And another day of recruiting incels, approving a biodiversity accord, executions, social media causing teens to dislike their own bodies, a new weight loss drug, hydration, and MNF game postponed after player collapses on the field comes to a close:
“2022- the year we discovered Covid can persist in tonsils, the brain, the lymph nodes, the heart, generally anywhere. The year we found out that mild infection can cause 2% loss of grey matter in the brain. And it wasn’t front page news. And we carried on regardless.” — Dr. Claire Taylor
Covid Deaths
US: 1,118,478
World: 6,699,264
Covid Cases
US: 102,686,725
World: 665,587,703
Hate Leader Nick Fuentes Is Recruiting Incels. But for Fuentes, the meeting was a profound success, and perhaps the greatest example of his years-long effort to bring his extremist ideologies into the mainstream. The 24-year-old hosts a nightly broadcast with a cult-like following among young white men who believe they have lost their rightful place in the United States. For the last five years, Fuentes has pushed a vision for an “America First” movement that fuses white nationalism, antisemitism, and authoritarianism in calling for a nation dominated by white Christian men. In tying himself most recently to Trump—a man accused of sexual assault by 19 women, and who bragged about grabbing women “by the pussy”—Fuentes is advancing one of his latest strategies for cultivating followers: making overtures to men who feel aggrieved by women.
Nearly 200 Countries Approve a Biodiversity Accord Enshrining Human Rights and the ‘Rights of Nature’. The nonbinding agreement nods to a growing understanding that future conservation efforts must promote the well-being of Indigenous peoples—and that forests, mountains and rivers have rights of their own.
Finding safe haven in the climate change future: The Pacific Northwest. If that trajectory holds steady, the Pacific Northwest is all but guaranteed to experience heat dome events as severe as the one in 2021.
Evacuation warnings amid flooding after California storm. Residents of a Northern California community were ordered to evacuate ahead of imminent flooding, and evacuation warnings were in place elsewhere in rural parts of the region on New Year’s Day after a powerful storm brought drenching rain or heavy snowfall to much of the state, breaching levees, snarling traffic and closing major highways.
Floods in Philippines leave 51 dead, over a dozen missing. Thousands of people in the Philippines remained in emergency shelters in the wake of devastating Christmas flooding, as the death toll climbed to 51 with 19 missing, authorities said Monday.
Winter storm expected to bring snow, freezing rain and tornadoes to parts of U.S. A winter storm moving across the central Plains and Upper Midwest this week is expected to bring heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain to parts of the U.S., while tornadoes could form farther south, officials have warned. The storm is expected to bring snowfall to the Central High Plains as it tracks northeast into the Great Lakes, likely producing moderate to heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain by Tuesday, the National Weather Service said.
Transgender woman’s scheduled execution would be US first. Unless Missouri Gov. Mike Parson grants clemency, Amber McLaughlin, 49, will become the first transgender woman executed in the U.S. She is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for killing a former girlfriend in 2003.
'Monday Night Football' game postponed after Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin collapses and gets CPR. The 24-year-old starting defensive back was in critical condition in a Cincinnati hospital after falling unconscious to the field after making a hit...The game was suspended and was then postponed. Both teams left the field to their locker rooms following the incident.
Social media triggers children to dislike their own bodies, says study. Three out of four children as young as 12 dislike their bodies and are embarrassed by the way they look, increasing to eight in 10 young people aged 18 to 21. The findings come from a major new study warning that social media represents a significant risk to the current and future health of today’s young generations. Nearly half of all children and young people aged from 12 to 21 questioned said they have become withdrawn, started exercising excessively, stopped socialising completely or self-harmed because they are regularly bullied or trolled online about their physical appearance.
Tennis great Martina Navratilova diagnosed with throat and breast cancer. Tennis great Martina Navratilova has been diagnosed with both stage one throat and breast cancer, her agent told CNN in an email Monday. “This double whammy is serious but still fixable,” the 66-year-old said in a statement on the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) website.
A new weight loss drug could become the best-selling drug of all time. Who can afford it? An Eli Lilly drug if approved for weight loss could become the best-selling drug of all time, but concerns are mounting about who will actually be able to afford it. Experts are confident that the drug, called tirzepatide, will be granted approval by the Food and Drug Administration sometime next year. If that’s the case, it would join two other popular — and expensive — recently approved weight loss drugs on the market, Wegovy and Saxenda, both from the drugmaker Novo Nordisk...If the FDA confirms the drug’s effectiveness, a “fair” price for tirzepatide could be around $13,000 annually, or around $1,100 a month...Obesity carries a unique stigma, said Dr. W. Scott Butsch, director of obesity medicine in the Bariatric and Metabolic Institute at Cleveland Clinic. Many physicians, he said, still see it as a behavioral problem rather than a medical one. That belief — in addition to older anti-obesity medications not being very effective — has made insurers reluctant to cover many of the new therapies, he said.
Poor hydration may be linked to early aging and chronic disease, a 25-year study finds. Findings from the National Institutes of Health suggest that people who don't drink enough fluids could face a higher risk of disease, but some researchers aren't convinced.
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