The new yellow umbrella at Rose Garden looks roughly similar to the patio of the President’s Private South Florida Club and the swimming pool patio at Mar-A-Lago, a private residence.
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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s revamped, paved white house rose garden is beginning to look like a Marlago.
A new yellow and white striped umbrella was recently installed on approximately 12 deck-style tables on a stone patio that replaces the iconic grass lawns of Rose Garden in late July.
The umbrella looks roughly the same as the yellow umbrella on the swimming pool patio at Mar-A-Lago, the president’s private South Florida club and a personal residence that served as inspiration for the controversial overhaul of Rose Garden, located just outside the oval office.
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Rose bushes and other vegetation remained around the garden following garden renovations.
It is unclear whether the White House will permanently maintain umbrellas in the rose garden or if they intend to bring them out for special occasions. Trump has not yet held public events on his new patio. The patio features drainage to collect water and White House coat of arms along its boundaries.
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Trump told reporters on August 3 that he heard “a great review” about the renovated Rose Garden. “We had to do that.”
Perhaps America’s most famous garden, Rose Garden has been showing off the fame of the president of the United States for decades. The president relied on the garden to sign peace treaties between other countries, presidential press conferences, meetings with foreign chiefs, signing landmark bills, and oath ceremony for Supreme Court judges
Modern Rose Garden was created under President John F. Kennedy in 1961, with him and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy leading the overhaul by tapping architect Rachel Lambert “Bunny” melon.
However, Flower Garden, located on the west side of the South Lawn of the White House, dates back decades ago to the mid-1800s president of Ulysses S. Grant. The space became known as the “colonial gardens” following a 1902 renovation led by Edith Roosevelt, the wife of President Theodore Roosevelt.
Israeli security ministers are keeping the meeting to decide to fully reoccupy Gaza. This is a move marking a massive escalation of conflict after nearly two years of war on the territory.
Despite international pressure, opposition from Israeli military and domestic concerns feared that the operation would put hostages at risk, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for a full acquisition of the besieged enclave.
In an interview with Fox News just before the Security Cabinet meeting, Netanyahu was asked if Israel plans to take all military control of Gaza.
“We intend,” Netanyahu said. He argued that Israel aims to “remove Hamas” in Gaza. He then argued that he was aiming to pass the territory to “private governance, not Hamas, but to anyone defending Israel’s destruction.”
The Prime Minister’s comments have led to a strong response from Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid. “What Netanyahu is offering is more wars, more deadly hostages, and even ‘published’ notices, with billions of taxpayer Shekels pouring into the delusions of (Itamar) Ben Gwyr and (Bezarel) Smotrich.”
Some families of 50 hostages still in Gaza organized several protests on Thursday, appealing to the government to withdraw the plan.
Knowing the proposal, Israeli officials said the phased plans under consideration will take up to five months, with about one million Palestinians from Gaza city and other regions being forced into refuge areas in southern Gaza. The military will establish compounds to accommodate large influx of evacuated Palestinians.
As part of the plan, Israel and the US will increase the number of controversial aid distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) from up to 16 sites today, officials said.
Netanyahu has yet to present detailed plans for how Gaza should be governed in the future. But speaking to Fox on Thursday, he gave a hint, “We don’t want to be there as a governing body. We want to hand it over to the Arab forces who will properly govern it without threatening us and giving Gazan a good life. That’s not possible in Hamas.”
The operation aimed at increasing pressure on Hamas and freeing the remaining Israeli prisoners could be suspended if extremist groups return to negotiations, officials noted.
The final round of talks, which began with prominent optimism, collapsed two weeks ago after the US and Israel pulled delegations from Qatar, with US envoy Steve Witkov accusing Hamas of negotiating “with malicious intentions.” Hamas said he is ready to return to the negotiation table, but that sufficient humanitarian assistance will only be entered into Gaza once.
Hamas on Thursday said Netanyahu’s statement ahead of the security cabinet meeting was “a blatant reversal of the negotiation process.”
“The plan to expand Netanyahu’s aggression confirms there is no doubt that he is trying to expel prisoners and sacrifice them to serve his personal interests and his radical ideological agenda,” the group said in a statement.
On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump said that whether or not he will take over all of Gaza “almost all to Israel,” effectively giving Netanyahu a green light.
Israeli forces have already controlled about 75% of Gaza after a 22-month war, saying that the majority of the territory was left in abolished, causing a humanitarian crisis. The expanded operation allows Israel to potentially enter some remaining areas of Gaza, which are out of direct control to destroy Hamas. Such a scenario would put Israel in legal liability for the welfare of Palestinians in Gaza.
However, Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) chief Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir warned on Tuesday evening that a full Gaza takeover would lock troops inside the enclave and put the remaining hostages in danger, sources told CNN on Wednesday.
In rare recognition of the disagreement between Israeli military forces and its political leaders, Zamir said on Thursday that “culture of debate is an inseparable part of Jewish history. We will continue to express our position in a professional, independent, substantive way.”
On Thursday, far-right finance minister Bezarel Smotrich celebrated Israeli military operations in Gaza as a means to once again build Jewish settlements on its territory. Sumotrich visited the reestablished settlements of Sanur on the occupied West Bank, and said Israel would “one day return to all the places we were exiled.” Using biblical terminology on the Northwest Bank, Smotrich said, “It applies to Gaza and certainly to Samaria.”
Polls have repeatedly shown that the majority of Israelis support the end of the war in exchange for the release of the remaining 50 hostages in Gaza.
The remaining hostage families in Gaza have condemned the government’s plans to expand the war.
“Netanyahu works against hostages,” said Yehuda Cohen, whose son Nimrod is still being taken prisoner in Gaza. “Netanyahu works to kill hostages by continuing to pilot them in Gaza, especially in areas with hostages.”
Cohen and other families of hostages sailed towards Gaza’s maritime border on Thursday, calling for an end to the war.
When the fleet departed from the port of Ashkelon in southern Israel, Rior Holev of the Hostage and Missing Family Forum told CNN that sailing was a “SOS call.”
“The Cabinet’s decision to extend the war would be a death sentence for the living people, making it impossible for people who were killed in Hamas and still held in Gaza to return,” Horev said.
The forum said Thursday it plans to plan a protest outside the venue of the Security Cabinet Meeting in Jerusalem to reject the potential expansion of the war.
Meanwhile, Kibbutz Nir Oz, a southern Israeli community that was overrun by Hamas fighters on October 7, 2023, was suspended in protest of Netanyahu’s plans.
“The Cabinet is now meeting to discuss a future that will be condemned forever. Let’s say that – enough!” the representative of Kibutz said in a statement.
Nir Oz is one of the communities that has been hit hardest by terrorist attacks, with one in four members being killed or lured. The nine are still being held hostages in Gaza.
New data from HR Tech Company Energage shows that many American workers feel they are not paying for what is worth, despite slight improvements in the 2025 compensation trend. Only 69% of employees feel that wages are fair.
What is behind the frustration? Economic pressures such as inflation and rising costs are eroding perceived profits. “Salaries aren’t keeping up to inflation,” says Sam Demase, career expert at Ziprecruiter. “While workers may feel they are gaining more money due to increased wages, their purchasing power remains stagnant.”
Due to slower employment growth and fewer open roles, KPMG points out that businesses have limited room for wage increases. This is what workers and employers can do to bridge the gap.
What employees can do is feel that pay is unfair
Demase says that these strategies can increase the chances of workers increasing their pay.
Know your value and own it
“Think about all your skills, experience, software knowledge and certification,” Demase says. “Mapping what you have to offer and how it compares to what your role needs will help you defend the salary you deserve.”
You then access fair workplace compensation data through Ziprecruiter’s pay estimator or by comparing job descriptions for similar roles. This study shows whether you may be underpaid. It also provides pay transparency needed for effective discussions.
“We’ll negotiate this information with a focus on business impact and outcomes rather than armed and personal,” advises Demase.
