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President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One, Wednesday, March 18, 2026, at Dover Air Force Base, Del., to attend the casualty return for the six crew members of an Air Force refueling aircraft who died when their plane crashed in western Iraq while supporting operations against Iran. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)2026-03-19T10:29:45Z WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump is facing perhaps the most daunting question of the war with Iran, one that could define his time in office: Will he put U.S. troops on the ground in Iran to secure some 970 pounds of enriched uranium that Tehran could potentially use to build nuclear weapons?Trump has offered shifting reasons for launching the war, but he has been consistent in articulating that a primary objective in joining Israel in the military action is ensuring that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.The president has been more circumspect about how far hes willing to go to follow through on his pledge to destroy Irans weapons program once and for all, including seizing or destroying the near-bomb-grade nuclear material that Iran possesses.Much of it is believed to be buried under the rubble of a mountain facility pummeled in U.S. bombings Trump ordered last June that he had claimed obliterated Tehrans nuclear program. Its a risky, complicated project that many nuclear experts say cannot be done without a sizable deployment of U.S. troops into Iran, a dangerous and politically fraught operation for the Republican president, who has vowed not to entangle the U.S. in the sort of extended and bloody Middle East conflicts that still loom large on Americas psyche. At the same time, lawmakers and experts remain concerned that if Iran hard-liners emerge from the fighting, theyll be more motivated than ever to build nuclear weapons as they look to deter the U.S. and Israel from future military action, a dynamic that makes taking control of Irans enriched uranium even more critical. That stockpile could allow Iran to build as many as 10 nuclear bombs, should it decide to weaponize its program. Some lawmakers, like Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., say they remain deeply fearful that the president has put the nation on a path that will require putting troops inside Iran for what he called Trumps confused and chaotic objectives. Some of the objectives that he continues to espouse simply cannot be achieved without a physical presence there -- securing the uranium cannot be done without a physical presence, said Blumenthal, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.Meanwhile, Republican allies of Trump stress that there are plans in place to deal with the enriched uranium. Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman James Risch, R-Idaho, on Wednesday cited a number of plans that have been put on the table. He declined to elaborate.Others acknowledged the complications of deploying troops into Iran.No one has given me a briefing on how you would do it without boots on the ground, said Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. It doesnt mean you cant. But no ones ever briefed me about it.Scott added its not tenable to allow the stockpile to remain: I think it would be helpful to get rid of it. Trump and his advisers are rigidly obtuseNearly three weeks into a conflict thats left hundreds of people dead, tested longtime alliances and brought pain to the global economy, Trump and his top advisers have been rigidly obtuse about their deliberations over Irans uranium stockpile.Im not going to talk about that, Trump said last week when asked about the enriched uranium. But we have hit them harder than virtually any country in history has been hit, and were not finished yet.Later that day, during an appearance in Kentucky, Trump appeared to claim the strikes had already neutralized the threat. They dont have nuclear potential, he said. Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters earlier this week that the administration sees no point in telegraphing what were willing to do or how far were willing to go while asserting we have options, for sure. Experts say its doable but wont be easyRichard Goldberg, who served as director for countering Iranian weapons of mass destruction for the National Security Council during Trumps first term, said that seizing or destroying the enriched uranium is certainly doable, if the president decides to go that route. The U.S. and Israeli forces have been making strides toward creating the conditions namely, establishing total air superiority that would allow for special operations forces operators, who are trained in blowing up centrifuges and dealing with nuclear material, to conduct such an operation if the president decides to go that route.To be certain, a troops-on-the-ground effort is expected to be