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Mollie Sussman and Eli Frankel show off his new race-car bed. The 5-year-old is one of 3.6 million children in the U.S. in 2020 who are starting kindergarten this year. Vanessa Romo/NPR hide caption toggle caption Vanessa Romo/NPR Last Wednesday was a big day for the Sussman and Frankel family. It was the first day of school at California Creative Academy, a charter school in Los Angeles, where 5-year-old Eli is newly enrolled in kindergarten. “We were super freaked out,” Mollie Sussman told NPR, referring to herself and her husband Brad Frankel. “We were really scared and [Eli] was pretty…

Vulnerabilities Using data from the Food and Drug Administration, the researchers identified 10,861 drug facilities that were active for at least one year between 2019 and 2024. These facilities represent the array of manufacturing stages of a drug, from analyzing raw drug materials, manufacturing active ingredients, to packaging drug products. The researchers then looked at the county location of each of these facilities and whether any federally declared weather emergencies occurred in those counties during the period. Weather-related emergencies included those from fires, hurricanes, storms, tornadoes, and floods. During the six-year span, 6,819 facilities (63 percent) faced at least one…

In early August, just days before a major Black Ops 7 preview event in Los Angeles, former Blizzard president and Microsoft executive Mike Ybarra called the Call of Duty franchise “lazy”. Posting on X, the veteran exec wrote that EA’s upcoming Battlefield 6 would “boot stomp” CoD this year and force the team to make “better FPS games”. And with Splitgate 2 head Ian Proulx mocking Call of Duty in his Summer Game Fest presentation just two months ago, it seems the blockbuster series has become the butt of an industry joke about endless franchises.It’s not the only flak the…

Since 1946, thousands of spectators have flocked to the small hamlet of Langford, near Buffalo N.Y., for the annual tractor pull, which is the longest-running competition of its kind in America. Zach Jaworski for NPR hide caption toggle caption Zach Jaworski for NPR LANGFORD, N.Y. — For two days in August, this small hamlet south of Buffalo becomes a can’t-miss destination for fans of a distinctively agricultural motorsport: the tractor pull. Spectators gather on wooden bleachers flanking a long dirt runway, forming an arena that seats 4,000 people — more than the surrounding area’s total population. A welcome sign to…

In 2014 Mura Yakerson, a college student at the time, decided to practice driving in a quiet area in the countryside near Saint Petersburg, Russia. Then something went wrong. While she was pulling out of a parking space, Yakerson accidentally damaged another car. This incident turned out to be the beginning of a nightmare.Because she drove away from the scene, unaware that she had hit another vehicle, a judge later charged Yakerson with leaving the place of an accident and then gave her the choice between a one-year driving ban or three days in jail. Yakerson chose incarceration. She thought…

The senators urged for the protection of journalists in Gaza and international media access to the territory.A group of 17 US senators has written to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, condemning an Israeli attack last week that killed several Al Jazeera journalists, and urging the US to pressure Israel to grant foreign media access to Gaza and protect journalists there.The letter [pdf] published on Wednesday was led by Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz and signed by 16 other senators, including Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, a registered independent who caucuses with the…

The Tropicana Crisis of 2009 underlined the importance of a company’s branding.In January of that year, the orange juicemaker, owned by PepsiCo, changed the look of its cartons. The shiny orange punctured by a straw was replaced by an almost abstract blob of orange juice.Consumers responded accordingly, and sales dropped by as much as 20%. Less than two months after rolling out its new look, Tropicana announced it would switch back to the original packaging.Since then, the slate of companies with messy rebrands has only grown. Facebook became Meta. Twitter became X. The UK fund manager Standard Life Aberdeen became…

Google’s latest Gemini AI upgrades attempt to anticipate what useful information you made need from your life to address a potential issue, make you to better photographer or become your personalised health and sleep coach.Shipping on the just-announced Pixel 10 Android phones, the new Magic Cue feature enables the chatbot to comb through your digital life and pull up relevant information on your phone just when you need it.Placing a call to an airline will automatically display your booking information from Gmail in the phone app. Or when a friend texts about brunch on Sunday Gemini will suggest a suitable…

Julie McCulloughBBC News NIBBCDanny, 13, who was diagnosed with myopia when he was seven, is not able to use his NHS voucher towards treatment for the conditionChildren with short-sightedness are being stopped from using NHS vouchers to help pay for new treatment unlike in other parts of the UK, Northern Ireland optometrists have said.The chair of Optometry NI, Brian McKeown, said it was “frustrating” and that the rules should change, while Faith Donaldson, a County Down-based optometrist, said advances in medicine can now “slow down the progressions of myopia”.However, the Department of Health said the “evidence is not yet sufficient…

Jessica Simpson has released a reflective new single, “Hopeless Romance.” The emotional, country-tinged ballad was written by Simpson with Chris Isaak, JD McPherson, and Teresa LaBarbera, and produced by McPherson. “I’ve always been in love with love/ I thought that you were too,” Simpson croons on the track. “Believing in a lucid tale/ The way that dreamers do/ Here I go again/ I’ll give us one more chance/ Hopeless romantic/ In a hopeless romance.” The singer shared the song on social media, thanking her collaborators “for this therapy session.” The track follows her recent single, “Fade,” a boisterous acoustic track…