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Getty Images Home buyers looking for mortgage rates to stabilize or even drop got good news Wednesday, as the Federal Reserve announced a pause in its monthslong campaign of interest rate hikes.The Fed controls the federal funds rate, a metric that directly affects short-term lending.But holding that key rate steady should filter through to other interest rates, including longer-term ones like mortgage rates.

Hitting a rough patch financially can happen to anyone.And sometimes that might mean you can no longer pay your mortgage and you default on your loan.If that happens, you will likely face foreclosure.As your home is used for collateral on the loan, the bank will repossess your house and sell it to make up the balance of the mortgage.

For decades, Girl Scouts has used cookie sales to raise funds and teach scouts about entrepreneurship.This year, thanks to the Raspberry Rally cookie, members got a painful lesson in what can happen when high demand meets limited supply.The much-hyped Rally, a raspberry-flavored spin on the Thin Mint, was always supposed to be a limited-edition cookie.

The wildfire smoke hovering over parts of eastern Canada and the U.S. this week has led many to start poring over charts and figures to get a sense of the air quality in their area.But what exactly do these indexes measure, and how should they be interpreted?Different countries have different ways of measuring air quality, including Canada, said Dan Westervelt, an associate research professor at Columbia Climate School's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

The Little Mermaid, Disney's latest live action remake of a cartoon classic, has been out for a week and is raising a question for all of us and no, it's not how much Awkwafina rap it takes to go deaf.Instead, it's one more often seen in biology.As animals have the ability to send each other all sorts of messages brightly coloured frogs warning predators of their toxicity, loud bird calls to let a predator know they've been spotted there's the obvious question: what motivates any of them to tell each other the truth?

Ontario will contribute one-third of the cost to secure a deal with Stellantis to save Windsor's electric vehicle battery plant, Premier Doug Ford revealed Thursday, though the final amount the province is chipping in won't be made public until after a deal is signed.Making an announcement in Windsor-Essex, Ford maintained the deal with Stellantis was the federal government's to secure.

Getting around Toronto isn't easy.That applies whether you're taking transit, driving a car or riding your bike.And it might be the one thing Toronto's growing ranks of mayoral candidates can agree on, judging from the tone of their announcements this week.Candidates on the election trail were increasingly tuned into the plight of weary commuters.

Of the more than 3,000 species of mosquitoes in the world, just a small number have evolved to specialize in sucking human blood.How human-biting mosquitoes track us down so effectively isn't currently known, but it matters, since they don't just make us itch.They also carry dangerous diseases such as Zika, dengue, West Nile virus and malaria that can be deadly.

The average American teenager spends more time online than on sleep.... [+]
getty The latest research by psychologist Jean Twenge shows that many American teen girls spend more time using social media sites than sleeping or attending school.Twenge is a researcher at San Diego State University who studies generational trends.

A trans rights protester who glued themselves to the floor during a talk by gender-critical feminist Kathleen Stock has been removed by police.Four police officers spent around 10 minutes attempting to remove the activist, who was one of around 200 protesters to gather at the Oxford Union on Tuesday in opposition to Professor Stock's appearance following remarks in her book Material Girls, in which she outlined views perceived by some as trans-exclusionary.

A mobile phone app has been created by eye specialists to encourage children with lazy eye to wear a patch that helps correct the condition and ensure it is being used properly.About one in 50 children are affected by the visual impairment amblyopia, which can usually be treated through patching therapy.

Pupils in families who reported using food banks during the pandemic received lower GCSE grades almost half a grade per subject on average, a report suggests.Negative financial experiences during the pandemic were also linked to poor mental health of young people and their parents, the research suggests.

Hostile parenting and harsh discipline increase the likelihood of lasting mental health problems in children, a report suggests.New research said parenting that involves frequently shouting at, isolating, and physically punishing young children made it 1.5 times more likely that a child would be at high risk of developing poor mental health by age nine.

As Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida begins to aggressively attack former President Donald J. Trump, his campaign has spread three images of the former president embracing Dr. Anthony S. Fauci that forensic experts say are almost certainly realistic-looking deepfakes generated by artificial intelligence.

The portion of American hospital beds occupied by children with suicidal or self-harming behavior has soared over the course of a decade, a large study of admissions to acute care hospitals shows.An analysis of 4,767,840 pediatric hospitalizations by researchers at Dartmouth, published on Tuesday in the medical journal JAMA, found that between 2009 and 2019, mental health hospitalizations increased by 25.8 percent and cost $1.37 billion.