Tip: Don’t cite cost-of-living concerns to negotiate a salary increase in 2025. Instead, tie your experience to your employer’s needs. “I mentioned that the priority of this role is to hire, train and retain the team. I did this well in my last position and am excited to bring my expertise to this role.” Then, “Can I bring my total reward closer to $100,000?”
Find a role that cherishes your superpower
Besides knowing the market rate, DeMase suggests targeting positions that match your most powerful skills. “Your superpower and your outcomes are your unique value proposition,” she says. “If you don’t know your value proposition, your potential employers won’t do that either.”
When you apply and write a cover letter, emphasize how you will deliver your job requirements. “I know you are looking for someone who is a builder.
Tip: To clarify your values, DeMase recommends using this template. Next, we will support your point with strong examples and measurable results from past work.
What employers need to understand today’s salary reality
Paying frustration isn’t just an employee problem. Clarity and transparency in compensation is essential for businesses that want to attract and retain talent. Here are some things employers often miss and how to fix it:
Competitive wages lose their impact without clear expectations
“If we meet or exceed the market rate, we attract and maintain the highest quality candidates,” explains Demase.
However, competitive salary alone does not solve the issue of trust if the manager makes ambiguous promises about future pay increases. For example, if a leader says, “review the next quarter,” she warns, without further explanation, employees will be motivated.”
To avoid this, Demase recommends that workers be directly on what they need to do to get a raise. Do they need to upskill? Do they need to take on a specific project? Do they need to achieve certain business outcomes?
“Employees are eager to have clear and honest feedback,” she emphasizes. “Know what you are and be willing to have an open, honest conversation.”
Clear promotional routes alleviate concerns
“If the promotional process is vague, the team loses trust,” warns Demase.
Great leaders provide a clear skill roadmap for each level. An overview of exactly what employees need to do to transition from manager to director to C-suite roles.
Not only does it prevent confusion, this transparency builds loyalty. Demase encourages people to promote from within as much as possible and share those success stories. “Employees long for and ultimately trust companies that don’t only hire outside because of their high-level roles,” she explains.
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As the world warms, long lost shipwrecks and frozen artifacts are emerging from the melting of glaciers and erosion beaches. However, there are drawbacks.
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When a violent winter storm blew through a small Scotland island in February 2024, it excavated buried treasure.
It belonged to 18th A London whaler called Count Chatham, who crashed during the 1788 expedition to Artich, served the British Royal Navy during the American Revolution.
Without climate change, the wreckage may not have recovered.
Those who had worked for more than a year to identify Count Chatham believed in an increase in stormy weather and a new, unusual wind pattern for its discovery. The accelerated transformation of the coastline, known as the “Shipwreck Cradle,” could lead to similar discoveries in the future, they say.
Such discoveries have also happened in many other places.
As the planet continues to warm, glaciers melt and sea levels rise, scientists say discoveries like those found on Scotland’s Sandai Island are becoming increasingly common all over the world.
“It’s a double-edged sword,” said James Delgado, a maritime archaeologist who has been studying the remains for over 40 years. “And more discoveries are happening. Climate change is a factor, but we are looking at things too. We have discovered that it has disappeared in the past now.”
Shipwrecks Galore
Coastal erosion has long led to the surfaces of old shipwrecks, but has been “enhanced” as global temperatures rise and the number of ships increases.
Global sea levels have risen nearly four inches since 1992, according to data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientists estimate that every inch of sea level rise corresponds to a beachfront loss of about 8.5 feet across the coast.
Sea level rise means stronger rainfall.
“We see more dramatic terminations at the beach during storms, which strips off the sand and other things that have been hiding these wrecks for decades,” Delgado said. “More storms and higher sea levels are actually beginning to be drawn out of hiddenness.”
That same year, Count Chatham was discovered in Scotland, and the Massachusetts storm exposed a schooner that had been wrecked since 1909, the other North Carolina Outer Banks revealed boat ruins from 1919, and the Maine storm also resurfaced another 18th-century ship on an 18th-century beach.
Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Irma in 2017 erod Crescent Beach in St. Augustine, Florida, leading to the discovery of the 2020 Civil War ship. A couple walking along the beach found a wooden plank from Caroline Eddy, a union supply ship heading towards Philadelphia in 1880 when it was damaged by a huge wave.
Treasure hidden in the ice
As the climate warmed, melted glaciers also began to reveal frozen artifacts for thousands of years.
The dramatic melting of ice in Norway’s High Mountain in 2006 sparked the findings. Since then, archaeologists have collected over 3,000 items from the country’s glaciers and ice patches, spanning six,000 years of history, as part of an initiative called Secrets of the Ice.
Humans hunted reindeer and traveled along the Norwegian mountain ranges since the Stone Age. Julian Robert Postmelby, who has been working on the program since 2011, said that the items found on ice give historians a more vivid understanding of what life was like back then.
The artifacts are literally frozen.
“They look like they’ve been lost for 10 days, but they’ve been there for 4,000 years,” Melbye said.
Archaeologists found a bark container with waxed candles still inside. They found a dog with a collar that had fallen into the ice. They even said after Melby they have analyzed horse fertilizer for 800 years and discovered what the animals were eating and pollen counting at that time.
“All these ice artifacts are merely traces of a very rich and diverse community and society that we couldn’t study 20 years ago or that stretches virtually thousands of years.”
“The artifact has been destroyed.”
In the case of the post-Melby, the influx of new archaeological discoveries and excitement about what they mean to understand the past gives an immediate path to a stronger sense of hopelessness.
It is difficult to ignore what artifacts mean. “In the last 20 years in Norway, six,000 years of ice have melted,” he said.
Climate changes have led to more discoveries, but have destroyed existing archaeological sites and led to an increasing number of challenges for researchers.
Postmelby said a team of about six Norwegian archaeologists run against the clock every year, and that they interfere, crack or blow away in the wind before collecting new, unfreezing artifacts from 70 glacial sites.
The longer items are exposed to the elements, the more they deteriorate.
“There’s no way to get to every site,” Post Melby said. “We know that artifacts are destroyed every year.”
In other parts of the world, increased rain and rough seas have exhausted previously preserved historical sites.
For example, rock cliffs, a submerged prehistoric settlement from the Stone Age off the southern coast of England, have experienced four metres of erosion in 10 years, according to the British charity Maritime Archaeology Trust. Researchers are competing to be seen at underwater sites to rescue fully maintained artifacts, from flinttools to hazelnuts.
Marine mollusks, such as worms, are now migrating to the Baltic Sea, feeding on ships that remain in the cold waters.
He sees the archaeological discoveries of the onslaught and the increased conservation challenges brought about by climate change as “coal mine canaries.”
“I may be a victim of climate change, but it’s another reminder of what we need to do to slow down what’s going on,” he said.
Archaeologists discovered primitive sharp stone tools on Sulawesi, Indonesian island, and added another piece to the evolutionary puzzle, which includes the mysterious ancients who lived in an area known as the Wallacea.
Located across the Southeast Asian mainland, Wallacea includes a group of islands between Asia and Australia, with Sulawesi being the largest. Previously, researchers discovered evidence that, for comparison with the petite characters in the book by fantasy writer JRR Torkien, an unusual, small human species, also known as the “Hobbit,” lived in nearby Flores, from about 50,000 years ago, to about 50,000 years ago.
The newly discovered flake stone tools date back 104 million to 1.48 million years ago, representing the oldest evidence of human inhabitants in Sulawesi, suggesting that the island may be present at the same time, or perhaps at a much earlier time. The researchers reported the findings of a study published in Journal Nature on Wednesday.
Researchers are still trying to answer these important questions about Wallacea Island Hominins. In other words, when and how did you arrive on the island?
The flaked stone tools were previously discovered in Flores and were made about 1.02 million years ago. The most recent findings suggest that there may have been a link between the populations of Flores and Sulawesi. It suggests that Sulawesi was a foothold for Flores’ Hobbit.
