Stanford, has answers. Hearts, minds, and likes October 23, 2023 | False information about what is happening in Israel and Gaza is taking over social media faster than journalists like BBC Verify’s Shayan Sardarizadeh can check it. That’s exactly how digital propagandists want it, says professor and social media expert Marc Owen Jones. Biden goes to Israel October 18, 2023 | It’s been 11 days since Hamas attacked Israel, killing civilians and taking hostages. Israel’s retaliation has killed hundreds of Palestinians and created a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment Aaron David Miller and Middle East analyst Michael Wahid Hanna explain what role diplomacy will play in the coming days. How Palestinians view Hamas October 16, 2023 | The US along with Israel and many of its allies have long considered Hamas a terrorist group. Khaled Al-Hroub, a professor at Northwestern University in Qatar, explains how its reputation is a lot murkier among Palestinians, who elected the group to political power in 2006. Israel, Hamas, and how we got here October 10, 2023 | This Israel-Hamas war is unlike the ones that came before it, says Haaretz’s Allison Kaplan Sommer. But it was years in the making, says Vox’s Zack Beauchamp.
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Biden tells a lie a minute during CNN interview
From whoppers about the economy to prevarications on Israel, Biden spun a Fantasyland of a presidency that voters know is false.
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Sean Penn puffs a cigarette, hangs with Hunter Biden at Soho House in Malibu
The movie star and son of President Joe Biden were seen casually chatting while posted outside of the swanky members' only club.
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Mini Dachshund Raised by Cats Doesn't Have Single Dog 'Bone in Her Body'
The dog likes snuggling with the cats, climbing the cat tree, and laying in the hammock with them.
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Rangers can’t let Hurricanes’ goalie switch change their game
As much as the Rangers may like the fact that the opposing coach is searching for answers, they’ve seen this goalie-switch movie before and it didn’t work out so well for them.
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Fox News Politics: No calm after the Stormy
The latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more Fox News politics content
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Biden backstabs Israel on military aid: Letters to the Editor — May 10, 2024
NY Post readers discuss President Biden withholding military aid to Israel in an effort to stop the IDF from entering Rafah.
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Ricki Lake refused Ozempic for weight loss despite doctor's claims she couldn't lose weight without it
Ricki Lake shared how she lost over 30 pounds without using Ozempic. The "Hairspray" star revealed a doctor told her she couldn't lose the weight without the drug.
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Dorit and PK Kemsley celebrated 9th wedding anniversary 2 months before announcing split
The "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" stars announced on Instagram Thursday that they made the "difficult decision to take some time apart."
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Jill Zarin Shares 'Below Deck' Cast's Unexpected Reaction to Her Numerous Complaints
The reality star revealed the cast's reaction to her behavior on the show.
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You Just Don’t See the Foam Neck Brace Anymore
It used to be that whenever someone on TV or in a movie fell off the roof or had a skiing mishap or got into any sort of auto accident, the odds were pretty good that they’d end up in a neck brace. You know what I mean: a circlet of beige foam, or else a rigid ring of plastic, spanning from an actor’s chin down to their sternum. Jack Lemmon wore a neck brace for a part. So did Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Roberts, and Bill Murray. For many decades, this was pop culture’s universal symbol for I’ve hurt myself.Now it’s not. People on TV and in the movies no longer seem to suffer like they used to, which is to say they no longer suffer cervically. Plastic braces do still crop up from time to time on-screen, but their use in sight gags is as good as dead. In the meantime, the soft-foam collar—which has always been the brace’s most recognizable form—has been retired. I don’t just mean that it’s been evicted from the props department; the collar has been set aside in clinics too. At some point in the past few decades, a device that once stood in for trauma and recovery was added to a list of bygone treatments, alongside leeches and the iron lung. Simply put, the collar vanished. Where’d it go?The story naturally begins in doctors’ offices, where a new form of injury—“whiplash”—started to emerge amid the growing car culture of the 1940s and the early ’50s. “It is not difficult for anyone who travels on a highway to realize why the ‘painful neck’ is being produced daily in large