Meredith Broussard is a data journalist and academic whose research focuses on bias in artificial intelligence (AI).She has been in the vanguard of raising awareness and sounding the alarm about unchecked AI.Her previous book, Artificial Unintelligence (2018), coined the term technochauvinism to describe the blind belief in the superiority of tech solutions to solve our problems.

George Washington University will soon choose a new nickname for its athletic teams, dropping Colonials after years of pressure from students who said the name was entangled with violence toward Native Americans and other colonized people.The campus community, in the heart of the nation's capital, has narrowed a list of 10 replacement candidates to four finalists: Ambassadors, Blue Fog, Revolutionaries and Sentinels.

The next generation of computer screens could incorporate holographic displays, allowing us to interact with images and videos that appear to be presented in three dimensions.Instead of interacting with real-time videos of colleagues during videoconferences, they could be represented as holograms.Medical professionals could be presented with three-dimensional (3D) views of organs and scans to help diagnose conditions and plan surgeries.

Enabling humans to see through physical objects has long been the stuff of science fiction novels, comic books, and films.While X-rays serve as a valuable tool for medical diagnosis and body scanners, and x-ray scanners are now widely deployed at airports for security, genuine X-ray vision could profoundly change the way we see the world.

Atlanta's city council voted early Tuesday morning to provide public funding for a controversial law enforcement training facility, cementing an unusual alliance that has formed between local Democrats and state Republicans.With the Democratic mayor, left-leaning city council and state Republicans all backing millions of dollars in taxpayer funds for the private non-profit that is building the center, the facility dubbed Cop City by opponents is set to take the next step towards construction, local political observers say.

Toronto has money issues.That's no secret.This week candidates were pushed to address how they'll fix the city's financial woes.The topic came up as the top six polling candidates ran a proverbial gauntlet of debates.Those four events, which amounted to nearly eight hours of head-to-head interactions over two days, gave voters their best look yet at the people vying for the city's top job.

When a lifeguard asked police to remove Lotte Mies for bathing topless at her local indoor swimming pool in Berlin it was a move that would inadvertently trigger a rule change allowing all women, including visiting female tourists, the freedom to go topless while swimming in the city.The decision to change clothing rules around swimming in the German capital was made after two women, including Mies, filed complaints about being thrown out or barred from the city's pools for refusing to cover up, and demanded the same rights as their male counterparts when bathing oben-ohne (topless) at the city's public pools.

Fazilat Soukhakian is an Iranian artist, photographer, scholar, and storyteller whose work depicts the stories of bravery and strength of those marginalized by society, highlighting the act of overcoming struggle and inspiring others.She is currently an Associate Professor of Photography at Utah State University.

In some species, when the going gets tough, the body hits the brakes, chilling body temperature and slowing metabolism to a snail's pace in a state known as torpor.Humans do not enter torpor, but the condition might offer benefits across scenarios as seemingly unrelated as intensive care unit (ICU) stays and long-distance space travel.

Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American's Science, Quickly.I'm Karen Hopkin.Little kids say the most nonsensical things, like my son at the aquarium when he was two or three.[CLIP: Toddler talking about fish] Toddler: They say bloop bloop.I think that one and this one are saying bloop bloop Hopkin: Even sweeter are the sounds they make when they're just beginning to explore their vocal capabilities.

(Editor's note: (This post is part of a series by the Diversity Pilots Initiative, which advances inclusive innovation through rigorous research.The first blog in the series is here, and resources from the first conference of the initiative are available here.-Jason) By: Jillian Grennan, Associate Professor of Finance and Principal, Diversity Pilots Initiative Recently, I had the privilege of being part of the Junior Innovation Economics Conference at Harvard Business School.

"It's very Orwellian how the tech industry manages to change terminology on us.It's not data and content to us, it's music, it's photographs; it's not file sharing, it's stealing - it's simple."- Ashley Irwin
The House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet today held the first of several planned hearings about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on intellectual property, focusing in this initial hearing on copyright law.

Basma Hameed is living her childhood dream to create her own cosmetics.She has developed a 40-shade foundation called Basma now selling online and soon to be available in stores at beauty giant Sephora."It's still hard to believe, but it's incredible," Hameed, 36, said about her success."You don't [expect] somebody who's a burn survivor to launch a beauty brand."

From furniture to gasoline, to mortgages and used cars, inflation has taken a big bite out of people's budgets, and now it's coming for the indulgence many Canadians will be most reluctant to cut back on: junk food.If it feels like your favourite chocolate bar, bag of chips or other treat is getting more expensive lately, it's not your imagination.

King Charles has been urged to go further towards offering reparatory justice for the UK's role in transatlantic slavery, even as he was praised for reportedly ignoring Boris Johnson's advice to avoid the issue at all costs.Academics and campaigners called on Charles to adopt specific measures to help build an understanding of the legacy of the enslavement of black people, as well as putting forward suggestions for how the UK could work towards making amends.

