FBI searches WaPo reporter's home. And, Trump restores $2B to public health funds

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At this time's high tales Some media executives are calling the FBI's search of a reporter's house yesterday an alarming intrusion into the liberty of the press. The company searched Washington Submit reporter Hannah Natanson's home as a part of the Trump administration's investigation of a leak. Brokers seized two computer systems and her smartwatch. Final month, Natanson documented the purge of a whole bunch of hundreds of federal staff by counting on over 1,000 sources.

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Andrew Harnik/Getty Photographs 🎧 It's extremely uncommon for the company to look a reporter's house as a substitute of an workplace, NPR's David Folkenflik instructed Up First. The federal government has knowledgeable the newspaper that Natanson is just not the point of interest of the investigation. Marty Baron, a former govt editor of The Washington Submit, instructed Folkenflik that this administration has displayed a sample of attempting to undermine an impartial press and making an attempt to intervene with its work. Denmark's international minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, says there may be nonetheless a "elementary disagreement" between his nation and President Trump relating to Denmark's territory island Greenland. After assembly with Vice President Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio yesterday, Løkke Rasmussen mentioned Trump clearly needs to "conquer" the territory. Nevertheless, the 2 sides did conform to kind a working group to proceed discussing U.S. safety issues.

🎧The U.S. looking for to amass Greenland challenges the principles of worldwide order, particularly the U.N. constitution that claims a member can not use drive in opposition to one other nation to grab territory, says Stewart Patrick, previously of the George W. Bush State Division. Denmark has introduced plans to construct its navy presence in Greenland, in what could possibly be thought-about a pushback at allegations that it could possibly't defend the nation, in line with NPR's Franco Ordoñez. Sweden and Germany additionally introduced they'd ship navy forces to the area, doubtlessly conveying a message to the U.S. that Denmark is just not alone. A Trump administration official confirmed to NPR that sweeping cuts to over $2 billion in funding for psychological well being and dependancy applications are being reversed. The reversal comes after letters in regards to the information went out late Tuesday, sending a shockwave by the U.S.' public well being system. Initially, the Substance Abuse and Psychological Well being Providers Administration was ending grants for roughly 2,000 organizations, that are frontline applications serving to a number of the most susceptible individuals within the nation.

🎧 The reversal comes as aid to individuals like Hannah Wesolowski, who's with the Nationwide Alliance on Psychological Sickness. She says these organizations are deeply demoralized, and over these 24 hours, many individuals thought they had been going to lose their jobs and thought their actually sick sufferers would lose care. NPR's Brian Mann says individuals he has been speaking to really feel rudderless as a result of unexplained defunding, after which there was no clear clarification as to why the cash was restored. This comes because the Trump administration has been signaling for months that it thinks most of the nation's public well being applications are ineffective and have to be changed.

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Adam Kaz/Getty Photographs The dangers of utilizing generative synthetic intelligence to teach kids and youths at the moment outweigh the advantages, in line with a brand new examine by the Brookings Establishment's Heart for Common Schooling. The examine discovered that utilizing AI in schooling can "undermine kids's foundational improvement" and that "the damages it has already prompted are daunting," although fixable. This is what the report found:

💻 AI may help college students learn to learn and write. It has been discovered to be simplest when supplementing, moderately than changing, the efforts of a trainer.💻 College students more and more offloading their very own pondering onto the know-how can result in the form of cognitive decline extra generally related to ageing brains.💻 A difficulty with children' overuse of AI is that the know-how has been designed to bolster customers' beliefs, which could be a concern on the subject of creating social-emotional abilities. Discover these suggestions to assist harness the advantages of AI with out exposing kids to the dangers that the know-how at the moment poses.

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Residing Higher is a particular collection about what it takes to remain wholesome in America.

Physique dissatisfaction is rising amongst younger individuals, and it's beginning to impression extra boys, in line with clinicians, together with Dr. Jason Nagata. This creating development challenges a long-held tendency in drugs that associates physique picture issues primarily with women. Some teenage boys striving for muscularity like their social media idols can develop compulsive, harmful gymnasium and food regimen habits. Nagata says adverse physique picture attitudes in boys typically stem from the sensation that they are not muscular sufficient. A small portion of these younger males develop an obsession with getting greater and extra muscular, often known as bigorexia.

🏋️♂️ Bigorexia was first described in a 1993 case report, however it has remained comparatively understudied till not too long ago.🏋️♂️ The three main pressures that contribute to the rise of muscle dysmorphia and males's need to construct muscle are household, friends and the media.🏋️♂️Nagata estimated {that a} third of teenage boys within the U.S. attempt to bulk up. Nevertheless, the lack of expertise of the situation makes it tougher to pin down what number of develop bigorexia.

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AP/NASA NASA's Crew-11 splashed down within the Pacific Ocean off San Diego of their SpaceX Dragon capsule after an almost 10-hour journey from the Worldwide House Station, finishing the primary medical evacuation from the orbiting lab.Let Freedom Ring, an annual signature live performance celebrating the lifetime of Martin Luther King Jr., is shifting from the Kennedy Heart to the Howard Theatre to economize.This week's Far-Flung Postcard takes you to the Hospitaller Fortress in Acre, Israel. NPR's Michele Kelemen says as you wander by its underground tunnels and halls, projected lights show shifting photos of the Knights Hospitaller marching in a funeral procession. This text was edited by Yvonne Dennis.