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Opinion: What’s the matter with Kansas? Take a look closer to home

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:47:52 GMT

The Aug. 11 police raid on a local newsroom in Marion, Kan., drew national press coverage and provoked condemnation from press-freedom groups across the country. For good reason.The Marion Police Department’s execution of a search warrant on the Marion County Record was not only a likely violation of federal and state law, it struck right to the core of why journalism matters, and why it receives special protections, including the Constitution.But there’s also a deeper story out of Kansas, one that goes beyond the actions of a single police chief and a single judge in a small midwestern town.That is the story of decay — of public understanding of journalists and journalism; of the crucial role that independent journalism plays in keeping public servants honest. Of the Bill of Rights and basic civics.Setting aside the specific legal problems with the Marion search warrant — of which there appear to be many — raids like the one in Kansas couldn’t happen in a place where the bedrock pr...

“Serial” Podcast’s Adnan Syed Might Go Back to Prison Because of Toxic Maryland Politics

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:47:52 GMT

Even if you’ve never heard “Serial,” the true crime podcast that went viral in 2014, you’ve probably heard about the case it made famous. Adnan Syed was 17 years old when he was arrested in 1999 for killing 18-year-old Hae Min Lee, his ex-girlfriend in Baltimore. A jury found Syed guilty the following year, and he was sentenced to life in prison.After “Serial” premiered in 2014 and raised questions about the case, a Maryland court heard Syed’s appeal and he was awarded a new trial. Holes in the original prosecution were established, new suspects were identified, and DNA evidence was newly tested. After a long fight, his conviction was overturned last year, and the charges against him were officially dropped in October 2022.In March of this year, though, Syed’s conviction was reinstated. Lee’s family had filed an appeal and argued that the state’s attorney — what the state of Maryland calls its local prosecutors — hadn’t given adequate notice for them to attend the September hearing ...

How a family’s choice to donate a body for pig kidney research could help change transplants

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:47:52 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Mary Miller-Duffy was dazed and grieving. Her brother suddenly collapsed and days later was brain-dead. Now she faced a tough question: Would she donate his body for research?That’s how the body of Maurice “Mo” Miller started its journey to a sunny corner of NYU Langone Health’s intensive care unit — and became part of the quest to one day ease the nation’s transplant shortage with organs from animals.“He always wanted to help people,” said Miller-Duffy, who struggled with the choice but is proud of her brother’s last act. “This tragic death, this fast short death — something good has come out of it.”Surgeons replaced Miller’s kidneys with one from a genetically modified pig on July 14. Then doctors and nurses cared for the deceased man like they would a living patient while anxiously ticking off the days.Remarkably, over a month later the new organ is performing all the bodily functions of a healthy kidney — the longest a pig kidney has ever worked in a ...

Una niña se tragó un diente accidentalmente y el director del jardín de infantes le escribió una carta especial al hada de los dientes

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:47:52 GMT

(CNN) — Kaisley Blake, de cinco años, tenía grandes planes para su primer diente flojo, y según su padre, involucraba una almohada, no de tragárselo.Las cosas no salieron según lo planeado para la niña de kindergarten de Oklahoma en su primer día de clases en la escuela primaria Henryetta.Después de mover el diente toda la mañana del 10 de agosto, Kaisley se lo tragó accidentalmente, junto con un bocado de su hamburguesa en el almuerzo, dijo Worren Blake a CNN este jueves.“Mientras la masticaba, pensó que la hamburguesa tenía semillas”, dijo Blake, padre de cuatro niñas.Quiso tocar el diente que se movía y se dio cuenta de que ya no estaba.“Estaba bastante molesta por eso”, dijo Blake.El director Roger Williams ayudó a salvar el día. Williams se enteró de lo que sucedió cuando un asistente acompañó a Kaisley mientras él monitoreaba la cafetería esa tarde.“Kaisley abrió la boca y me mostró que le faltaba el diente inferior”, dijo Williams a CNN este viernes. “Dije: ‘...

Poor water quality halts Paris Olympics swimming test event in the Seine

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:47:52 GMT

PARIS (AP) — Paris Olympics organizers and other officials canceled a paratriathlon swimming test event Saturday in the Seine River because of new concerns about water quality.The competition was transformed into a duathlon instead, involving just running and biking. The cancellation is a fresh blow both to organizers of the 2024 Summer Games and to the city’s ambitions to reopen the iconic river to public swimming after next year’s Olympics.Swimmers took to the Seine in competition on Thursday and Friday, but results of water quality tests showed “significant discrepancies” in the hours leading up to Saturday’s events, organizers said in a statement.It said officials from World Triathlon, the Paris Olympics, Paris City Hall and the Paris region jointly decided to cancel Saturday’s events “as a measure of precaution, to not put the health and safety of the athletes in danger.”A previous test event had to be canceled earlier his month because heavy rain had caused overflows of untrea...