numbers,” two Pennsylvania doctors wrote in 1955. Following a rear-end collision, a driver’s body will be thrown forward and upward, they explained. The driver’s neck will flex in both directions, “like a car radio aerial.”The damage from this jerking to and fro could not necessarily be seen in any medical scan. It was understood to be more of a sprain than a fracture, causing pain and stiffness in the neck that might spread into the shoulder. Many patients found these problems faded quickly, but for some of them—maybe even half—the discomfort lingered. Whiplash in its graver forms led to dizzy spells, sensory disturbances, and cognitive decline (all of which are also signs of mild traumatic brain injuries). And it could leave its victims in a lasting state of disability—chronic whiplash, doctors called it—characterized by fatigue, memory problems, and headache.[Read: Chronic whiplash is a mystery]From the start, standard whiplash treatment would include the wearing of a soft appliance: a foam collar to support the patient’s head and stifle excess movement. But the underlying problem had a squishiness about it too. If the damage to the neck was invisible to imaging, how was it causing so much misery? Some doctors guessed that the deeper, more persistent wounds of whiplash might be psychic. A paper on the problem published in 1953, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggested that the chronic form of whiplash might best be understood as neurosis—a “disturbing emotional reaction” to an accident that produces lasting ailments. These early whiplash doctors didn’t claim that their patients were malingering; rather, they argued that the underlying source of anguish was diverse. It might comprise, in various proportions, damage to the ligaments and muscles, brain concussion, and psychology. Doctors worried that these different etiologies were hard to tease apart, especially in a legal context, when “the complicating factor of monetary compensation,” as one study put it, was in play. (These uncertainties persist, in one form or another, to this day.)A clinical unease colored how the neck brace would be seen and understood by members of the public. For about as long as it was used for treating whiplash, the collar held opposing meanings: Someone had an injury, and also that injury was fake. In The Fortune Cookie, the Billy Wilder comedy from 1966, a cameraman (played by Lemmon) gets knocked over at a football game and then persuaded by his sleazy lawyer—a guy called “Whiplash Willie”—to pretend he’s gravely hurt. They’re planning to defraud the big insurance companies, and Lemmon’s plastic neck brace will be central to the act.Indeed, the stock setting for the collar, soft and hard alike, has always been the courtroom. When Carol Brady finds herself before a judge in an episode of The Brady Bunch from 1972, the “victim” of her fender bender, Mr. Duggan, hobbles into court with an ostentatious you-know-what. “A neck brace—do you believe that?” she asks. Of course you don’t; that’s the point. Mr. Duggan tells the judge that he’s just come from the doctor’s office, and that he has whiplash. (He puts the stress on the word’s second syllable: whipLASH. The condition was still new enough, back then, that its pronunciation hadn’t fully settled.)[Read: No one in movies knows how to swallow a pill]Concerns about unfounded civil suits multiplied in the ’70s and ’80s, thanks in part to what the law professor Marc Galanter would later term the “elite folklore” of seemingly outrageous legal claims, stripped of context and diffused throughout the culture by mass media. There was the woman who said she’d lost her psychic powers after getting a CT scan, the worker at a convenience store who complained that she’d hurt her back while opening a pickle jar, the senior citizen who sued McDonald’s after spilling coffee in her lap. And then of course there was the granddaddy of them all: the whiplash faker in a neck brace—the Mr. Duggan type, familiar from the screen.Car-insurance premiums were going up and companies were pointing to exaggerated whiplash claims from drivers whose “soft injuries” could not be verified objectively. Financial motives did appear to be in play for certain plaintiffs: In Saskatchewan, where a no-fault system of insurance had been introduced and most lawsuits for pain and suffering were eliminated, the number of whiplash-based insurance claims appeared to drop. (Similar correlations have been observed in other countries too.) In the early 1990s, the New Jersey Insurance Department even staged a series of minor accidents involving buses wired up with hidden cameras—they’d be rear-ended by a slowly moving car—to test the prevalence of fraud. The department’s investigators found that Whiplash Willie–style lawyers quickly swooped on passengers to cajole them into making claims of damage to their neck and back.By this time, the neck brace’s mere appearance in a movie or TV show would be enough to generate a laugh. It just seemed so silly and so fake! In the courtroom, insurance companies and other businesses grew less inclined to settle whiplash cases, Valerie Hans, a psychologist and law professor at Cornell, told me. Instead they’d try their luck, and mostly find success, in jury trials. To find out why, Cornell and a colleague did a formal survey of potential jurors’ attitudes about such injuries in 1999, and found that the presence of a neck brace on a plaintiff might only make them more suspicious. Fewer than one-third believed that whiplash injuries were “usually” or “always” legitimate.