Recently, many of the hospitals and clinics in and around Chicago, including my own, have elected to discontinue universal masking requirements, noting the lowest rates of COVID-19 in the last three years.This is being hailed as a sign of moving on from the COVID-19 pandemic.But is it really "moving on?"

Adults in their 20s and 30s with mental disorders have a higher chance of having a heart attack or stroke, according to a new study.The study published Monday in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology looked at the health data of more than 6.5 million people through the Korean National Health Insurance Service database.

Editor's Note: Chloe Melas is a reporter for CNN, covering all things entertainment for the network across platforms.After nearly two years of fertility treatments, she and husband Brian Mazza now have two sons.Melas was a recipient of Resolve's 2020 Hope Award for Advocacy.Bobby and Sara are having twins!

African peace mission set to visit Kyiv and Moscow as Russia intensifies missile attacks.Fifteen months into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has secured further military support from European allies.They've promised more weapons, training and money, but stopped short of providing the F-16 fighter jets that he says could be a game-changer.

Ukrainian soldiers prepare self-propelled howitzer shells in Chasiv Yar, near Bakhmut, where Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the chief of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, said Ukrainian forces were in "full swing."(Iryna Rybakova/AP)Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Wagner head Yevgeniy Prigozhin shared conflicting reports on the much-anticipated Ukrainian spring counteroffensive, with Zelensky saying his country needed to wait for more equipment to arrive and that starting the campaign now would result in "unacceptable" losses.

For many, switching from Russian to the Ukrainian language is an act of resistance as the war continues to devastate lives and cities.Oleksandr Zahalskyy spent most of his life speaking only Russian.Born in 1960 in what was then the Soviet Union, Zahalskyy hails from the largely Russian-speaking Ukrainian city of Kherson.

One of the most flagrant issues in the quickly emerging field of artificial intelligence is how AI collides with copyright.This multifaceted issue is being taken up by the U.S. Congress.Today, the Judiciary Committee is presenting "Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: Part 1 - Interoperability of AI and Copyright Law.

Researchers working to unlock the secrets of Alzheimer's disease say they've been given a major clue that could help protect people at risk for this type of dementia.A man who seemed fated to develop memory loss in his 40s or 50s, based on family history, kept normal function for decades longer than he should have.

Editor's Note: Sign up for CNN's Sleep, But Better newsletter series.Our seven-part guide has helpful hints to achieve better sleep.Living with a plugged nose isn't fun, but James Nestor was ready.Plus, it was for science.While researching his book, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, Nestor let Stanford University scientists block his nostrils with silicone and surgical tape to measure the impacts of breathing through his mouth for 10 days.

On May 10, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expert panel voted unanimously to make an oral contraceptive pill available over-the-counter.If the FDA adopts the panel's recommendation, the birth control pill, which is currently only available by prescription, would become the first oral contraceptive that women can take without medical supervision.

If you've been itchy, congested, and sneezy for months, you're not alone.This year's spring allergy season started early, broke pollen-count records in some parts of the country, and is still going strong in many areas.Unfortunately, this year is unlikely to be a fluke.While pollen counts vary from year to year, recent trends suggest allergy seasons are, in general, getting longer and worse, says Dr. Kristine Vanijcharoenkarn, an assistant professor at Emory University School of Medicine who specializes in allergies and immunology.

The United States is facing what some experts are calling a new era for bird flu.Since January 2022, the country has been battling the biggest outbreak yet of highly pathogenic avian influenza in wildlife.The virus is a major threat to commercial and backyard flocks, and it has started to show up in hundreds of mammals, including a handful of pet cats.

Breast density is known to naturally decrease as a woman ages, and now a study suggests that the more time it takes for breast density to decline, the more likely it is that the woman could develop breast cancer.Researchers have long known that women with dense breasts have a higher risk of breast cancer.

Svalbard, the Norwegian archipelago that lies deep inside the Arctic Circle, is on the frontline of global heating.This remote, largely barren cluster of rock, glacial ice and snow is experiencing observable, unsettling climate-induced transformation.Studies suggest Svalbard is warming six times faster than the global average, with some researchers predicting that, by 2100, its glaciers will be losing ice at double the current rate, regardless of whether global climate targets are hit.

For someone whose career has been spent addressing the urgency of climate change, environmental-politics researcher Leah Stokes sounded awfully cheery in a talk in early March at the SXSW conference in Austin.I'm not telling you don't dry your clothes, don't cook your food, don't drive anywhere,' Stokes, an associate professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, told the crowd.

