NPR Digital Services RSS Generator 0.94 NPR Digital Services RSS Generator 0.94 Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:05:14 +0000 http://kpvu.org http://kpvu.org/post/what-moms-need-breast-feed-chicken-soup-grandmas-help-facebook 7392 as http://kpvu.org Fri, 14 Jul 2017 13:54:00 +0000 What Moms Need To Breast-Feed: Chicken Soup, Grandma's Help, Facebook Elise Hu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU68B9phgno In South Korea, skin care is considered self-care. Just as you might go to the gym two or three times a week, it's not unusual for a South Korean to visit a facialist at the same frequency. To cap off this initial season of our Elise Tries video series , I tried nothing at all. Instead, I enlisted a tiny helper. Have a look. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/. http://kpvu.org/post/video-skincare-obsessed-south-korea-even-baby-can-get-facial 7393 as http://kpvu.org Fri, 14 Jul 2017 13:43:00 +0000 Video: In Skin-Care-Obsessed South Korea, Even A Baby Can Get A Facial Brandie Jefferson It wasn't long ago that there were no treatments for multiple sclerosis. In the 1970s, some doctors used chemotherapy to treat the degenerative neurological disease. Since then, more than a dozen drugs have been developed or approved , including infusions, oral medications and self-administered shots. None of these are a magic bullet for a disease that can be disabling and deadly. But now there's a new drug, Ocrevus, that looks like a game-changer. It uses a novel approach to blocking the inflammation that drives the disease, and looks like it's spectacularly effective. It also costs $65,000 a year. I have MS. Should I take Ocrevus? That, I discovered, is not a simple question to answer. But since I'm an MS patient and a science journalist, I was determined to try to figure it out. In March, the FDA approved Ocrevus ( ocrelizumab ) for the treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis , the most common form of the disease. People with RRMS tend to have flare-ups when their http://kpvu.org/post/theres-amazing-new-drug-multiple-sclerosis-should-i-try-it 7391 as http://kpvu.org Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:25:00 +0000 There's An Amazing New Drug For Multiple Sclerosis. Should I Try It? Aarti Shahani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yq67CjDqvw An update from the Wild Wild West of fake news technologies: A team of computer scientists have figured out how to make words come out of the mouth of former President Barack Obama — on video — by using artificial intelligence. If youve been on the Internet at any point in the last year, theres a good chance youve come across fake news articles. Soon we may see a wellspring of fake news videos. As a team out of the University of Washington explains in a new paper titled Synthesizing Obama: Learning Lip Sync from Audio, theyve made several fake videos of Obama. Take for example, a time that he discussed the Pulse nightclub shooter and said the investigation is ongoing, but we know that the killer was an angry and disturbed individual who took in extremist information and propaganda over the Internet. Obama did in fact say these words. But the computer scientists were able to make it look like he said them in places different from where he http://kpvu.org/post/computer-scientists-demonstrate-potential-faking-video 7390 as http://kpvu.org Fri, 14 Jul 2017 11:53:00 +0000 Computer Scientists Demonstrate The Potential For Faking Video Joel Rose This story is part of Kitchen Table Conversations , a series from NPR's National Desk that examines how Americans from all walks of life are moving forward from the presidential election. Desiree Armas worked hard in high school. So when she graduated in June from Union County Magnet High School in New Jersey, Armas had the flair to prove it. She was decked out in medals and honor cords — braided ropes with tassels on the end, in bright red and gold, that represent her academic and extracurricular accomplishments during high school. "I always admired the kids who wore a bunch of stuff on graduation," Armas says. "So that's why I think I was so excited for graduation, just to low-key show off everything I've done." But there was one big difference between Desiree Armas and the rest of her graduating class: Armas and her parents are living in the country illegally. Armas is signed up for the DACA program — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — which protects her from deportation. http://kpvu.org/post/new-jersey-daca-student-road-college-bumpier-expected 7389 as http://kpvu.org Fri, 14 Jul 2017 11:53:00 +0000 For New Jersey DACA Student, The Road To College Is Bumpier Than Expected It's finally official: Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter gave birth to twins in June, and early Friday morning, Sir Carter and Rumi made their official debut on Instagram. Beyoncé's caption reads, "Sir Carter and Rumi 1 month today." As of 6:45 a.m. ET, the photo had already surpassed 4.5 million likes on the social platform. It has been a busy few months, so you're forgiven if you forgot that the year began with a baby bump for Queen Bey: Back in February, Beyoncé's pregnancy announcement became, within a day, the most-liked Instagram post of all time. Just a few weeks later, she performed the Lemonade tracks "Love Drought" and "Sandcastles" at the 2017 Grammy Awards — and canceled on Coachella , vowing to return next year. The Internet knew something was up when Jay Z