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Scheana Shay cried over her lost friendship with Tom Sandoval due to her loyalty to Ariana Madix on Tuesday’s episode of Vanderpump Rules on Bravo. The 39-year-old reality star during a group trip to Lake Tahoe that included Sandoval, 41, struggled with her conflicting emotions after revealing that he helped her out financially during the COVID-19 pandemic.‘Good morning, Scheash,’ Lala Kent, 33, said to Scheana as they woke up to a clear and bright morning on the lake.Scheana revealed that she didn’t go to sleep until about 2:30am and then her husband Brock woke up early to go golfing.Lala asked if…

Psychologist Redah Hussin leads an art therapy class for Bedouin children. Between an uptick in settler violence and the war in Gaza, Palestinians are dealing with multiple mental health stressors. Ayman Oghanna for NPR hide caption toggle caption Ayman Oghanna for NPR Psychologist Redah Hussin leads an art therapy class for Bedouin children. Between an uptick in settler violence and the war in Gaza, Palestinians are dealing with multiple mental health stressors. Ayman Oghanna for NPR SATEH AL BAHAR, West Bank — The bright pink mobile medical clinic rolls down a dirt road in a hilly area outside Jericho for…

In the fall of 2021, the American writer and translator Jennifer Croft published an essay in The Guardian that provoked a spirited conversation within the English-speaking literary world. Why, she asked, were translators expected to remain coyly, politely invisible, with their names more often than not cast off from book covers by publishers? This practice, she pointed out, overlooks the labor that goes into these books: It is the translators, after all, who “choose every word they will contain.”Now Croft, who is perhaps best known for her English translations of the Polish Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk (she also works in…

Electric vehicles may release more pollution than gas-powered vehicles, according to a report that has recently resurfaced. The study, which was published in 2022 but has begun circulating again after being cited in a WSJ op-ed, found that brakes and tires release 1,850 times more particulate matter compared to modern tailpipes which have filters that reduce emissions. It found that EVs are 30 percent heavier on average than gas-powered vehicles, which causes the brakes and tire treads to wear out faster than standard cars and releases tiny, often toxic particles into the atmosphere. Hesham Rakha, a professor at Virginia Tech…

Abortion access advocates are chanting and waiving signs outside the Florida Supreme Court. Inside, justices have just heard arguments on the ballot language for a proposed state constitutional amendment that would protect abortion access up to the point of viability. Regan McCarthy hide caption toggle caption Regan McCarthy Abortion access advocates are chanting and waiving signs outside the Florida Supreme Court. Inside, justices have just heard arguments on the ballot language for a proposed state constitutional amendment that would protect abortion access up to the point of viability. Regan McCarthy TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Last month, when the Florida Supreme Court…

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.After Super Tuesday, all of the pointless wishing for a lightning strike to change the 2024 race should end: The contest is once again an existential test of American democracy.First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:Facing the World as It IsIn previous and more normal elections, Super Tuesday was a big deal. With so many states holding primaries and caucuses, the results would…

Credit: CC0 Public DomainEvery year, more than one million deaths globally occur because of exposure to short-term (hours to days) fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in air pollution, according to a new report, with Eastern Asia reporting more than 50% of deaths attributable to short-term PM2.5 globally.To date most studies have focused on the health impacts of living in cities where pollution levels are consistently high, ignoring the frequent “spikes” in pollution that can impact smaller urban areas that occur for instance landscape fires, dust, and other intermittent extreme air-pollution concentration events.The Monash University study, looking at mortality and pollution levels…

Researchers may one day be able to identify biomarkers that could indicate when a patient’s brain is showing signs of assault, even when they themselves are unable or too afraid to report it.

Listen to this articleProduced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration.When scientists first created the class of drugs that includes Ozempic, they told a tidy story about how the medications would work: The gut releases a hormone called GLP-1 that signals you’re full, so a drug that mimics GLP-1 could do the exact same thing, helping people eat less and lose weight.The rest, as they say, is history. The GLP-1 revolution birthed semaglutide, which became Ozempic and Wegovy, and tirzepatide, which became Mounjaro and Zepbound—blockbuster drugs that are rapidly changing the face of obesity medicine. The drugs…

At one and a half years old, most toddlers would be walking, starting to speak and eating by themselves. But at 19 months old, Lucas Guo has never crawled, walked or even stood up by himself. He makes noises but cannot say words, and finds it difficult to chew and swallow so he gets the majority of his food through a tube attached to his stomach.The Massachusetts boy has one of the rarest diseases in the world, ZTTK syndrome, which has only 60 reported cases and is estimated to affect – at most – several hundred people across the globe. The complicated neurological…