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Middle-aged and older adults who sought hospital or emergency room care because of cannabis use were almost twice as likely to develop dementia over the next five years, compared with similar people in the general population, a large Canadian study reported on Monday.When compared with adults who sought care for other reasons, the risk of developing dementia was still 23 percent higher among users of cannabis, the study also found.The study included the medical records of six million people in Ontario from 2008 to 2021. The authors accounted for health and sociodemographic differences between comparison groups, some of which play…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Some York University graduate school applicants were left confused and disappointed after receiving an email last week that mistakenly appeared to suggest they had been accepted into their program of choice. The university confirmed to Global News that nearly half of graduate program applicants who had not yet been accepted were inadvertently sent an email to a webinar intended for those who had already received an acceptance letter.The mistake sparked frustration online, with several users sharing their experiences on various social media platforms like Reddit and X.“I had already received an ‘unsuccessful’…

Though women remain severely underrepresented in the aerospace field worldwide, they do regularly escape the Earth’s atmosphere. More than 100 have gone to space since Sally Ride became the first American woman to do so in 1983. If an all-women spaceflight were chartered by, say, NASA, it might represent the culmination of many decades of serious investment in female astronauts. (In 2019, NASA was embarrassingly forced to scuttle an all-women spacewalk when it realized it did not have enough suits that fit them.) An all-women Blue Origin spaceflight signifies only that several women have amassed the social capital to be…

Katy Perry reacts after Blue Origin flight Katy Perry on singing “What a Wonderful World” in space during Blue Origin flight 01:56 Singer Katy Perry, one of the six women who joined Blue Origin’s historic flight, sang “What a Wonderful World” during part of the approximately 11-minute journey to the edge of space.Perry’s crew mates had asked if she would sing, suggesting her hits “Roar” or “Firework,” but after landing Perry said the moment was not about her or her songs.”It’s about a collective energy in there. It’s about us. It’s about making space for future women and taking up…

As the Bahrain Grand Prix unfolded and George Russell raced in second place, messages slowly came through on his radio that different systems were failing. Team principal Toto Wolff put it simply: “The car was wounded.”The Mercedes driver suddenly suffered a brake-by-wire failure, and it took time to find the settings to reset the system, Wolff said. He lost the GPS, and he experienced onboard Drag Reduction System (DRS) issues, which led to his race engineer having to tell him over the radio when he could use the system.The fear arose that the Briton “would lose the whole dash —…

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand Monday in a Washington, D.C., courtroom to defend his social media company from federal allegations that the technology giant is a monopoly. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is facing off with the Federal Trade Commission on Monday, for Day one of a landmark antitrust trial that could result in the company’s breakup. For Zuckerberg, the case could determine whether the business empire he started building while still a student at Harvard University will be forced to break apart. The trial will be the first big test of the FTC’s willingness…

President Donald Trump said he believes Iran is intentionally delaying a nuclear deal with the United States and that it must abandon any drive for a nuclear weapon or face a possible military strike on Tehran’s atomic facilities.”I think they’re tapping us along,” Trump told reporters on Monday after US special envoy Steve Witkoff met in Oman on Saturday with a senior Iranian official.Both Iran and the United States said on Saturday that they held “positive” and “constructive” talks in Oman. A second round is scheduled for Saturday, and a source briefed on the planning said the meeting was likely…

US and Salvadoran officials tried to say the other side was responsible for returning a wrongfully deported man.

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele says he won’t return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States, after Attorney General Pam Bondi told reporters it’s “up to El Salvador” whether the man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison returns to the U.S. Bukele and Bondi made the comments in the Oval Office alongside President Trump, as the two world leaders met. Over the weekend, the Justice Department said in court filings that they’re willing to take “all available steps to remove any domestic obstacles” to facilitate his return.”How can I return him to the United States?” Bukele asked the press. “I…

A charred piano. A singed light fixture dangling by a cord in a fire-scarred room. Plates strewn with ash, not far from a dinner table just cleared from a Passover Seder.The scorched rooms inside the official residence of Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania were the work of an arsonist who the authorities say admitted “harboring hatred” for Mr. Shapiro. Officials say the suspect revealed that if he found the governor, he planned to beat him with a hammer.The attack on Mr. Shapiro and his family was only the latest prominent attempt on the life of an American elected official. A…