far more complicated than other recent high-profile, lightning-strike insertion operations, such as the January capture of Venezuelas Nicols Maduro or the May 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden, Goldberg said. And the likely need to remove rubble to get to the canisters of enriched uranium adds another layer of complexity, because it would require heavy construction equipment. But if you actually own the airspace and you can have close air support and drones and everything else up in the sky for pretty wide perimeter, presumably you could do a lot, said Goldberg, who is now a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a hawkish Washington think tank.International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi told reporters in Washington this week that the assumption is much of the enriched uranium remains in the trio of Iranian nuclear sites bombarded last year by the U.S.The impression we have is that it hasnt been moved, said Grossi, adding that a bulk of the material is beneath the rubble at Irans Isfahan facility while lesser amounts are at the Natanz and Fordow facilities that were destroyed in last years American strikes.Testifying before a Senate committee on Wednesday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in her prepared remarks said that the U.S. attacks on Iran had obliterated Irans nuclear enrichment program and buried underground facilities.Gabbard said the U.S. has been monitoring whether Irans leaders will try to restart its nuclear program but said that they have not tried to rebuild their nuclear enrichment capability. She added that the clerical authority overseeing Iranian government has been degraded in Israels strikes on its leadership but remains intact.Brandan Buck, a senior foreign policy fellow at the Cato Institute, said that an effort to extract or dilute the enriched material would likely take more than 1,000 troops at each Iranian site and would take time to complete. On the other hand, not acting to secure the enriched uranium also comes with risk. Should Irans hard-liners remain in power, and with enriched material, they will now have greater motivation to build a nuclear weapon. Trump has put himself between a rock and a hard place, Buck said. Throughout this, he has had maximalist aims, but hes wanted to maintain minimal effort in order to keep the costs low.___Associated Press writers Stephen Groves, Matthew Lee and Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report. AAMER MADHANI Madhani covers the White House for The Associated Press. 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Ryan Gosling stars in Project Hail Mary, an adaptation of the popular sci-fi novel by Andy Weir. The Onion shares everything you need to know about the film.Q: Who does Ryan Gosling play?A: Ryland Grace, an eighth grade science teacher somehow still determined to save humanity despite having spent decades surrounded by middle schoolers.Q: Is this a sequel to The Martian?A: Yes. Keen-eyed observers will notice the Earth appears in both films.Q: What idea does the film explore?A: Whether humans and aliens can really be friends without sex getting in the way.Q: How has the film been received?A: Both visually and aurally.Q: Should I read the book first?A: With the number of trailers playing before the movie, youll have time to start and finish it before the film begins.Q: Whats with the talking beavers?A: Youre in the wrong theater.The post What To Know About Project Hail Mary appeared first on The Onion.

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PASADENA, CAIn what many have hailed as a groundbreaking discovery in the field of genetics, scientists at the California Institute of Technology published a study Thursday revealing that up to 93% of American baby boomers were fathered by a single virile milkman. Our extensive DNA analysis shows that one hyper-fertile dairy deliveryman going about his door-to-door rounds inseminated the mothers of nearly all babies born in the United States between 1946 and 1964, said lead researcher Emily Lentz, observing that the unknown milkman, who is presumed to have been a highly desirable partner, had enabled an estimated 72 million pregnancies among customers who lived along the many milk routes he worked across the nation. This handsome, broad-shouldered progenitor appears to have single-handedly caused a massive spike in the birth rate, passing along traits for thick, wavy hair, sultry bedroom eyes, and a captivating smile that women cant resist. Our team is now working hard to locate this individual, both for further study and to introduce him to his hundreds of millions of descendants. Lentz added that her lab was also close to proving that the current decline in birth rate was the result of an abnormally impotent batch of American mailmen.The post Study: 93% Of Baby Boomers Fathered By Single Virile Milkman appeared first on The Onion.

