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The international poverty line, which the U.N. uses to measure global poverty, is very low. The international poverty line is valuable because it has succeeded in drawing the world’s attention to the extreme poverty of the world’s very poorest people. But to end poverty in all its forms everywhere, studying this poverty line alone is not enough. One way to see whether this higher poverty line is reasonable is to check whether it aligns with established national poverty assessments. For this, we need an appropriately ambitious poverty line that receives the same attention as the low international poverty line.

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☆ Post-Roe, pregnant women face growing risk of criminal prosecution for charges much broader than abortion
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Deidre Mcphillips | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Other documented charges against pregnant women include criminal homicide and drug-related charges, along with one charge related to a portion of a criminal abortion statute that has since been repealed and one charge of abuse of a corpse. Certain groups have been advocating for fetal personhood for decades, she said. So instead, fetal personhood was indirectly written into other areas of law, with a particular focus on advocating for prosecutions of pregnant women. “The goal was not just to have these individual people go to prison, it was meant to set a precedent about what fetal rights look like,” she said. Marsh’s case is a “prime example of how pregnancy loss can become a criminal investigation very quickly,” Dana Sussman, senior vice president of Pregnancy Justice, told KFF.

Persons: Dobbs, Roe, Wade, ”, Mary Ruth Ziegler, Ziegler, “, ” Ziegler, Tom Parker, Him, Amari Marsh, ” Dana Sussman, KFF, Dr, Sanjay Gupta, Lourdes A, Rivera Organizations: CNN, University of California Davis School of Law, Pregnancy, South Carolina State University, CNN Health, Dobbs America Locations: United States, Alabama, Oklahoma, South Carolina

☆ How promises of a ‘post-Roe future’ have fallen short
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-22 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

Few address child care, for infants or beyond. Since Dobbs, seven states have had ballot initiatives on the topic, with the abortion rights position winning in each state. In November, at least 10 more initiatives aimed at restoring or protecting abortion rights will be in front of voters across the country. But Brahm has also rallied an array of political, faith, academic, medical and advocacy leaders into a coalition called “Building a Post-Roe Future” that calls for more affordable health care and child care, expanded child tax credits, paid parental leave, flexible work hours and enforced pre-natal support. Though paid parental leave has been a big topic of discussion around the country, the only states to enact such measures since Dobbs are those where abortion rights are protected.

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☆ How pregnancy changes the brain
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-16 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Researchers have created one of the first comprehensive maps of how the brain changes throughout pregnancy, substantially improving upon understanding of an understudied field. What brain changes mean for parentsThe functional implications these brain changes may have for birthing parents have yet to be determined, said Dr. Elseline Hoekzema, head of the Pregnancy and the Brain Lab at Amsterdam University Medical Center, via email. However, some of Hoekzema’s previous work has indicated associations between pregnancy-related brain changes and the ways a birthing parent’s brain and body respond and bond to infants’ cues, Hoekzema added. These findings are also in line with animal studies showing brain changes that were critical for the onset and continuation of maternal care. “Of the 50,000 brain imaging articles published in the last 30 years, less than half of 1% focus on health factors unique to women, like pregnancy.

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Almost half the population of East Timor, the most Catholic nation outside Vatican City, attended a Mass presided over by Pope Francis on Tuesday on the third leg of his Asia trip. An estimated 600,000 people packed the seaside park of Tasitolu near the capital, Dili, the Vatican told reporters, citing local authorities. But the Vatican has also admitted it concealed sexual abuse by members of the clergy in East Timor, including key figures in the independence movement. Francis, 87, is the first pope to visit East Timor since it became an independent state in 2002. “We have the opportunity to see the pope face to face.”The Mass was held at the same site where St. John Paul II, the last pope to visit East Timor, celebrated a historic liturgy in 1989.

Persons: Pope Francis, Francis, “ Viva, Francisco, ”, Lucrecia Nono, “, John Paul II, John Paul Organizations: Vatican City, Vatican, Catholic Locations: East Timor, Vatican, Asia, Tasitolu, Dili, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Singapore

Dili, East Timor CNN —Pope Francis received a rapturous welcome from the tiny Southeast Asian nation of East Timor, one of the world’s most Catholic countries, where more than half the population is expected to turn out for an open-air mass on Tuesday. People wait for Pope Francis to arrive at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Dili, East Timor, on September 10, 2024. Pope Francis greets Catholic worshipers in Dili, East Timor, on September 10, 2024. Four hundred years of ensuing Portuguese colonial rule led to the widespread spread of Catholicism in East Timor and other cultural differences from Muslim-majority Indonesia. East Timor is also on track to become the 11th member of the Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN, which could happen next year.

