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When Your Child Is a Psychopath - The Atlantic (No paywall) The condition has long been considered untreatable. Experts can spot it in a child as young as 3 or 4. But a new clinical approach offers hope.
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WorkRacial diversity among college faculty lags behind other professional fields, report finds The GAO report also found inefficiencies in the way the Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigate complaints of discrimination at colleges and universities. Although Education Department policy requires complaints to be forwarded to the EEOC within 30 days, the average time for a referral was closer to 71 days.
WorkTSMC's Q1 revenue rise beats market expectations on AI boom
  The first half of the year is traditionally quieter for Taiwanese tech firms, coming after the end-of-year holiday rush for goods like tablets and smartphones in major Western markets, but the AI trend is boosting demand even in the off season.
WorkWhy Billionaire Bill Gross Loves These 3 High-Yield Dividend Stocks
 Stock Advisor provides investors with an easy-to-follow blueprint for success, including guidance on building a portfolio, regular updates from analysts, and two new stock picks each month. The Stock Advisor service has more than quadrupled the return of S&P 500 since 2002*. WorkWill Historic Job Growth Bring an End to the “Vibecession”? - The New Yorker (No paywall)
 For months now, one of the key questionsâperhaps the key questionâin American politics has been when, and if, good economic news will feed into the polling data on the Presidential race. Growth in employment and G.D.P. has been much stronger than expected, and the inflation rate has come down faster than predicted. Yet President Biden's approval rating on handling the economy has barely budged. (As of Monday, according to a Real Clear Politics poll average, it stood at a lowly 39.6 per cent.) Last Friday's job figures for March heightened the conundrum. The Labor Department announced that the economy created another 303,000 jobs last month, greatly exceeding Wall Street predictions; the unemployment rate ticked down from 3.9 per cent to 3.8 per cent, marking its twenty-sixth straight month below four per cent, a fifty-year record. Thomas Simons, an analyst at the investment bank Jefferies, commented, "The data leaves us borderline speechless."
WorkTrump Allies Have a Plan to Hurt Biden’s Chances: Elevate Outsider Candidates
 Whatever the mechanism, the Trump team’s view is simple and is backed by public and private polling: The more candidates in the race, the better for Mr. Trump. Mr. Biden’s team agrees. And in a race that could be decided by tens of thousands of votes — as the last two presidential elections have been — even small shifts in the share of votes could change the result. Work
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WorkOne state's big plan to fix the high cost of college
 Jorge Vargas’s family has always wanted him to be the first to go to college. They left St. Paul, Minnesota, for their home country of Honduras last year, but Jorge stayed behind with an aunt to pursue higher education. Editor's Note: "Instead of walking through the nuance[s] of Pell Grant, state grant, institutional aid, I can say if your family makes under 0,000, public institutions of higher learning in Minnesota will be covered fully. So that is just an easy access point." Minnesota's moves are making waves with its neighbors, too. North Dakota recently announced its own version of the North Star Promise program, while South Dakota is lowering tuition for Minnesota residents. Work
Work2 Red-Hot AI Growth Stocks to Buy in 2024 and Beyond
 Stock Advisor provides investors with an easy-to-follow blueprint for success, including guidance on building a portfolio, regular updates from analysts, and two new stock picks each month. The Stock Advisor service has more than tripled the return of S&P 500 since 2002*. WorkEditor's Note: Some 41% of Huntington Beach residents are registered Republicans, making them the city's largest political tribe. But lately the city's flavour of Republicanism has changed. In 2022 Ms Van Der Mark and several MAGA compatriots ran for the city council as a slate. All were elected, and now serve alongside three Democrats - though local elections there are technically non-partisan. Rhonda Bolton, a Democrat on the council, says the body's politics have become a poisonous sludge that bears a passing resemblance to America's House of Representatives.
