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CHP says excessive speed caused a Corvette driver to lose control on Friant Road. The C8 slid hundreds of feet before overturning and being nearly torn apart. Despite the severity of the crash, the driver survived with serious injuries. ============================================================================================= Police are often quick to cite speed after all kinds of crashes, and that’s not always the whole story. In this case, however, the evidence is hard to ignore. According to CHP, this Corvette slid hundreds of feet before overturning, and the resulting damage suggests the driver carried far more speed into the curve than either the road or their...

Research out today shows the remains of Ötzi “the Iceman” are teeming with living microorganisms. Scientists in Italy conducted an extensive survey of Ötzi, a mummy naturally frozen in a mountain glacier for over 5,000 years. They found ample bacteria and fungi inside and on Ötzi’s body, some of which might have survived for millennia and appear to be active even today under tightly maintained storage conditions. Since his discovery, scientists have learned much about Ötzi’s life and the Copper Age society he was a part of. That includes his last meal and the likely possibility that he was killed...

Former President Joe Biden crashed his wife Jill’s debut book talk Tuesday, stealing her spotlight to bizarrely ask the former first lady who she loves the most in a cringe-inducing moment before aides could cut him off. Jill Biden had been wrapping up a Q&A about her newly released book “A View from the East Wing” with moderator Whoopi Goldberg at the 92nd Street Y on the Upper East Side when Biden, 83, left his seat in the audience and wandered up to the edge of the stage. Goldberg had read a comment from the audience thanking Biden for his...

A 28-year-old Long Island man died in his father’s arms as his shocked mom looked on following a hookup gone horribly wrong early Monday, officials said. Kristen Sculley, 22, who is facing second-degree murder charges in the fatal Massapequa stabbing of Robert Carragher, allegedly snuck into the victim’s basement apartment in the middle of the night for a pre-arranged liaison before stabbing the victim to death in his own bed, police said. In a chilling moment, Sculley flashed a sinister smirk as she was led to court by cops on Tuesday. “We believe that this female individual made an arrangement,”...

A car driver and passenger who inhaled nitrous oxide while travelling at speeds of up to 139mph before a fatal collision have been sentenced. Uways Hussain, 20, was driving a VW Golf GTI belonging to friend Usmon Mahmood, 23, when he ran a red light and crashed into another car, killing 50-year-old Sylvester Abayomi, Manchester Crown Court heard today. The court was shown footage of the collision, which happened at the junction of Green End Road and Kingsway in Manchester at 4.30am on March 9. Mr Abayomi’s partner Denise Doyle told the court: “Sylvester was simply on his way to...

We live in an age of wonders made possible by a combination of free markets and scientific advancement. This weekend a large group of oncologists, doctors who specialize in the treatment of cancer, met to show off their latest breakthroughs at a conference called ASCO26. The news from this conference is so good that it brought standing ovations from the assembled doctors. The big breakthrough that everyone is excited about involves pancreatic cancer which has long been a death sentence for many people. For instance, cartoonist Scott Adams died from metastatic prostrate cancer earlier this year. But a new drug...

June 1 (Reuters) - Global health organisation CEPI will give roughly $60 million to Moderna (MRNA.O), opens new tab and two other groups to accelerate the development of shots ​against Ebola Bundibugyo, the deadly virus that has swept through eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations was one of the ‌early investors that helped to develop a vaccine at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Richard Hatchett, head of CEPI, told Reuters on Monday it was possible to get Ebola Bundibugyo (BDBV) vaccines ready for trials within a couple of months. There are currently no approved...

This is a slightly different kind of post — one grounded in science, but powered by hope.It’s about a breakthrough in the treatment of one of the deadliest cancers we know.Instead of blasting cancer with drugs that make people sick and still don’t improve survival rates, we’re talking about a simple, low-dose treatment approach that researchers believe could help push a deadly brain cancer toward healing rather than destructionResveratrol and copper make brain tumors less aggressiveResearchers studied 20 people with glioblastoma. Ten took a low-dose resveratrol-copper tablet four times a day for about 11 days before brain surgery, while 10...

In A Nutshell A major review found no link between naturally occurring dairy trans fats and higher risk of heart disease or type 2 diabetes. Unlike artificial trans fats in processed foods, dairy trans fats appear to behave differently in the body. Some studies found that people with higher blood levels of a dairy-specific trans fat were less likely to develop type 2 diabetes, though the evidence is not conclusive. Several of the study’s authors have ties to the dairy industry, a conflict of interest the researchers disclosed and that independent replication would help address. ============================================================================ For decades, “trans fat”...

The View cohosts have reacted to former panelist Rosie O'Donnell's headline-making facelift — and the actress' comments about feminism as it relates to cosmetic procedures. Days after the entertainer and ex-View moderator revealed that she underwent a facelift procedure, the talk show's current panel broke down the development, with some expressing shock over O'Donnell making a connection between feminism and plastic surgery. "My friend Rosie O'Donnell is sharing how she was racked with guilt over her decision to get a facelift," Joy Behar said at the top of Friday's show. "She says she just wanted to look more rested and...