WASHINGTONHailing the Midwestern school as one of the best places to pursue and then abandon an undergraduate education, U.S. News & World Report announced Thursday that it had selected the University of Toledo as the best college to attend for a semester before dropping out to do hair for a living. For students who take a few intro-level classes, hang around campus for a while, and then quit to become a hairdresser, the University of Toledo is an ideal choice, read an announcement that accompanied the rankings, adding that Toledos strong town-and-gown relationship meant that social connections forged in college could become potential clients for a former student who was working at a nearby salon when everyone else was returning to classes after winter break. The school offers in-state tuition, a location less than three hours away from your hometown, and a choice of around 100 different majors you can tell yourself youre interested in before leaving to take a job as a stylist, colorist, or barber instead. The announcement also noted that after attending the University of Toledo for a few months, some hairdressers are able to cover both rent and groceries while still making an occasional payment on their student loans.The post University Of Toledo Named Best College To Attend For Semester Before Dropping Out To Do Hair appeared first on The Onion.

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People watch the sunset from the Malecn during a blackout in Havana, Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)2026-03-19T14:07:50Z MIAMI (AP) The Cuban Communist Party has shown an astonishing resilience over six decades in power. Whether its the United States trade embargo to counter Fidel Castros 1959 revolution, or the widespread starvation of the special period that followed the breakup of its Cold War patron, the Soviet Union, both U.S. hostilities and calamities of its own making have proven no match for the countrys leadership.But perhaps none of those crises pose as grave a threat as the one triggered by an all-but-declared naval siege by the Trump administration as it seeks to force regime change in the wake of its successful ousting of Cubas longtime ally Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro. Even as he fights a war with Iran, President Donald Trump this week said he believes hell have the honor of taking Cuba soon. While it wasnt clear exactly what he meant, the U.S. is looking for President Miguel Daz-Canel to leave power as part of ongoing talks with Havana that could avert some kind of U.S. military intervention. Without declaring a formal blockade, Trump and his administration have already crippled trade with the island. In March, supplies of oil, food and other goods to the island collapsed, with no foreign-originating tankers arriving to Cuba, according to shipping data analyzed by Windward, a maritime intelligence firm. The volume of port calls, which includes tankers moving from one Cuban port to another, averaged around 50 per month in 2025 but fell to just 11 in March - all of them arriving from domestic ports. It was the lowest since 2017. Moreover, little relief is in sight: with no tankers on their way and only three container ships originating in China, India and the Netherlands reporting Cuba as their intended harbor though their destinations could change. The stranglehold is disrupting the lives of Cubas 11 million residents, who are enduring massive blackouts and a breakdown in medical care due to a lack of fuel to power ambulances and hospital generators. The country, one of the most heavily reliant in the world on oil to generate electricity, produces barely 40% of the oil needed to cover its energy needs. Ian Ralby, head of I.R. Consilium, a U.S.-based consultancy focused on maritime security, said the United States aggressiveness will not endear Trump to Cubans long eager for change.Every Cuban resident is suffering the acute inaccessibility to fuel and all the knock-on consequences in terms of access to food, hospitals and free movement, he said.The sudden halt in trade has taken place without the White House reapplying restrictions on exports to Cuba that were last loosened during the Biden administration. Indeed, shipments of U.S.-produced poultry, pork and other foodstuffs to Cuba which account for the vast majority of U.S. exports to the country last year soared to $490 million, the most since 2009. Non-agricultural exports and humanitarian donations, much of it to Cubas emerging private sector, more than doubled. But emboldened by the U.S. capture of Maduro, Trump has gradually escalated his rhetoric on Cuba, first suggesting he would pursue a friendly takeover of the country and more recently telling conservative allies from Latin America that he would take care of Cuba once the war with Iran winds down. While neither he nor the administration has articulated what exactly the pledge means, the continued presence in the Caribbean of U.S. warships used in the strike against Maduro has led companies and countries that do business with Cuba to self-police. Nobody wants to be on the radar of Trumps Truth Social account, said John Kavulich, president of the New York-based U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council.In the run-up to the U.S. militarys