David Knowles

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Editorial Senior Manager at @YahooNews. Formerly @BPolitics, @NYDailyNews, @Daily, etc. Tweets are mine, unless they are re-tweets.

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After RFK Jr. recommends vitamin A as a measles treatment, some Texas patients show signs of toxicity

4 weeks ago | yahoo.com | David Knowles

Weeks after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. touted vitamin A as an effective treatment for measles amid the largest outbreak of disease in decades, hospitalized patients in West Texas are being treated for signs of vitamin A toxicity. Several patients at Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock have been found to have abnormal liver function, CNN reported, which can occur when a person takes excessive doses of vitamin A.
Like it or not, Amazon will be sent your Alexa voice recordings starting Friday

4 weeks ago | wsbtv.com | David Knowles

On March 28, Amazon Echo users will lose their ability to withhold sending their stored voice recordings to the company’s cloud storage system. With the rollout of Alexa+, the company’s generative AI version of its personal assistant, Amazon will be discontinuing its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” option, which offered an extra layer of privacy by allowing users to withhold stored Echo commands.
Tufts University student arrested by federal immigration authorities as Trump continues crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters

4 weeks ago | wsbtv.com | David Knowles

Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen studying at Tufts University, was taken into federal custody Tuesday, the university said, in the latest apparent example of the Trump administration targeting students with pro-Palestinian views. Ozturk is the holder of a valid student visa, Mahsa Khanbabai, Ozturk’s lawyer, said in a statement, and was detained Tuesday by agents with the Department of Homeland Security.
Social Security commissioner admits anger at Maine governor over Trump clash was behind change to newborn policy

1 month ago | yahoo.com | David Knowles

In an extraordinary admission, Social Security Administration acting Commissioner Lee Dudek told the New York Times that his decision to require parents of newborns in Maine to apply in person for a Social Security number in an office rather than by simply filling out a form at the hospital came about because he "was ticked" at the state's governor, Janet Mills.
Protests against Trump and Musk spring to life - with mass demonstration set for April 5

1 month ago | wsbtv.com | David Knowles

As President Trump and Elon Musk continue their plan to dramatically reshape the federal government, a growing protest movement is emerging to try to stop them. Over the past few days, thousands of people have gathered to hear Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York castigate the current administration. “We will not allow America to become an oligarchy,” Sanders told a crowd of 34,000 in Denver.
Liberal social media sensation Kat Abughazaleh announces run for Congress

1 month ago | yahoo.com | David Knowles

In what may be the first campaign announcement in U.S. history ever to use the F-word, the progressive social media sensation Kat Abughazaleh released a video Monday that kicked off her bid to unseat Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois. “Donald Trump and Elon Musk are dismantling our country piece by piece, and so many Democrats seem content to just sit back and let them,” Abughazaleh says in the video.
These 10 states are getting hit the hardest by severe hail storms

1 month ago | yahoo.com | David Knowles

The number of severe hail storms in the United States rose significantly over the last three years, and the damage from increasingly massive hail stones is pushing up insurance rates in the hardest hit states, according to a new study. Data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows that severe hail events increased by 21% from 2022 to 2024, the study by Insurify, an insurance shopping company, found.
Sea levels are rising faster than ever. Here's where that could have the biggest impact.

1 month ago | wsbtv.com | David Knowles

In 2024, the hottest year in recorded history, sea levels rose at a rate 35% more than expected, according to a new report from NASA. The space agency explained on its website that the acceleration of sea level rise "was due to an unusual amount of ocean warming, combined with meltwater from land-based ice such as glaciers."“The rise we saw in 2024 was higher than we expected,” Josh Willis, a sea level researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said in a statement.
Winter storm brings blizzard, red flag warnings to millions across U.S. as wildfire risk rises

1 month ago | yahoo.com | David Knowles

The last day of winter for 2025 is delivering a blizzard for millions of Americans. The National Weather Service posted blizzard warnings Wednesday in five states: Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and Minnesota. “Snowfall rates up to 2 inches per hour will likely combine with wind gusts over 50 mph to produce blizzard conditions. The greatest risk for blizzard conditions will be from northern Kansas through southern Minnesota,” the NWS said in an alert posted to its website.
Look inside El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison, where the Trump administration is sending some deported immigrants

1 month ago | wsbtv.com | David Knowles

Over the weekend, the Trump administration deported hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, where they are being held in a maximum security mega-prison called the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT). El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said in a post to social media on Sunday that those deported to his country included 238 members of the Tren de Aragua gang and 23 members of the Salvadoran gang MS-13.

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