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In the battle for the presidency this year, the most powerful weapon may not be money or clever ads, or even a hot-button issue like abortion or the border.It easily could be math. And as unexciting as that sounds in a year full of campaign and courtroom drama, the masters of the map in President Joe Biden’s and Donald Trump’s campaigns may well be the ones who secure victory for one or the other candidate.Biden starts the process at a slight mathematical disadvantage from 2020: Redistricting af…
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(Reuters) - A Texas appeals court on Thursday reversed its prior ruling and acquitted a woman who had been sentenced to five years in prison for attempting to vote in the 2016 election against state law, after a higher court ordered it to reconsider.Crystal Mason was convicted of illegally voting two years after that election by a trial court, which ruled that she tried to cast a provisional ballot despite being on supervised release from prison for a felony and therefore ineligible to vote.The…
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By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, March 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Artificial intelligence programs could be an effective way to relieve the paperwork burden that keeps doctors from seeing more patients, a new study finds.The AI program Chat GPT can write administrative medical notes up to ten times faster than doctors without compromising the quality of the reports, Swiss researchers report.Human orthopedic doctors and Chat GPT separately prepared discharge papers and notes for six…
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By Ernie Mundell HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, March 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Ever immersed yourself in a book and lost all sense of the time and place you’re currently in?That’s how reading can meld with mindfulness, one neuropsychologist explains.The experience can bring real mental health benefits, said Dr. Samantha Henry, an assistant professor of neurology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.“Reading is a quiet pursuit that can be a more adaptive coping strategy than some other hobbies…
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian air force has conducted a massive strike on objects of energy infrastructure and the gas industry in Ukraine, Russian defence ministry said on Sunday.The ministry said that it used “high-precision long-range air-based weapons” and drones.“As a result of this strike, the operation of defence industry enterprises involved in the manufacture and repair of weapons, equipment and ammunition has been disrupted. All the goals of the strike have been achieved. The assigned…
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By Seun Sanni and Ope AdetayoLAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian swimmer Akinrodoye Samuel has tried to raise awareness on mental health in Africa’s most populous nation, swimming nearly 12 km (7.45 miles), the length of the longest bridge in Lagos where many people have jumped to their deaths.Samuel, a swimming coach, said he was moved by the death of a friend to speak up on how depression can ruin lives.A 2021 UNICEF report showed one in six Nigerians agedbetween 15 and 24 were depressed, anxious or ha…
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By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, March 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Stem cells derived from a patient’s own fat can safely help improve sensation and movement after a spinal cord injury, a new, small study finds.Patients treated with these stem cells experienced increased sensation from pinpricks and light touches, increased muscle strength and better sphincter control, results show.“In spinal cord injury, even a mild improvement can make a significant difference in that patient’s qu…
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Five people were killed by falling trees as strong winds battered southern Poland on Monday, reaching a speed of 155 km (96 miles) an hour in the highest parts of the Tatra mountains.In the town of Rabka-Zdroj, two adults and a child died after a tree crushed them, firefighters said. In Zakopane, a popular Tatra resort, a 23-year old woman and nine-year-old boy died in similar circumstances.Firefighters intervened 140 times on Monday morning to remove trees blocking roads and…
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By Geert De ClercqPARIS (Reuters) - Guadeloupe-born author Maryse Conde, who wrote about colonialism, slavery and the French-Caribbean diaspora, died in southern France at the age of 90.Often cited as a potential winner of the Nobel prize for literature, Conde was awarded the New Academy Prize in Literature in 2018, created after the Swedish Academy postponed that year’s literary Nobel in the aftermath of a rape scandal.“A literary giant, Maryse Conde paints a picture of sorrow and hope, from Gu…
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The powerful earthquake was the strongest to strike Taiwan in 25 years.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell reaffirmed on Wednesday that the central bank still expects to cut interest rates this year, without offering any timetable for when that might happen.The statement, made at an event at Stanford University’s business school, did not amount to any new policy but came at a time other Fed members are suggesting cuts may not occur until late in the year. When 2024 began, markets were pricing in cuts as early as May. But that is no longer considered likely.Recen…