“I have long suspected that a homo-flowerous lineage of Flores, which probably represents a variant of the dwarf of early Asian homoerectus, originally came north from Sulawesi.
The excavation survey conducted by research author Budianto Hakim, co-led by senior archaeologist at the Indonesian National Research Innovation Agency, began in Sulawesi in 2019 and was found to protrude from an outcrop of sandstone known as the cariosite of modern corn fields.
The site, located near the river channel, was probably the site where Hominins made tools and hunted one million years ago, according to archaeologists who found animal fossils in the area. Among the discoveries were the jawbone of the now-creative Cerebochoeros, a species of pig with very large upper fangs.
At the end of the excavation in 2022, the team discovered seven stone tools. Sandstone and fossil dating resulted in estimates of the age of the tool, at least 1.04 million years old. The human-related artifacts previously discovered in Sulawesi were dated 194,000 years ago.
The small, sharp stone fragments used as tools were likely made from large pebbles on nearby riverbeds, and were probably used for cutting or scuffing, Brumm said. The tool resembles the discovery of early human stone techniques previously created at Sulawesi and other Indonesian islands, as well as early human sites in Africa, he added.
“They reflect the so-called “minimal” approach to reducing stones to useful and sharp tools. These are not complicated tools, but creating these tools requires a certain level of skill and experience.
But who is responsible for creating these tools in the first place?
“It’s an important part of the puzzle, but the Cario site has not yet produced any human fossils,” Blum said. “So now we know that there was a tool maker in Sulawesi a million years ago, but their identity remains a mystery.”
The Sulawesi fossil record is sparse, and ancient DNA decomposes more rapidly in the tropical climate of the region. Brumm and his colleagues retrieved DNA from the bones of a teenage hunter-gatherer, a female who died in Sulawesi over 7,000 years ago, revealing evidence of a previously unknown group of human beings, but such findings are extremely rare.
Another obstacle to unlocking the mystery is the lack of systematic and sustained field research in areas of hundreds of separate islands, some of which have never been properly investigated, Blum said.
Researchers have a theory about this unidentified ancient human identity that may represent the earliest evidence of ancient people crossing the sea to reach the island.
“Our working hypothesis is that stone tools from Cario were made by Homoerectus or by isolated groups of this early Asian humanity (for example, creatures similar to Flores’ Homoflores Ensis),” Blumum wrote in an email.
In addition to the fossils and stone tools of Flores, as well as tools found in Sulawesi, researchers have previously discovered stone tools that suggest that ancient humans lived on multiple islands on isolated islands of Luzon, north of Wallacea.
The way our early ancestors reached the island from the beginning remains truly unknown.
“When we arrived in Sulawesi from neighboring mainland Asia, it would not have been easy for a mammal in flight like us, but it is clear that early humans were doing it in some way,” Blum wrote.
“Arguably, they lacked the cognitive ability to invent boats that could be used for planned sea voyages. In most cases, rodents and monkeys were suspected of “rafting” (i.e. uncomfortably floating) doing it on a mat of natural vegetation, perhaps by chance. ”
John Shea, a professor in the department of anthropology at Stony Brook University in New York, said that although it is not a game changer, he believes new research is important and has extensive meaning to understand how humans have established global existence. Shea was not involved in the new research.
Homo sapiens, or modern humans, are the only species with clear and clear evidence of the use of ships, and if Homoerectus or early humans crossed the ocean to the walled island, they needed something to move, said Shea.
The water separating the walled islands is home to sharks and crocodiles and has a rapid flow that made swimming impossible, he added.
“If you’ve ever paddled a canoe or boarded a yacht, you know that you need spoken language to put multiple people on a boat and navigate properly. “On the other hand, just because some early humans have reached these mural islands doesn’t mean they’ve succeeded.”
Success means long term survival.
“They may survive for a while after they arrived, leaving behind undestructible stone tools before they were extinct,” Shea said in an email. “After all, we are the only human beings that are not extinct.”
Brumm and his colleagues continue their research activities at Calio and other Sulawesi sites in search of early human fossils.
There is also much evidence to suggest that small homo-floweres ensis is the result of a dramatic decrease in body size in the approximately 300,000 years since homoerectus was isolated in Flores about a million years ago. Previous research shows that animals have limited resources and can reduce their size when they live on remote islands.
Finding fossils may help researchers understand the evolutionary fate of Homoerectus, if it is human ancestors that reached Sulawesi. Sulawesi, the world’s 11th largest island and more than 12 times as much as Flores, is known for its rich and diverse ecological habitat, Bram said.
“Sulawesi is a bit of a wildcard. It’s essentially a mini-continent in itself,” Blum pointed out. “In the case of HomoerectusIt has become segregated on this island and has not necessarily evolved into something like the strange new form found on the much smaller walled island of Flores to the south. ”
Alternatively, Sulawesi could have once been a series of small islands, which could lead to dwarfism in multiple locations throughout the region, he said.
“We really hope that the hominin fossils will eventually be discovered in Sulawesi,” Bramum said.
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Participating recipients include three veterans who sent Trump a Purple Heart Medal last year after an attempted assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania at Butler in July 2024.
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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is hosting nearly 100 Purple Heart winners at the White House in White Heart, recognizing veterans injured in military operations, including those who gave Trump a badge after surviving last year’s assassination attempt.
The ceremony, set at 4pm on August 7th at the White House East Room, commemorates America’s oldest military decoration, born under President George Washington in 1782, commemorates America’s oldest military decoration to honor those killed or wounded in the battle.
Participating recipients include three veterans (Thomas Matteo, Gerald Entent Jr. and John Ford) who last year sent a Purple Heart Medal to Trump following an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Also present is Chris Lacivita, Trump’s 2024 campaign manager and US Marine veteran who received Purple Heart in 1991 for his service in the Gulf War.
The event will feature father-son combos Kevin Willett and Brian Willett.
Additionally, military expert Kevin Jensen is respected after being hit by an explosive device by Colonel Sam Brown, a recipient of Purple Heart from the Humvee in Afghanistan. Brown was confirmed last week by the Senate as Trump under the secretary of the Veterans Affairs Memorial Affairs Affairs Affairs.
“President Trump deeply cares about our brave men and women wearing uniforms. Today, he recalls those who have acquired this distinction and remembers who made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our freedom,” Taylor Rogers, assistant secretary for White House press, said in a statement to USA Today. “No one deserves more gratitude than these great American heroes.”
Other Purple Heart participants include:
Eli Kuevas, a former team designated by a former team injured in Iraq during his second mission in Iraq.
Senior Master Sergeant. Israel del Toro Junior, a retired Air Force veteran in 2022 and seriously injured a special war operator in Afghanistan in 2025.
Retired Green Beret captain Andrew D. Ashford, who joined the US military after a 9/11 terrorist attack and was injured in Afghanistan in 2017 during a 14-hour firefighter against ISIS-K.
Major James Capers was a highly decorated veteran of the Marines who won three Purple Hearts, Silver Stars and two Bronze Stars in the Vietnam War, and was the first black man to command a Marine Corps reconnaissance company.
Trump, who is not a veteran, received five postponements from the draft for military service during the Vietnam War. He was a university student in 1968 due to a medical exemption due to bone spurts on his heels and received four education postponements during the fifth postponement.
Over 1.8 million Americans received Purple Hearts. This was revived in 1932 by the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, celebrating the 200th anniversary of Washington’s birthday.
The award winner is decorated with heart-shaped decorations with gold embroidery featuring a purple background and a Washington profile.
Trump administration officials scheduled to attend the ceremony include Defense Secretary Pete Hegses, Veterans Secretary Doug Collins and Chief of Staff Dan Dan Dan “Razin” Kane.
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(This story has been updated with more information.)
Women see an increase in cancer incidence as the proportion of men decreases: Report
According to the American Cancer Society, women are seeing an increase in cancer incidence while experiencing a decline in cancer diagnosis.
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Tamron Little was 21 years old and was pregnant with her first child. During daily ultrasound, doctors found what they suspected of as a fibroid tumor.