[Read: Whatever happened to carpal tunnel syndrome?]If the soft neck brace was already well established as a joke on television and a liability in court, the medical establishment soon turned against it too. A series of randomized controlled trials of whiplash treatments, conducted in the 1990s and 2000s, all arrived at the same conclusion: Usage of the soft foam collar was “ineffective at best,” as one evidence review from 2010 described it. At worst, it could be doing harm by preventing patients from engaging in the mobility and exercise programs that seemed more beneficial.A broader shift away from telling patients to keep still, and toward assigning active interventions, was under way in medicine. Bed rest and other forms of immobilization were falling out of favor in the treatment of back injuries, for example. Concussion doctors, too, began to wonder whether the standard guidance for patients to do nothing was really such a good idea. (The evidence suggested otherwise.) And uncertainty was even spreading to the other kinds of cervical orthoses, such as the stiff devices made of foam and plastic called trauma collars, which remain in widespread use by EMTs. These are meant to immobilize a patient’s neck, to help ensure that any damage to their upper spine will not be worsened. But their rationale was being questioned too.In 2014, a team of doctors based in Norway, led by the neurosurgeon Terje Sundstrøm, published a “critical review” of trauma-collar use. “For many years, the cervical collar was the symbol of good health care, or good pre-hospital care,” Sundstrøm told me. “If the patient wasn’t fitted with one, then you didn’t know what you were doing.” But he described the evidence of their benefits as “very poor.” His paper notes that at least 50 patients have their necks immobilized for every one that has a major spinal injury. Trauma collars can interfere with patients’ breathing, according to some research, and their use has been associated with patients’ potential overtreatment. They’re also quite uncomfortable, which may agitate some patients, who could then make just the sorts of movements that the EMTs are, in theory, trying to prevent.In short, despite trauma collars’ near-universal use since the 1960s, no one really knows how much they help, or whether they might even hurt. Sundstrøm said that his own health-care system gave up on using trauma collars a dozen years ago, and has yet to see a single injury as a result. Official guidelines for the emergency use of cervical braces have lately been revisited in a small handful of countries, but Sundstrøm does not expect major changes to take hold. “I don’t think there will ever be really good studies for or against collars like this,” he said, in part because cervical spinal injuries are very, very rare. For the same reason, we may never even know for sure whether collars are appropriate for patients whose cervical fractures have been confirmed in the hospital. “There hasn’t really been any interest in this research topic either,” he told me. Instead, doctors just rely on common sense about which interventions are likely to be helpful.So the use of rigid trauma collars is likely to persist regardless of uncertainty. In health care, that’s more the norm than the exception. Research is difficult, the human body is complex, and tradition rules the day. Lots of standard interventions, maybe even most of them, aren’t fully known to do much good. Viewed against this backdrop, the soft foam collar—rarely useful, always doubted, often mocked—may finally have flipped its meaning. For years it stood for fakery and false impressions and also, ironically, for a lack of proper evidence in medicine—for a failure of support. Now it may signify the opposite. By disappearing from the movies, the courtroom, and the clinic, this form of neck brace has become a rare example of a lesson duly learned. It shows that science can correct itself, every now and then. It shows that progress may be slow, but it is real.
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Man convicted of murder following homophobic incident in Fairfax City
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Judge Engoron Faces Questions After Lawyer Says He Advised on Trump Case
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Consultants close to Rep. Henry Cuellar plead guilty to conspiracy
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NBA champion Glen 'Big Baby' Davis sentenced to prison in insurance fraud scheme
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Maggie Goodlander, wife of Biden official, launches congressional campaign
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