“A hyperactive immune system may have been great in the past but in the environment today it might not be as helpful,” said Hendrik Poinar, an anthropology professor at McMaster and another senior author.

The apartment is a time capsule. In the fridge, still plugged in and running, sits a mostly empty package of Oscar Mayer deli meat dated May 2019. The freezer holds a 16-pound turkey — best if used by June 29, 2019. On the living room floor lies a composition book filled by a girl who lived in Unit #32. Her name means princess, the girl wrote, and her favorite person is her baby sister. In the three years since, D.C. Housing Authority officials moved no one else in, as more than 20,000 people languished on a frozen waiting list for public housing. It’s among the more than one in four of D.C.’s roughly 8,000 public housing units that sit vacant, at an average length of about two years, agency records reveal. Nationwide, public housing occupancy rates average 95 percent. DCHA’s is the lowest it has ever experienced, even as the District’s long-running affordable housing crisis intensifies and more people find themselves priced out of decent homes.

For several weeks a year, the work of nurse-midwife Karen Sheffield-Abdullah is really detective work. She and a team of other medical investigators with the North Carolina public health department scour the hospital records and coroner reports of new moms who died after giving birth. These maternal mortality review committees look for clues to what contributed to the deaths — unfilled prescriptions, missed postnatal appointments, signs of trouble that doctors overlooked — to figure out how many of them could have been prevented and how. The committees are at work in almost 40 states in the U.S. and in the latest and largest compilation of such data, released in September by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a staggering 84% of pregnancy-related deaths were deemed preventable. Even more striking to nurse-detectives like Sheffield-Abdullah, is that 53% of the deaths occurred well after women left the hospital, between seven days and a year after delivery. "We are so baby focused," she says. "Once the baby is here, it's almost like the mother is discarded. Like a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. The mom is the wrapper, and the baby is the candy. Once you remove the wrapper, you just discard the wrapper. And what we really need to be thinking about is that fourth trimester, that time after the baby is born."

The Oakland Police Department this week reversed course on armed robots and said it would not seek approval to use the remote killing machines after initially exploring the idea over a series of meetings. Lethal armed robots — roving machines that can select and shoot targets without an operator present on scene — have drawn condemnation from human rights organizations opposed to militarized police departments. Oakland police discussed the use of armed robots with the Oakland Police Commission and community members “to explore all possible uses,” the department said in a statement Tuesday. “However, after further discussions with the chief and the executive team, the department decided it no longer wanted to explore that particular option.”

Peanut butter and mayonnaise may not sound like an appetizing food combination to most people, but in some regions of the United States PB and mayo sandwiches have long been quite popular. In the late 1960s, however, fears arose that these two ingredients were being used for a purpose much more nefarious than making sandwiches. Drug experts warned that young people were injecting themselves with peanut butter and mayonnaise as a way to get high.

Despite the general splintering of the QAnon movement, 8kun’s /qresearch/ board is still going strong. While traffic on the imageboard has waned over time, it still regularly draws over 300 posts an hour and over 1000 unique active posters every three days, according to the site’s self-reported activity statistics. This is notably active for any imageboard, making /qresearch/ still the most active hub of Q discussion outside of Telegram (and perhaps Truth Social). This piece will focus on /qresearch/’s perception of Xi Jinping, President of China and Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. To date, the QAnon community’s affinity for Xi Jinping has received almost no attention. But it’s one of the most surprising things about QAnon culture. In most right-wing spaces, we would expect a near-zero level of positive sentiment about Xi, who leads the largest Communist Party on the face of the Earth. But our sentiment analysis of over 2,000 Xi-related posts on /qresearch/ show that Xi is far from universally despised; indeed, at both the start and end of our research period, /qresearch/ posters were more likely to be pro-Xi than anti-Xi.

Industrial plants in Birmingham, Alabama, have polluted the air and land in its historic Black communities for over a century. In an epicenter of environmental injustice, officials continue to fail to right the wrongs plaguing the city’s north side.

In one of her final interviews, Littlefeather told The Chronicle that she took the stage at the Oscars because “I spoke my heart, not for me, myself, as an Indian woman but for we and us, for all Indian people … I had to speak the truth. Whether or not it was accepted, it had to be spoken on behalf of Native people.” But Littlefeather didn’t tell the truth that night. That’s because, according to her biological sisters, Rosalind Cruz and Trudy Orlandi, Littlefeather isn’t Native at all. “It’s a lie,” Orlandi told me in an exclusive interview. “My father was who he was. His family came from Mexico. And my dad was born in Oxnard.” “It is a fraud,” Cruz agreed. “It’s disgusting to the heritage of the tribal people. And it’s just … insulting to my parents.” Littlefeather’s sisters both said in separate interviews that they have no known Native American/American Indian ancestry. They identified as “Spanish” on their father’s side and insisted their family had no claims to a tribal identity.

The pop culture view of the Yugo is built around a cheap Boomer joke that ignores history and context.