Little’s tumor was not tested or treated – the doctor told her that this type of tumor is common among black women and would resolve on its own, but they were wrong.
Five months after giving birth, she was diagnosed with abdominal mesothelioma. Abdominal mesothelioma is a rare and aggressive cancer that affects the lining of the abdomen, and most often occurs after asbestos exposure.
Her misdiagnosis delayed treatment and she was given 18 months when she was beginning her journey as a new mother.
Little, now 39 years old, is survived by contributors to the Mesoterioma Center at asbestos.com. However, her misdiagnosis caused distrust in the healthcare system. A 2023 survey published by BMJ Quality and Safety found that in the United States, misdiagnosed illness kills or negates about 795,000 people each year. In a survey of 50 cancer survivors across the United States who were misdiagnosed in July 2024, 92% said misdiagnosis hurt their health, 64% said treatment was delayed, and 56% said cancer had progressed into the later stages.
“Not a million years” may be cancer
When Little’s tumor was first discovered and misidentified as a uterine fibroid, she shared the news with her family. Her mom told her it was okay. She had them too. Her aunt, who also had uterine fibroids, said, “It’s just something you live with.”
Instead, her symptoms did not attribute her symptoms to her first pregnancy, even when she was severely anemia.
“I was still thinking, ‘OK, pregnancy is cruel,'” she says.
Her anemia became so severe that she dropped out of college and returned home. After she gave birth to her son, her Odgin placed her in birth control in an attempt to shrink a suspected fibroid tumor.
After several months, daily ultrasounds showed that the tumor was growing larger. That was the first time cancer had crossed Little’s heart.
“At that moment I asked the doctor, ‘I know I’m saying this is a fibre tumor. Could this be cancer?” she says.
The doctor reassured her: “No, not a million years,” she recalls. “You’re healthy and for women of childbirth age, uterine fibroids are very common.”
However, with caution, the doctor decided to remove the tumor. Finally, she was diagnosed with peritoneal mesothelioma.
“I saw my family and their world was just crushed,” she says. “That’s when I was in the storm.”
They called for a grief counselor. Few people were given an 18-month prognosis to live in. She was in shock. All she wanted to do was hold the baby.
“I went there and came out with a cancer diagnosis of cancer I had never heard of,” she recalls, ‘Yeah, this is the routine procedure for getting uterine fibroid tumors.’
Her doctor had no treatment plans. She searched for second opinions and discovered a two-stage procedure in which high-dose chemotherapy was inserted directly into the abdomen, one of the few East Coast doctors who specialized in HIPEC (high peritoneal chemotherapy).
Black women are more likely to die from multiple cancers despite different incidence rates
Black women are at a higher risk of death than their white counterparts when it is studied at length for certain cancers, such as breast and cervical cancer.
In a 2022 survey of 50 black women who experienced discrimination in a medical setting, 94% of participants felt they were being served during their medical visits, while 92% believed they were not being “really asked.”
In 2025, an estimated 319,750 people were diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States, and an estimated 42,680 people died from the disease. Although there has been a 44% overall decline in breast cancer deaths since 1989, the mortality gap between black and white women remains.
Black women have a 4% lower incidence of breast cancer compared to white women, but the death rate is 40% higher, according to the American Cancer Society. And despite differences in lifetime incidence rates, black women are more likely to develop breast cancer than white women before age 45, but less likely between age 60 and 84 – black women are more likely to die of breast cancer at any age.
Black women also have higher incidence and mortality rates of cervical cancer compared to white women. The 5-year survival rate (56%) is 10% lower than the national average. Although early diagnosis is important in treatment, white women are twice as likely to be screened for cervical cancer than black women.
Delayed diagnosis can further hinder the care patients receive.
“It’s a very disappointing thing,” Little said of her misdiagnosis. “But that’s something I’ve experienced many times as a woman of colour.”
Misdiagnosis leads to reduced trust in the healthcare system
From the study of Tuskegee syphilis to the forced sterilization of black women throughout the 20th century, racial-based medical malpractice is well documented in US history. In a 2024 survey, 58% of the black women surveyed believed their healthcare system was “designed to hold back black people.”
Although she barely survived, her trust in the healthcare system waned. Eight years later, when it comes to choosing a doctor, she is still “very strategic” and sets high expectations for their standard of care.
“When I asked about my platelet count, some doctors said, ‘It’s known that black women have lower platelet counts than white women,'” she says, referring to the dismissed anemia. “I’m not going to take that for an answer.”
Little’s family is now dependent on her. When her grandma was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2023, few were placed in faceTime with her doctors to ask “the right questions.”
“I can imagine other counterparts, women of color. “You have the right to be a patient who respectfully opposes your doctor, and you have the right to throw those expectations ahead of time.”
The ever-growing evidence suggests that excessive reliance on AI may erode the human skills needed to effectively use it. Research warns of opportunities for economic growth as this new human skills deficit threatens the success of AI adoption.
It feels like a day won’t pass without another declaration of how AI will change our world. Every business leader I talk about is worried that they are investing in AI and planning to invest or are left behind. We see big numbers like Accenture’s forecast that AI can inject £736 billion into the UK economy. Hype seems deafening.
But amid all this noise, a quieter and worrying anti-narrative is beginning to take shape. I’ve seen it in reports from places like MIT. The nagging sense of being so leaning too far towards AI tools may not make us sharp.
New findings published by learning scientists at Multiverse put your fingers exactly on what’s at the crisis. Their reports suggest that our singular obsession with AI itself, the most important part of the equation, is neglected.
The warning is that this multi-million pound investment in AI is not just lurking without actively cultivating our own human skills. It could completely fail. We risk creating a human skill deficit that could hit productivity for years to come.
“We’ve been working hard to get the better of our customers,” said Gary Eimerman, Chief Learning Officer at Multiverse. “Leaders spend millions on AI tools, but the investment focus is never successful. They think when it’s really a human and technology issue, it’s a technology issue.
“Without intentionally focusing on analytical reasoning, creativity, culture and behavioral capabilities, AI projects never reach their potential.”
That’s the point of resonance. We’ve all seen generative AI generate blocks of text or code in seconds. But what happens next? That’s the real beginning of work, and it’s a job that demands human talent.
Multiverse team spent time observing what distinguished casual AI users from true “power users.” They identified 13 important skills that have nothing to do with writing the perfect prompt and not related to thinking, reasoning and reflection. It’s not just what you ask AI to do, but how you analyze, question and refine it.
Take analytical reasoning. It is human skills to look at complex problems and break them down into pieces that AI can handle, but it is also wisdom to recognize them when tasks are simply not suitable for the machine. It’s not just a passenger, but a pilot.
Similarly, creativity encourages you to experiment and find truly new ways to use these tools, rather than seeking a slightly better version of what already exists.
There are also personal personality traits. It requires skills like determination (i.e., very patience to keep trying when AI gives you trash) and adaptability. Anyone who has used these tools knows that first-time success is rare. Beyond AI’s answers, fact-checking the work with your own expertise requires a certain resilience and deep curiosity.
Imogen Stanley, senior learning scientist at Multiverse, commented:
“What we found during the first principle research phase was that skills such as ethical surveillance, output verification, and creative experimentation are the true differentiators of AI users.”
This feels like the heart of the problem. Are we training people to be passive users or active drivers? Nowadays, conversation is dominated by technology. However, true competitive advantages don’t come from having the best AI models. It will come from having people who know how to make the most of it.
The future is to cultivate our own human skills and intelligence, just as we are developing artificial kinds. Otherwise, you risk building a future where you have all the answers, but forget how to ask the right questions.
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As the historic SS US is ready to transform into the world’s largest artificial reef off the Florida coast, new plans for the accompanying museum are focused.
According to a release by the SS US Commission on Protection, the two six-storey height funnels will soon be removed from the American flagship and will be used as “dramatic centerpieces” for the SS US Museum and visitors’ experiences.