May 11, 2023-Ninety current and aspiring humanitarian workers spent a soggy weekend in April learning how to provide aid during a complex disaster and conflict situation.It was the culminating experience in a two-week professional development course offered by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative's Humanitarian Academy.

The move could expand access to a key method of contraception without a prescription or age restrictions.Sophia Yen, CEO and co-founder of Pandia Health, holds a one-months prescription of birth control pills at the health startup's office in Palo Alto, California, on June 5, 2019.Paul Chinn / San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images This story was originally published by The 19th.

In a scene in the 1975 movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, King Arthur roams around the English countryside attempting to gather knights for the Round Table.When he declares, I am your king! to a deeply unimpressed peasant, her response is both absurd and blindingly obvious.Well, I didn't vote for you, she says.

Keman Huang is an Associate Professor at the Renmin University of China and a Research Affiliate at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he works on cybersecurity management and strategy, innovation ecosystems, and big data analysis.Xiaoqing Wang is a Ph.D student majoring in information security at the School of Information, Renmin University of China.

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An associate professor at UC Berkeley known for her work on Native food sovereignty is facing backlash for falsely claiming Indigenous heritage.In a statement posted on her personal website on Monday, Elizabeth M. Hoover, associate professor of environmental science, policy and management, said she is white and "incorrectly identified" as Indigenous without researching her ancestry.

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Renewing a legal battle that some had considered settled, gun rights advocates filed a federal lawsuit this week challenging a California law that places a 10-day waiting period on most firearm purchases.The law, which requires people to wait the prescribed "cooling off" period even if they've passed a more immediate background check, is aimed in part at deterring people from rushing to harm themselves or others with newly purchased weapons during periods of sudden distress or anger.

Whether you get it from a vaccine or an infection, COVID-19 immunity does not last forever.In a study published May 3 in JAMA Network Open, researchers combed through studies to determine just how long protection from the shots endures.The scientists, led by a team from Italy, analyzed 40 studies that documented people's vaccination status and their subsequent infections with COVID-19, confirmed by lab tests.

Boffins at the University of California, Berkeley, have delved into the undisclosed depths of OpenAI's ChatGPT and the GPT-4 large language model at its heart, and found they're trained on text from copyrighted books.Academics Kent Chang, Mackenzie Cramer, Sandeep Soni, and David Bamman describe their work in a paper titled, "Speak, Memory: An Archaeology of Books Known to ChatGPT/GPT-4."
"We find that OpenAI models have memorized a wide collection of copyrighted materials, and that the degree of memorization is tied to the frequency with which passages of those books appear on the web," the researchers explain in their paper.

Although many children have returned to school and nursery, not every mum has the help she needs yet.For most of the first year after her daughter was born in early 2022, Katie Szerbin worked from home, managing customer service calls all day, without any kind of childcare.Each time her child began to cry, the 30-year-old mother from New Jersey, US, had to leave the room.

A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder found that Black and Latina mothers in the US may have been induced into labor based on the needs of White pregnant women and not their own.The study, published Wednesday in the American Sociological Association's Journal of Health and Social Behavior, suggests systemic racism may be shaping obstetric care in the United States.

Nearly 80% of people in Japan believe that society benefits men over women in the Asian nation.That's according to a recent study conducted by the Cabinet Office, which also revealed that just 14.7% believe women are treated equally in Japan.It underlines the chasm of inequality between the genders in everything from politics to education, and "socially accepted views, customs and conventions."

That mysterious twinge on one side of your lower abdomen that isn't occurring alongside your period?The one that keeps coming back, every month and roughly in the middle of your menstrual cycle?That sensation is most likely pain associated with ovulation, or, as it's known in the medical world, mittelschmerz (the German term for middle pain).

Editor's Note: Sign up for CNN's Sleep, But Better newsletter series.Our seven-part guide has helpful hints to achieve better sleep.Obstructive sleep apnea is a serious sleep disorder in which people stop breathing for 10 seconds or more at a time.Snoring can be a key sign of obstructive sleep apnea but at some point in our lives, we all snore.

Staking protocol developer EigenLabs has raised $50 million in a Series A round led by Blockchain Capital.The funding comes as EigenLabs prepares to launch the initial version of its EigenLayer protocol in phases throughout the year.The size of the round is notable during a protracted crypto winter that has seen investors focusing more on smaller, early-stage rounds.

Q: I want to buy a co-op in New York City, partly to have space for a piano, which I don't currently own.I intend to play the piano for an hour or two a day.I don't plan to mention this detail at the co-op board interview and since I don't own the piano yet, I wouldn't be lying if the board asked about such a thing.