Actor Alan Alda, known for his role on the TV show "M*A*S*H," has Parkinson's disease and talks openly about his experience. He uses his communication skills to help scientists explain their work clearly to the public and has started a center to improve how science is shared.
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Alan Alda starred as "Hawkeye" Pierce on "M*A*S*H," winning six Emmy Awards.
He had polio as a child before the vaccine was available.
Alda’s mother had schizophrenia, which influenced his ability to observe and understand people.
On "M*A*S*H," the cast built strong connections by staying together during breaks and sharing jokes.
Alda founded the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science in 2009 to help scientists talk clearly to non-experts.
He hosts a podcast called "Clear+Vivid," where he interviews various public figures.
Alda first noticed Parkinson’s symptoms at age 79, related to acting out dreams, before visible signs appeared.
He believes in facing reality honestly and openly talks about his Parkinson’s disease.
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More than 122,000 cases of Gatorade sold in 37 states are being recalled because they contain food colorings that were not listed on the labels. The recall was started by PepsiCo after the FDA warned that the dyes, Yellow No. 5 and Yellow No. 6, could cause health issues for some people.
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The FDA announced a Class II recall of 122,021 cases of Gatorade products.
The affected flavors include Lemon Lime, Lemon Lime Zero, Orange, and Orange Zero in 28-ounce bottles.
The recall covers 37 states across the U.S.
The undeclared food colorings are Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) and Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow FCF).
These dyes are approved by the FDA but must be listed on labels because they can cause allergic reactions in some people.
People sensitive to these dyes or with aspirin allergies are at higher risk of reactions.
Consumers should check the recall's lot numbers on their Gatorade bottles and avoid using affected products.
PepsiCo started the recall voluntarily on September 25, and it is still ongoing.
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The Green Party in England and Wales has adopted a policy that calls Zionism a form of racism and supports creating a single Palestinian state with equal rights for all people there. This decision has caused concern among some of the party’s Jewish members and several Green MPs who oppose the policy.
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The Green Party voted 1,022 to 813 to pass a motion equating Zionism with racism.
Zionism is defined in the motion as a political ideology that favors one ethnic group over others.
The policy calls for replacing Israel with a single state where Palestinians and Israelis have equal rights.
Some Jewish members and Jewish Greens group members are worried about this policy’s impact on their place in the party.
Four out of five Green MPs, including former leader Caroline Lucas, publicly opposed the motion.
Party co-leader Zack Polanski, who is Jewish, supports the motion’s view and linked it to violence in Gaza.
The motion was pushed by the group Greens for Palestine, which encouraged new members to join the party to back the policy.
Amendments aiming to protect members affiliated with Jewish institutions were rejected.
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President Trump announced a new group called the “Super Intelligence Force” to help the U.S. stay ahead in artificial intelligence (AI) technology. This group will be led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton.
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President Trump made the announcement on a Sunday morning.
The “Super Intelligence Force” aims to keep the U.S. as a leader in AI development.
The group responds to concerns raised by AI researchers about the technology.
Jay Clayton, the Director of National Intelligence, will lead this task force.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Jay Clayton is expected to be officially named as the leader.
The announcement fits into the U.S. government’s efforts to manage new technology safely.
AI refers to computer systems designed to perform tasks usually requiring human intelligence.
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President Donald Trump criticized Fox News for not giving enough attention to his recent rallies in several states. He also expressed disappointment about Maria Bartiromo leaving the network and warned Fox News that its ratings could drop because of its coverage choices.
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President Trump said Fox News gave limited coverage to rallies in Ohio, Alabama, Texas, and Oklahoma.
He claimed these rallies had large, enthusiastic crowds supporting the Republican Party.
Trump noted that rival news networks were covering the rallies more fully than Fox News.
He criticized Fox News commentator Jessica Tarlov for the network’s focus on political opponents.
Trump suggested that viewers might stop watching Fox News if it keeps downplaying his events.
His comments came while the White House was involved in legal disputes with CNN, MSNBC, and Politico over press access.
Maria Bartiromo, a Fox News personality, recently left the network.
Trump posted these remarks on his social media platform, Truth Social.