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☆ 18 of the biggest scandals in Olympic history
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Erin Mcdowell | Mykenna Maniece | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif's sex became the subject of intense scrutiny at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Algerian boxer Imane Khelif's sex was the subject of intense scrutiny throughout the Games. Richard Pelham/Stringer/Getty ImagesAlgerian boxer Imane Khelif faced scrutiny throughout the Olympics due to the spread of misinformation about her sex. However, International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams repeatedly defended Khalif and Yu-ting against the unspecified tests and the scrutiny facing the athletes. Khelif and Yu-ting went on to win gold medals in their respective weight classes.

Persons: Imane, Richard Pelham, Stringer, Imane Khelif, Italy's Angela Carini, Khelif, —, Lin Yu, Mark Adams, Khalif, Adams Organizations: Getty, Khelif, International Boxing Association, IBA, Associated Press, Olympic, AP

☆ I.V.F. Threats in Alabama Drive Clinics to Ship Out Embryos
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Azeen Ghorayshi | Sarah Kliff | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

An emerging movement against in vitro fertilization is driving some doctors and patients in red states to move or destroy frozen embryos. The embryo migration is most striking in Alabama, where the State Supreme Court ruled in February that embryos were “unborn children.” Since then, at least four of Alabama’s seven fertility clinics have hired biotech companies to move the cells elsewhere. A fifth clinic is working with a doctor in New York to discard embryos because of concerns about the legality of doing so in Alabama. Since the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, 14 states have passed total or near total abortion bans. And the Southern Baptists, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, voted in June to oppose I.V.F., calling for the protection of “frozen embryonic human beings.”

Persons: Roe, Wade Organizations: Baptists, I.V.F Locations: Alabama, New York

☆ Opinion | To Save Conservatism From Itself, I Am Voting for Harris
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( David French | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If I lived in Florida, I would support the state’s heartbeat bill and vote against the referendum seeking to liberalize Florida’s abortion laws. to build their families, I do not believe that unused embryos should simply be discarded — thrown away as no longer useful. But I’m going to vote for Kamala Harris in 2024 and — ironically enough — I’m doing it in part to try to save conservatism. Since the day Donald Trump came down that escalator in 2015, the MAGA movement has been engaged in a long-running, slow-rolling ideological and characterological transformation of the Republican Party. At each step, it has pushed Republicans further and further away from Reaganite conservatism.

Persons: Dobbs, Kamala Harris, —, Donald Trump, MAGA Organizations: Republican Party Locations: Florida

☆ IOC: Tests that called into question boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting ‘not legitimate’
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-04 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

“I need hardly say if we start acting on suspicions against every athlete of whatever, then we go down a very bad route,” he said. And partly data-sharing of this is also highly against the rules, international rules.”“The whole process is flawed,” Adams added. Adams confirmed that the IOC received a letter from the IBA that the 3 Wire Sports website reported concerned Khelif and Lin and, it said, was sent in June of last year to Olympic organizers. Adams wouldn’t discuss the letter’s contents but reiterated: “Those tests are not legitimate.”“There was indeed a letter,” he said. The IOC and international sports bodies have isolated Russia because of the country’s invasion of Ukraine.

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☆ My identical twin and I only started dressing alike as adults. It's the way it should be.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Mikhaila Friel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewMy identical twin sister, Aimee, and I were complete opposites growing up. Aimee loved makeup and musicals, and I loved skateboarding and blaring Avril Lavigne from my bedroom. Growing up, they rarely purchased identical outfits for us and would only dress us alike (begrudgingly) if the outfits were a gift from a family member. Mikhaila Friel/InsiderAs more people are having twins than ever before, tweaking the way twins are parented is incredibly important. That could be partly due to delayed childbearing and techniques like IVF, in which the rate of conceiving identical twins is slightly higher than that of natural conception.

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☆ Why Tahiti will host part of the Paris Olympic Games and the controversy that comes with it
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Kyle Feldscher | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

But one of the most stunning backdrops for the quadrennial competition won’t be in Paris – or France for that matter. The selection of Tahiti fulfills one of the pledges from Paris organizers, who promised to spread the Olympics throughout French territory. Tahiti became a French colony in 1880 and is now classified as an autonomous overseas country of the French Republic. Located roughly 9,700 miles and a 21-hour flight away from Paris, Teahupo’o will make for one of the far-flung host cities for an Olympic event in history. “Over the years corals (have) even covered the previous concrete tower base structure.”He added: “The new tower was never only for the Olympic Games.