About a year ago at Erlanger Baroness, the largest hospital in Chattanooga, anesthesia staff noticed that a nurse was slurring his words and struggling to stay awake while on duty in the surgery center, according to a Tennessee Board of Nursing consent order. In the days that followed, the nurse failed a drug test and was fired, the order states. The nurse later admitted that for months he had pilfered and abused fentanyl left over after surgeries, sometimes daily, according to the order. Under most circumstances, this would be a routine case of what is known as "drug diversion," the...

The Atlanta train passenger who was slaughtered in a shocking daylight weekend attack was reportedly stabbed nearly two dozen times in what cops are calling a horrific random assault. John Elijah Matthews, 25, was caught on chilling surveillance footage boarding a Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority’s (MARTA) Saturday morning and hovering over 66-year-old Margaret Swan before allegedly pulling out a knife and slitting her throat, according to a warrant obtained by 11Alive. The unwitting passenger, sitting alone, began screaming and trying to escape as the violent brute allegedly held her down and stabbed her 18 to 20 times in an...

A video shows protesters throwing cement bricks at cops on Saturday during the “No Kings” rally in Los Angeles. The video — shared by Andy Ngo, a conservative media influencer — shows two men wearing masks, one of whom was carrying the flag of Mexico, breaking a large cement pole into smaller pieces and hurling it at LAPD officers who were controlling the crowd in front of the detention center near the federal building. The unrest in Los Angeles was part of a series of nationwide demonstrations. The LAPD issued a citywide tactical alert at 5 p.m. due to “incidents...

Nancy Pelosi has taken the gloves off in the increasingly vicious race to succeed her nearly 40-year reign representing San Francisco in Congress. The 86-year-old took aim at Democrat Saikat Chakrabarti, a tech millionaire and former Alexandria Ocasio Cortez staffer, saying she’d never even met him during a withering radio interview in which she also took shots at a local newspaper, the San Francisco Democratic Party and even the journalist interviewing her. Pelosi has endorsed Connie Chan, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. “I’ve never seen him at a homeless shelter, or a food bank, or an...

Gold:The earliest documented use occurred in China around 2,500 years before it was presented to the baby Jesus. In medieval times, and still today, certain outlets promoted the consumption of gold to alleviate depressive symptoms and migraines, while improving concentration and alertness. In the 19th century, gold was considered nervine — an agent that calms the nerves — and it was used to treat diverse conditions ranging from alcoholism to epilepsy... Some gold salts, though, can be processed by the body and have anti-inflammatory properties. Some arthritis drugs include gold salts, such as sodium aurothiomalate and auranofin... The isotope gold-198...

Nearly 115 million Americans are on the road to diabetes. New research suggests an inexpensive, widely available supplement could slow that journey, but only for some of them. A genetic quirk in roughly 70 percent of prediabetic adults may determine whether high-dose vitamin D can meaningfully lower their risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. The research builds on the D2d trial. More than 2,000 U.S. adults living with prediabetes were randomized to either take 4,000 units of vitamin D or a placebo for up to 3.5 years. Initially, the trial did...

Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI, which launched ChatGPT, is not overweight. Gay tech billionaires rarely are. Even so, as he explained in a recent interview, he was keen to try a GLP-1, one of those drugs that have revolutionised weight loss in the past five years. You can understand why he was curious. Ozempic or Mounjaro might appear to have nothing in common with artificial intelligence, but both phenomena have created a sensation that we’re entering an era of accelerating and uncontrollable change. Alas, he screwed it up. He had someone inject him with a megadose, puked all night...

Brazilian health authorities are monitoring two patients for possible Ebola infection in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, officials said, sparking further concern of the deadly virus outbreak in central Africa spreading abroad. A 37-year-old man from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the outbreak has been concentrated, "exhibited symptoms such as fever, meeting the definition of a suspected case" of Ebola, the Sao Paulo state government said in a statement on Saturday. While initial tests did not detect the Ebola virus in the patient, he is being monitored and isolated as a precautionary measure at a specialized infectious...

Not bored with snakes yet? I caught this Timber rattler during a Colorado River trip with my Dad in 1967. My cousin Maria Shriver is to my left. pic.twitter.com/ULMzv2hFJN— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) May 31, 2026The girl is Maria Shriver. I don't know who the nose picker in the back is!......... 🙄

More than 1,100 people were suspected of having contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighbouring Uganda, the head of the African Union's health agency said on Sunday in a commentary for the Financial Times. Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention director general Jean Kaseya said there were 263 confirmed cases in both countries as of Saturday, with 43 confirmed deaths. More than 1,100 suspected cases were still being investigated, he wrote in the editorial. On Thursday, the Africa CDC said there had been 246 suspected deaths from the virus. "We must move at the speed of...