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Circumcision rates have declined significantly in the United States, driven in part by parents’ distrust of medical advice, a new study says. Circumcision of newborn boys declined from 54% to 49% between 2012 and 2022, according to records from more than 1.5 million U.S. male births. The trend flies in the face of doctors’ advice, researchers said, noting that the …

One month before Charlie Kirk‘s death, Tucker Carlson released an interview with the right-wing activist where the two spoke about how economic anxiety and debt has become a major issue for young and millennial adults in America, comparing Donald Trump‘s 2016 appeal with economically disenfranchised young voters to Zohran Mamdani‘s rising popularity among young New Yorkers. “The Muslim communist that …

Geoffrey Hinton’s message on a recent podcast about artificial intelligence was simple: “Train to be a plumber.” Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist often called “the Godfather of AI,” said in June what people have now been saying for years: Jobs that include manual labor and expertise are the least vulnerable to modern technology than some other career paths, many …

If the recent unstoppable wave of cosy sims has taught me anything, it’s that my life would be infinitely more tolerable if only I dropped everything to start a life of aggressive vegetable upkeep deep in bucolic isolation. Yet despite all this pro-turnip (and weirdly low-key horny) propaganda, the idea’s never particularly appealed. Tiny Bookshop, though, might finally have convinced …

When I first saw it at the 2024 Xbox Games Showcase, I was surprised to see a game from a French developer with the photorealism of Western RPGs and mechanical stylings of Japanese ones. Its polished, cinematic trailer gave the impression of a AAA game, even though I’d never even heard of Sandfall Interactive at the time. Clair Obscur moved …

After the first-ever “swing-off” brought pizzazz to the finish of Tuesday’s MLB All-Star Game, it seems inevitable the concept will be used for regular-season games. It shouldn’t be. It has a fatal flaw. The “swing-off” uses non-major-leaguers to help determine the result of MLB games, namely the batting-practice pitchers. Teams would look far and wide to find those proficient at …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans will test the popularity of Department of Government Efficiency spending cuts this week by aiming to pass President Donald Trump’s request to claw back $9.4 billion in public media and foreign aid spending. Senate Democrats are trying to kill the measure but need a few Republicans uncomfortable with the president’s effort to join them. Trump’s …