Sunday, March 10, 2024

On the China-Built Cranes at Our Ports, a Worrisome Find (Newser Sunday Summary)

Newser Newsletter
March 10, 2024
 
 
If You Only Read One Thing
America plans to spend billions to produce homegrown cargo cranes and swap them out for the China-built cranes that currently stand at many US ports—and a new report from the Wall Street Journal underscores the reasoning for the move. Keep reading
 
On the National Stage
The FDA has bestowed breakthrough therapy status on an LSD formulation found to relieve symptoms of anxiety and depression with a single dose. Keep reading
 
On the World Stage
After months of warnings over the risk of famine in Gaza under Israel's bombardment, offensives, and siege, children are starting to die. Keep reading
 
Weekend Jaw-Dropper
It's a story that's drawing plenty of Weekend at Bernie's references: Police say two Ohio women drove their dead roommate's body—propped up in the car's front seat—to a bank's drive-through window on Monday in order to get money from his account. Keep reading
 
Wild Card
It was, at the time, the "crime of the century"—the 1932 kidnapping and murder of 20-month-old Charles Lindbergh Jr. Keep reading
 
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There are more questions than answers when it comes to the story of Rebecca Vance, the Colorado mom who took her sister, Christine Vance, and 13-year-old son, Talon, into the Colorado wilderness to live off-grid—only to perish. Keep reading
Patients Discover Going Off Ozempic Is No Easy Road
Patients on GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic for weight loss often gain back the pounds they shed after they stop taking them. Keep reading
9 Die After Eating Sea Turtle Meat
Eight children and an adult died after eating sea turtle meat on Pemba Island in the Zanzibar archipelago and 78 other people were hospitalized, authorities said Saturday. Keep reading
Growing Focus in Dementia: a Diagnosis of 'MCI'
We all experience forgetfulness, but a growing number of doctors are focusing on when harmlessness crosses into a condition known as mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Keep reading
Obscure '80s Band Gets Deal 37 Years Later
A rare record-shop find has launched an obscure British '80s band into the spotlight. Keep reading
 
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