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Americans have made it clear that they’re not too excited about another matchup this fall between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. But they do care about abortion laws – and that issue may end up deciding not only the presidential race but campaigns for Congress as well, experts say.Florida this week became the third state where an abortion-related referendum will be on the ballot. Not only could a vote in favor of the ballot initiative reverse the Sunshine State’s recently…
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By Robin Foster HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, April 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- As the world’s population ages, a new report warns that the number of people with cancer could climb 77% by 2050.In the report, published Thursday in the journal CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, researchers from the American Cancer Society found there were about 20 million cancer cases and 9.7 million cancer deaths in 2022, the latest year for which data is available.However, “we think that number will go up to 35 mi…
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The labor market continues to defy gravity and the expectations of economists, posting a 303,000 increase in March, the Labor Department said on Friday.The gain was well above estimates of 200,000 to 215,000 and also above the 231,000 monthly average over the last year.Increased hiring by local governments, the health care and construction industries powered the outsized performance. The unemployment rate, meanwhile, dipped slightly to 3.8% from 3.9% previously.Average hourly wages came in at a…
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NEW YORK (AP) — An earthquake shook the densely populated New York City metropolitan area Friday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said, with residents across the Northeast reporting rumbling in a region where people are unaccustomed to feeling the ground move.The agency reported a quake at 10:23 a.m. with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8, centered near Lebanon, New Jersey, or about 45 miles west of New York City and 50 miles north of Philadelphia. U.S.G.S. figures indicated that the quake might…
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ATHENS (Reuters) - The European Union’s naval mission in the southern Red Sea said on Saturday it had intercepted a Houthi missile to protect merchant ships.The EU’s mission, known as Aspides, said in a press release that the German frigate “Hessen” had intercepted a missile attack from Houthi controlled territories.“The action performed by Hessen was effective, avoiding any damage to seafarers and merchant shipping”, it added.Aspides was launched in February to help protect the key maritime tra…
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By Thomas Holdstock and Alan CharlishWARSAW (Reuters) -Poles voted in local elections on Sunday, selecting councillors and mayors who will play a key role in allocating billions in European Union funds and providing an early indication of their satisfaction with the government of Donald Tusk.Tusk’s appointment as prime minister in December marked a turning point for the largest country in the EU’s east, drawing a line under eight years of nationalist rule that set Warsaw at odds with Western all…
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By Sarah Jane Tribble | KFF Health NewsFor Cindy Westman, $30 buys a week’s worth of gas to drive to medical appointments and run errands.It’s also how much she spent on her monthly internet bill before the federal Affordable Connectivity Program stepped in and covered her payments.“When you have low income and you are living on disability and your daughter’s disabled, every dollar counts,” said Westman, who lives in rural Illinois.More than 23 million low-income households — urban, suburban, ru…
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s nuclear power corporation, Rosatom, accused Ukraine’s military on Sunday of launching a series of attacks on the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station and the U.N.‘s nuclear watchdog called for such incidents to cease immediately.Rosatom said three people were hurt, one seriously. Russia urged world leaders to denounce the incidents. Both Russian officials and the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency said radiation levels were normal and damage not sever…
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By Steven ScheerJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli cybersecurity exit deals grew by 65% in 2023 to $7.1 billion, more than half of total tech sector exit deals, a report showed on Sunday that underscored the importance of cyber to Israel’s high-tech industry.Total tech sector exits - mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and buyouts - were some $11 billion last year, down from $13.5 billion in 2022.Cyber comprised just $2.5 billion of total exits in 2022, according to the report from Cyb…
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel posted a budget deficit of 15 billion shekels ($4 billion) in March, the Finance Ministry said on Monday, citing higher spending as a result of Israel’s war with Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.Over the prior 12 months, the deficit rose to 6.2% of gross domestic product, versus 5.6% in February and a target of 6.6% for all of 2024.Tax revenue has also fallen 1.2% the first three months of the year.(Reporting by Steven Scheer; Editing by Ari Rabinovitch)Copyright 202…
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