didn't attend his own induction into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame on June 15, opting instead to thank the hip-hop community via a torrent of rambling Twitter posts . TMZ reported in June (and NPR confirmed) that Beyoncé's http://kpvu.org/post/beyonc-introduces-twins-instagram-and-there-was-much-rejoicing 7388 as http://kpvu.org Fri, 14 Jul 2017 11:01:00 +0000 Beyoncé Introduces Twins Via Instagram, And There Was Much Rejoicing Julie Depenbrock School districts — hard up for cash — are turning to an unlikely source of revenue: cell towers. The multistory metal giants are cropping up on school grounds in Chicago, Milpitas, Calif., Collier County, Fla. and many other places across the country. The big reason: money. As education budgets dwindle, districts are forming partnerships with telecom companies to allow use of their land in exchange for some of the profits. Last year, for example, cell towers on seven school sites generated $112,139 in revenue for the schools in Prince George's County, Md., just outside Washington, D.C. Why school property? "The places where service is needed the most are places where people live as well as where people work," explains Len Forkas, founder of Milestone Communications, which partners with telecom companies and school districts, like Prince George's, to build towers and share revenue. "There are very few locations in residential communities where the properties are large enough." One place http://kpvu.org/post/cell-towers-schools-godsend-or-god-awful 7385 as http://kpvu.org Fri, 14 Jul 2017 09:00:00 +0000 Cell Towers At Schools: Godsend Or God-Awful? Sylvia Poggioli Coffee — it's something many can't start the day without. In Italy, it is a cultural mainstay, and the country is perhaps the beverage's spiritual home. After all, Italy gave us the lingo — espresso, cappuccino, latte — and its coffee culture is filled with rituals and mysterious rules. Café Greco is Rome's oldest café. Founded in 1760, it's also the second oldest in all of Italy, after Florian in Venice. On a recent hot summer afternoon, Café Greco was packed with tourists on settees upholstered in red velvet. They sipped coffee served on tiny, marble tables, while admiring 18th-century landscape paintings that hang along damask-lined walls. Maitre d' Simone Rampone said that thanks to the quality of its coffee, Café Greco soon became very popular and was a favorite of writers from all over Europe, such as "Byron, Shelley, Keats, Gogol from Russia, Stendhal." He pointed out that we were sitting on the couch that belonged to Hans Christian Andersen, who for a time lived upstairs. http://kpvu.org/post/italys-coffee-culture-brims-rituals-and-mysterious-rules 7386 as http://kpvu.org Fri, 14 Jul 2017 08:57:00 +0000 Italy's Coffee Culture Brims With Rituals And Mysterious Rules Jim Kane Updated at 7:30 a.m. ET Three Israeli Arab gunmen opened fire Friday near a religious site in Jerusalem's Old City, killing two police officers before being shot and killed by Israeli forces. The attack targeted a historic site on a hilltop that's revered by Muslims, Jews and Christians. Jews know it as the Temple Mount, and for Muslims it's known as the Noble Sanctuary. As NPR's Daniel Estrin reports, "This was a very rare shooting at the religious site that's at the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." The attackers ranged in age from 19 to 29. They were from an Arab village in Israel's north and none of them had any record of security offenses, Haaretz reports , citing the Shin Bet security services. The slain officers have been identified by Israeli police as Kamil Shnaan, 22, and Ha'il Satawi, 30. Both were officers in the border police unit, and Satawi is survived by his wife and their 3-week-old son, police say. The attack sparked an intense gunfight at the ancient site, http://kpvu.org/post/gunmen-open-fire-religious-site-jerusalem 7384 as http://kpvu.org Fri, 14 Jul 2017 07:29:00 +0000 Gunmen Kill 2 Israeli Officers At Religious Site In Jerusalem Jim Kane A federal judge in Hawaii has put new limits on the Trump administration's travel ban on people from six mostly Muslim countries, allowing travel for grandparents, grandchildren, and other family members of people in the United States. U.S. District Court Judge Derrick Watson's order Thursday prevents the administration from enforcing the travel ban against grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins. In his ruling, Watson took aim at how the administration defines a close familial relationship, writing, "[T]he Government's definition represents the antithesis of common sense. Common sense, for instance, dictates that close family members be defined to include grandparents. Indeed, grandparents are the epitome of close family members. The Government's definition excludes them. That simply cannot be." The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that the ban on people seeking to travel to the United States from Iran, Libya, Somalia, http://kpvu.org/post/hawaii-judge-exempts-grandparents-and-other-relatives-trump-travel-ban 7383 as http://kpvu.org Fri, 14 Jul 2017 06:11:00 +0000 Hawaii Judge Exempts Grandparents And Other Relatives From Trump Travel Ban Vanessa Romo http://kpvu.org/post/first-ladys-day-paris-includes-childrens-hospital-church-and-awkward-moment 7379 as http://kpvu.org Thu, 13 Jul 2017 23:24:00 +0000 First Lady's Day in Paris Includes Children's Hospital, Church And An Awkward Moment Joseph Shapiro A new federal report harshly