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☆ Cover Art for ‘Harry Potter’ Sold at Auction for $1.92 Million
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( John Yoon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The original cover art for the first edition of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” sold for $1.92 million at auction on Wednesday, becoming the most expensive item related to the series, decades after its illustrator was paid a commission of just $650. The year before the novel came out in 1997, its publisher, Bloomsbury, hired a 23-year-old from England who had just graduated from art school to design the book jacket, the auction house said. The artist, Thomas Taylor, would go on to establish the world’s conception of Harry Potter, with his iconic round glasses and lightning bolt scar. “It’s kind of staggering, really,” he said about the sale of his painting in an interview on Thursday. “It’s exciting to see it fought over.”

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☆ In Search of My Father’s Frontier: His Years in Mao’s Army
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-23 | by ( Edward Wong | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In this case, my mission was personal: I was seeking records in Altay’s Civil Affairs Bureau on my father’s service in a Chinese army unit six decades earlier. I knew police officers would soon be trailing me, as they did whenever foreign journalists turned up in Xinjiang. President Xi Jinping had begun enacting much harsher policies in the region, home to Uyghur and Kazakh Muslims. I knew that finding anything about my father, Yook Kearn Wong, was a long shot. I asked her if she knew anything about an old army base of mostly Kazakh cavalry soldiers, where my father and a few other ethnic Han soldiers had served in 1952.

Persons: Xi Jinping, Yook Kearn Wong, Wei Yangxuan Organizations: The New York Times, Altay’s Civil, Bureau, Civil Affairs Bureau Locations: Altay, China’s, Xinjiang, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Beijing, Kazakh

☆ In Taped Remarks at Supreme Court Gala, Revealing Glimpses of Roberts and Alito
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Adam Liptak | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. have long been a jarring study in contrasts. The chief justice is guarded, embodying a cautious and conventional conception of the judicial role. Justice Alito, an eager combatant in the culture wars, tests the limits of that behavior. Their differing approaches were on display in surreptitiously recorded comments at a Supreme Court gala last week. That’s not for lawyers.”

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☆ Clarence Thomas raised him 'as a son.' Now he's facing 25-plus years on weapons and drug charges.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

"For me, in so many ways, it's rewarding because it's brought me, again, full circle," Thomas told Lamb. Related storiesWhen neither placement prevented Martin from acting out with minor drug use and other petty crimes, the Thomases cut him off, Martin told BI. AdvertisementLast summer, according to court records reviewed by BI, Martin was arrested on charges of drug trafficking and weapons possession. Martin says he was eventually expelled from Randolph-Macon Academy for failing a drug test as a junior in high school. "I actually don't know if they know that I'm locked up — I'm not sure they'd care too much," Martin told BI.

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☆ Photographer Juergen Teller’s playful take on an age-old fertility myth
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

So when photographer Juergen Teller and his wife and creative partner Dovile Drizyte were trying for a baby while on vacation in Sicily two years ago, Teller recommended the practise. Juergen TellerTeller and Drizyte have become creative collaborators as well as romantic partners. Juergen TellerTeller is known for his matter-of-fact, improvisational aesthetic in commercial fashion campaigns, and had previously photographed at the hotel. Juergen TellerDrizyte “had to be very serene,” Teller said of the shoot, which he called both physically and mentally exhausting. “The maids were coming and cleaning these rooms and taking beds out.”“Guests disappeared and it became more ghostlike,” Teller added.

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☆ Corporations looking at gen AI as a productivity tool are making a mistake
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Bob Violino | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Part of the slow spending approach is coming from the fact that senior executives are looking at gen AI the wrong way, said Sreekanth Menon, global leader, AI and machine learning at Genpact. The research showed that about half of the executives are framing gen AI solely as a productivity tool. "The infancy of gen AI, combined with a warped conception of its potential, has led to reluctant budgetary spending." The research from Genpact and HFS showed that business leaders are dedicating up to 10% of their IT budgets to gen AI projects. "To successfully move AI from a pilot stage to production, organizations need to pause and ensure their gen AI plan is aligned with specific business objectives, not just productivity," he said.

Persons: Andriy Onufriyenko, Sreekanth Menon, Menon, Paul Pallath, Pallath Organizations: HFS Research

☆ How Republicans in Key Senate Races Are Flip-Flopping on Abortion
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Jess Bidgood | Lisa Lerer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Republican candidates in all eight of the country’s most competitive Senate races have changed their approach on the issue of abortion, softening their rhetoric, shifting their positions and, in at least one case, embracing policies championed by Democrats. From Michigan to Maryland, Republicans are trying to repackage their views to defang an issue that has hurt their party at the ballot box since the Supreme Court overturned federal abortion rights. While the pivot is endemic across races in swing states, the most striking shifts have come from candidates who unsuccessfully ran for the Senate just two years ago in their home states, with abortion views that sounded very different. When Bernie Moreno, a Republican businessman, ran for a Senate seat in Ohio in 2022, he described his views as “absolute pro-life, no exceptions.”“Life begins at conception” and “abortion is the murder of an innocent baby,” he said on social media.