“By incorporating the iconic components of the historic Ocean Liner into an architecturally stunning athletic museum, SS America will continue to excite and inspire future generations.”
The SS US is an American maritime icon, about the same size as a Chrysler building, launched in 1951 and set a record of transatlantic speeds the following year.
However, after nearly 30 years of dormant in Philadelphia, the ship was sold to Okaloosa County, Florida, and sunk into an artificial reef.
While fans and supporters of “Big U” wanted a different outcome, SS US Reserve felt this was the best option to ensure that she wasn’t discarded.
And the final sinking was accompanied by the promise of a museum commemorating American legend.
Conservancy announced Monday that museum design company Thinc Design has agreed to take on the project.
“We’re looking forward to seeing you in the world,” said Tom Hennes, founder of THINC Design.
The conceptual rendering also holds “artwork, artifacts, vintage photographs and film footage” from the ship, as well as a concept museum that highlights the giant funnels and docks that stretch into the nearby bay, the announcement said.
The Ocean Liner is currently still in Mobile, Alabama, and is preparing to sink. Parental representatives told CNN that Okaloosa County estimates that the final sink could occur by the end of the year or early 2026.
The museum is located in Destin/Ft. Walton Beach, about 20 miles north of the boat rest area.
Longtime fans of the ship still lament the losses to the seabed of SS US, but some were pleased with the new museum’s design update.
“I like the idea that both funnels will be used,” one fan commented on the Conservancy’s Facebook page.
“The gutted hull is reduced to the seas that were once sailed, and much of the interior and top of the ship is preserved for history.”
Tips for managing food recalls and preventing foodborne illnesses
Approximately 128,000 people are hospitalized and 3,000 die from preventable foodborne diseases each year.
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Massachusetts food maker Hans Kissle reminded me of some of his pasta salad products as it contains wheat that is incorrectly labelled potato salad and has not been declared.
Hans Kissle announced a recall that includes 66 units on August 5, according to a notification posted on the US Food and Drug Administration website.
The product in question, the Tricolor Twist Pasta Salad, has the correct label on the front, the company says. However, the wrong label was added to the top of the container, causing customers to think they were buying a Red Briss Potato Salad.
“The actual product contains wheat that has not been declared on top labels,” Hans Kissl wrote in the announcement. “People who are allergic or severely susceptible to wheat pose a risk of a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction when they consume these products.”
So far, the company said it had no illnesses or side effects.
Keep up with today’s recall: USA Today’s Recall Database
In which states were the recalled products sold?
Hans Kissl said the pasta salad with the incorrectly label was sold at the stop and at the locations of stores in the next state.
Connecticut
Massachusetts
New Jersey
new york
Rhode Island
Some customers may still have products in their fridges.
How do I know if I have a recall product?
This product comes with a 16 oz clear plastic container with a white lid.
UPC code 036217673706
Expiration date: August 20, 2025
“The clear container is labelled as a twisted pasta salad by Hans Kissl Tri-Color, and the top label has declared its product Hans Kissl Red Briss Potato Salad,” the company said.
What should I do if I have a recall product?
Hans Kissl said some customers may still have products in the fridge. Those who have it can return them to the store for a full refund.
Customers can also contact Hans Kissle Monday through Friday from 8am to 5pm (978) 556-4500.
Saleen Martin is a reporter for the USA Today Now team. She is from Norfolk, Virginia. 757. Please email sdmartin@usatoday.com.
Trump demanded that American households be taken away from a new count based on their 2024 election victory.
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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is seeking a new census of American households and seeking immigrants who did not enter the country to be legally excluded from the count.
“Our Commerce Department has directed us to immediately begin work on a new, highly accurate census based on modern facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information obtained from the 2024 presidential election. People in our country are not counted in the census. Trump said true socially.
The United States conducts a census once every 10 years, as required by the US Constitution. The government last counted US residents and their five territories in 2020, when households can first respond online.
The count includes foreign-born residents in the United States, including legal permanent residents, students, refugees, asylum seekers, and those who entered the country without permission.
“The US Census Bureau collects data from all foreign-borns who participate in census and surveys, regardless of their legal status. Therefore, fraudulent immigration is implicitly included in the Census Bureau’s estimates of the total population of foreign-born people,” its website states.
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The US Constitution requires how often census is conducted, and the process is governed by federal law.
“The actual enumeration will be made within three years of the first meeting of the US Congress and within all the following ten years, in a direct way by law,” states Article 2, Section 2.
Title 13 of the US Code requires the Census Bureau to provide the language of certain questions to Congress at least two years ago.
A push for Trump’s new census will arise as Texas Republicans seek to promote a redrawn Congressional district that could potentially bring the GOP to the 2026 midterm elections. After Congressional seats were redistributed following the final US Census, Republicans gained control of the House. Republicans currently make up a majority of the three slim seats in the Chamber of Commerce.
Neither the US Census Bureau nor the Commerce Department responded to requests for comment.
“South Park” laughs at Trump over Homeland Security Ice Recruitment Post
“South Park” trolled President Donald Trump after Homeland Security used screenshots of the show on the Ice Recruitment Post.
“South Park” is back to laughing at President Donald Trump again. This time, Vice President JD Vance.
Comedy Central Show targeted Vance and the Vance of Christanoem, the Department of Homeland Security, in its latest episode, “Got a Nut.” This aired on August 6th.
The episode revolves around McKee, a school counselor, being fired from his job. Because he is craving money and is involved in immigration and customs enforcement. A parody ad for federal agencies laughs at the recruitment process, declaring Jingle “We don’t want experience, just show up!”
McKee is hired by ice on the spot and watches recruitment videos of gnomes shooting dogs repeatedly. This is a reference to the 2024 revelation that she shot and killed a “unable to quit” family dog. His first ice attack is at a live show of “Dora the Explorer”, where Gnome immediately shoots a service dog in the crowd. Ice then attacks heaven, and Gnome tells the agent that “just restrains brown ones.”
McKee is eventually invited to Mar Lago, where Trump offers to make him a “new face of homeland security.” Because Noem’s “face surprises me.” Trump then takes McKee to his bedroom, where he introduces Satan to his trousers and reading a book in his bed. Mr. Mackey is surprised to see Satan and leaves immediately.
During the Mar-a-lago sequence, Vance is portrayed as a Trump servant in a portrayal that appears to have been inspired by the Sidekick character Tattoo (Hervé Villechaize) of ABC’s “Fantasy Island.” At one point, Trump is troubled by Vance, kicking him very hard and jumping off the screen. After the episode aired, Vance responded with an X. “Well, I finally made it.“
jd vance Responds to brutal parody in the latest “South Park” episode
Episode end credits show Noem in shooting at the pet store.
The White House previously denounced “South Park” for a Trump parody
The latest “South Park” episode aired two weeks after the show made waves with a parody of Trump in the season 27 premiere “Mount.”
The episode shows Trump going to bed with Satan, depicting him as the series portrayed Saddam Hussein in the past. “South Park” previously used the original character Garrison as Trump’s analogue, but Season 27 shifted by parodying Trump himself into parody using actual photos of the president placed on an animated body.
The “Sermon on Mount” centers around Trump suing South Park until the town reaches the settlement and agrees to do pro-Trump messaging. The episode ended with the announcement of fake public services shown by live-action Trump, who walks through the desert and removes all his clothes.
In a statement provided to USA Today, White House spokesman Taylor Rogers denounced “South Park” in response to an episode of Trump parody.
“South Park” Troll DHS To recruit ice agents using screen grabs: “So are we relevant?”
“The show has not been related in over 20 years and is hanging in a thread with ideas that have not been inspired by desperate attempts for attention,” a White House statement said. “President Trump has fulfilled his promise in just six months than any other president in our country’s history, and we cannot derail President Trump’s passionate streak.”
After appearing on San Diego Comic-Con on July 24th, “South Park” creators Tray Parker and Matt Stone sarcastically apologised for the Trump episode, saying, “We’re so sorry.”