criticizes the way the Bureau of Prisons treats inmates with mental illness, singling out treatment at the prison at Lewisburg, Pa. The report by the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General says BOP violates its own policies by keeping prisoners with mental illness in solitary confinement for too long and with too little treatment. At Lewisburg, the report finds many of the harsh practices that were outlined in an investigation last year by NPR and, The Marshall Project , a nonprofit news organization focused on criminal justice. Prisoners with mental illness at Lewisburg are placed in solitary confinement, usually with another prisoner, who often also has a mental illness. Lewisburg's cells are tiny, and at 58.5 square feet, substantially smaller than the 80-square-foot minimum recommended for solitary confinement by the American Correctional Association, the report notes. A senior official at the BOP told the auditors that "the ACA http://kpvu.org/post/federal-report-criticizes-harsh-treatment-lewisburg-prisoners 7380 as http://kpvu.org Thu, 13 Jul 2017 23:11:00 +0000 Federal Report Criticizes Harsh Treatment Of Lewisburg Prisoners Camila Domonoske House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was shot in mid-June by a gunman targeting a congressional baseball practice, has returned to fair condition after receiving surgery for deep tissue infection. In the days immediately after the shooting, Scalise was in critical condition; a bullet wound to his hip that caused "significant damage" to bones, organs and blood vessels. After several surgeries and weeks of progress, his condition was upgraded to fair and he was moved out of intensive care. But Scalise was moved back into the intensive care unit of Medstar Washington Hospital Center last week because of an infection. He underwent one surgery on July 6 and was described by the hospital as being in "serious" condition. On Thursday, the hospital said that Scalise, the No. 3 Republican in the House, was once again in "fair" condition after another surgery for deep tissue infection. Scalise "will require careful monitoring to see if and when further interventions are necessary," the hospital http://kpvu.org/post/rep-steve-scalise-fair-condition-after-another-surgery-infection 7382 as http://kpvu.org Thu, 13 Jul 2017 22:18:00 +0000 Rep. Steve Scalise In Fair Condition After Another Surgery For Infection Scott Horsley President Trump is hinting that he may impose tariffs, quotas or both on imported steel in an effort to protect the domestic steel industry. "Steel is a big problem," Trump told reporters traveling aboard Air Force One en route to Paris, where he landed Thursday. "We're like a dumping ground, OK? [Other countries are] dumping steel and destroying our steel industry. They've been doing it for decades and I'm stopping it." "There are two ways," Trump said, "quotas and tariffs. Maybe I'll do both." The Commerce Department has been conducting a review of both steel and aluminum imports under a rarely used 1962 statute designed to protect industries deemed vital to national security. Secretary Wilbur Ross told reporters in April that imports now account for more than a quarter of the U.S. steel market, while domestic steel mills are operating at just 71 percent of capacity. Trump railed against what he called unfair trade practices throughout the campaign and has continued to advocate http://kpvu.org/post/trump-hints-new-limits-steel-imports 7381 as http://kpvu.org Thu, 13 Jul 2017 22:18:00 +0000 Trump Hints At New Limits On Steel Imports Gisele Grayson The GOP's latest proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act hews closely to the earlier bill that didn't win enough support among lawmakers to bring to a vote. Perhaps the biggest change in the document released Thursday is that it leaves in place the Affordable Care Act taxes on wealthy individuals. It uses that money to reduce the number of people left without insurance coverage by the law's changes. This latest version adds $70 billion to a fund for states — bringing the total to $132 billion — to help support coverage of low-income people. It also would allow insurance companies to offer health plans without the consumer protections included in the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. That means insurers could sell stripped-down policies that cover fewer conditions and offer fewer benefits than currently allowed under the law. Those plans would very likely be cheaper than the policies currently offered on the Obamacare exchanges. But for people who would like to purchase http://kpvu.org/post/whos-whos-left-out-latest-senate-health-care-bill 7378 as http://kpvu.org Thu, 13 Jul 2017 22:08:00 +0000 Who's In, Who's Left Out With The Latest Senate Health Care Bill Merrit Kennedy As recently as 10 years ago, humans were thought to be the only species with the ability to plan. Recent studies on great apes showed the ability is not uniquely human. Now, scientists in Sweden have come to the surprising conclusion that ravens can also deliberately prepare for future events. "It is conservative to conclude that ravens perform similarly to great apes and young children," the researchers write . However, monkeys have failed similar experiments. We've known that ravens, and other members of the corvid family, are smart. Previously, they were shown to think ahead by caching food to eat later. But some scientists argued that food caching was not proof of an ability to plan because the birds