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This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. “Particularly after he served his country.”Supplying unclaimed bodies for medical research is widely considered unethical, and most major medical schools — and a few states — have halted the practice. NBC News spent months documenting the use of unclaimed bodies in medical research, submitting public records requests to dozens of state agencies, county coroners and medical schools. That included Pennsylvania, where an official said the body-donation program could not share how the 58 unclaimed bodies were used. He wants to see more regulation of the body donation industry and has written guidelines that call for donation programs to stop using unclaimed bodies.

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The Storm Corps – the 11th Army Corps of the North Korean military – are “better trained, (have) better physique and (are) better motivated than your average North Korean soldier,” Chun said. KCNA/Reuters/File‘Fair game’Mental strength, however, may not be enough to overcome the worst challenges the North Korean soldiers could face. But some North Korean military units are well supplied, and “have regular food and logistical supply,” said 38 North’s Madden. “These North Korean units, their main mission is to disrupt,” said Chun, the former South Korean army officer. South Korean intelligence suggests North Korean soldiers in Russia could be receiving salaries of $2,000 a month.

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☆ Jay-Z’s attorney says rape claim against him is made up: ‘This never happened’
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-16 | by ( Elizabeth Wagmeister | Lauren Del Valle | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

“This is all a fantasy,” Spiro told reporters, including CNN, at a private meeting held at Jay-Z’s Roc Nation offices in New York City on Monday. Spiro also showed reporters photographs of Carter, Combs and other celebrities at a VMA afterparty, held at a commercial establishment in New York City. Carter is “upset” about the allegations against him brought forth by Buzbee, Spiro said Monday. As for the mounting civil allegations and criminal charges against Combs, Spiro distanced Carter from his case. Carter has nothing to do with Mr. Combs’ case or Mr. Combs.

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☆ Weirdest AI Job: Anthropic Hired an Employee to Care for Its Chatbots
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-16 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

AdvertisementThe AI company Anthropic recently announced it had hired a researcher to think about the "welfare" of the AI itself. "AI welfare" is emerging as a serious field of study, and it's already grappling with a lot of thorny questions. When it comes to such questions, the pioneers of AI rights believe the clock is ticking. "But I think we have the capacity to think about AI welfare while doing more on those other issues." Skeptics of AI welfare are also posing another interesting question: If AI has rights, shouldn't we also talk about its obligations?

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☆ Pete Hegseth: What does Trump’s pick to run the Pentagon believe?
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-15 | by ( Peter Bergen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Hegseth’s book is an odd mix of slogans and unsupported assertions about the purportedly “Marxist” and “woke” US military. CNN asked the Trump transition for comment on the claims made in Hegseth’s book. In his book, Hegseth is very exercised about the role of women in combat because he says women are less effective fighters. There could also be a battle over the question of “Who lost Afghanistan?” — which Hegseth squarely blames the generals for. In his book, Hegseth is silent on the big issues that a future secretary of defense might have to face, such as the Chinese possibly invading Taiwan.

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☆ A gutsy fake punt to an unlikely hero seals Navy’s upset win over Army in the rivalry’s 125th game
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-14 | by ( Kyle Feldscher | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Landover, Maryland CNN —Throughout Saturday’s 125th Army-Navy game, Landon Robinson led the way for Navy’s defense. He rumbled 29 yards to the Army 27-yard line, picking up a first down that broke the collective back of the Black Knights. The play led to a touchdown that gave Navy a 15-point lead with a little less than nine minutes to go in the game. The Midshipmen celebrate the upset win over the Black Knights in the 125th edition of the Army-Navy game. “I don’t think there was any hesitancy in our game plan or our play calling or how we played,” Horvath said.

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☆ Jay-Z says inconsistencies in rape accuser’s story proves her attorney was looking for ‘money and fame’
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-14 | by ( Elizabeth Wagmeister | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

In the amended complaint, Carter is accused of raping the then-13-year-old Jane Doe at an afterparty for the MTV Video Music Awards in the year 2000. In a new interview on Friday, the Jane Doe said she is standing by her rape accusation against Carter, but admits to inconsistencies in her original story, including key corroborating witnesses. “I have made some mistakes,” the Jane Doe told NBC News. Jane Doe’s attorney, Tony Buzbee, said that he is still vetting his client’s claims, but is standing by her accusations. I’ve never had a client suggest that before,” Buzbee told CNN via email on Friday evening.

