And another day of a banking crisis, a man suing three women in TX over abortion, the privacy loophole in your doorbell, the UK culture war, reviving a ‘zombie’ virus, women allowed to swim topless in public in Germany, and vinyl outsells cds comes to a close:
US government moves to stop potential banking crisis. The U.S. government took extraordinary steps Sunday to stop a potential banking crisis after the historic failure of Silicon Valley Bank, assuring depositors at the failed financial institution that they would be able to access all of their money quickly.
Three Texas women are sued for wrongful death after allegedly helping friend obtain abortion medication. A Texas man is suing three women under the wrongful death statute, alleging that they assisted his ex-wife in terminating her pregnancy, the first such case brought since the state’s near-total ban on abortion last summer. -- And so it begins...
What's your current risk of getting long Covid? Estimates hover around 5%-10%. It's a question few people know how to answer, even after three pandemic years and more than 100 million Covid cases in the U.S.: When someone gets infected today, what is their risk of developing long Covid?
The privacy loophole in your doorbell. Police were investigating his neighbor. A judge gave officers access to all his security-camera footage, including inside his home. As networked home surveillance cameras become more popular, Larkin’s case, which has not previously been reported, illustrates a growing collision between the law and people’s own expectation of privacy for the devices they own — a loophole that concerns privacy advocates and Democratic lawmakers, but which the legal system hasn’t fully grappled with. Questions of who owns private home security footage, and who can get access to it, have become a bigger issue in the national debate over digital privacy. And when law enforcement gets involved, even the slim existing legal protections evaporate.
Children of same-sex parents see outcomes as good or better than heterosexual couples: study. Their results suggested that children, especially those around preschool ages, may have a better psychological adjustment when raised by LGBTQ couples than those raised by heterosexual couples. The study also found that children raised by same-sex or other LGBTQ parents may have better relationships with their parents than those raised by traditional heterosexual couples.
How a tweet by a star sports pundit became a battle in the culture war engulfing the U.K. What began as a tweet by a popular British soccer commentator comparing the language of the government’s new immigration plan to that of 1930s Germany has upended a leading sports program — once a politics-free haven of national unity — and erupted into a national argument over free speech. At the center of the brouhaha is Gary Lineker, a former English soccer captain turned TV personality who regularly appears in commercials for one of the U.K.’s largest potato chip brands. Last week, he responded to Interior Minister Suella Braverman's proposal to tackle what she called Britain’s “overwhelmed” asylum system.
Scientists have revived a ‘zombie’ virus that spent 48,500 years frozen in permafrost. While a pandemic unleashed by a disease from the distant past sounds like the plot of a sci-fi movie, scientists warn that the risks, though low, are underappreciated. Chemical and radioactive waste that dates back to the Cold War, which has the potential to harm wildlife and disrupt ecosystems, may also be released during thaws.
Women in Berlin can now swim topless in the city's public pools if they choose to. It's being hailed as a step forward for gender equality in the German capital. As well as being hailed as a step forward for gender equality in the German capital, the measure introduced this week is symptomatic of Germany’s love of Freikoerperkultur – literally translated as ‘free body culture’ – which has its roots in the late 19th century.
Scientists have managed to create mice with two biological fathers, which could lead to implications for same-sex reproduction in the future. While creating mice with two biological fathers was technically possible prior to the achievement, it involved a series of elaborate steps, including genetic engineering. After creating stem cells from eight-week-old male mice, scientists manipulated the genetic code of the cell to create a mature egg. After successful cultivation, the eggs were fertilised and implanted into a surrogate mouse, which eventually resulted in the birth of seven mouse pups.
Barcelona face corruption charges over payments to former referees' official. Barcelona face charges of corruption over payments the club made to Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira - a former vice-president of Spain's referees' committee.
Vinyl Outsold CDs for the First Time Since 1987. Sales of physical music formats, like vinyl, CDs, and cassette tapes, saw a 4% increase from 2021 to 2022, but last year vinyl made up $1.2 billion of the $1.7 billion in physical media sales according to the report. In physical units, records outsold CDs 41.3 million to 33.4 million, respectively—RIAA says this is vinyl’s sixteenth consecutive year of growth.
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