ousting of Maduro during a nighttime raid on Jan. 3, Trump declared that the U.S. would block all Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba and even seized a few tankers to enforce what it called a quarantine, borrowing a term used by President John F. Kennedy during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Later in the month, Trump signed an executive order threatening tariffs on any country that supplies oil to Cuba. The warning alarmed officials in Mexico, who have long opposed U.S. policy toward Cuba and where state-run oil company Pemex emerged as a valuable lifeline last year as Venezuelan oil exports declined. Cuba has upped its rhetoric against what it calls a fuel blockade by the U.S. But the Trump administration has disputed that characterization, no doubt aware that according to international law any naval operation seen as punishing civilians is considered an illegal act of aggression outside wartime. Cuba is a free, independent and sovereign state nobody dictates what we do, Daz-Canel said in a social media post in January. Cuba does not attack; we are the victims of U.S. attacks for 66 years and we will prepare ourselves to defend the homeland with our last drop of blood. Amid mounting criticism that U.S. actions are starving Cuba, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has started to walk back some of the administrations threats. In January, the State Department sent $3 million in food kits, water purification tablets and other humanitarian assistance items to the island. Then last month, the White House said it would allow U.S. companies to send fuel including Venezuelan oil to private businesses in Cuba. The goal, said Rubio, is to encourage the development of the nations small private sector. The reason why those industries have not flourished in Cuba is because the regime has not allowed them to flourish, Rubio said when announcing the private sales. But its unclear if any companies have started fuel shipments and critics say the strategy is unrealistic as most Cuban companies lack capital and the Cuban government has a monopoly on gasoline distribution.John Felder, owner of Premier Automotive Export, a Maryland-based business that has been selling electric cars and scooters to Cuba since 2012, said most Cubans, even in their current anguish, are fearful of what lies ahead.U.S. policies have created the most resilient people in the world and yet all they want to do is buy things in Miami like you and me, said Felder, who just returned from a four-day business trip to Havana and says hes never seen conditions worse. They want change but they dont want to be controlled by the United States. JOSHUA GOODMAN Goodman is a Miami-based investigative reporter who writes about the intersection of crime, corruption, drug trafficking and politics in Latin America. He previously spent two decades reporting from South America. twitter mailto

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to members of the media during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Thursday, March 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)2026-03-19T13:12:17Z WASHINGTON (AP) The Pentagon is seeking $200 billion in additional funds for the Iran war, a senior administration official says.The department sent the request to the White House, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private information.Its an extraordinarily high number and comes on top of extra funding the Defense Department already received last year in President Donald Trumps big tax cuts bill.Congress is bracing for a new spending request but it is not clear the White House has transmitted the request for consideration. It is unclear the spending request would have support.The new funding request was first reported by The Washington Post. Asked about the figure at a press conference Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not directly confirm the figure, saying it could change. But he said were going back to Congress and our folks there to to ensure that were properly funded.It takes money to kill bad guys, Hegseth said. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

United Farm Workers leader Dolores Huerta, center, leads a rally in San Francisco's Mission District on Nov. 19, 1988, along with Howard Wallace, president of the San Francisco chapter of the UFW, left, and Maria Elena Chavez, 16, the daughter of Cesar Chavez, right, as part of a national boycott of what the UFW claims is the dangerous use of pesticides on table grapes. (AP Photo/Court Mast, File)2026-03-19T13:02:09Z ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) It was Dolores Huerta who coined the slogan Si, se puede in 1972 when bringing together farmworkers in Arizona to fight a law that prohibited boycotts and strikes.Told it would be impossible to organize in the Southwestern state, her three-word Spanish-language response which translates as Yes, it can be done was simple, defiant and emblematic. Huertas resolve cemented her place in history as one of the nations most influential labor leaders, civil rights icons and feminist activists.Former President Barack Obama would later credit her for the phrase that was a rallying cry in his 2008 campaign in a slightly modified translation, Yes, we can.As