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California Governor Gavin Newsom slammed US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for the country’s broken immigration system as tens of thousands of migrants gather at the Mexico border and cities from New York to San Diego prepare for the arrival of thousands more.

“He’s done nothing fundamentally to address this issue since he’s been speaker, and frankly, since he’s been in Congress,” the Democratic governor said Friday of McCarthy, a Republican who represents a district in California’s Central Valley. 

“So forgive me for being so damn pointed, but we’re as dumb as we want to be as a nation on this,” Newsom said.

He made the comments while unveiling California’s revised budget proposal, forecasting a $32 billion deficit partly due to weaker tax revenue from its wealthiest residents. The expected shortfall has grown by $9.3 billion since Newsom’s initial estimate in January, marking a sharp turnaround after years of surpluses.

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U.S. Special Operations forces are not required to vet for past human rights violations by the foreign troops they arm and train as surrogates, newly disclosed documents show.

American commandos pay, train and equip foreign partner forces and then dispatch them on kill-or-capture operations.

The Pentagon rarely discusses its use of surrogates, or the foreign troops with whom Special Operations forces work to pursue specific objectives. 

A similar gap exists in another Pentagon surrogate force program for so-called irregular warfare. It is aimed at disrupting nation-state rivals via operations that fall short of full armed conflict — including sabotage, hacking and information campaigns like propaganda or clandestine efforts to shape morale.

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A major study found that changing behaviors in areas like exercise, socialization and blood pressure control could reduce dementia cases by as much as 40%. 

Earlier research findings that those with hearing loss are up to five times more likely to develop dementia and that the use of hearing aids may cut that risk in half.

Hearing was among the several modifiable risk factors for dementia identified in 2020 by a leading medical journal, The Lancet. 

Others included: low education levels, high blood pressure, smoking, obesity, physical inactivity, diabetes, excessive alcohol consumption, brain injury and air pollution.  Just a thought.