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Hair samples reveal the benefits of lead regulation

Popular Science

Before the EPA, Utah saw 100 times more lead exposure. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The evidence is clear--and in your hair. Americans were exposed to as much as 100 times more lead in their daily lives than they are today before the Environmental Protection Agency was established in 1970. In an effort to examine the dramatic reduction in toxic heavy metal exposure, researchers turned to human hair samples dating back a century.


Trump threatens to sue Trevor Noah over 'false and defamatory' Epstein jab at Grammy Awards

FOX News

President Donald Trump blasted theย Grammy Awards as "virtually unwatchable" and threatened legal action against host Trevor Noah over a "defamatory" Jeffrey Epstein jab.


Blizzard's quality assurance workers finally have a union contract

Engadget

Blizzard's quality assurance workers finally have a union contract The agreement includes guardrails around AI in the workplace and guaranteed pay increases. Almost three years after starting the bargaining process with Microsoft, quality assurance workers at two Blizzard locations have ratified a union contract . The agreement covers 60 workers at Blizzard Albany and Blizzard Austin. The agreement includes guaranteed pay increases across the three years of the contract, assurances that workers will be given fair credits and recognition on games that ship, discrimination-free disability accommodations, restrictions on crunch (i.e. Stronger rules around the use of AI are included in the contract as well.



Kennedy Center to close for two years for renovations, Trump says

BBC News

The Kennedy Center in Washington DC will be closed for a two-year renovation beginning in July, President Donald Trump has announced. In a post on Truth Social on Sunday, Trump said the centre would close on 4 July this year in honor of the 250th Anniversary of our Country. The move follows several artists cancelling performances at the storied institution after it was recently renamed as the Trump Kennedy Center. Shortly after taking office, the president fired several of the board members at the centre and replaced them with allies, who then voted to make Trump chairman of the board. The new board renamed the institution the Donald J Trump and the John F Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts in December.


'Melania' buried with low critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, scores 99% with verified audience

FOX News

Melania Trump documentary sparks controversy with stark divide on Rotten Tomatoes as critics panned the documentary as "propaganda" despite it scoring 99% with the "verified audience."


Gavin Newsom Is Playing the Long Game

The New Yorker

He catches nascent changes in the political weather. "During early, he kept telling me, 'Crime--there's something here,' " DeBoo told me. DeBoo studied the latest crime statistics and saw nothing unusual. He brushed off the worry. Then new numbers came out, showing a large pandemic spike in shoplifting and car theft, and concerns about crime exploded into the headlines. Last March, judging the winds, Newsom launched a podcast, "This Is Gavin Newsom."


The Information Networks That Connect Venezuelans in Uncertain Times

WIRED

The people of Venezuela have spent years learning resilience in the face of censorship, disinformation, and repression. They now rely on those tools more than ever. In the early morning hours of Saturday, January 3, the roar of bombs dropping from the sky announced the US military attack on Venezuela, waking the sleeping residents of La Carlota, in Caracas, a neighborhood adjacent to the air base that was a target of Operation Absolute Resolve. Marina G.'s first thought, as the floors, walls, and windows of her second-story apartment shook, was that it was an earthquake. Her cat scrambled and hid for hours, while the neighbors' dogs began to bark incessantly.


'Trauma does not define us': Living with loss in wartime Ukraine

Al Jazeera

Could Ukraine hold a presidential election right now? Will Europe use frozen Russian assets to fund war? How can Ukraine rebuild China ties? 'Ukraine is running out of men, money and time' 'Trauma does not define us': Living with loss in wartime Ukraine She pauses, looking up at the photograph fixed to the gravestone. His face bears a striking resemblance to hers.