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In an extended interview, actor Alan Alda talks with Dr. Jon LaPook about living with Parkinson’s disease. Alda shares his experience and how he uses laughter to cope with the illness.
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Alan Alda is known for his role in the TV show M*A*S*H.
Alda has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, a disorder that affects movement and muscle control.
The interview is conducted by Dr. Jon LaPook from CBS News.
Alda discusses how laughter helps him manage the symptoms of Parkinson’s.
The interview is part of a CBS News extended, web-exclusive segment.
This is a personal story about living with a medical condition, not related to politics or business.
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Some parts of Canada have decided to keep daylight saving time all year, meaning they will not change clocks back in November. In contrast, the United States still changes clocks twice a year.
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Several Canadian regions will stay on daylight saving time permanently.
This change means clocks will not be set back by one hour in November in those areas.
The United States continues to observe the traditional clock changes in spring and fall.
Permanent daylight saving time means more daylight in the evening hours year-round.
The article discusses why the US has not made the same change as Canada.
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President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social asking for investigations into whether a woman seen at multiple protests against his projects was a "paid protester." The protests involved the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which was recently renovated, and a planned large arch near Arlington Memorial Bridge.
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President Trump shared posts from journalist Emily Miller, who said the same woman appeared at protests months apart.
The protests were against two Trump-related projects: the Reflecting Pool renovation and a new 250-foot arch.
Neither Trump nor Miller gave proof that the woman was paid or who might have paid her.
Trump said there are many people trying to stop or delay his projects and policies.
He has previously called some protesters paid troublemakers at other events, including protests in Los Angeles and against immigration enforcement.
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was renovated earlier this year.
The planned arch would be near the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.
The story is still developing and may have updates later.
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Australia is debating whether cutting the number of people moving into the country would hurt the economy or help improve living standards. Canada, which is similar to Australia in size and economy, recently reduced its immigration and is adjusting without breaking its economy.
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One Nation party in Australia wants to cut temporary migrants by over 750,000 in three years, lowering net migration below zero before capping it at 130,000 annually.
Labor party aims for a higher net migration target of 225,000 per year, compared to the current estimate of 292,000.
Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke says cutting migration heavily would damage the economy and services.
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson claims reducing migration will improve living standards, citing Canada’s experience.
Canada has reduced temporary migrants from 7.6% to 5% of its population by lowering international student arrivals and limiting stay extensions.
Canada’s population growth slowed from 3.1% in early 2024 to 0.5% currently.
A Canadian thinktank report warns of slower job growth and GDP growth around 0.5% in 2026 but states the economy is adapting, not failing.
Canadian experts say demographic changes affect how economic numbers should be understood, with the economy showing resilience during immigration changes.
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Turkey and Australia, the hosts of the upcoming UN climate summit Cop31, are criticized for supporting coal and fossil fuel industries while leading the talks. Both countries continue to expand coal mining and exports despite the global goal to reduce fossil fuel use to fight climate change.
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Cop31 will be held in Antalya, Turkey, in about a month and will be co-hosted by Turkey and Australia.
Activists accuse these hosts of not acting enough to reduce coal, gas, and oil use.
Preparations include a meeting in Fiji and Tuvalu with leaders from over 50 countries, although some leaders have canceled due to issues like flooding.
Australia recently approved a major coal mine expansion in New South Wales that could emit large amounts of carbon dioxide.
A report found Australia’s coal exports to Turkey have caused over 75 million tonnes of carbon emissions since 2015.
Both countries have not mentioned fossil fuels in official summit communications or speeches before Cop31.
Turkey is Europe’s largest coal power user and plans to increase coal and gas power by 30% by 2035.
Australian officials say they support ending fossil fuel use but also continue significant fossil fuel exports.
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JD Vance, a leading Republican figure for the 2028 presidential race, is connecting himself to the Make America Healthy Again (Maha) movement, which overlaps with the earlier Make America Great Again (MAGA) campaign. At a Maha summit, Vance discussed health program fraud claims and political strategies, while the movement showed signs of division between grassroots supporters and political or corporate interests.