White House: “South Park” has been “unrelated for over 20 years” after a Trump parody.
Prior to the follow-up episode, the Department of Homeland Security on August 5 shared images of X’s portrayal in “South Park” this week, along with a link to how to join the agency. The official X account for the series immediately came out, “Wait, is that relevant?”
This story has been updated to include additional information.
Contributors: Tim Reed, Reuters; Brian Truitt, USA Today
A Ugandan-born trail runner, Deokato became the first to run from Cape Town to London, covering 200 marathons from over 20 countries over five years. Inspired by the racism he faced in the UK, Kato traced the migration of humanity from Africa and set out to challenge people to the idea of “where did they come from?” Along the way, he was racially profiled and imprisoned in South Sudan, facing many difficulties. Now returning to London, he shares his journey and opposes racism in both society and the world of running.
(CNN) – Firefly Aerospace was the first private company to stand upright on the moon, and this time it will have another high stakes fall on the stock market.
Firefly shares will begin trading on Nasdaq on Thursday morning under the ticker symbol “Fly.”
Founded in 2017 by Ex-Spacex engineer Tom Markusic, the company reached a valuation of over $6 billion in its first public offering, according to estimates from the Startup Data Aggregator Pitchbook.
Firefly raises more than $868 million, with the stock priced at $45 per copy, according to a news release. Many of these funds could be used to fuel the company’s ambitious next steps, including plans to land the first US spacecraft across the moon soon in 2026.
Firefly plans to debut a spacecraft that has medium-sized rockets in its development pipeline, providing maintenance and allowing other satellites to travel from orbit.
“There is currently so much demand from national security, space exploration and commercial customers, so we want to recharge and accelerate that growth by evaluating our production lines even faster,” Firefly CEO Jason Kim told CNN.
The stock market debut was triggered by the company’s highly-prominent lunar landing in March. Andrew Chanin, CEO of Investor Procuream, said investors appear to have an appetite for IPOs at this time.
“This is like an era where all the planets are in place,” Kim said of the timing of the IPO.
The Firefly Blue Ghost spaceship made history in March with an upright touchdown that was untouched on the surface of the moon.
Its mission, implemented under a $122 million contract on behalf of NASA, was the first in a series that Firefly plans to run over the next few years.This is because the US Space Agency aims to establish a permanent settlement on the moon under the Artemis program.
Moon missions, rockets, space tugs
Firefly hopes to send one of its blue ghost cars across the moon next year. There, only China, the US’s major rival in modern space racing, successfully sent the lander.
The company’s other business lines include Alpha, rockets that have been flying since 2021, and scaling versions of the launch vehicle that Firefly is co-developing with Northrop Grumman, known as the Eclipse. This year, Firefly is planning to debut a “space salient” called Elytra, which can provide in-space services, such as moving satellites between orbits.
“It’s a positive sign that they’re not just focusing on the moon,” Chanin pointed out.
According to Chanin, Firefly rockets in particular could prove to be an attractive asset. Some satellite manufacturers and other space companies overseas are trying to avoid reliance on SpaceX, which has dominated the global launch market for many years, in the wake of the Russian-Ukurein war. The conflict led to an incident in which satellites owned by European companies were effectively trapped in Russian rockets, spurring European countries and businesses.
Space companies have struggled in the open market in the past. Rockets, satellites and other space hardware are very expensive to build and tend to be extremely dangerous to operate.
That’s one of the reasons why some of the most visible leaders of the space industry are billionaires who can self-fund their ambitions. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk famously states that he will not be revealing his company any time soon, as he wants to pursue a strange goal like colonizing Mars while he is free from open market pressure.
However, if the company can wisely use cash inflows, fireflies could be offered well by making public, Chanin pointed out.
“In space companies that can boost prospects or harm, things happen very quickly,” Shanin added, referring to the inevitable and unforeseen development hang-ups and mission failures in a dangerous world of spaceflight.
“We can now bring in cash and build what they’re working on,” Chanin said, “Give us a cushion if the rainy day is a rainy day, which is something they can use to raise funds right now.”
Kim said he intends to pay upfront for Firefly’s victory and struggle to promote trust with investors.
“This company is always open and transparent, even through success and anomalies. I think that helped us get a lot of support and advocacy from the public,” Kim said.
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The British leave superintendent was charged with attempted murder after allegedly attempting to have his daughter-in-law owned in a Florida swimming pool, authorities said.
Mark Raymond Gibbon, 62, took leave with his family while on vacation at Solterra Resort in Davenport, Florida, when deputies from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office were hampered in a backyard swimming pool Sunday evening, the sheriff’s office said in an X post.
Gibbon was in the pool with his 33-year-old stepdaughter, according to the victims and witnesses.
Authorities said Gibbon was from Beacon Field, England, about 25 miles west of London.
“Gibbon has been accused of pushing the victim’s head against the water multiple times and hugging him, preventing him from breathing,” reads a statement posted on X on Monday.
“The victim’s nine-year-old daughter jumped into the pool to prevent Gibbon from owning her mother.”
Gibbon only stopped when a sister from a nearby vacation rental said she called police, the sheriff’s office said, citing the victim’s statement.
Gibbon was arrested, charged with battery and attempted second-degree murder.
“It’s great that Polk County attracts visitors from all over the world, but we look forward to acting while we visit together, as we expect our lifelong residents to do the same,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a statement.
“You may find Gibbon is spending more time in Florida than you would expect because he couldn’t control his anger.”
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It may still feel like summer, but the restaurant chain is looking forward to falling as it unveils autumn-themed menu items for the upcoming season.
Chick-fil-A is the latest restaurant chain to unveil autumn menus. The company announced its finite time menu on Thursday, August 7th. This includes Chick-Fil-A’s first-ever seasonal soda, a new sandwich, and two new potato chip varieties.
First introduced last spring, Chick-Fil-A brings back a second-year cherry berry drink, but this time it’s mixed with Sprite. The full lineup of Cherry Berry Rings includes:
Cherry Berry & Sprite: A sparkling mix of sprites and natural flavors of delicious cherry, blueberries and cranberry.
Cherry Berry Lemonade: Classic Chick Fill Lemonade with a sweet and fruity remix featuring natural flavours of cherry, blueberries and cranberry.
Cherry Berry Frosted Lemonade: A creamy blend of ice-reem dessert and classic chick fill lemonade with natural flavours of cherry, blueberries and cranberry.
Cherry Berry Sunjoy: A sweetened iced tea and lemonade blend of natural flavours of cherry, blueberries and cranberry.
In addition to Cherry Berry Beverages, Chick-Fil-A announced that it will launch its pretzel cheddar club sandwich nationwide due to customer demand after a successful test in Raleigh, North Carolina last spring.
The sandwich features a toasted butter pretzel bread, lettuce, sliced tomatoes, cheddar cheese, strips of applewood smoked bacon and a side of creamy Dijon mustard sauce. Customers can also choose their preferred fillet. That is, the sandwich comes with original spicy, grilled chicken.
“We are always looking for ways to surprise our guests with new, unique menu offerings. This fall lineup offers more opportunities for guests to customize and create their own.”
“The demand for guests for bold and fun drinks has grown, and now Cherryberry’s return with a hilarious twist brings something fresh and unexpected to our lineup. The Pretzel Cheddar Club Sandwich offers the perfect complement.
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Chick-fil-a debuts two potato chip varieties
Chick-Fil-A has also announced two new potato chip varieties available in a new waffle cut style that resembles Chick-Fil-A’s waffle fries.
The chips are available as a permanent side item or catering option for any occasion and include the original flavored waffle potato chip options and chick fill flavored waffle potato chips.
Chick-fil-A said potato chips can also be purchased in 7 oz bags at select retailers in the Atlantic and Southeast regions later this fall.
Gabe Hauari is a national trending news reporter for USA Today. You can follow him with X @geuna Alternatively, email him at gdhauari@gannett.com.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump is scheduled to sign an executive order on Thursday that aims to allow private equities, real estate, cryptocurrency and other alternative assets in his 401(k) retirement account.