Persons: CNN — Jay, Sean “ Diddy ” Combs, Jane Doe, Combs, Jay, Shawn Carter, Carter, “, ”, Jane Doe’s, Tony Buzbee, I’ve, ” Buzbee, Buzbee “, doesn’t, Alex Spiro, Buzbee, ” Spiro Organizations: CNN, MTV, NBC News, Buzbee Locations: New York, Houston

☆ Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Defense pick, says allowing gay troops to serve openly reflects a Marxist agenda
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Andrew Kaczynski | Em Steck | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, has repeatedly criticized policies allowing gay people to serve openly in the US military, calling them part of a “Marxist” agenda to prioritize social justice over combat readiness. “But because I naïvely believed that’s what ending Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was all about. “It started with Clinton under ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’” he said. “So it started, you know, we saw it under Clinton with the tinkering of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ and the reasons for those changes,” Hegseth said on a podcast promoting his book. “It was stuff like, ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ which was their immediate target, right?

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Republican National Committee Treasurer KC Crosbie told fellow members Sunday night that she is running for RNC co-chair to replace Lara Trump, who said Sunday night she is stepping down from that post. We accomplished all three,” Lara Trump wrote in an X post Sunday night announcing she was leaving the post. It’s unlikely anyone would be able to secure enough support to replace Lara Trump without the explicit approval of Donald Trump or his team. Crosbie was elected to serve as Kentucky’s RNC committeewoman in 2012 and picked to serve as the organization’s treasurer in June 2023. Most of the Trump family and many major supporters have publicly said that they support Lara Trump getting the appointment.

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Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of President-elect Donald Trump, announced Sunday night that she will step down as a co-chair of the Republican National Committee amid mounting speculation that she could be picked to fill a coming Senate vacancy. Ron DeSantis, a former political rival who ran against Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican presidential primaries, will get to choose Rubio's replacement. DeSantis is also reportedly being considered as a replacement for Pete Hegseth, the embattled choice for defense secretary. A source told NBC News last week that the president-elect and DeSantis directly spoke about the issue. “Trump talked to the governor and wants him to do it,” a source familiar with the conversation said.

Persons: Lara Trump, Donald Trump, Trump, Republican Sen, Marco Rubio, ”, “, Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, Pete Hegseth, “ Trump, Hegseth Organizations: Republican, RNC, Fox News, Florida Gov, NBC, NBC News Locations: Florida

☆ Rebel group claims to have taken control of Myanmar’s border with Bangladesh in grinding civil war
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-09 | by ( Story Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Myanmar’s military government did not immediately comment. Maungdaw, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) southwest of Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, has been the target since June of an Arakan Army offensive. The group captured Paletwa and Buthidaung, two other towns on the border with Bangladesh, earlier this year. The Myanmar town of Maungdaw, seen from the Teknaf area of Bangladesh just across the border on September 26, 2024. Mohammad Ponir Hossain/ReutersSince November 2023, the Arakan Army has gained control of 11 of Rakhine’s 17 townships, along with one in neighboring Chin state.

Persons: Myanmar’s, Aung, Suu Kyi, Khaing, Thurein Tun, Khaing Thukha, Mohammad Ponir Hossain Organizations: Bangkok AP, Arakan Army, Associated, Reuters, Rakhine Locations: Bangkok, Maungdaw, Bangladesh, Arakan, Rakhine, Suu, Mandalay, Myanmar’s, Myanmar, Chin, Ann, Bay, Bengal, Buthidaung, China

☆ As Syrian rebels topple President Assad, difficult times lie ahead
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-08 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

People walk near razor wire at Masnaa Border Crossing, after Syrian rebels announced that they have ousted Syria's Bashar al-Assad, Lebanon, on Dec. 8, 2024. "We celebrate with the Syrian people the news of freeing our prisoners and releasing their chains," the rebels said. Underscoring the lightning changes, Iran's embassy was stormed by Syrian rebels, Iran's English-language Press TV reported. The Syrian rebel coalition said it was continuing work to complete the transfer of power in the country to a transitional governing body with full executive powers. Russia, a staunch Assad ally, intervened decisively in 2015 to help Assad during Syria's civil war.

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☆ The culprit behind the increasing woes of Voyager 1
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Voyager 1, at 15.5 billion miles away (24.9 billion kilometers), is the farthest human-made object from Earth. But the Voyager team has become increasingly creative to keep both probes flying, and soon, the challenges may be too great to overcome. Across the universeAn illustration depicts NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft traveling through interstellar space, or the space between stars, which it entered in 2012. out of them,” said Kareem Badaruddin, Voyager mission manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

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☆ Syrian rebels seize fourth city, close in on Homs in threat to Assad's rule
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

HOMS, SYRIA - DECEMBER 06: Anti-regime armed groups advancing in Syria's strategically important province of Homs, the gateway to the capital Damascus, on Dec. 06, 2024. Syrian rebels said they seized control of the southern city of Daraa on Saturday, the birthplace of a 2011 uprising against President Bashar al-Assad and the fourth city his forces have lost in a week. There was no immediate comment from the military or Assad's government, and Reuters could not independently verify the rebels' claim. With the fall of Daraa, Assad's forces have surrendered four important centres to the insurgents in a week. A coalition of rebel factions that include the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) made a last call on forces loyal to Assad's government in Homs to defect.