More than 600 people have died in the worst floods Nigeria has seen in more than a decade, according to the nation's humanitarian affairs department. The Nigerian Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management Sadiya Umar Farouq said that as of Sunday 603 people died, 2,407 people have been injured and 1.3 million people have been displaced. Additionally, about 82,000 homes have been completely destroyed, 108,000 hectares of farmland have been damaged (raising concerns about Nigeria's food supply) along with 332,000 hectares of roads and infrastructure, Farouq said.

Norwegian broadcaster NRK says permissions in apps Qatar requires for World Cup visitors make them essentially state-sponsored spyware.

Two Yeezy sources say West’s plan for his own small “universe” has been in the works for years, describing it as a self-sustained enterprise that would have its own branded products and services…

Kent Chatfield is nothing if not determined. For 19 years, the longtime local resident has researched Wilmington's 1898 coup and massacre, digging through archives and chasing down documents. Now, "McKinley's Guns," the first in a series of four planned film documentaries about the coup, its planning and its long-term effect on Wilmington, is ready for a public screening. The hour-long film actually premiered at Thalian Hall on Sept. 29, but Hurricane Ian washed out two planned screenings for Sept. 30. The final public screening of "McKinley's Guns" is 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, at Thalian Hall. In the film, Chatfield argues that the white supremacist coup, which left dozens of Blacks dead and is the only instance in U.S. history of the violent overthrow of a local government, had involvement from military officers and U.S. government officials at a higher level than has previously been revealed. "This wasn't just a mob," said Jared Smith, one of the film's researchers, at a private screening of the film on Oct. 2. That's not to say that "the bar owners and shop owners weren't involved," he added, but they weren't the ones driving the violence.

Police are investigating why a car was filled with concrete bags and buried four to five feet deep in the yard of a $15 million Silicon Valley home.

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon was sentenced Friday after he was found guilty in July of two counts of contempt of Congress. Follow here for the latest live news updates.

Roman Coppola: I am very proud of the movie; it's fun to see that it's endured. And I do think that the way we approached the effects, with more classic techniques, gave it a certain longevity.

Look, we have heard all the jokes. We know how you talk about us. And now you are saying there might never be a Gen-X President (as if Donald Trump did some sort of credit to his generation in that role). The thing is, WE DON’T CARE. You know this about us. Because we get it, and you likely don’t.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — One migrant is dead, another is wounded and at least seven others are languishing in detention three weeks after twin brothers allegedly opened fire on them in the Texas desert, claiming they mistook them for wild hogs during a hunting trip. Yet, the accused shooters, 60-year-old brothers Michael and Mark Sheppard, who both worked in local law enforcement, were initially released on half a million dollars bail after being jailed briefly on manslaughter charges. The case has caused outrage among advocates for the victims and survivors, who say their detention violates a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement directive that calls for giving strong consideration to the fact that they were crime victims who cooperated with authorities in determining whether they should be released. “This is a hate crime that occurred immediately after they were crossing into the United States,” said Zoe Bowman, the supervising attorney at Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, who is representing the seven detained survivors. Michael Sheppard, who was a warden at the troubled West Texas Detention Facility where he was accused of abuse, and his brother, Mark, who worked for the Hudspeth County sheriff’s office, were recently again taken into custody and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the Sept. 27 shooting. The sheriff’s office did not say where they were being held or why they were initially released on bond. The case is being investigated by the Texas Rangers, an arm of the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Republicans have been publicly proclaiming their intention to take the economy hostage for a long while. There may not be time to stop them now.

G4, the video game television and online network backed by Comcast abruptly closed on Oct. 16. In a memo to staff published by Deadline, Comcast Spectacor CEO Dave Scott wrote of lower viewership and that G4 had “not achieved sustainable financial results” before relaying the decision to discontinue G4’s operations. As sudden as the end game was, it didn’t surprise a number of now-former G4 employees, who believed the venture’s end had been nigh for months. In interviews with The Washington Post, 11 former G4 staffers described their experiences at the network leading up to its recent closure. Speaking on the condition of anonymity due to the signing of nondisclosure agreements, they described a work environment with ever-shifting priorities from leadership that never settled on a strategy to develop their audience. That same leadership was sometimes absent from day-to-day operations, according to the workers interviewed, who felt they often leaned on the G4 name and other nostalgic show brands and struggled to reconcile the differences between broadcasting on linear television compared to online platforms like YouTube and Twitch. [The president, Tucker Roberts, son of billionaire Comcast CEO Brian Roberts,] rarely appeared at G4′s Los Angeles studio, according to employees who worked at the office from the time of G4′s launch (barring an interruption during the omicron outbreak). In the Los Angeles studio, Roberts had a conference room-sized office based on Emperor Palpatine’s throne room from “Star Wars,” complete with Imperial iconography that meant camera crews were unable to film near it for fear of incurring rights violations, according to multiple former employees. “He had the largest office space, and he never even moved in,” said a former employee.