OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Scorching weather hitting nearly 100 million people across a huge swath of the U.S. forced schools and outdoor workers to scramble to adjust Tuesday — and claimed the life of a 1-year-old girl left in a Nebraska day care center's van on one of the hottest days of the year. Officers and medics were called Monday afternoon to Kidz of the Future Childcare in Omaha for an unresponsive baby inside the...

Salmonella outbreak across 11 states linked to small turtles

CBS NEWS – An 11-state salmonella outbreak has been linked to small turtles, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Friday. At least 26 illnesses have been reported, with nine hospitalizations, the health organization said. The outbreak spans the country. Tennessee, with six cases, has been hit hardest. There are also cases in Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, California, Pennsylvania and New York. The first case was reported in late...

Minnesota Single-Sex Catholic Colleges Say Students Who Identify as ‘Nonbinary’ May Apply

Washington, D.C. Newsroom CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY – The College of St. Benedict says it will accept both female applicants as well as male applicants who ‘now consistently live and identify as female, transgender, gender-fluid, or nonbinary.’ A pair of single-sex Catholic colleges in Minnesota are allowing males and females to openly apply to either one of the respective opposite-sex institutions — a rule change the schools say is in response to their “evolving understanding of gender...

Medi-Cal Covers Gender-Transition Treatment, but Getting It Isn’t Easy

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — From an early age, Pasha Wrangell felt different. Societal expectations of boys, and many characteristics of masculinity, did not match how Wrangell felt inside. Bullied and ostracized, Wrangell started repressing those feelings in middle school and kept them bottled up for a long time. That led to decades of sadness, isolation, and even a couple of suicide attempts. What gnawed at Wrangell was gender dysphoria, a condition widely acknowledged in the medical community,...

Research Reveals Which States Are Most Sex Savvy

HEALTHNEWS.COM Where in America are people most informed about sex? To find out, MattressNextDay did research and revealed which states search the most for sex-related terms on the internet. After calculating a sex education index score based on Google searches per state, the results showed that New York had the highest score, followed by California, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Georgia. "Sex positions" topped the search list in New York, with "BDSM," "anal," and "kissing" among the top four....

Feds raise concerns about long call center wait times as millions dropped from Medicaid

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — As millions of Medicaid recipients face the potential loss of health coverage for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic, state call centers are getting inundated with questions from people needing help. In some cases, federal officials say, it's taking too long to get answers. Nearly one-third of the states have received warnings from federal Medicaid officials that their lengthy call center wait times may be causing people to hang...

A neonatal nurse in a British hospital has been found guilty of killing 7 babies

LONDON (AP) — A neonatal nurse in a British hospital was found guilty Friday of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others during a yearlong campaign of deception when she preyed on the vulnerabilities of premature and sick newborns as well as their anxious parents. Following 22 days of deliberation, the jury at Manchester Crown Court convicted 33-year-old Lucy Letby of killing the babies in the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester...

New Jersey shutters 27 Boston Market restaurants over unpaid wages, related worker issues

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — State labor officials have temporarily shut down more than two dozen Boston Market restaurants in New Jersey after finding multiple violations of workers' rights, including more than $600,000 in back wages owed to 314 employees. A stop-work order was issued Tuesday by the Department of Labor against 27 restaurants across New Jersey. The state also imposed nearly $2.6 million in penalties against the firm. The Associated Press sent an email seeking comment...

Execution set for Florida man convicted of killing two women he met at beach bars in 1996

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of killing two women he met at beach bars in the Florida Panhandle in 1996 is set to be executed under a death warrant signed Thursday by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. Michael Duane Zack III's lethal injection is scheduled for Oct. 3 at 6 p.m. It's the sixth execution scheduled in Florida this year after a break dating back to 2019. The scheduled execution of Zack, 54, would be...

Risk of fatal heart attack may double in extreme heat with air pollution, study finds

CBS NEWS – Soaring heat and fine particulate matter in the air may double your risk of heart attack death, according to a new study. For the study, published in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation on Monday, researchers analyzed more than 200,000 heart attack deaths between 2015 and 2020 in a Chinese province that experiences four distinct seasons and a range of temperatures and pollution levels. The findings? Days of extreme heat, extreme cold or high...

Scientists Begin to Understand Effect of Heat on Mental Health

Newser – There's plenty of reason to think hot weather takes a psychological toll as well as a physical one. Researchers have found suicides increase when it's hot, as does violent crime, trips to the emergency room, hospitalizations for mental problems, and deaths overall, the New York Times reports. But the reasons aren't always clear, and one expert said the effects have only been widely acknowledged for five years or so. As prolonged heat waves become...

McDonald’s responds amid a conservative backlash against ‘woke capitalism’

FORTUNE – McDonald’s quietly removed the term “ESG” from some parts of its website at a time when environmental, social and governance initiatives have been attracting criticism from some conservative policymakers in the US. The fast-food chain’s “Purpose & Impact” website recently removed several mentions of ESG, according to an analysis by Bloomberg News. One web page that was titled “ESG Approach & Progress” is now labeled “Our Approach & Progress.” Most of the other text...

What the Hellmann’s? Mayo is the most popular — and perhaps divisive — condiment

THE BOSTON GLOBE – Each summer, when the first tomatoes begin to blush, growing sweet and heavy on the vine, tomato sandwich season begins. And with it comes a sudden increase in conversation — or more likely, debate — about a certain creamy condiment. Some people require a slathering of mayonnaise on every dish, while others shudder at the thought. But very few are indifferent. Those who decide to dollop have strong opinions about food...

Stop Microwaving Plastic

Microwaving plastic delivers a double whammy: heat and hydrolysis, a chemical reaction through which bonds are broken by water molecules. All of these can cause a container to shed tiny bits of itself as microplastics, nanoplastics, and toxic chemical components of plastic.

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