co-founder of what eventually became the United Farm Workers union, Huerta has been the face of a movement that for decades aimed to empower the lives of workers through higher wages, health benefits, pensions and improved safety. At nearly 96, she still uses her platform to advocate for marginalized groups and fight discrimination.So it shocked the world Wednesday when Huerta revealed that she was sexually abused by the movements co-founder, Csar Chavez, leading to the birth of two children, a secret she kept for 60 years.Now some are calling for Huertas name to replace Chavezs on the plethora of government buildings, schools, monuments and streets that bear his name across the country. Activist rootsThe details of Huertas life and rise to activism have been told again and again over the decades through interviews and documentaries, during award ceremonies and on historic markers in her honor.She was born Dolores Clara Fernandez in 1930 in Dawson, New Mexico. Her father was a miner, union activist and state lawmaker. After her parents divorced, her mother took Huerta and her two brothers to California.The farm-rich San Joaquin Valley where Huerta grew up was a melting pot of Mexican, Filipino, African American, Japanese and Chinese working families. Her mother encouraged the cultural diversity, while her independence, entrepreneurial spirit and activism further helped form Huertas own aspirations. Huerta was a young, energetic elementary school teacher when she decided to answer a calling that would set her on an incredible path. Frustrated by her students poor living conditions, she thought she could do more by organizing farmworkers than trying to teach their hungry children. She met Chavez in the 1950s through her early work with a Latino civil rights group in Stockton, south of Sacramento. Wanting to focus more on the plight of farmworkers, in 1962 they started the National Farm Workers Association, which became United Farm Workers a few years later. She was a key leader and negotiator for the union.Chavez, who died in 1993, once described her as fearless, acknowledging her commitment to the cause and toughness when it came to negotiations. Huerta reaffirmed that commitment in a statement Wednesday, saying she told no one about Chavezs abuse for decades in order to protect the movement she had dedicated her life to.I channeled everything I had into advocating on behalf of millions of farm workers and others who were suffering and deserved equal rights, she said. A long legacyHuerta has never been afraid of going toe-to-toe with lobbyists or growers. Nor was she afraid of law enforcement she was jailed more than 20 times for demonstrating and was even seriously injured while protesting in 1988.After a long recovery, Huerta shifted focus and hit the road to campaign for womens rights and encourage Latinas to run for office. She continues marching and speaking in cities across the country on race, poverty and womens issues on behalf of her California-based Dolores Huerta Foundation. She campaigned for Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton, Obama and Joe Biden, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom has said he considers her a close friend.Huertas work over the decades earned her a number of accolades including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nations highest civilian honor. When Obama presented the award in 2012, he praised her as a tenacious leader and joked that he had stolen her slogan for his campaign. Huerta also has a spot in the National Womens Hall of Fame, having been the first Latina to be inducted, and has received nine honorary doctorates from U.S. universities.Schools are named in her honor in California, Texas and Colorado. Her image graces many murals, and there are also Dolores Huerta streets including an avenue in Albuquerque where part is named for her and part for Chavez. People on social media already are calling for the entire road to be named for Huerta, as members of Congress and state officials commend her and the other women for coming forward. They say no one should have to suffer in silence to protect a man or a movement.I cannot imagine the pain and suffering theyve endured over decades, said U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, a Democrat from New Mexico. Thank you for showing us what real strength is.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. arrives before President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)2026-03-19T13:02:46Z In the Trump administrations campaign to promote healthy eating, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has not stopped at his slogan urging people to eat real food to prevent disease.In recent speeches and podcast appearances, the nations health secretary also has claimed that diet can cure schizophrenia and diabetes and allow people to rid themselves of bipolar disorder diagnoses. Researchers say the comments overstate current evidence about the real and promising role that food can play in managing illness.Food is medicine, and you can heal yourself with a good diet, Kennedy said on comedian Theo Vons This Past Weekend podcast in February.The talking point aligns with an idea from Kennedys Make America Healthy Again allies that has gotten some bipartisan support: