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Georgia lawmakers passed a bill that would reduce sentences for domestic violence survivors if they can tie their crimes to abuse

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The Xiaomi SU7, which has been lauded for its safety features since its March 2024 market launch, has recorded its first widely reported fatal accident, resulting in the deaths of three female university students.

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Initial reports on Chinese social media claimed the vehicle caught fire after a collision, with allegations that the “doors could not be unlocked, preventing escape.” The incident quickly gained attention as the first publicly reported fatality involving Xiaomi’s flagship electric vehicle.

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A study published in Nature of over 280,000 older adults in Wales found those who received the Zostavax shingles vaccine were 20% less likely to develop dementia over seven years, with the strongest effect in women.

Researchers used a natural experiment created by a 2013 vaccine rollout to compare dementia rates between eligible and ineligible age groups.

Though the exact mechanism is unclear, experts believe the vaccine may reduce brain inflammation or boost immune protection.

The findings mark the strongest evidence yet linking shingles vaccination to reduced dementia risk.

What are your recommendations for getting rid of weeds and grass that's grown over a garden plot? I recently purchased a house that came with a fenced in, on the ground, garden but it's gotten a bit overgrown.

Cleaning up the weeds with some good ol' elbow grease has been working so far, but I want to make sure that the weeds don't grow back, at least to a meaningfully bad degree. I also don't know if this is the best, or even a good method since I'm new to gardening.

I was thinking of putting down some rolls of paper where I don't want any plants but there are so many options and I don't know which to go with. Advice on that route would be appreciated as well.

Thank you in advance.

Edit: I just saw a different post here about starting a garden plot from grass which sounds relevant to my issue. I'm leaning towards fallowing the plot and tarping it this growing season and trying again next cycle.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is detaining families with young children for days and weeks at crossings along the New York-Canada border

Edit: Thanks, everyone!

I know an incredibly smart senior here near Milwaukee County, WI who's disabled by MS and has been restricted to using a scooter for years. He'd love to walk again, but I but I don't know how he can get involved in studies like this: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00863-0

All I could find was the ISSCR (Int'l Society for Stem Cell Research), but I don't think reaching them directly would be fruitful, would it?

The indoctrination of windows is extreme. Windows is just as hard as linux, harder even with all the layers of obscurity.

And yet... linux is hard, and users decry RTFM as "not growing the userbase"

In an international operation spanning 38 countries, German investigators said on Wednesday that they had dismantled "KidFlix", a major online platform for the distribution of child sex abuse images with 1.8 million users worldwide.

UNICEF revealed an average of around 100 children have been killed or maimed over the past 10 days as Israel broke the Gaza ceasefire.

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Bitcoin mines—massive computing clusters generating cryptocurrency tokens—consume vast amounts of electricity. The amount of fine particle (PM2.5) air pollution created because of their electricity consumption and its effect on environmental health is pending. In this study, we located the 34 largest mines in the United States in 2022, identified the electricity-generating plants that responded to them, and pinpointed communities most harmed by Bitcoin mine-attributable air pollution. From mid-2022 to mid-2023, the 34 mines consumed 32.3 terawatt-hours of electricity—33% more than Los Angeles—85% of which came from fossil fuels. We estimated that 1.9 million Americans were exposed to ≥0.1 μg/m3 of additional PM2.5 pollution from Bitcoin mines, often hundreds of miles away from the communities they affected. Americans living in four regions—including New York City and near Houston—were exposed to the highest Bitcoin mine-attributable PM2.5 concentrations (≥0.5 μg/m3) with the greatest health risks.

Now a new NIH-funded study led by researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has identified the mechanism behind this phenomenon, showing that the gut’s motility is altered by exercise, pressure, and inflammation.

The study results, based on experiments in mice and published March 24 in Cell, reveal that a pressure-sensing protein called PIEZO1 — named after the Greek word for pressure and the discovery of which won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — plays a key role both in coordinating intestinal movements and keeping inflammation in this organ at bay.

To better understand PIEZO1’s exact role, the team tested mouse intestinal tissue under varying pressure conditions. In normal mice, the intestines contracted when pressure increased. However, in mice genetically altered to lack Piezo1, the tissue failed to contract under pressure, confirming that PIEZO1 acts as a pressure sensor, helping regulate gut movement.

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Sen. Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours and 4 minutes on the Senate floor, breaking the 1957 record held by Strom Thurmond, to protest the Trump administration’s policies.

Starting at 7 p.m. Monday, Booker criticized Trump's actions on immigration, education, healthcare, and democracy.

Over a dozen Senate Democrats joined to support him. Unlike a filibuster, Booker’s speech wasn't tied to a specific bill.

His emotionally charged address drew over 115,000 livestream viewers and contrasted starkly with Thurmond’s segregationist stand decades ago.

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Elon Musk sparked alarm among law enforcement by publicly revealing details of a planned Social Security fraud arrest during a livestream supporting a Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate.

Musk claimed knowledge of a suspect accused of stealing 400,000 Social Security numbers, raising concerns from federal officials over breaching investigative confidentiality.

Musk's comments echoed unverified claims of undocumented immigrants defrauding benefits and voting.

DOJ declined to comment, while insiders worry Musk’s disclosures jeopardize sensitive operations.