“The order directs the Securities and Exchange Commission to promote access to alternative assets in defined retirement savings plans directed by participants by amending applicable regulations and guidance,” a White House official said on condition of anonymity.
The order also directs the Labor Secretary to consult with the Treasury Department, the SEC and other federal counterparts to determine whether those agencies should make changes to parallel regulations,” the official said.
Such a move would benefit large alternative asset managers such as Blackstone BX.N, KKR KKR.N, and Apollo Global Management Apo.n to open up a market for $12 trillion in retirement funds known as defined contribution plans to invest.
However, critics say it could add too much risk to retirement accounts such as the 401(k)s.
According to the White House public schedule, the president is expected to sign an executive order at 12:00 ET.
(Reporting by Jeff Mason, Additional Report by Rishabh Jaiswal of Bengaluru, Written by Doina Chiacu, Edited by Louise Heavens)
Soldiers were shot at Fort Stewart Army Base in Georgia
Five soldiers were shot dead at Fort Stewart in Georgia. Everything is in a stable state. Quornelius Radford is suspected of being in custody.
The massive shootings at Army facilities in Georgia have rocked the military community with questions about the suspect’s motives and how he brought the gun outside to the base.
The shooting at Fort Stewart said that on August 6, the other soldiers were tackled and restrained after Army officials fired their teams in the morning, using personal handguns to shoot and injure five fellow soldiers. All five were expected to recover, Saint Grig of the Army. General John Lebas said.
Secretary of War Daniel Driscoll stopped the suspect at a ceremony on August 7th and presented the medals to soldiers who provided care to the injured.
“You’re doing what you signed up for. It’s a train ready to deploy to protect your fellow soldiers on behalf of your country,” Drisco told soldiers at Fort Stewart.
The suspect, 28-year-old sergeant. Quornelius Radford was taken into custody after the shooting. An uncommitted officer of automated logistics was arrested for stationing at Fort Stewart and driving under recent influence. After Army officials made an update on August 7th, the motives for the shooting have yet to be revealed.
The shooting elicited responses from lawmakers across the political spectrum who prayed to soldiers, families and first responders at Fort Stewart.
President Donald Trump told White House reporters that “the whole nation is praying for the victims and their families,” calling the suspect “terrifying.”
“Five brave soldiers were injured today in the coronavirus shooting at Fort Stewart,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegses said. “Speed justice comes to others who are found to be involved with the perpetrator.”
Here’s what we know:
What happened at Fort Stewart?
The shooting occurred just before 11am on August 6th in the area of the South Georgia installation, associated with the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry Division, a tank unit that returned from its European deployment in the summer of 2024.
Radford was arrested around 11:35am, and fellow soldiers who witnessed the shooting tackle him on the ground and stolen him until authorities arrived and detained him.
“These soldiers definitely hindered further victims,” Rubas said.
The base was placed in lockdown. This was lifted around noon and declared completely clearly just before 2pm
Two of the injured soldiers were taken to the trauma center, and three were treated at the base Winn Army Community Hospital. One had surgery.
Rubus said Radford carried out the attack using a personal gun rather than a military firearm. It was not clear how he got the outer gun through security, he said.
Who is the suspect?
Radford worked as an automated logistics officer. Soldiers in that field manage maintenance or warehouse operations by performing orders and tracking operations on the Army computer systems. He has been stationed at Fort Stewart since 2022 and was not deployed in battle.
The shooting suspect was also recently arrested for driving under the influence, Lubus said. The arrest was “unknown to his chain of command until (the shooting) occurred,” Rubas said.
Court records show that the arrest occurred in Liberty County, where Fort Stewart is located, in May. He was driving a 2021 Nissan Ultima on a Florida plate at the time of his arrest, records showed. He was also charged with running a red light.
What is the injured soldier’s condition?
Authorities provided an update on the conditions of the five soldiers injured at a press conference on the morning of August 7th. The injured person’s identity was not released.
According to Lubas, three out of five were treated on August 6th and released from the hospital. Both women, two soldiers, are still hospitalized. One is located at the base Winn Army Community Hospital. Another person, whose condition is even more severe, is in a hospital in Savannah.
“She has a slightly longer path to recovery,” Rubas said. “They are very hoping she will recover in full.”
Soldiers recognized for “hero” and “courage”
Six soldiers received the award for intervening in shooting and aid interventions, Driscoll said. When the shooting broke out, one unarmed soldier rushed forward to tackle the suspect. Another jumped over him and conquered him further until the authorities arrived.
“So think about this. They were armed, they ran off and worked on the armed people,” Drisco said.
Others responded to the scene, provided first aid to the injured and stopped the bleeding, Rubas said.
“No one was hesitant,” Rubas said.
Suspicion of being booked to prison
Authorities said Radford was being held in pretrial confinement with the Army Criminal Investigation Bureau on August 6, awaiting a request decision by the Special Court Council office.
He escorted him that night at the Liberty County Jail in Hinesville, Georgia, according to a report by Savannah Morning News, part of the USA Today Network.
According to a special regional agent with the Criminal Investigation Office, which handles Ryan O’Connor, Radford will likely be transferred to a military detention facility.
What was the motivation behind the Fort Stewart shooting?
Authorities have not stated what Radford’s motivation was.
The suspect’s father, Eddie Radford, told The New York Times that he had not noticed anything unusual about his son’s behavior and had no idea what led to the violent attack.
“It’s hard for me to handle,” Eddie Radford told The Times, adding that his son was seeking a transfer and complained to his racist family at Fort Stewart.
– Michael Loria
Who is Quornelius Radford? What we know about the suspected shooting at Fort Stewart
Shooting scrambled a loved one for safety
Sadie Mohrbacher was in the theater watching a new Fantastic Four film when she received a horrifying text message from her sister on the morning of August 6th.
Maulbacher, 25, ran out of the theater and called her younger sister, Page Shipley, who lives with her husband at Stewart Military Base in Georgia. Siple said she was home alone, locked the door, closed all the curtains, and took shelter in the upstairs closet with her dog ranger.
Siple’s husband, an active soldier who worked at Bass, was safe and was able to return home from work after the lockdown was lifted in parts of Fort Stewart.
“It was horrifying,” Maulbacher told USA Today.
A vast military facility covering areas larger than New York City, Fort Stewart lives in thousands of people, including soldiers, families and civilian employees.
– –Christopher Kang
This was not the first shot at Fort Stewart. Military bases have a history of attacks.
Mass shooting occurs in all kinds of American environments, and military bases are no exception. The most deadly in US history at military bases occurred in 2009 at Fort Hood Army Base in Texas.
Other major shootings have been taking place at military bases in Texas, DC and Florida.
Also, in December 2022, fellow soldiers shot and killed a sergeant at Fort Stewart. Nathan Hillman in the unit’s building complex.
Contributors: Davis Winkey, Christopher Kang, Ansley Franco, Michael Loria, Tao Nuguen, USA Today; Savannah Morning News. Reuters
As the human brain ages, it shrinks and affects its ability to remember – it is a part of life. But there are a few lucky people called “Super Agars.” They have brains to fight back. For these people, memories remain as sharp as they have been in the past 30 years.
Carol Siegler, who lives in the Chicago suburbs of Palatine, is a super agar. At 82, she won the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament for age groups. She said it came in “as a joke.”
“I auditioned twice for “Jeopardy!” And they did enough to be invited to a live audition.
Today, Siegler is on track for her 90th birthday, says Tamar Geffen, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at Meslam Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Institute at Northwestern University in Chicago.
Gefen is currently researching in Northwestern’s Superaging program, which currently studies 113 Superagers. However, over the past 25 years, 80 super agars have donated their brain tissue to the program, leading to fascinating discoveries.
CNN spoke to Gefen about these decades of work. She is the co-author of a new analysis of the study published Thursday in Alzheimer’s Disease & Dementia, a journal of the Alzheimer’s Disease Association.