The role of food in health deserves more attention. Scientists agree that diet can contribute to some diseases and also can be valuable in treating them. But public health advocates say Kennedys exaggerations are part of a pattern in which he cherry-picks and misrepresents scientific research, a tendency that he has regularly applied to vaccine science, enraging doctors. It is the latest example of Kennedy being incredibly careless and irresponsible in talking about health issues, said Kayla Hancock, director of a public health project at the advocacy group Protect Our Care. Dr. Theresa Miskimen Rivera, president of the American Psychiatric Association, fears the language could drive patients to self-medicate with food alone.The concern always is that people can have hope and they might interpret that as, Well, I dont need medication. I do not need treatment. I just need to follow the diet, Rivera said. Kennedy oversteps the evidence on diet and psychiatric disordersIn an early February speech at the Tennessee Capitol, Kennedy cited the work of Dr. Christopher Palmer, a Harvard Medical School researcher who in 2019 wrote about two patients with schizophrenia who experienced remission of their symptoms following a high-fat, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet.Kennedy said that Palmer had cured schizophrenia using keto diets. Palmer has called that inaccurate. He told The Associated Press that as much as I wish we had cures for mental illness or other chronic diseases, it is important that we use more precise language. Palmer prefers the word remission. During the same speech, and later on Joe Rogans podcast, Kennedy referred to studies where people lose their bipolar diagnosis by changing their diet. He said theres a big paper about to come out showing results. Kennedy spokesman Andrew Nixon said those comments referred to a growing body of research on the issue, including a University of California, Los Angeles, study investigating the effect of a keto diet on teenagers with bipolar disorder. That study is still recruiting patients and will not be completed until March 2027, according to a posting on a federal website. Any publication would come months after that. Rivera, of the American Psychiatric Association, said Kennedys claims exaggerate the evidence. Studies testing the role of the ketogenic diet on mental health conditions have been small, anecdotal or pilot studies, she said. Many did not include a control group of patients following a regular diet. At this point, its premature. We cannot draw definitive conclusions, Rivera said. There is not enough evidence to recommend a specific diet or as a standalone, without medication such as antipsychotics or mood stabilizers.It is true that research into the effects of ketogenic and other diets on psychiatric disorders is accelerating, Palmer said. He said 20 controlled clinical trials using the keto diet for severe mental illness are underway, with results of two trials set for publication within the next year.Palmer said he is very enthusiastic about diet as a promising therapy for serious psychiatric disorders, but that patients with mental illness should still talk with their doctors.I want to implore patients: Please do not stop your medications on your own, he said. Please do not even try a ketogenic diet on your own as a treatment for schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Diabetes experts are split on the impact of Kennedys wordsKennedys comments on Vons podcast that most diabetes can be cured through diet also have been scrutinized. Some experts say the health secretary overstated the role of diet.Type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disorder, cannot be cured by diet alone, said Dr. Willa Hsueh, an Ohio State University endocrinologist and researcher. A healthy diet and exercise are keys to managing Type 2 diabetes, but it can be difficult to use those tools alone to reverse the disorder, she said.The secretary is not wrong that it can work, Hsueh said. But its not common for people to cure themselves ... by diet alone.Others defended Kennedys claims about the disease that affects 40 million people in the United States. Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, a cardiologist and director of the Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University, said a healthy diet could help most individuals with Type 2 diabetes lower their blood sugar levels, reverse symptoms and allow them to stop taking medications for the condition.Whether you consider that a cure or remission, thats medical speak, right? Mozaffarian said. He acknowledged that Kennedy is not always perfectly precise in the terminology and there could be risks to that. But he welcomed the high-level focus on the role of diet in improving chronic disease.Id rather exaggerate and get some attention and action than keep doing what were doing, which is have millions of Americans suffering from diet-related diseases, Mozaffarian said.MAHA supporters want to see more focus on foodMark Gorton, president of the Kennedy-aligned MAHA Institute, said he was not familiar with the studies Kennedy referenced, but that nutrition has been an incredibly overlooked area in our medical system for decades.I think to the extent that it is possible, we