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JD Vance is seen as a top Republican candidate for the 2028 presidential election.
Vance is associating with the Maha movement, linked to health policy and popular among some Trump supporters.
A survey found 68% of rural Maha supporters think President Trump’s health policies harmed or did not help their communities.
Vance claimed his task force found $250 billion in fraud in Medicaid, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act, blaming immigrants, but no clear evidence was provided.
The Maha summit included corporate sponsors like UnitedHealth and Walmart, indicating closer ties between political and business groups.
Vance made political remarks aimed at rivals, like Marco Rubio, trying to gain support from Maha followers.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., head of the US Department of Health and Human Services, leads the Maha movement and spoke about the high costs of US healthcare compared to Europe.
The Maha movement shows internal divisions among its supporters, with tensions between environmental, nutrition, anti-vaccine activists, and political or corporate groups.
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The article explains that product returns are a normal and expected cost of doing business. Retailers should build the cost of returns into their prices by setting aside a small amount from each sale, rather than making returns harder for customers.
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Jerry Crawford, a carpet seller, reserved 0.5% of his sales to cover the cost of returns.
This small addition to prices made it easy to handle returns without upsetting customers.
Some big companies like Amazon also make returns easy as part of good customer service.
Recently, many retailers have made returns harder by adding fees, shortening return times, or questioning customers.
Making returns difficult can upset customers and harm a store’s reputation.
Businesses can estimate return costs from past experience and include them in overhead costs.
Charging customers extra for returns can destroy loyalty and damage business in the long run.
Small businesses like Jerry’s often manage returns well by building costs into pricing rather than punishing customers.
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Medicare for All is a major topic among Democrats ahead of the midterm elections, with progressives strongly supporting it and centrists preferring smaller healthcare changes. The party agrees on the goal of providing healthcare to everyone but disagrees on the best way to achieve it.
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About 1,500 unionized nurses supported Medicare for All at a conference in San Francisco.
Progressive Democrats, like Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed from Michigan, actively promote Medicare for All.
Centrist Democrats often see Medicare for All as too difficult to implement and prefer gradual reforms.
The Democratic Party opposes President Trump’s healthcare bill, which could increase the uninsured by 16 million by 2034.
Democrats generally agree on goals like lowering costs and increasing insurance coverage but differ on the approach.
An internal memo showed that Democratic members have varied opinions, including support for Medicare for All and other policies.
Centrists favor expanding the Affordable Care Act and options like a public health insurance plan people can buy.
Medicare for All means a government-run healthcare system, which has been part of Democratic platforms since 1948.
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A $31 billion data center project by AI company Anthropic is planned for rural Queensland, Australia, on a 725-hectare site currently used as a feedlot near Dalby. The data center would be the largest in Australia, using a huge amount of energy, sparking local opposition due to concerns about environmental impact and repeating past boom-and-bust cycles from gas projects.
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The project site is near Denver Kanowski’s home, which is surrounded by gas wells, a coal mine, and gas power plants.
Anthropic’s data center will power a large AI language model called Claude.
The data center will use a cooling system claimed to need less water than typical data centers.
It will require up to 2.16 gigawatts of power, about one-quarter of Queensland’s total energy demand.
The project is expected to create thousands of construction jobs and about 1,400 permanent jobs.
Local residents and farmers have raised concerns based on past negative experiences with gas industry projects.
Over 21,500 people signed a petition opposing the project, fearing environmental and economic harm.
Similar data center projects have faced backlash and restrictions in parts of the United States due to energy use and noise.
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A Tomahawk missile struck an Iranian school in February, killing over 150 people. Experts used scientific methods to verify that Iran’s video showing a U.S. missile was real. The article discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) can create fake videos, making it hard to know what is true or false.
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Over 150 people, mostly children, died in the missile strike on an Iranian elementary school.
President Trump said it was under investigation whether the missile came from the U.S. or another country.
Hany Farid, an expert in digital video forensics, helped check the video Iran released for authenticity.
Farid used scientific details like sound speed, light speed, and missile size to confirm the video was real.
AI can create or alter videos to mislead people, such as falsely adding a gun in a victim’s hand in a police shooting video.