This interview is clearly edited and condensed.
CNN: How do you define Superager and what have you learned about their behavior over the years?
Side side: To become a super-organizer in a program at Northwestern, people need to go beyond 80 and undergo extensive cognitive testing. Acceptance in this study occurs only when a person’s episodic memory (the ability to remember everyday events and personal history of the past) is as or more cognitively normal as in their 50s and 60s.
They screen nearly 2,000 individuals, and they believe that they could be super attackers, with under 10% meeting the criteria. Over the past 25 years, we have studied about 300 super agars. Many of them have donated their brains for research.
One important feature of Superagers is that they look like very social people. They value connections and often work in the community. This is interesting as it is known that separation is a risk factor for developing dementia. Therefore, socially active is a known protective feature.
Another common thread of all super flavors is a sense of autonomy, freedom, and independence. They make decisions and live their lives the way they want to live.
I feel very strongly that successful aging is not just about sociality. I think it can invade their entire psychosocial being, especially in vulnerable states like health or older.
But when it comes to healthy behaviors, the super taste runs through the range. We have heart disease super agar, diabetes, not physically active and eat much better than our peers of similar ages.
There is one Superzer who drinks 4 beers each night. He laughs and says, “Maybe I was wrong, but I’ll never know.” He didn’t have the same twins to compare his behavior, so he lived at 108 instead of 98? I don’t know.
CNN: Many of your most interesting findings come from research into brain tissue in donors. What did you discover about the Superager Brain memory center?
side: Our study shows that the brain regions responsible for attention, motivation, and cognitive involvement known as the cingulate cortex are thickened with superagents, even when compared to people in their 50s and 60s.
In the hippocampus, the brain’s memory center, we found that the super flavor is three times less tau tangles compared to its “regular” peers. Abnormal formation of tau proteins is one of the important signs of Alzheimer’s disease.
In Alzheimer’s disease, tau also targets neurons in primary cholinergic neurons. But that doesn’t happen in the super agar’s brain. Therefore, the cholinergic system is likely to be stronger, perhaps more plastic and flexible.
That’s interesting. Because I think Super Agar is concentrated. They are meticulous, involved and actively listen. Can you remember 13 out of 15 random words after 30 minutes? I imagine them etch the words of their cortical with chisels.
The superagar’s brain also has larger, healthier cells in the tumor cortex. This is an essential area of memory and learning, and leads directly to the hippocampus. Incidentally, the embryonic cortex is one of the first regions of the brain that was hit by Alzheimer’s disease.
Another study examined all layers of cells within the embryonic cortex of superagent and tried to measure neuron size. Layer 2, the most important layer for information transmission, was found to have a huge, plump, intact, beautiful, gigantic, iconic cortical neuron.
It was an incredible discovery as their insect neurons were even bigger than those of much younger people, some even in their 30s. It shows that structural integrity components are at work, such as architecture, bone, and the skeletons of neurons themselves.
We are expanding our research on these neurons to understand their biochemical signatures, determine what makes them special, and see if these signatures are found in other types of neurons in the SuperArgarh brain. Are these same neurons particularly vulnerable in Alzheimer’s patients? If so, how and why?
CNN: What did you learn from your research on how the brains of super participants respond to injuries, illnesses and stress?
side: We look at the brain inflammatory system of superagent with the goal of understanding how immune cells in the brain respond to disease and adapt to stress. Inflammation is a major component of cell loss in Alzheimer’s disease and almost all other neurodegenerative diseases, when exceeded certain thresholds.
Compared to its contemporary brains, superagars contain fewer activated microglia, which are brain-resident immune cells in the white matter. White matter is a superhighway of the brain, transporting information from one part of the brain to another.
Here’s how it works: Microglia are activated due to some antigen or disease. It is usually destructive to the brain. However, in some cases, microglia and other immune cells become overactive and overdrive, causing inflammation and potential damage.
However, the brain of Superagar is less active microglia. In fact, microglia levelsThey were on par with people in their 30s, 40s and 50s. This means that microglia do not need to be active, as it can mean that the super-flavored brain is less junk or disease. Or it could mean that microglia are efficiently responding to disease and toxin removal, and they are more plastic and adaptable, allowing microglia to activate, respond and then calm down.
All of this is fascinating. At the cellular level, the superagar brain’s immune system may be stronger or more adaptable, just like the layers of cells found in the tumor cortex.
CNN: It sounds like luck in a draw, whether you were born with the right genes to protect your brain. What does that mean for the future?
side: Genetics is difficult. It’s not just about whether there are genes, but how the internal and external environments work together to influence whether genes are “on” or expressed. This is the epigenetic part of the puzzle.
There is a list of candidate genes that we are beginning to study very carefully. These are genes that also play a role in aspects of lifespan, aging, cell repair, and cognitive reserve.
I’m excited about it. Not only hereditary genetics from parents, but also cellular level genetics allow each neuron or immune cell to perform its own task in the brain. With rapid advances in technology, we are confident that prevention and modifications at the genetic level will become part of our playbook.
Clearly, Alzheimer’s disease does not have one target resolution. We all know we want a simple fix, but it just doesn’t happen.
It is necessary to bring together many teams and many specialists to create a kind of personalized cocktail for prevention and treatment. I think that’s possible, but it will take some time.
Meeting with Donald TrumpRussian counterpart Vladimir Putin could be held as early as next week, a top Kremlin aide said Thursday there was a deadline for the US president to show progress in ending the war in Ukraine.
According to Russian national media Ria Novosti, preparations for the meeting are already underway, and how long they spend “it’s hard to say,” but the meeting will take place next week.
If the meeting goes on, it will be the first time between leaders of both countries since 2021 when Putin met former President Joe Biden in Geneva, Switzerland. Russia began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
On Wednesday, Trump said the two leaders could meet “quickly” and discuss the possible war in Ukraine.
Putin said Thursday that the UAE could be a “appropriate” place for the conference.
Earlier in the day, Ushakov, former Russian ambassador to Washington, said that although he has already agreed, he has not confirmed where it will happen, according to the RIA.
He reduced the possibility of a trilateral talks between Putin, Trump and Ukrainian President Voldimi Zelensky.
Putin suggested that he “doesn’t oppose anything” with Ukrainian leaders, but that “specific conditions must be met.”
Zelensky said on Thursday that “various potential forms of leader-level meetings to bring peace,” including “two bilateral (conferences) and one trilateral.”
“Ukraine is not afraid of meetings and expects the same brave approach from the Russian side, when it ends the war,” he said in a social media post.
Witkov and Putin met for three hours in Moscow on Wednesday, but Trump later said there was no “breakthrough” between the two men. He was also cautious when he said he was “disappointed earlier by this” when asked about the timeline of the transaction.
Witkov’s fifth visit to Russia this year came after Trump, which is due to expire on Friday, agreeing to a ceasefire or facing severe second sanctions and clashing with a country that buys Russian oil with 100% tariffs.
Just hours after the meeting, the US leader imposed an additional 25% tariff on India as a punishment for Russian oil imports.
Since taking office in January, Trump has been trying to mediate a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, initially claiming that the war could be ended within 24 hours.
Since then, there has been little progress in months. Russia claims it wants peace while increasing the scale of its attacks on Ukraine.
Critics have suggested that Putin’s actions have lost lawsuits in recent months and are an attempt to buy time to gain further status on the Ukrainian battlefield.
Meanwhile, Trump has repeatedly expressed his frustration that Putin would say one thing, but he would do another.
“We’ve done four deals, and you go home and see (Russia) attack a nursing home or something. So, what the hell was that?” the US leader said in an interview with the BBC last month.
Speaking to Trump following Wednesday’s meeting between Putin and Witkov, Zelensky said on Wednesday that “Russia appears to be heading for a ceasefire.”
“The pressure on Russia is working. But the main thing is that they don’t deceive us with details. There is no us or the US,” the Ukrainian leader said in a nightly video address to the country.
This story has been updated with additional details.
