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Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (AFP) – A garbage collector in Rio de Janeiro got the surprise of his life on Tuesday when he found a newborn baby, that he first took for a discarded doll, abandoned next to a dumpster.

A video of Samuel da Silva dos Santos holding the baby girl found in a box on a street strewn with trash went viral on social media, sparking a mixture of joy and indignation in the Brazilian seaside city.

The infant, whose bare legs are seen sticking out of a too-small pink blanket, makes no sound in the video but her mouth can be seen twitching.

"It's very emotional because she is a warrior, isn't she? She was born again," Silva told AFP later through tears.

Although she did not react at first to being picked up, when Silva "took her in his arms, I think she felt more cuddled and a bit warmer. It was then that she began to open her eyes (...) it's surreal," Silva's garbage truck partner Anderson Mendes Nunes added.

The pair found the baby in a box next to a dumpster in the north of the city, as they were nearing the end of their route in the middle of the night.

Rio police are trying to identify the child and to discover who abandoned her, local media reported.

The pair handed the little girl over to Rio's health services, which later declared her to be in "stable" condition.

Silva said they were lucky they spotted the baby.

"We usually work quickly with shovels, tossing it (the garbage into the truck). It could have been worse," he said.

A father of three, he says he wants to adopt the little girl.

"She needs someone who will give her love, who will give her care," he said emotionally.

He said the incident brought back memories of a tragic find 18 years ago, when he discovered the body of a baby in the garbage.

Social media users were torn between sympathy for the situation of the absent mother and anger.

"I can't imagine the desperation that led to this decision," one person wrote on X.

"How can someone do that to their own daughter?" another wondered.

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ICE admitted it mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia—despite his legal protection from removal—to El Salvador’s brutal CECOT prison.

A Maryland judge had barred his deportation due to gang threats in El Salvador.

The Trump administration claims it can't intervene since he’s no longer in U.S. custody.

His family is suing to compel his return. The administration also deported over 200 Venezuelans using emergency powers, some without criminal records, sparking legal challenges and criticism of its use of the Alien Enemies Act.

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Several top scientists charged with overseeing research into disease prevention and cures at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were notified that they were subject to a reduction in force on Tuesday as part of a devastating purge of federal employees carried out by US Health and Human Services secretary Robert Kennedy Jr., WIRED has learned.

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The Department of Education announced Monday it's investigating 60 colleges and universities over allegations of antisemitic harassment and discrimination.

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The World Socialist Web Site spoke recently with a United States Postal Service (USPS) letter carrier about the effects of the consolidation of a former facility into a new Sorting and Delivery Center (S&DC). The consolidation of offices into larger S&DCs has accelerated under the Delivering for America (DFA) initiative, now in its fourth year, which is aimed at consolidating operations into large Amazon-style automated facilities, wiping out tens of thousands of jobs.

According to the Save the Post Office website, as of last year, more than 3,300 postal delivery routes from 200 spoke offices had been consolidated into 60 S&DCs, a process which appears to be accelerating.

WSWS: What kinds of changes were introduced with Deliver for America?

LC: Now a new machine has been added, the SDUS, which increases the speed but has lowered the efficiency. Packages not only are more likely to end up in the wrong gurney, but they also sort big [within weight and dimension limits of the machine] and small packages together.

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I currently use a normal tablet for watching lectures + taking notes in splitscreen mode, but I've been thinking that this would be the ideal device for my workflow. Essentially a hinged, dual-pane tablet with stylus support – prefarably with Android. Does anyone know if something like this exists, or if there are any tablets that I can buy a second hinged screen for?

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60080304

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