Persons: Bashar al, Assad Organizations: Reuters, Syrian Locations: HOMS, SYRIA, Syria's, Homs, Damascus, Daraa, Jordan, Latakia, Tartus

SEOUL, South Korea — When South Koreans came out to defend democracy this week in the face of a surprise martial law declaration by their president, history was weighing heavily on their minds. South Korea, a key U.S. ally, is the world’s 10th-largest economy and a vibrant Asian democracy in a region where authoritarianism is on the rise. But the country of 50 million people spent decades under military-authoritarian rule, with martial law frequently declared and those who resisted it sometimes killed. But then they ended up at the National Assembly.”Their job was to prevent lawmakers from entering, since the legislature’s operations had been banned under the martial law proclamation. Historically, “whenever South Korean authoritarian leaders wanted to declare martial law, they typically sought at least some kind of tacit approval from Washington,” Jo said.

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☆ As the search for Brian Thompson's killer continues, experts in NYPD murder manhunts explain why it's taken this long
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementThe man who shot UnitedHealthcare's CEO appeared to have planned carefully, experts in NYPD manhunts told BI. He took key precautions that delayed his capture, they said — including fleeing into Central Park. The park is the only part of Manhattan not blanketed by surveillance cameras, they said. They've shared crisp, full-color surveillance photos of the suspect and dangled offers of $10,000 for tips leading to his capture. "There are pockets of Central Park that don't have video," Illuzzi said, who is now of counsel at Perry Law in Manhattan.

Persons: manhunts, Brian Thompson, They've, it's, Joan Illuzzi, Illuzzi, Salvatore Tudisco, Tudisco, Fahim Saleh Organizations: New York Police Department, New, New York Hilton, Business, NYPD, New York City, Perry Law, Upper West, Police Locations: Central Park, Manhattan, New York, Central

☆ Giant cyborg cockroaches could be the search and rescue workers of the future
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Amy Gunia | Hazel Pfeifer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

He hopes to create an army of insect-machine search and rescue workers. Researchers in Australia are fusing control backpacks onto beetles and cockroaches to direct their movements. Fitzgerald says cyborg search and rescue beetles or cockroaches might be able to help in disaster situations by finding and reporting the location of survivors and delivering lifesaving drugs to them before human rescuers can get there. Fitzgerald says that although the work might seem futuristic now, in a few decades, cyborg insects could be saving lives. University of Queensland student Lachlan Fitzgerald hopes to one day use the insect-machine hybrids as search and rescue workers.

Persons: Lachlan Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald, ”, Dan Soekov, “, He’s, bioethicists Organizations: CNN, University of Queensland, California Institute of Technology, Caltech, Cornell University Locations: Australia

☆ TikTok's plan to bring social shopping to the US is really starting to pay off
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Dan Whateley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The 2024 holiday sales from social media — driven by TikTok Shop and influencer affiliates, among other factors — show how far social shopping has come in the past five years. Americans viewed over 30,000 TikTok shopping livestreams that day, with one creator picking up $2 million in sales from a single session. "We've now been on TikTok Shop since the very beginning, and we've seen successes gradually and consistently increase month over month," Benator told BI. Live shopping platform Whatnot said in November that it had surpassed $2 billion in year-to-date livestream sales, for example. TikTok's owner ByteDance was likely behind the company's determination to make social shopping work as it sought to bring Douyin's success to TikTok.

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☆ Demi Lovato, Kelly Rowland, Olivia Wilde and more help Christmas come early for children in South Los Angeles
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-04 | by ( Sandra Gonzalez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

“Baby2Baby will put you to work and that’s the best part,” said Rowland, who began collaborating with the nonprofit when she was pregnant with her first son. You’re going to talk to me, and I’m going to listen to every single thing you have to say,’” Rowland remembered thinking. “I just let them guide me because this is their moment.”Kelly Rowland has volunteered with Baby2Baby for ten years. Michael Kovac/Getty ImagesIn another corner of the toy shop, Olivia Wilde has filled her shoppers’ bags with everything from NASA Legos to friendship bracelet-making kits. “I think we’ve been very lucky with the group that we have assembled, and they couldn’t be more supportive.

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☆ Opinion | Our Messed-Up Dating Culture Gave Us Donald Trump. Let Me Explain.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-30 | by ( Sarah Bernstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Representatives of bro culture are on the ascent, bringing with them an army of disaffected young men. Many argue that a generation of men are resentful because they have fallen behind women in work and school. With so much turmoil in our collective love lives, it’s little wonder Americans are experiencing surging loneliness, declining birthrates and — as evidenced by Donald Trump’s popularity with young men — a cascade of resentment that threatens to reshape our democracy. In 2022, men made up only 42 percent of 18-to-24-year-olds at four-year schools, and their graduation rates were lower than women’s as well. Since 2019, there have been more college-educated women in the work force than men.

