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Robot vacuums that can both mop and sweep your floors have improved significantly in recent years. While they are still not as effective as good ol’ manual labor, if you run them regularly, they will help keep your floors cleaner with much less effort on your part.The difference is that newer “combo” robot vacuum and mop models are designed to actually scrub your floors. The first robot vacuums that could also “mop” simply slapped a thin, flat microfiber pad on the bot that kind of Swiffer-ed your floor. Basically, all this was good for was getting up fine dirt that…

BBCElissa says constipation needs to be screened for in every area of healthcare A mother who feared her two-year-old son’s untreated constipation could have killed him is calling for access to children’s continence services to be made a national priority. Elissa Novak said Ivan was constantly vomiting, losing weight and in severe pain when it was at its worst, and a doctor said 2kg of his 10kg (22lb) body weight was estimated to be stool.The number of children aged up to 16 admitted to English hospitals suffering with constipation, among other symptoms, is at a 10-year high, with more than…

Penn Badgley is a dad once again — or is it twice again? The You star casually revealed that he has welcomed identical twin sons with his wife, Domino Kirke, during an Instagram video announcing a live event for his podcast Podcrushed on Wednesday. “I’m interrupting my paternity leave, which I’m on, by the way, which is also why I’m whispering,” he said in the video before leaning next to the feet of one of his infants. “Here, look, wanna see baby feet? Just tiny, little baby feet right there. I don’t wanna wake them up.” Penn Badgley with baby…

A bronze statue of a winged lion that has long graced the center of Piazza San Marco in Venice is from a faraway land, according to a new study. It was made in China as a tomb guardian over 1,000 years ago and may have been imported to Italy by Marco Polo’s father via the Silk Road in the 13th century, the researchers found.”Venice is a city full of mysteries, but one has been solved: the ‘Lion’ of St. Mark is Chinese, and he walked the Silk Road,” study co-author Massimo Vidale, an archaeologist at the University of Padua, said…

Some Americans who reject neoliberal values are relocating to Russia under its Shared Values Visa, drawn by traditional morals and a path to citizenship despite challenges and warnings.A handful of Americans are taking a drastic step: moving to Russia to live in a more conservative setting. The country has become attractive to those who subscribe to traditional gender roles and reject equal rights for the LGBTQ+ community.  In 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree introducing the Shared Values Visa to “provide humanitarian support to people who share traditional Russian spiritual and moral values.” Citizens from 47 countries with…

Florida plans to scrap vaccine mandates, becoming the first US state to end long-standing requirements protecting schoolchildren and adults from infectious diseases. State Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced the move Wednesday, denouncing existing rules as “immoral” intrusions on parental rights that restrict families’ ability to make health decisions.

Tony (Michael Weatherly), Ziva (Cote de Pablo) and Tali (Isla Gie) on the new Paramount+ series “NCIS: Tony & Ziva.”Jason Bell/Paramount+ NCIS fans have been waiting decades for this. On Thursday, NCIS: Tony & Ziva, the NCIS spinoff featuring the show’s longtime will-they-or-won’t-they investigators, drops on Paramount+. It is the sixth spinoff of CBS’s incredibly popular, long-running drama and the first to bow exclusively on streaming. Of course, the will they or won’t they question has been settled—the two have a 12-year-old daughter, and the show focuses on their new life all together as they continue to fight the bad…

Sextortion-based hacking, which hijacks a victim’s webcam or blackmails them with nudes they’re tricked or coerced into sharing, has long represented one of the most disturbing forms of cybercrime. Now one specimen of widely available spyware has turned that relatively manual crime into an automated feature, detecting when the user is browsing pornography on their PC, screenshotting it, and taking a candid photo of the victim through their webcam.On Wednesday, researchers at security firm Proofpoint published their analysis of an open-source variant of “infostealer” malware known as Stealerium that the company has seen used in multiple cybercriminal campaigns since May…

Tom McArthurBBC News andChris GrahamBBC NewsSTR/EPA/ShutterstockThe painting by Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi after it was recovered in ArgentinaA long lost painting looted decades ago in Nazi occupied Europe has been recovered in Argentina, officials have said.Portrait of a Lady, by Italian master Giuseppe Ghislandi, had been missing for 80 years before it was spotted last month on an estate agent’s website, where a photo showed it hanging in a house that had belonged to the daughter of a Nazi fugitive.Patricia Kadgien’s late father Friedrich had been a top adviser to Hermann Goring, Adolf Hitler’s deputy, who plundered thousands of works…

Maybe Micah Parsons was selfish and egotistical as locker room reports indicate, but wouldn’t you be a little big-headed if you were that awesome? Maybe long-term the Cowboys will use those first-round picks and Kenny Clark to be better off without Parsons, but they are not going to be better off defensively in Week 1.  For that reason, I’m declaring these three Eagles Overs as Inside the Lines’ Best Bets for Thursday Night’s Week 1 opener between the Cowboys and Eagles in Philadelphia. What makes a bet an “Inside the Lines Best Bet?” These are ones where:1) Best Projection: Our SportsLine…