El huracán Hilary provoca una advertencia histórica de tormenta tropical para California mientras el suroeste se prepara para lluvias peligrosas e inundaciones

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:47:52 GMT

(CNN) — Los residentes del suroeste se preparan para fuertes lluvias e inundaciones potencialmente catastróficas, ya que se espera que el huracán Hilary azote la región como una tormenta tropical rara a partir de este domingo y hasta la próxima semana.Hilary sigue siendo un huracán de categoría 4 mientras avanza hacia la costa de la península de Baja California en México con vientos sostenidos de 209 km/h, según el Centro Nacional de Huracanes. Se espera que su núcleo pase cerca de la península este sábado por la noche y luego se debilite hasta convertirse en una tormenta tropical a medida que cruza hacia EE.UU. y el sur de California.La amenaza ha desencadenado la primera advertencia de tormenta tropical de California que se extiende desde la frontera sur del estado hasta el norte de Los Ángeles.Trayectoria del huracán Hilary en vivo: dónde está en tiempo real y a dónde se dirigeSe pronostica que el suroeste verá fuertes lluvias hasta principios de la próxima semana, con las ...

Michigan becomes latest state to open up Baby Cafe, a community support for mothers

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:47:52 GMT

LANSING, Mich. (WSVN) – Mothers across the U.S. are getting a new way to access breastfeeding support thanks to a quickly growing national non-profit organization. The most recent location opened its doors in Michigan last week.Welcoming a new life into the world can come with a lot of new challenges.“There’s different obstacles that moms go through, so we know that it takes a village. It takes community support,” said Laurel McCamman, a supervisor at Maternal Child Health. And now that support is available after the grand opening of Baby Cafe near Lansing, Michigan. Their meetings come with food, a variety of educational topics and a monthly party.“And our babies get to play and socialize together, and just support for breastfeeding,” said Morgan Smith, a mother who attended Baby Cafe. “I would want a new mom to know, that our group is here to support her and help with all phases of like a baby, you know, there are new moms that are here an...

‘Zoo Pals’ plates return after almost 10 years of being discontinued

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:47:52 GMT

Household company Hefty is bringing back an old-time favorite — Zoo Pals plates.The plates were a lunchtime staple back in the 2000s and early 2010s but were discontinued in 2014.The 10 colorful fun characters that serve as disposable plates will be sold exclusively online.They are available in packs of 20 and 15.

Trader Joe’s crackers recalled because they might contain metal

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:47:52 GMT

New York (CNN) — Trader Joe’s is recalling a type of cracker because the crackers might contain metal, marking the second significant recall the budget grocer has made in recent weeks because of foreign objects in their food.The company announced a recall Thursday for its multigrain crackers with sunflower and flax seeds due to possible metal contamination.“Best if used by” dates on the back of the recalled boxes are from March 1, 2024 to March 5, 2024.“No injuries have been reported to date, and all potentially affected product has been removed from sale and destroyed,” the company said in a statement.Affected customers are told to discard the boxes or return them to a Trader Joe’s for a full refund.Trader Joe’s recently issued a recall for two types of cookies because they might contain rocks.

These children’s beds are being recalled due to strangulation and death risks, consumer watchdog says

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:47:52 GMT

(CNN) — Parents may want to check their children’s rooms for a recalled bed with hazards that could potentially kill, according to a product safety commission.Around 7,450 Zipadee Kids convertible house bed frames and Montessori floor beds, manufactured by Ohio-based Bell Station Interiors – which does business as Zipadee Kids – were recalled for a “serious entrapment hazard” that can lead to strangulation or death in children, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, a federal agency.The entrapment risk comes from the spacing of the beds’ spindles, according to a Thursday news release from the CPSC. The bed’s design “allows a child’s torso to slip through the rail opening but will not allow their head to pass, posing entrapment and strangulation hazards that could result in death,” the release said.At least two children have been entrapped in the bed rails, including a 21-month-old boy and a 4-year-old girl. The boy was not injured and the girl sustained ...