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This mother delivered a baby and a PhD dissertation on the same day

New Jersey mom Tamiah Brevard-Rodriguez recounts the day she was working on her doctoral dissertation presentation from Rutgers University when she went into labor.

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Kentucky woman goes on shooting rampage, kills husband, sister before dying in shootout with brother: police

A woman shot and killed her husband and her sister before trying to kill her brother - but her brother was armed and killed her in a shootout, according to Kentucky State Police.

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Portland graffiti vandals battle with police for ‘notoriety’ as government dedicates millions to cleanup

As graffiti vandals in Portland jockey for notoriety and positioning on the sides of buildings, police are struggling to catch perpetrators and clean up the city.

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Cruise ship docks at New York City port with 44-foot dead endangered whale caught on its bow

A cruise ship sailed into a New York City port over the weekend with a 44-foot dead endangered whale across its bow, marine authorities confirmed.

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Michigan man charged in alleged plot to bomb Satanic Temple

Luke Terpstra, 30, of Grant, Michigan, has been charged with two felonies for allegedly plotting to bomb the Satanic Temple in Salem, Massachusetts.

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El cantante no binario Nemo es uno de los favoritos para ganar Eurovisión

No importa si Nemo gana el Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión este fin de semana —lo que lo convertiría en el/la primer concursante no binario en llevarse a casa el micrófono de cristal_, el cantante ya es un éxito.

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Even Donald Trump Is Getting Tired of MTG’s House Speaker Antics

Elijah Nouvelage / AFP via Getty ImagesEven Donald Trump seemed peeved by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) ill-fated attempt to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson Wednesday, with the former president posting to his Truth Social platform that she was risking “CHAOS” in the chamber and making Republicans look bad.“I absolutely love Marjorie Taylor G

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Biden reveals advice Obama is giving him

CNN's Erin Burnett talks to President Joe Biden about how he is facing Trump in the 2024 election, and what advice former President Obama is giving him.

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Bette Midler says 'Bette' sitcom was a 'big mistake' — and so was not suing Lindsay Lohan

Bette Midler regrets doing her short-lived 2000 CBS sitcom, 'Bette.' She also wishes she had sued Lindsay Lohan for bailing on the show after doing its pilot.

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Nuggets' Nikola Jokic wins NBA MVP for 3rd time

Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic was named the NBA MVP for the third time in his career. He won it over Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Luka Doncic.

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Disney recibe otra aprobación clave para expandir sus parques temáticos en el sur de California

Disneyland fue el segundo parque temático más visitado del mundo en 2022

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NYC couple’s ‘great’ first date interrupted by carjacking as Romeo joins cops in high-speed chase for $150K BMW: ‘Found those motherf—kers’

Joseph Sadykov, 23, and his date had fallen asleep in the back of his BWM when they were robbed.

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NYPD nab of alleged migrant gang leader proves broken-windows policing works

Victor Parra, the suspected co-ringleader of a migrant gang, was nabbed last week after three months on the lam for failing to wear a helmet. Broken windows policing works!

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I witnessed Israel choosing life as it fights against a ‘death cult’

I’ve never seen as much of the best and the worst of humankind as I have in the past six months in Israel and Gaza.

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Trump rebukes Marjorie Taylor Greene's failed attempt to oust Speaker: 'Not the time'

Former President Donald Trump called on House Republicans to table a motion from Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is seeking to oust Speaker Mike Johnson.

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Oh, mercy: Jackson-Reed makes it 31 straight DCIAA baseball titles

The Tigers score seven in the first and roll to yet another DCIAA championship. But they have bigger goals in mind.

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Patrick Ewing refuses to wade into fray after Charles Oakley’s ‘best’ Knick diss

Mark Jackson had defended the 11-time All-Star and Hall of Fame center, listing No. 33 above the legendary Clyde Frazier in the franchise hierarchy.

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Officials issue boil water advisory for NW Washington neighborhoods

D.C. water officials issued a boil water advisory Wednesday for areas of Northwest Washington after a water main ruptured.

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Who Really Has Brain Worms?

Earlier today, The New York Times broke some startling news about a presidential candidate. According to a 2012 deposition, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once suffered from, in his own words, “a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.” The vague yet alarming description could apply to any number of parasitic ailments, among them