Persons: Bernie Moreno, ” Organizations: Republican Locations: Michigan, Maryland, Ohio

☆ A national network of local news sites is publishing AI-written articles under fake bylines. Experts are raising alarm
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Hadas Gold | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

But a closer look at the bylines populating the local site and a national network of others — Sarah Kim, Jake Rodriguez, Mitch M. Rosenthal — reveals a tiny badge with the words “AI.” These are not real bylines. The outlet, Hoodline, is not the first or only news site to harness AI. Sports Illustrated deleted several articles from its website after they were found to have been published under fake author names. Keeping local news aliveOn Hoodline’s network of local news sites, it is difficult to find an article not written by the software. But the transformation at Hoodline shows that bigger solutions are needed to keep vital local news reporting alive.

Persons: Sarah Kim, Jake Rodriguez, Mitch M, Rosenthal —, ”, Hoodline, ” Zachary Chen, ” Chen, “ Nina, Mark Graham, Peter Adams, “, ” Adams, Chen, Danielle Coffey, ” Coffey, That’s, Felix Simon, ” Simon, Simon, Benjamin Toff, Hoodline San Francisco ’, Nuala, ” Bishari Organizations: CNN, Media, Tech, Gannett, Internet, Wayback Machine, News Literacy, LinkedIn, Media Alliance, News Corp, Reuters Institute for, Journalism, University of Oxford, Research, University of Minnesota, San Francisco Chronicle Locations: embarrassments, San Francisco, Philippines, Hoodline San

☆ Thomas Midgley Jr.: The man who almost destroyed the planet (twice)
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Jacopo Prisco | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

CNN —Facing a crowd of journalists, inventor Thomas Midgley Jr. poured a lead additive over his hands and then proceeded to inhale its fumes for about a minute. Unfazed, he said, “I could do this every day without getting any health problems whatsoever.”Soon afterward, Midgley needed medical treatment. The task of addressing the issue of engine knocking fell to Midgley while he was working at General Motors in 1916. An estimated 1 million people a year still die from lead poisoning, according to the World Health Organization. The toxicity of lead was already well-known when Midgley added it to gas, but that didn’t stop Ethyl from becoming a commercial success.

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☆ Robots and AI are being used to help women get pregnant. Is this the future of IVF?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Blake Dodge | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +21 min

There, a startup called Conceivable Life Sciences is automating the IVF lab from start to finish. Conceivable Life SciencesEleven women so far have become pregnant with help from one or more of these Conceivable robots. Conceivable Life Sciences"No baby, no fee"Today, IVF demand is surging, despite the treatment being slow, uncertain, and expensive. Conceivable's future IVF lab. Conceivable Life SciencesFrom prayer to AIHalf a continent away, a physician was growing frustrated by the constraints of his job.

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☆ California Boat Captain Is Sentenced to 4 Years in Fire That Killed 34
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Jesus Jiménez | More About Jesus Jiménez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The captain of a dive boat that caught fire off the coast of Southern California in 2019, killing all 33 of its passengers and a crew member, was sentenced on Thursday to four years in prison after a lengthy hearing that included emotional testimony from relatives of the victims. A federal jury in November found the captain, Jerry Nehl Boylan, guilty of misconduct or neglect of ship officer, a crime also known as “seaman’s manslaughter.”Mr. Boylan, 70, of Santa Barbara, Calif., was the captain of the Conception, a commercial scuba diving vessel, when a fire broke out in the early hours of Sept. 2, 2019, while the ship was anchored near Santa Cruz Island, according to prosecutors. Mr. Boylan and four other crew members were able to escape the fire, but the 33 passengers, who were sleeping below deck, died, prosecutors said. One crew member also was killed. Prosecutors said Mr. Boylan failed to try to save them.

Persons: Jerry Nehl Boylan, ” Mr, Boylan, Prosecutors Locations: Southern California, Santa Barbara, Calif, Santa Cruz

☆ 34 people were killed in a scuba dive boat fire in California. The captain is now facing ten years in prison
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Lauren Mascarenhas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A former dive boat captain could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison Thursday on a negligence conviction known as “seaman’s manslaughter” after 34 people were killed in a fire that broke out on his boat in 2019. Jerry Nehl Boylan was found guilty in 2023 of one federal felony count of misconduct or neglect of ship officer last year. Thirty-three passengers and one crew member below deck died of smoke inhalation, police said. Thirty-four people were killed in the boat fire. In 2019, an attorney for the boat’s owner, Truth Aquatics, said that a crew member had checked the area where the fire was believed to have been concentrated before it ignited.

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