Half of the widely viewed online content may be fake or altered by AI.
AI is used in harmful ways, including fake news, child abuse material, and state spying.
Experts say courts need clear scientific ways to explain if a video is real or fake before accepting it as evidence.
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SpaceX’s Starship rocket successfully launched and reached low Earth orbit. This is an important step for space travel because reaching orbit makes it easier to go anywhere in the solar system.
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Starship is a rocket developed by SpaceX.
The rocket successfully reached low Earth orbit on its launch.
Low Earth orbit is the altitude where satellites and the International Space Station orbit Earth.
Reaching orbit is considered a key milestone for space missions.
Science fiction writer Robert Heinlein said that reaching Earth orbit is halfway to exploring the solar system.
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A 12-year-old girl was killed and three other people were injured in a shooting at a Baltimore park during a youth football game. The shooting started after two men argued over a parking spot and began firing guns at each other.
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The incident happened at Leon Day Park in Baltimore.
Police responded around 6:15 p.m. on Saturday.
A 12-year-old girl died at the hospital from gunshot wounds.
Three others, including a woman and two men, were also shot but are expected to survive.
The shooting began after two men argued over a parking spot and exchanged gunfire.
Police are searching for at least two suspects related to the shooting.
Officials asked witnesses to contact the police for more information.
Baltimore’s mayor called the shooting a very disturbing event.
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Aaron Sorkin is releasing a new movie called "The Social Reckoning," which looks at Facebook and its effects on society. The film is based on the story of Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, who revealed internal Facebook documents showing how the company promotes angry and divisive content to increase user engagement.
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Aaron Sorkin won an Oscar for writing "The Social Network," a film about Facebook’s early days and Mark Zuckerberg.
Sorkin is now directing "The Social Reckoning," a movie showing the current impact of Facebook on society.
The film features Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg and Mikey Madison as Frances Haugen, the whistleblower who leaked Facebook’s internal documents in 2021.
Frances Haugen says Zuckerberg has been surrounded by yes-men and avoided consequences while Facebook’s problems grew.
Facebook changed its algorithm in 2018 to promote content that triggers anger because it increased user engagement.
The movie explores themes like misinformation, extremism, and society’s struggle with the truth.
Sorkin emphasizes the importance of dialogue and language in his work, comparing it to music.
"The Social Reckoning" is connected to Sorkin’s earlier work, "A Few Good Men," which also deals with facing difficult truths.
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A 20-year-old US marine stationed in Okinawa, Japan, has been arrested on suspicion of killing a 39-year-old Japanese woman and stealing her belongings. Japanese officials have expressed strong concern and requested full cooperation from the US military in the investigation.
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The suspect is Lance Cpl Devin Jacob Ballard, 20 years old.
The victim was 39-year-old Anna Yagi, killed at a hotel in Naha, Okinawa.
Police say Ballard denies the murder charges.
Okinawa hosts about 70% of US military facilities in Japan.
The US ambassador to Japan offered condolences and pledged cooperation.
Japan's Prime Minister called the crime "exceptionally brutal and vicious" and formally protested to US authorities.
CCTV showed a foreign man entering with the victim and leaving with her belongings.
Crimes by US military personnel in Okinawa have caused protests and strained US-Japan relations.
The number of arrests of US personnel in Okinawa reached 80 in 2024, the highest in 20 years.
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CBS News "Sunday Morning" shared a brief tribute to notable people who recently passed away, including puppeteer Peppino Mazzullo, known for the mouse puppet Topo Gigio. The program also covered various other news stories, such as a fight on a FlyDubai plane and updates on global oil exports.
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Peppino Mazzullo, who was the voice of Topo Gigio the mouse puppet, recently died.
CBS News "Sunday Morning" pays tribute to several notable figures who passed away this week.
There was a fight for control of a FlyDubai airplane, with video footage available.
New details emerged in a gang rape case connected to Cornell University.
An Arizona State University coach is on leave after a player health incident.
Oil exports in the Middle East are rising, keeping prices high.
The U.S. Supreme Court approved the execution of Christa Pike.
Other news topics include political events, protests in France, and community stories.
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