Persons: Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, Grimm, Donald Trump’s, Prince Charming, ” Locations: bro

☆ Dozens of audios reveal high-ranking Brazilian officers pressured Bolsonaro to stage a coup
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

The audios are not directly related to the Nov. 21 formal accusation by Brazil’s police that Bolsonaro and 36 others attempted to stage a coup. In a voice message to Gen. Fernandes, Col. Reginaldo Vieira de Abreu used an expression frequently repeated by Bolsonaro to argue the country’s constitution should be ignored. In an audio from Dec. 8, Bolsonaro’s aide-de-camp, Lt. Col. Mauro Cid, is heard telling Gen. Fernandes that time was running out to keep his boss in office. He waits, waits, waits, waits to see where it is going. We have popular support.”Thousands of Bolsonaro followers camped outside army facilities to pressure military leaders to side with the then-president.

Persons: Jair Bolsonaro, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Alexandre de Moraes, Lula, —, de Moraes, de Moraes ’, Roberto Raimundo Criscuoli, Mario Fernandes, ” Criscuoli, “, Bolsonaro, Fernandes, Reginaldo Vieira de Abreu, ”, Bolsonaro’s, Col, Mauro Cid, Gen, ” Cid, ” De Moraes ’, Cid, Walter Braga Netto Organizations: Federal Police, Associated Press, United, Bolsonaro’s, Media Locations: Brasilia, Audios

PARIS — Most have on jeans, some wear rough work boots, and one sings with a white construction helmet tucked under his arm. The 80-strong choir has come together to do more than sing, though — the crew of architects, stonemasons, archaeologists, art historians, art conservators and others have helped rebuild Paris’ Notre-Dame cathedral after a fire ripped through the iconic French Gothic masterpiece nearly five years ago. Much like the building and rebuilding of a cathedral, a small army of individuals needs to work in unison to create extraordinary music. Just weeks before, she and her husband had taken their children to visit the cathedral — and now it was at risk of being reduced to rubble and ashes, she remembers. “Everyone was very sad and very anxious about the potential collapse of the cathedral overnight,” she said.

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☆ The US is finally going to make a key explosive at home, and that's good news for the military
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-23 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

But a new US Army contract for a TNT production facility in Kentucky will change that. The US intends to start making TNT at home again. The US Army plans to build a domestic production facility for the explosive compound, which the Pentagon has long been forced to obtain from overseas. Restarting domestic TNT production is an investment in the country's industrial base, she said. The new TNT production facility is expected to help strengthen the US military's preparation for large-scale conflict.

Persons: It's, John T, Kevin Sterling Payne, Bradley Martin, Oleg Petrasiuk, Cynthia Cook, Cook, Reim Organizations: TNT, US Army, Pentagon, Factory, Army, USA, Defense, Armaments and, US, Russia, 24th Mechanised Brigade, AP, Industrial, Group, Center for Strategic, International Studies, Operation Locations: Kentucky, Russia, China, Ukraine, Army's, Germany, Navy, Kyiv, South Korea, Poland

☆ 12 tactics America's wealthiest use to save big on taxes, from putting mansions in trusts to stashing fortunes for a 1,000 years
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-23 | by ( Hayley Cuccinello | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Currently, individuals and married couples can gift or bequeath $13.61 million and $27.22 million, respectively, before a 40% federal estate tax kicks in. AdvertisementThe heirs don't own the trust assets but rather have lifetime rights to the trust's income and real estate. Any payout is also protected from estate taxes, even if the insured's estate and death benefit exceed the exemption. AdvertisementThis tactic can also be used to save on estate taxes by ultra-rich entrepreneurs who have already used their exemption but have less-wealthy parents who haven't. When the children inherit the assets, the federal estate tax doesn't kick in as long as the grandparents' estate does not exceed $27.22 million.

Persons: Trump, Robert Strauss, Weinstock Manion, Uncle Sam, Wrigley, Jeff Bezos, Jackie O, Edward Renn, Tyler Le, remarries, Jenny Chang, Rodriguez, Sam Walton, haven't Organizations: Republican, Getty, IRS, Federal Reserve, Walmart Locations: Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Washington, Florida, Wyoming, Plenty

☆ Army and its ‘fanatical’ coach aim for perfection. But is that enough?
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Brian Hamilton | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +22 min

The Army is doing what it can to make it easier for its football team and the man in charge. As he watched his very first practice as athletic director, Buddie saw his football coach picking up errant wrappers on the field. The Army football team wakes up before sunrise and leaves the practice field after dark, unbeaten and almost too busy to notice anyone noticing. Army coach Jeff Monken, 57, is the second-winningest coach in program history. And Jeff Monken is still the Army football coach.

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