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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Portuguese suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings came to the United States through a little-known pathway called the diversity immigrant visa.That program makes up to 50,000 green cards available every year by lottery to people from countries that weren’t well represented in the numbers of immigrant admissions to the U.S. in recent years. The visas are given out in a lottery system, and for people hoping to come to the U.S. who have no other way in, it is akin to winning big.On Thursday night, once the suspect’s identity became clear, Homeland Security Secretary…
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States.Since researchers first established the link between diet, cholesterol and heart disease in the 1950s, risk for heart disease has been partly assessed based on a patient’s cholesterol levels, which can be routinely measured via blood work at the doctor’s office.However, accumulating evidence over the past two decades demonstrates that a biomarker called C-reactive protein – which signals the presence of low-grade inflammation – is a better predictor of risk for heart disease than cholesterol.As a result, in September 2025, the American College of Cardiology published new recommendations for…
AI stocks might look frothy, but Uber’s embrace of the technology is transforming its operations and yielding huge financial benefits, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says.”You can debate whether or not there’s a bubble in terms of valuation,” Khosrowshahi told the “On with Kara Swisher” podcast in an episode released Thursday. “The spending on the data centers, etc., is massive.”But AI has created a lot of value for Uber, “not in the space-age stuff” but in “very practical” ways, he said, such as determining what’s shown next to a customer on their Uber Eats app after they select a carton of oat…
It was like a horror movie. The invisible polio virus would strike, leaving young children on crutches, in wheelchairs or in a dreaded “iron lung” ventilator. Each summer, the fear was so great that public pools and movie theaters closed. Parents canceled birthday parties, afraid their child might be the next victim. A U.S. president paralyzed by polio called for Americans to send dimes to the White House to support the nonprofit National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his lawyer, Basil O’Connor. Celebrities from Lucille Ball to Elvis were enlisted to promote this “March…
OpenAI is in talks to raise up to $100 billion in a funding round that could value the ChatGPT maker at up to $830 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing anonymous sources. The company is aiming to raise the funding by the end of the calendar first quarter next year, and it may ask sovereign wealth funds to invest in the round, the WSJ reported. The Information first reported news of the deal, though it said the fundraise would land OpenAI a $750 billion price tag. The funding would come as OpenAI commits to spend trillions of dollars…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The man suspected in a mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor was in the same academic program as the professor in Portugal before attending Brown on a student visa.Claudio Neves Valente was once a promising high school physics student but was let go from Portugal’s premier engineering school, Instituto Superior Técnico, in 2000 and withdrew from a Brown University graduate program three years later without a degree.On Thursday, Neves Valente, who immigrated to the U.S. from Portugal, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at a…
Every animal with a brain needs sleep — and even a few without a brain do, too. Humans sleep, birds sleep, whales sleep and even jellyfish sleep.Sleep is universal “even though it’s actually very risky,” said Paul-Antoine Libourel, a researcher at the Neuroscience Research Center of Lyon in France.When animals nod off, they’re most vulnerable to sneaky predators. But despite the risks, the need for sleep is so strong that no creature can skip it altogether, even when it’s highly inconvenient.Animals that navigate extreme conditions and environments have evolved to sleep in extreme ways — for example, stealing seconds at…
(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays)By Nancy LapidDec 19 (Reuters) – An analysis of language used in grants awarded this year by the U.S. National Institutes of Health suggests that researchers are less likely now than previously to consider study participants’ ethnic, racial and gender diversity – or less likely to admit in writing that they plan to do so.The change is likely due to executive orders targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion-related funding and requiring agencies to “terminate, to the maximum extent allowed by law, all .…
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has mixed feelings about taking his company public.”Am I excited for OpenAI to be a public company? In some ways, I am, and in some ways I think it’d be really annoying,” Altman said on an episode of the “Big Technology Podcast” published Thursday.Leadership seems to be one of the sticking points for Altman: “Am I excited to be a public company CEO? 0%.””It’s wonderful to be a private company,” Altman said, but he added that OpenAI needs lots of capital and is going to “cross all of the shareholder limits and stuff at…
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