could simply be biologically wired to do so, cognitive zoologist Can Kabadayi from Lund University tells The Two-Way. So, Kabadayi and co-author Mathias Osvath set up a series of experiments to see if five ravens could flexibly plan during tasks that they don't do in the wild: using http://kpvu.org/post/ravens-surprise-scientists-showing-they-can-plan 7376 as http://kpvu.org Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:54:00 +0000 Ravens Surprise Scientists By Showing They Can Plan Colin Dwyer Jimmy Carter says he is "okay" after being hospitalized for dehydration Thursday, according to Habitat for Humanity. Jonathan Reckford, the home-building philanthropy's CEO, says the 92-year-old former president was on site in Winnipeg, Canada, when he became "dehydrated working in the hot sun." "As a precaution," the Carter Center says in a statement , "he was transported to St. Boniface General Hospital for rehydration," where he is together with his wife, Rosalynn. "He encourages everyone to stay hydrated and keep building," Reckford adds. According to Habitat for Humanity, the prominent nonagenarian had come to Canada with his wife planning to build 150 homes across the country. The Carters have been working with the organization for more than three decades, and had a hand in the building, renovation and repair of "more than 4,000 homes," according to its website . Roughly 18 months ago, Carter announced that he was free of cancer, a melanoma that had spread as far as his liver and http://kpvu.org/post/jimmy-carter-okay-after-dehydration-scare-habitat-humanity-site 7377 as http://kpvu.org Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:33:00 +0000 Jimmy Carter Is 'Okay' After Dehydration Scare At Habitat For Humanity Site Christopher Joyce https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAS3kahu76k Rule number one in nature: Find a way NOT to get eaten. You can run or fight or hide--or you can look like something that tastes horrible. It appears that a type of jumping spider takes that to the extreme — it's learned to MOVE like something nasty. Paul Shamble discovered this after watching a certain kind of jumping spider crawl around in the woods one day in New York state. Suddenly Shamble realized they were walking funny. "They really move like ants," he says, a sort of regular tacking back and forth like a sailboat rather than a straight line. Why would a spider walk like an ant? They're very different creatures. Spiders have eight legs, ants six. As an evolutionary biologist, Shamble figured it might be a form of mimicry. Many insects copy the shape or coloration of other, often poisonous, insects. It fools predators into giving them a pass. And ants definitely don't taste good; they're full of powerful chemicals, whereas jumping http://kpvu.org/post/if-it-walks-ant-you-probably-wouldnt-eat-it-or-so-these-spiders-hope 7373 as http://kpvu.org Thu, 13 Jul 2017 20:45:00 +0000 If It Walks Like An Ant, You Probably Wouldn't Eat It — Or So These Spiders Hope Maanvi Singh How did Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever come to strike in Spain? And how worried should we be? That's the question a team of epidemiologists and microbiologists has been trying to answer for the past year. The disease is a tick-borne, Ebola-like virus. Because it's a lesser-known illness, it is often misdiagnosed. So there aren't very good official statistics on the number of cases in many parts of the world. It's normally found in North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. But in 2016, two cases cropped up in Spain. Last September, a 62-year-old man in Madrid died after being bitten by a tick while walking in the Spanish countryside. Doctors determined he had contracted Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever , which causes headache, fever, nausea, bruising and bleeding. In severe cases, patients experience sharp mood swings and confusion as well as kidney deterioration or sudden liver failure. Up to a third of patients die, usually within two weeks of contracting the disease. There's no http://kpvu.org/post/how-did-crimean-congo-hemorrhagic-fever-pop-spain 7374 as http://kpvu.org Thu, 13 Jul 2017 20:39:00 +0000 How Did Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Pop Up In Spain? Dana Farrington Updated at 5:40 p.m. ET President Trump said he would invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to the White House "at the right time" when asked by a reporter on Air Force One Wednesday night. "I don't think this is the right time, but the answer is yes I would," he said, according to a pool report released on Thursday. "Look, it's very easy for me to say absolutely, I won't. That's the easy thing for me to do, but that's the stupid thing to do." Trump also continued to be evasive about whether he believes Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election on his behalf. "I'm not saying it wasn't Russia," Trump said. "What I'm saying is that we have to protect ourselves no matter who it is. You know, China is very good at this. I hate to say it, North Korea is very good at this." The comments follow a major development in the Russia-election saga this week, with revelations that Donald Trump Jr. met with a person in 2016 who he was told was working on behalf of the Russian government http://kpvu.org/post/trump-says-he-would-invite-putin-white-house-right-time 7375 as http://kpvu.org Thu, 13 Jul 2017 20:36:00 +0000 Trump Says He Would Invite Putin To White House 'At The Right Time'