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WorkWork WorkWorkByteDance Profit Jumps 60%, Taking It Past Archrival Tencent
 ByteDance’s long-awaited stock market debut remains a distant possibility, as the company grapples with elevated scrutiny in the US. In December, the firm offered to buy back up to $5 billion in shares from investors at a valuation of $268 billion. At its peak, ByteDance was valued at more than $400 billion in some private trading. WorkEditor's Note: Israel - still very much consumed by rage - is clearly getting pulled into an Iraq-like quagmire in Gaza. Like the Baath Party in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, much of Hamas' leadership is gradually being destroyed. In fact, U.S. officials say Israeli tactics have been more effective than they thought, especially in penetrating the tunnel network with a minimum of Israeli casualties. But Israel has not even begun to contemplate a viable way out. And as in Iraq, there are already signs of a rising insurgency, and a new generation of militants, that could bedevil Israel for years. WorkArizona Republicans denounce revived 1864 abortion ban in sudden reversal
 “Arizona just rolled back the clock to a time before women could vote – and, by his own admission, there’s one person responsible: Donald Trump,” Harris said in a campaign statement. “The alarm is sounding for every woman in America: if he has the opportunity, Donald Trump would sign off on a national abortion ban.” WorkMiddle East crisis live: Israel threatens to strike Iran directly if Iran launches attack from its territory
 Israeli warplanes struck a Syrian military position overnight Tuesday in response to rocket fire on the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, the military said. The Israeli military said on Tuesday that “warplanes attacked Syrian army military infrastructure overnight in the Mahajjah area” – about 30 kilometres (20 miles) from the demilitarised zone separating the opposing forces. The Israeli army said it identified a rocket launch from Syrian territory on Monday that caused no casualties. It said artillery struck the source of the fire. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkShe Dreams of Pink Planets and Alien Dinosaurs
 For me, it’s inspirational that so many people are excited. The other part of that coin is that we are so close, because we have the James Webb Space Telescope now being able to look at these small planets that could potentially be like Earth. We don’t have to go with dubious or hard-to-interpret evidence anymore. WorkWorkWorkLive Updates: Inflation Expected to Remain Stubborn
 He noted that exchange-traded funds, a type of investment vehicle that trades publicly like a stock, had been suffering withdrawals from investors, which is usually a warning sign for gold watchers. And in futures markets, which are derivatives linked to the price of gold, demand had remained muted until the start of this month when some money managers began buying, official data showed. WorkPeter Higgs, Nobelist Who Predicted the ‘God Particle,’ Dies at 94
 Declining to stick around for the after-parties, Dr. Higgs flew right back home, celebrating on the plane with a can of London Pride beer. CERN, which has shelves of empty Champagne bottles commemorating great moments lining its control room, asked if it could have the can, but Dr. Higgs had already thrown it away. WorkWorkWorkReview of gender services has major implications for mental health services
 Since the closure of the Gids clinic at the Tavistock and Portman NHS foundation trust in London in 2023, NHS England pledged to open eight regional clinics delivering a “different model of care”. The report has welcomed this, saying the regional centres “should allow care and risk to be actively managed … reducing waiting times for specialist care”. But since only one of these regional centres has opened, waiting lists will remain high for the foreseeable future. WorkWorkTesco says price pressures easing as profits soar
 It had also \"worked away at its costs\". For example, he said they\'re taking specialist counters out of the shops, which cuts costs and \"enables it to be \"attractive to a wider group of consumers\". WorkWorkWorkEngland Limits Youth Gender Medications, Part of Big Shift in Europe
 In December, regional health authorities in Norway designated youth gender medicine as a “treatment under trial,” meaning hormones will be prescribed only to adolescents in clinical trials. And in Denmark, new guidelines being finalized this year will limit hormone treatments to transgender adolescents who have experienced dysphoria since early childhood. WorkPeter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the “God particle,” has died at 94 Joel Goldstein, of the School of Physics at the University of Bristol, said: “Peter Higgs was a quiet and modest man, who never seemed comfortable with the fame he achieved even though this work underpins the entire modern theoretical framework of particle physics.”
WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkEl Cajon homicide detectives investigating homeless man's death Police received reports around 3 a.m. about a possible assault on West Main Street near Magnolia Avenue. When officers arrived they found the victim, who they called a “known homeless man,” suffering what appeared to be blunt-force trauma, the department said in a press release.
WorkFormer bookkeeper convicted of burning down Off Road Warehouse in Kearny Mesa One of the Orange County judge’s rulings stemmed from remarks San Diego Judge Howard Shore made in previous hearings, such as using the n-word without prompting as part of a thought experiment
WorkAir Canada Boeing 737 makes emergency landing in Idaho after technical issue The 122 passengers and six crew members were waiting in Boise on Tuesday for a different jet to take them to Vancouver, airline officials said. No injuries were reported, Boise Airport officials said in a post on Facebook.
WorkGOP’s Marjorie Taylor Greene delivers fresh threats of ousting Speaker Johnson in scathing rebuke For more than 58 years, The Atlanta Voice has ably provided a voice for the voiceless. It is the largest audited African American community newspaper in Georgia. Founded in 1966 by the late Ed Clayton and the late J. Lowell Ware, The Atlanta Voice has evolved and redefined its efforts to better connect with the community it serves.
WorkAncient Foxes Lived and Died Alongside Humans
 “It appears to have been intentionally buried within this human cemetery,” said Ophélie Lebrasseur, a zooarchaeologist at the University of Oxford and an author of the new study. “It’s a practice that had been suggested before, but to actually find it is a nice surprise.” WorkComics Artist Dies After Sexual Misconduct Accusations
 Piskor, 41, apologized for the messages in his note and said he never should have communicated with the teenager. He also addressed separate allegations from another artist, saying that they had a consensual sexual relationship. WorkWorkBoeing Crisis of Confidence Deepens With 787 Now Under Scrutiny
 Salehpour said he flagged his concerns to Boeing management but was ignored and ultimately transferred to the 777 program. There he claims to have also witnessed improper production practices after the planemaker ripped out a flawed robotic system without properly redesigning the relevant parts to match the new assembly process. WorkU.S. Postal Service Proposes Raising Stamp Prices Again
 The Postal Service has faced financial issues for years because it is required to fund retiree health care benefits for its employees in advance. It’s also facing headwinds, like other postal services globally, as fewer people send mail. Its operations are generally not funded by tax revenues. WorkBoulder County food bank forced to toss 2,000 pounds of food after weekend’s Xcel power outages Community Food Share serves an average of 4,500 to 5,000 visitors every month and a total of 40,000 annually. Thomas anticipates that they’ll experience a surge in need for their programs after the power outages, so the nonprofit is accepting donations of food and funds.
WorkWorkTSMC's Q1 revenue rise beats market expectations on AI boom
The first half of the year is traditionally quieter for Taiwanese tech firms, coming after the end-of-year holiday rush for goods like tablets and smartphones in major Western markets, but the AI trend is boosting demand even in the off season. WorkEditor's Note: Israel - still very much consumed by rage - is clearly getting pulled into an Iraq-like quagmire in Gaza. Like the Baath Party in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, much of Hamas' leadership is gradually being destroyed. In fact, U.S. officials say Israeli tactics have been more effective than they thought, especially in penetrating the tunnel network with a minimum of Israeli casualties. But Israel has not even begun to contemplate a viable way out. And as in Iraq, there are already signs of a rising insurgency, and a new generation of militants, that could bedevil Israel for years. WorkTSMC's Q1 revenue rise beats market expectations on AI boom
The first half of the year is traditionally quieter for Taiwanese tech firms, coming after the end-of-year holiday rush for goods like tablets and smartphones in major Western markets, but the AI trend is boosting demand even in the off season. |
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