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Over the last several days, many Americans have seen upsetting, and often violent, images and videos of protests in Minneapolis amid a flood of ICE agents entering the city for a federal immigration enforcement operation.Research has shown that images of extreme violence can impact mental health, increasing symptoms of anxiety and depression.Experts reveal mental health impacts of mass shootings on young survivorsAmong the videos and images that circulated widely in recent weeks have been the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens involving federal agents just 17 days apart: Renee Good and Alex Pretti.Psychologists and psychiatrists told ABC News that witnessing…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Being a night owl can be bad for your heart.That may sound surprising but a large study found people who are more active late at night — when most of the population is winding down or already asleep — have poorer overall heart health than the average person.“It is not like, that, night owls are doomed,” said research fellow Sina Kianersi of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, who led the study. “The challenge is the mismatch between your internal clock and typical daily schedules ” that makes it harder to follow heart-healthy behaviors.And that’s…
On the Wednesday, January 28, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: As GLP-1 use surges, lawsuits allege blindness, stomach paralysis and more. USA TODAY Investigative Reporter Austin Fast breaks down the cases.Hit play on the player below to hear the podcast and follow along with the transcript beneath it. This transcript was automatically generated, and then edited for clarity in its current form. There may be some differences between the audio and the text.Podcasts: True crime, in-depth interviews and more USA TODAY podcasts right hereDana Taylor:A growing number of lawsuits alleged that the manufacturers of certain GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro…
The race to build the “agentic internet” is on, with consumers expected to increasingly offload tasks like travel and grocery shopping to autonomous software. It presents brands with a new challenge: how to stand out when the customer is an AI agent rather than a human.Founded in New York in 2024, Limy has built a platform to help companies better understand how AI agents decide which brands and products to recommend to their users.Limy is set to announce on Wednesday that it has raised $10 million in seed funding led by venture capital firm Flybridge. A16z’s Speedrun program, Axiom, AnD,…
A Maryland truck driver suffered an “eye stroke” that left him blind, first in one eye and then the other.A Louisiana woman vomited for weeks before being diagnosed with a brain dysfunction typically caused by a vitamin deficiency.An Oklahoma real estate agent heard her colon pop as it ruptured while she drove her granddaughter home from a softball game. “My colon blew up. Literally blew up,” she said.She had just wanted to finally lose that extra 40 pounds.All three have filed lawsuits that blame the popular class of weight-loss drugs known as GLP-1 receptor agonists, which include Ozempic, Wegovy and…
Google is expanding its push into AI-powered learning by adding full-length practice tests in Gemini for the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE), India’s nationwide engineering exam used to shortlist candidates for the country’s top technical institutes and taken by millions of students each year. Google said students can take full-length mock exams for the JEE within Gemini, which will offer questions based on vetted content from Indian education firms PhysicsWallah and Careers360. The launch comes after the company recently rolled out similar test-prep tools for the SAT. Once students complete a mock test in Gemini, Google said the chatbot will provide…
Business leaders who believe staying quiet about the Trump administration will protect their companies are making a dangerous miscalculation, says Reid Hoffman.The LinkedIn cofounder and tech investor said in an episode of the “Rapid Response” podcast published Tuesday that he rejects the idea that executives can simply wait out political turbulence.”The theory that if you just keep your mouth shut, the storm will blow over and it won’t be a problem — you should be disabused of that theory now,” Hoffman said.Hoffman is a longtime Democratic donor and one of Silicon Valley’s most outspoken political voices. He has backed Democratic…
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian authorities said they had contained a Nipah virus outbreak after confirming two cases in the eastern state of West Bengal, as several Asian countries tightened health screenings and airport surveillance for travelers arriving from India.India’s Health Ministry said Tuesday that two Nipah cases had been detected since December and that all identified contacts had been quarantined and tested. The ministry did not release details about the patients but said 196 contacts had been traced and all tested negative.“The situation is under constant monitoring, and all necessary public health measures are in place,” the ministry said.Nipah,…
This CEO says that when you’re signing up to work at his startup, you’re in for a ride.On an episode of the “20VC” podcast released on Monday, the CEO of the $2 billion legal AI startup Legora shared an interview question he asks candidates to gauge their cultural fit.”I still interview everyone, so I ask quite brutal questions about, ‘Why take a hard job? You could go work somewhere else,'” Max Junestrand said.The Swedish startup competes with San Francisco-based Harvey, which has a valuation of $8 billion.”I try to create missionaries, not mercenaries,” Junestrand said, referring to an analogy coined by Kleiner…
Measles cases in South Carolina have surpassed the 2025 West Texas outbreak, reaching nearly 800 cases as the United States is on the verge of losing its status of having eliminated the disease, state health officials announced Jan. 27.The South Carolina Department of Public Health reported that 89 new measles cases have been confirmed since Jan. 23, bringing the total to 789. The number has overtaken the West Texas outbreak in 2025, which reached 762 cases and killed two children before ending in August.The outbreak in South Carolina, which began in October 2025, has been centered in the northwest, which…