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Earlier today, The New York Times broke some startling news about a presidential candidate. According to a 2012 deposition, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once suffered from, in his own words, “a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.” The vague yet alarming description could apply to any number of parasitic ailments, among them angiostrongyliasis, baylisascariasis, toxocariasis, strongyloidiasis, and trichinosis. But some experts immediately suspected a condition called neurocysticercosis (NCC), in which the larvae of the pork tapeworm Taenia solium post up in the brain.The condition might sound terrifying—and, to some observers, darkly hilarious. Literal brain worms! But it does not actually involve any brain-munching, or even your standard-issue worm. The brain-invading culprit is instead a tapeworm (strictly, a kind of helminth) that typically makes its home in pigs. As far as parasitic infections go, this is “the most common one in the brain,” Laila Woc-Colburn, an infectious-disease physician at Emory University, told me. And globally, it’s one of the most common causes of epilepsy in adults.NCC typically begins after people have been exposed to feces that contain the eggs of a pork tapeworm, say while on a pig farm or handling uncooked, contaminated food. After the eggs are swallowed, they hatch into larvae in the gut. Because people aren’t the appropriate host for the young tapeworms, they end up on a fruitless journey, meandering through the body in a desperate attempt to find pig muscle. A common final destination for the larvae is the brain, where they enclose themselves into cysts in the hopes of maturing; eventually, unable to complete their life cycle, they die, leaving behind little more than a calcified nub.[Read: Flatworms are metal]This is, to put it scientifically, some pretty gnarly stuff. But many cases are “completely asymptomatic,” Boghuma Kabisen Titanji, also an infectious-disease physician at Emory University, told me. In other people, though—especially those with a lot of larval cysts—the presence of the foreign invaders can spark a wave of inflammation, which in turn triggers swelling and tissue destruction. Individuals with cysts in their brain may develop headaches or seizures, though those problems can take years or even decades to manifest, Titanji said.Experts estimate that millions of people may be afflicted with NCC worldwide, most of them concentrated in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, and India. In the U.S., though, NCC is rather rare, with just a few thousand diagnoses made each year, many of them related to travel or immigration. “This is a disease of poverty,” Woc-Colburn told me. Which would make the multimillionaire Kennedy—if he had the infection at all—“an atypical patient.”There is, at least, some comforting news. NCC is pretty easily preventable with solid hand-washing habits. And in the U.S., where CT scans are fairly accessible, “it can be diagnosed very easily,” Woc-Colburn said, particularly once doctors have a good sense of a patient’s exposure history. Doctors generally know to look for it in patients who come in with headaches and seizures. (Kennedy first sought help after experiencing memory loss and mental fogginess, though he recently told the Times that those symptoms have since resolved and that he hadn’t received treatment for the parasite.) The infection is also treatable with standard antiparasitics. And caught early, it isn’t expected to leave lingering damage. In more serious cases, though, years of severe, unmanaged seizures can lead to certain cognitive defects.[Read: America’s never-ending battle against flesh-eating worms]None of this is to say that Kennedy definitely had NCC. All the public knows is that, in 2010, he said that he was battling neurological symptoms, and that an unusual blemish appeared on a brain scan. (The memory loss and mental fogginess may very well have been attributable to mercury poisoning from Kennedy’s diet at the time, which was high in tuna and perch, according to the same 2012 deposition.) Even if a parasite was definitely to blame, “at least six or seven” others could have ended up in his brain, Titanji told me. Like the pork-tapeworm larvae, several of them would have ended up there accidentally, only to die a quick death without gulping down any brain tissue.The most comforting news about NCC is that—again—it is uncommon in the United States. Still, now that this news has broken, Woc-Colburn worries that her clinic is going to fill up with people who think they’re afflicted. Given the odds, many of them will be wrong. If anyone’s really worried about their gray matter becoming lunch, they shouldn’t fear worms, but Naegleria fowleri, a rare amoeba that camps out in warm bodies of water. That one, I regret to report, really does eat your brain.

Nicaragua cancels a controversial Chinese interoceanic canal concession after nearly a decade

Nicaragua's congress has canceled a controversial canal concession, granted years ago to a Chinese businessman, that would have linked the country's Pacific and Atlantic coasts.

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Arizona county to build bridge over creek where 3 children drowned

Gila County, Arizona, is using a $21 million federal grant to construct a bridge over Tonto Creek, where three young children died in a 2019 incident.

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GOP bill adding citizenship question to 2030 census passes House without a single Democrat

The House is eyeing multiple avenues for cracking down on how illegal immigration could affect U.S. elections, including adding a citizenship question to the census.

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Legal expert disagrees with Trump defense team's strategy shift for Stormy Daniels

CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig says he does not agree with the Trump defense team's decision to extend their cross-examination of Stormy Daniels and warns them about being too aggressive when questioning her.

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NYC vandals who defaced WWI statue, burned American flag should 'learn their history,' veterans group says

A World War I monument in Central Park defaced by protesters this week has left veterans groups and local officials frustrated and infuriated.

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Prince Harry celebrates Invictus Games at UK event while royal family attends garden party just miles away

Prince Harry marked the Invictus Games' 10th anniversary at a church service on Wednesday while King Charles and other royal family members attended a garden party two miles away.

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Chynna Phillips says there were 'many curses' during 'painful and traumatic' upbringing

Chynna Phillips reflected on difficult feelings with a family member in a video diary, which triggered memories of "complex trauma" within her own unit.

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UConn frat prez charged with assaulting pledge during hazing ritual: police

“He grabbed me by my uniform shirt that I had to wear, and he threw me across the room into wall.”

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Pete McCloskey, GOP congressman who once challenged Nixon, dies at 96

Former California Congressman Pete McCloskey, who ran as a Republican challenging President Richard Nixon in 1972, has died

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The AP just showed it knows absolutely nothing about young Catholics

Last week, a big exposé on the state of American Catholicism did something I never would have expected from the mainstream media: It made the Church look good.

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An 87-year-old was brutally beaten to death. A guilty plea 2 years later.

Julias Wright, 27, pleaded guilty to murder in the killing of Johnny Lee Shepherd, which prosecutors alleged was over car damage.

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