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Winter Health Explainer: How to stay warm in layered clothing and avoid frostbite

As a bout of bitter and deadly cold sweeps the U.S., millions of Americans are being told to dress in layers if they must go outside. In places that rarely experience bone-chilling temperatures, that advice can be confounding. What does it mean to layer up? Is it different from just putting on a coat? Is there a way to do it wrong? People in Minnesota, a state that is no stranger to the cold, have wisdom to share. WHAT IS LAYERING? Layering means wearing multiple pieces of clothing to keep your body comfortable in cold weather. Each layer creates...

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Budget deadlock: White House warns of dire situation in Ukraine as Republicans hold military aid hostage

President Joe Biden’s top budget official warned in stark terms in early January about the rapidly diminishing time that lawmakers have to replenish U.S. aid for Ukraine, as the fate of that money to Kyiv remained held hostage to demands by Republicans over immigration. Shalanda Young, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, stressed that there was no avenue to help Ukraine aside from Congress approving additional funding to help Kyiv – as it fends off Russia’s brutal invasion that is now nearly two years old. While the Pentagon has some limited authority to help Kyiv absent...

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Mstyslav Chernov’s “20 Days in Mariupol” earns first Oscar nomination for 178-year-old Associated Press

“20 Days in Mariupol,” Mstyslav Chernov’s harrowing chronicle of the besieged Ukrainian city and the international journalists who remained there after Russia’s invasion, was nominated for best documentary at the Academy Awards, handing The Associated Press its first Oscar nomination in the 178-year-old news organization’s history. The film, a co-production between the AP and PBS “Frontline,” was shot during the first three weeks of the war in Ukraine, in early 2022. Chernov, a Ukrainian journalist and filmmaker, arrived in Mariupol one hour before Russia began bombarding the port city. With him were photographer Evgeniy Maloletka and field producer Vasilisa...

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Vice President Harris highlights fight for reproductive rights in Wisconsin visit on anniversary of Roe v. Wade

Vice President Kamala Harris blasted Republicans as heartless extremists for trying to ban women from access to safe abortions, as she rallied in the key battleground state of Wisconsin on January 22, marking the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Vice President Harris has been pushing the Democratic effort to restore reproductive rights. In her speech, she singled out Donald Trump, who is tightening his grip on the Republican presidential nomination, for saying he was “proud” of helping to limit abortions. With the help of Senate Republicans who denied outgoing President Obama and then incoming President Biden their right...

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Top Israeli officials at odds with Netanyahu and his self-serving strategy for war against Hamas in Gaza

A member of Israel’s War Cabinet cast doubt on the country’s strategy for releasing hostages held by Hamas, saying only a cease-fire could free them, as the prime minister rejected calls from the United States to scale back its offensive. The comments by Gadi Eisenkot, a former army chief, marked the latest sign of disagreement among top Israeli officials over the direction of the war against Hamas, now in its fourth month. In his first public statements on the course of the war, Eisenkot said that claims the dozens of hostages could be freed by means other than a...

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Fair use: Maker of ChatGPT braces for legal fight with The New York Times and authors of copyrighted works

A barrage of high-profile lawsuits in a New York federal court will test the future of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products that wouldn’t be so eloquent had they not ingested huge troves of copyrighted human works. But are AI chatbots — in this case, widely commercialized products made by OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft — breaking copyright and fair competition laws? Professional writers and media outlets will face a difficult fight to win that argument in court. “I would like to be optimistic on behalf of the authors, but I’m not. I just think they have an...

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