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Colorado passed the Fentanyl Accountability and Prevention Bill in May 2022. The legislation made the possession of small amounts of fentanyl a felony, rather than a misdemeanor.Felonies are more likely than misdemeanors to result in a prison sentence.Time in prison is associated with an increased risk of fatal overdose in the year after release. People with felonies on their record often struggle to find a job or rent an apartment.In 2023, lawmakers in 46 states passed legislation similar to Colorado’s. They introduced more than 600 bills related to fentanyl criminalization and enacted over 100 other laws to attempt to curb…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Sign up for CNN’s Fitness, But Better newsletter series. Our seven-part guide will help you ease into a healthy routine, backed by experts. Getting your steps in is good for your health, but it may also help keep you from being affected by disability later, new research has found. Walking 100 minutes a day was associated with a 23% reduced risk of chronic low back pain, according to a study published Friday in the journal JAMA Network Open. “This is an important finding because walking is a simple, low cost, and accessible activity that can be…

CNN  —  Summary Maintaining mobility while aging doesn’t require hours of stretching but rather intentional movement throughout daily life. Regular movement across all three planes of motion helps prevent stiffness and functional decline. Short, consistent mobility routines and movement breaks throughout the day create lasting benefits. Strength training using compound movements supports joint stability and preserves essential muscle mass. Proper breathing techniques reduce tension and improve posture, enhancing mobility in the spine and shoulders. This summary was AI-generated and reviewed by CNN editors. Editor’s note: Dana Santas, known as the “Mobility Maker,” is a certified strength and conditioning specialist and…

NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil on Friday asked a federal judge to order the release of the Columbia University protester from an immigration lockup, saying the Trump administration missed an appeal deadline. In a letter to U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz in New Jersey, the lawyers said Khalil has satisfied all the court’s requirements, including posting a $1 bond, while the lawyers for the government missed a 9:30 a.m. deadline the judge set Wednesday.In response to the letter, the judge gave the government until 1:30 p.m. Friday to formally reply to the request to free Khalil.The lawyers…

Two-time Olympic all-around champion Simone Biles has apologized for getting personal in a heated online exchange with former collegiate swimmer turned anti-trans athlete activist Riley Gaines.Biles, an 11-time Olympic medalist and the most decorated gymnast of all-time, initially responded to a post by Gaines on the social media platform X after Gaines called a player on a Minnesota high school softball team “a boy.” Biles wrote that Gaines was “truly sick” and a “straight up sore loser,” comments Biles later retracted.Biles wrote that the current system in sports doesn’t adequately address the balance between competitive equity and inclusivity and the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — NASCAR’s first Cup Series race outside the United States was off to a bumpy start Friday with several teams yet to arrive in Mexico City because of travel issues in North Carolina.At least one chartered flight to Mexico City was grounded Thursday with an engine issue, leaving teams scrambling to find alternative routes to get to Mexico. Some drove to Atlanta to catch a commercial flight.But when the track opened Friday, many were not at Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez. Trackhouse Racing was among them — Daniel Suarez arrived Tuesday with some support personnel so he was not…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana stole Game 1. Oklahoma City bounced back in Game 2. Indiana showed its resiliency in Game 3.And now, it’s Game 4 on Friday night — where either the Pacers will move one win from a title, or the Thunder will turn this NBA Finals into a best-of-three to decide which team will hoist the Larry O’Brien Trophy sometime in the next few days.Indiana leads the best-of-seven 2-1 going into Game 4, with tipoff set for around 8:40 p.m. EDT.For whatever reason, the Game 4 winner tends to end up winning the finals: It has worked out…

As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Big Tech invest billions in developing state-of-the-art large-language models, a small group of AI researchers is working on the next big thing.Computer scientists like Fei-Fei Li, the Stanford professor famous for inventing ImageNet, and Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist, are building what they call “world models.”Unlike large-language models, which determine outputs based on statistical relationships between the words and phrases in their training data, world models predict events based on the mental constructs that humans make of the world around them.”Language doesn’t exist in nature,” Li said on a recent episode of Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z…

The hits just keep on coming for 23andMe.Although the embattled genetic testing giant has found a new owner, pending court and regulatory approval, nearly 2 million customers have asked to delete their data from its database since it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and put the company up for sale in March.Interim CEO Joe Selsavage revealed the number of deletion requests on Tuesday during a House Oversight Committee hearing. He attended the hearing with Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe’s cofounder and former CEO.”Since we announced bankruptcy, we’ve had 1.9 million customers call and request that we delete their data, and we have…

Joie Armstrong’s life looked pretty good — at least on paper. A loving husband of nearly 20 years. Six kids. The freedom to focus on her family as a stay-at-home mom. Between picking up and dropping off kids at school, soccer practice or ballet, she’d make frequent stops for pick-me-ups: popcorn, Wendy’s lemonade, a Cinnabon.“I was free to follow my own ambitions, but I wasn’t happy,” she tells Yahoo Life. “I felt very solo. I was in this place where everything felt OK, or like it should be, but on the inside, you consistently have sad days.” Armstrong weighed 277…