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Kyra Hailey remembers “caring” for a fake baby on the night of her 16th birthday. The common high school assignment is meant to discourage teen pregnancy but, according to one study, might actually encourage it. That wasn’t the case for Hailey. “I failed because I shook the ‘baby,’ because I was so mad that it was taking away my sleep,” she tells Yahoo. “That was the day I knew that I didn’t want kids.”For the next 12 years, her mother, friends and doctors insisted she would change her mind about having children when she was older, when she met someone.…
MADRID, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Spanish police searched a state-funded laboratory near Barcelona on Thursday as part of an investigation into the origin of the African swine fever outbreak in the same area, regional police said.The court-ordered move follows concerns raised this month that the outbreak detected in wild boars could have been caused by a laboratory leak. Genome sequencing showed the strain is similar to that used in research and vaccine development and different from other cases in Europe.African swine fever is harmless to humans but can be fatal to pigs and wild boars, and spreads rapidly.Spain is the…
2025-12-18T10:03:01.268Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Tech unicorns valued at $1 billion aren’t all that special anymore. The hectocorn, companies valued at $100 billion or more, are the hot new thing. OpenAI, SpaceX, and Anthropic are leading the way with multi-centibillion-dollar valuations. Nearly two decades ago, tech startups used to chase the distinct pedigree of…
SHELBYVILLE, Ky. (AP) — When the funding for Shannon Johnson’s job as a school mental health counselor came to an abrupt end, two years into a five-year grant, she thought about the work left to be done.Johnson taught elementary and middle-school students in rural Kentucky how to navigate conflict, build resilience and manage stress and anxiety before a crisis happens. Few districts, especially rural ones, can dedicate a full-time role to early intervention amid a national shortage of mental health staff. But the Trump administration discontinued her grant, giving her a sudden end date. So when another job opened in…
Palmer Luckey recently launched what might be his most ambitious endeavor yet. He’s calling it his “I told you so tour.”On his raucous, relentless, revenge roadshow, the memelord weapons manufacturer has boasted to Joe Rogan that he has “plenty of money,” and that when he retires he’ll investigate UFOs as “the government’s privately funded X-Files.” He’s told CBS News top dog Bari Weiss that America must become “the world’s gun store,” and has bragged about his distinctive métier: “I build cruise missiles, and I post on X.” He’s told tech’s most terminally online podcasting bros that his AI munitions company,…
A highly contagious virus that causes vomiting and diarrhea is likely affecting some people in Los Angeles County.Concentrations of norovirus, sometimes referred to as the “winter vomiting disease,” detected in wastewater is increasing in the county, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health told the USA TODAY Network in an email on Tuesday, Dec. 16. Officials use wastewater to monitor the presence of infectious diseases within a community, like norovirus or the virus that causes COVID-19.The county public health department said that wastewater detection of norovirus increased 154% in Los Angeles for three weeks ending on Dec. 11. In…
Like pretty much every other tech company in existence, Adobe has leaned heavily into AI over the past several years. The software firm has launched a number of different AI services since 2023, including Firefly — its AI-powered media-generation suite. Now, however, the company’s full-throated embrace of the technology may have led to trouble, as a new lawsuit claims it used pirated books to train one of its AI models. A proposed class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of Elizabeth Lyon, an author from Oregon, claims that Adobe used pirated versions of numerous books — including her own — to train…
As measles continues to spread in the United States, it’s likely that the outbreaks that broke records in 2025 will continue into the new year.In South Carolina, 168 people, mostly schoolchildren, are in quarantine. Most of the state’s 138 cases confirmed since September, nearly all in unvaccinated people, have been centered in Spartanburg County in the northwestern part of the state.“As we identify new cases, and if those cases have susceptible contacts, that’s a new 21-day quarantine period,” Dr. Linda Bell, state epidemiologist for the state Department of Public Health, said Wednesday at what has become a weekly news briefing.That…
Amazon is the prospective tenant that withdrew funding from Fermi America’s massive data-center project, sending the developer’s stock plummeting earlier this month, Business Insider has learned.In September, Fermi, which is developing an 11-gigawatt data-center campus in the Texas Panhandle, said it had agreed to a nonbinding letter of intent with an investment-grade tenant to anchor the project. The tenant would take the first gigawatt of power across 12 facilities.On Friday, December 12, Fermi’s stock plunged by nearly half after a securities filing said an unnamed prospective partner had canceled a $150 million advance to begin construction, known as an Advance…
By Nancy LapidDec 17 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order that would reclassify marijuana and ease federal restrictions on research that could lead to new medical marijuana products. Here is what you need to know:WHAT WOULD THE EXECUTIVE ORDER DO?Presently, under the U.S. Controlled Substances Act, marijuana is listed as a Schedule I substance like heroin, implying it has high potential for abuse and no medical value. The new executive order would move it to the Schedule III classification that includes controlled substances such as codeine, morphine, certain stimulants, and some forms of…