should be prioritizing focusing on diet and getting back to living healthy rather than taking sick people and medicating them forever, which is the current way our system works, Gorton said.Kody Green, a mental health advocate with schizophrenia, said that he supports healthy eating, but that he needed psychiatric medications. He worries that Kennedys comments could deter schizophrenia patients from trying drugs that are already stigmatized.For some people, maybe food can help with the issues they have, but schizophrenia is a very serious mental illness, Green said. Until further research is done, making claims like that can be really dangerous to people in my community. ___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content. ALI SWENSON Swenson covers politics and the information landscape for The Associated Press. She is based in New York. twitter JONEL ALECCIA Aleccia covers food and nutrition at The Associated Press. She is based in Southern California. twitter mailto

Tinder plans to let machine vision algorithms loose on your camera roll. Instead of building a profile on their own, AI will scan users locally-stored photoseverything from gym selfies to pictures of their family, sensitive documents and dick picsto help construct profiles by determining what users interests and values are.Dating apps are the go-to way for people to connect romantically in the modern dating world. As AI has risen in popularity thanks to services like ChatGPT, however, users are suffering the consequences of problems like bots and AI-generated messages infiltrating dating apps. For some people, the experience is less authentic than ever as people offload get-to-know-you conversations to artificial intelligence.The feature is still being tested, with early access only available in Australia beginning this month. Although Tinder says it attempts to filter out explicit images, users may still be concerned with Tinder's AI scanning their entire camera roll. It's up to you to figure out what you're comfortable sharing back with Tinder, Tinder Head of Product Mark Kantor told 404 Media. Still, users cant pick individual photos they want analyzed or ignored. Tinders safeguards are meant to filter out explicit images or text, and to blur faces before insights are processed.Tinder claims its AI is looking for themes and interests, like pets, activities, or food, as well as photos that are well-lit or well-framed. In theory, this will help users decide the best way to present themselves online. There is some art to it, Kantor said. It's not just the science. (Its unclear what happens if your camera roll is full of bad photos.)Eventually, Kantor said, Tinder will add the ability to turn photos into larger collages for their profiles. We do give people a pretty big variety of photos so we're not going to go from 30,000 to three. Kantor said it looks for subject matter and tries to group insights based on similar interests. If I have one dog photo of 20,000, I'm not really a dog person, Kantor said as an example.Tinder has already leaned heavily into AI. Kantor told 404 Media that artificial intelligence is writing more than half the apps code these days. Several of its new AI-driven features include photo enhancements, match recommendations, and photo scanning. Kantor said that the apps use of AI is to help you express yourself, but not to do so on the daters behalf.If the camera roll is a window into the modern soul, it is also a goldmine of personal information. Depending on what someone photographs, their camera roll could include everything from photos of sensitive documents, like banking or medical info, to nudes. Its a potential security nightmare, especially when people are sharing intimate details about themselves or their dating lives. Security failures on dating apps like Tea put users in danger: multiple breaches exposed personal information, including photos, drivers license information, and direct messages, before it was finally yanked from the App Store. Tinder has had its own privacy and security issues. Last year, we revealed the dating app was one of thousands co-opted to mine location data. In January, hackers claimed to have stolen internal data from Match Group, which owns Tinder.According to Kantor, Tinder isnt storing the data it pulls from photos on its end. It's purely on your device, he said. Tinder wont scan your deleted photos, or anything from your phones hidden folder; after its finished scouring your images, the AI selects specific photos for users to choose to upload to their public profile. If the AIs categorization of a user as, say, a dog person is inaccurate, users can note that feedback and choose to either accept or reject the AIs insights. Anything that doesnt go on someones profile is deleted, and if users want new insights later, theyll have to do the process all over again, according to Tinder.In talking to this new generation of daters, they want something different, Kantor told 404 Media.I think you see connection, that hasn't changed. I don't think they're frustrated with dating. They're frustrated with all of the friction and the dead ends with dating.Megan Farokhmanesh is a games and culture reporter whose works has appeared in the New York Times, Wired, Axios, and The Verge. Find her on Bluesky.

