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GURUGRAM, India (AP) — Antima Kumari lifts one of her newborn nephews, positions him between his father’s bare chest and wraps a cloth around him to steady the tiny body. The baby quickly snuggles into his father’s skin.Kumari stepped in as a caregiver for the newborn twins when her sister Lilavati Devi felt physically weak after giving birth and was unable to take care of the babies on her own. Even though she had no experience handling babies, she was able to offer significant support to her sister after learning newborn baby care through a training program.She uses the so-called…

TOKYO (AP) — With a message-sending staredown, then the two-handed shove that followed, then the trash talk that came after that, Noah Lyles and Kenny Bednarek set the stage for what could be the best legit sprint rivalry track has seen in decades.Their next showdown: track and field world championships in Tokyo. Whether it was merely a dose of WWE-like bluster or there’s really something gnawing at two of the world’s best sprinters, the mix-up after Lyles’ 200-meter win at last month’s U.S. championships delivered a ready-made storyline for a sport that struggles to capture the world’s imagination the way…

TOKYO (AP) — Sumo is more than a sport in Japan. It’s a sacred tradition, a 1,500-year-old spectacle steeped in Shinto ritual and ceremony. But at its heart lies a long-standing taboo: women are still barred from the traditional ring, the dohyō in Japanese.That legacy is facing quiet resistance. While professional sumo — the sumo that the world is used to seeing — remains closed to women, a small but growing group of more than 600 female wrestlers (rikishi) is making strides at the amateur level in Japan. Their ambitions extend beyond the sumo world championships, an international men’s and…

CORRECTION: A previous version of this article incorrectly said the Food and Drug Administration approved Ozempic for use in children in 2023. The drug the FDA approved for children was Wegovy, and it was authorized in 2022. Originally moved Feb. 17, 2025.- – -Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. President Donald Trump has instructed his administration to scrutinize the “threat” to children posed by antidepressants, stimulants and other common psychiatric drugs, targeting medication taken by millions in his latest challenge to long-standing medical practices.The directive came in an executive…

The city of San Francisco is investigating Scale AI over its labor practices, a Scale AI spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider.Scale AI, which is based in San Francisco, relies heavily on a vast army of people it considers contractors to train tech companies’ latest artificial intelligence models. Meta bought almost half of Scale AI for $14 billion in a blockbuster AI deal this summer.The city’s investigation is being led by its Office of Labor Standards Enforcement (OLSE), which oversees sick leave, minimum wage, overtime pay, and other regulations for San Francisco workers.Scale AI spokesperson Natalia Montalvo told Business Insider that…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Paul Skenes struck out eight in five two-hit innings to surpass 200 strikeouts before leaving after a season-low 64 pitches in the Pittsburgh Pirates’ 2-1, 10-inning loss to the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday night.The 23-year-old Skenes has a majors-best 1.92 ERA over 178 innings in his first full season, and could make as many as three more starts. He pushed the strikeout total to 203, getting Samuel Basallo looking and Dylan Carlson swinging to complete the fifth.Rookie Dylan Beavers hit a winning single — his first walk-off hit — off Kyle Nicolas (1-1) to give Baltimore its…

There’s been great interest in what Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is building with its $2 billion in seed funding and the all-star team of former OpenAI researchers who have joined the lab. In a blog post published on Wednesday, Murati’s research lab gave the world its first look into one of its projects: creating AI models with reproducible responses. The research blog post, titled “Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference,” tries to unpack the root cause of what introduces randomness in AI model responses. For example, ask ChatGPT the same question a few times over, and you’re likely to get…

Two decades after its founding, Klarna has gone public, and its investors are finally seeing a windfall.The Swedish “buy now, pay later” company listed on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. Its stock popped 30% on its debut, jumping above its $40-per-share IPO price to $52 a share.That IPO price gave Klarna a $15.1 billion valuation and netted Klarna $1.37 billion. Per Pitchbook, Klarna had raised $3.85 billion in its history before the public listing.Klarna’s IPO has been a long time coming. Founded in 2005, the consumer payments company first hinted at an IPO in 2019, telling Bloomberg it…

NEW YORK (AP) — West Nile virus infections are intense so far this year, with case counts running 40% higher than normal, health officials say.More than 770 cases, including about 490 severe cases, were reported as of early September, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data posted this week. About 550 cases — 350 of them severe — are usually reported by this time of year.Health officials are ramping up warnings to the public, because most cases of the mosquito-borne disease are reported in August and September.“West Nile virus can be a very serious disease and its presence…

A Florida woman and mom of three is speaking out and sharing a warning after she contracted and nearly died from a bacterial infection nearly two months ago.Genevieve Gallagher of Pensacola, Florida, told ABC News her ordeal since becoming infected in late July has left her traumatized, and she doesn’t wish her experience on anyone.”I do not want this to happen to anybody else. This is the most traumatic thing that has ever happened … not only to me [but also] to my family,” Gallagher said.Courtesy Genevieve Gallagher – PHOTO: Genevieve Gallagher with her daughter Mila.The 49-year-old said on July…