North Oaks, Minnesota is the only city in the United States that is not on Google Maps Street View. YouTube documentarian Chris Parr, who grew up not too far from North Oaks, set out to change that earlier this year. For a brief few days, he literally put North Oaks on the map. And then it was gone again.Its known by Minnesotans as a place where executives and CEOs live, Parr told 404 Media. Famously Walter Mondale is from North Oaks, but also like United Healthcare executives and Target executives.North Oaks has managed to largely stay unmapped on Street View because of the way the city handles its streets. In almost every city and town in the United States, property owners give an easement to their local government for the roads in front of their homes (or dont have any claim to the roads at all). In North Oaks, homeowners property extends into the middle of the street, meaning there is literally no public property in the city, and the roads are maintained by the North Oaks Homeowners Association (NOHOA): the City owns no roads, land, or buildings. The 50-60 miles of roads in the city are owned by the NOHOA members whose property extends to the center of the road subject to easements in favor of NOHOA, the homeowners associations website, which has very little information on it and notes that it is unable to share most private documents with the public. The roads entering North Oaks have no trespassing signs posted and automated license plate readers.In the early days of Google Maps, North Oaks was on Street View. But in May, 2008, the city threatened Google with a lawsuit because its Street View cars had trespassed. Google deleted its Street View images and North Oaks hasnt been on Street View since."It's not the hoity-toity folks trying to figure out how to keep the world away," then-Mayor Thomas Watson told the Star Tribune in 2008. "They [Google] really didn't have any authorization to go on private property."Google Maps allows people to upload their own images, however. And Parr set out to find a way to map North Oaks without actually going there. So he began mapping it with a drone.Its a geographic oddity, Parr said. I realized the airspace above North Oaks operates differently than the property on the ground. I thought you could effectively map the city with a drone.Parr is right. The national airspace is technically managed by the Federal Aviation Administration, and airspace starts directly above the ground, which is something I covered over and over in the early days of consumer drones as towns sought to ban drones in certain areas.Technically, if you launch your drone from public property, which anyone can do if youre a registered drone pilot, you can fly it straight up and above private property, Parr said. And so Parr stood at six or seven different spots directly outside the boundary of North Oaks and flew his drone around. I just pulled my car over onto the shoulder and popped my drone up and flew it over, he added.There were parts of North Oaks that he couldnt reach by drone from outside the boundaries of the city, so eventually he decided he needed an invite into the city to go to a park within its boundaries to keep flying his drone.According to North Oaks ordinances, you can go like, visit a friend, or if youre a contractor working on a house, you can go into the city, but you have to be an invited guest, Parr said. I made a Craigslist post asking for somebody to invite me and I got an absolute ton of responses. I started texting with this woman named Maggie and she invited me, so technically I had the invite to go to the park.Parr then took his drone footage and uploaded it to Google Maps. For a few glorious days, North Oaks was mapped. And then it was gone.Ive since been in a battle with the people who flag the images, he said. He also got a letter from a law firm representing the North Oaks Homeowners Association. Its not asking me to take any of the videos down or anything, but basically they say, Dont come back.Parrs experiment and documentary raises questions, of course, about who gets to have privacy in America. A wealthy enclave has set up the legal and surveillance infrastructure to be able to prevent being mapped. The rest of us, meanwhile, are subject to all sorts of surveillance by our neighbors and law enforcement. The only reason its set up this way is because its such a wealthy community, Parr said. I know that I was able to do this, but I dont know if I should be able to do this, and thats kind of the question that I wanted to tackle. The YouTube comments are pretty crazy man. Theyre all over the place. Theyre very split 50/50 on that question.North Oaks did not respond to a request for comment.

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