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Yahoo
2 hours ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Entire system contaminated 2 years after Ohio train derailment: Ex-resident
(NewsNation) — Two years after a toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, left many with lingering health problems. A new vital report has revealed the government may have intentionally avoided addressing those concerns. Residents are now suing the CDC, alleging the agency told healthcare providers not to treat them. Jess Connard, a former East Palestine resident, shared that she and others know the entire system meant to protect them is contaminated. 'The CDC told us that there was nothing they could do about our chemical exposures, and that's exactly what happened, nothing,' Connard said. 'And in the same breath, they told us that our cancers would be treatable.' Norfolk Southern Ohio train derailment payout trial begins Connard was one of several to relocate their families with regards to health concerns, but she dealt with the effects of the chemicals in a similar fashion to other residents. 'You'll go to the doctor and they don't attach it back to the derailment,' added Connard. 'They're not epidemiologists. They're not meant to do that. They're meant to treat our symptoms.' FEMA is also catching heat along with the CDC now from Connard and her former neighbors because, after the event, they were ordered to provide an unmet needs assessment. The assessment would have brought forth additional medical resources. 'You've got our current Vice President, J.D. Vance, in his current capacity as Ohio Senator, urged former President Biden to declare a public emergency,' Connard said. 'Why not now? We know that the contamination is still present and ongoing.' Connard hopes that under President Trump's administration, the resources needed in East Palestine will finally be supplied. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Fox News
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Lara Trump reveals story behind CNN anchor Jake Tapper's 'a little bit too late' apology
Since releasing the damning book on the Biden presidency "Original Sin" earlier in May, CNN anchor Jake Tapper has faced scrutiny for his past coverage of former President Joe Biden's alleged decline in office. Although Tapper has admitted to insufficiently reporting on Biden's health concerns, the CNN anchor went on to apologize to Fox News host Lara Trump, whom he previously rebuked for raising concerns in 2020. While Trump does "appreciate" the apology, she said "it feels a little bit too late." "Jake Tapper saying that this is like a Watergate-level type of situation, now that he played a role in it, it feels a little bit too late to me. I do appreciate that he did keep his word, though, and has come out and said that I was right," Trump said Tuesday on "The Ingraham Angle." Trump said Tapper called her about two months ahead of the release of "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again." During the call, he told Trump he would apologize on TV for his exchange with Trump in October 2020 on CNN. During an October 2020 episode of "State of the Union," Trump raised concerns about then-candidate Biden's mental acuity, but Tapper quickly rebuked her for her comments. "I think you were mocking his stutter," Tapper said, in part, at the time. "And I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline." Five years later, Tapper admitted Trump was "right," reiterating the admission during an appearance on "Piers Morgan Uncensored" this week. "Knowing what we know now, and looking back on that interview, which I feel tremendous humility about, she [Lara Trump] was right, and I was wrong. I did not see, in the moments he was having, I did not see that as cognitive decline," Tapper said during Monday's show, claiming that the Biden cover-up was "worse" than the Watergate scandal. While Tapper has been vocal about his prior reporting, Trump argued he cannot "discount his role" in the unfolding Biden presidency scandal. "No matter how much he wants to come out now and say, 'You know what, we're going to start calling the shots like we see them actually now.' It's too late," Trump told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. "You can't do this time and time again to people and continue to lie to people in the way they did and think that you're going to get any different result. It's the reason Donald Trump is in the White House right now," she continued.
Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Health
- Daily Mail
'Australia's most sexually active woman' Annie Knight slams doctors for dismissing her health woes following her hospital stay after sleeping with 583 men in a single day
Annie Knight has called out doctors for dismissing her health concerns after she was admitted to hospital following a challenge which saw her sleep with 583 men in one day. The OnlyFans star, dubbed 'Australia's most sexually active woman', shared a post to Instagram on Wednesday claiming she has been bleeding for five months and doctors are telling her 'nothing is wrong'. 'One thing that has shocked me more than anything through all my health issues is how quickly doctors and specialists dismiss women's health,' Annie, 27, said. 'I've been [bleeding] non stop and in severe pain since January this year. I saw a specialist, he did exploratory surgery and found nothing wrong and put me on the IUD. 'My symptoms have not stopped since getting the IUD. I've called his office crying and begging for them to help me. They continue to dismiss my pain and bleeding as IUD spotting and adjustment (despite the fact it was happening four months prior to getting the IUD).' From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. Annie went on to say this has impacted her 'mental health, life, work and the people who love me'. She said she visited the specialist again and he mentioned her recent sex challenge which left her 'frustrated'. 'He then said "I don't know what's wrong with you" and send me home after telling him I can't live like this and begging him for help. 'I'm so sick of being dismissed and made to feel like me pain and suffering isn't or important.' The post comes after Annie was admitted to hospital last week after a challenge during which she slept with 583 men in a single day. She shared a video from her hospital bed on Wednesday after rushing in to be treated for cramps and excessive bleeding - just days after taking part in the filmed orgy. She said that the issue stems from her pre-existing endometriosis, which she says has been triggered by stress. 'On Sunday everything was all good, but the next day I had a lot of bleeding that I shouldn't really have because I'm on contraception and I was a little bit worried about it but decided I would wait it out and see how it goes,' she told Perth Now. 'Then it turned in to really bad cramps and pains, then I started to get a bit worried and decided to take myself to hospital.' She added that her doctors were at first concerned the bleeding and pain was a result of her intense challenge, but later ruled it out. 'We ran a bunch of tests all day, then eventually it was my endometriosis had been exasperated by mostly stress and not so much the physical challenge that I did on Sunday,' she said. Endometriosis occurs when cells in the lining of the uterus are found elsewhere in the body. Each month, these cells react in the same way as those in the uterus; building up, breaking down and bleeding. Yet, the blood has no way to escape the body. Symptoms include pain, heavy periods and fatigue, as well as a higher risk of infertility, and bowel and bladder problems. Its cause is unknown but may be genetic, related to problems with the immune system or exposure to chemicals. Treatment focuses on pain relief and improving quality of life, which may include surgery or hormone treatment.
Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Sharon Osbourne, 72, continues to show off her dramatic weight loss while shopping for smaller clothes
Sharon Osbourne continued to spark concern with her increasingly thin frame as she stepped out in Los Angeles on Monday. The 72-year-old reality TV personality's clothes looked loose on her body during an outing in city after she recently admitted Ozempic had left her unable to gain weight. For her shopping trip in West Hollywood where she looked at clothing and jewelry at at Jenni Kayne and Chrome Hearts, she looked effortlessly stylish as she layered a cream-colored sweater layered over a plain, white top. She paired the cozy knit with black, straight-leg trousers and all-white sneakers. The former X Factor judge — who was among the first celebrities to publicly confirm using the diabetes drug Ozempic after starting the medication over two years ago — looked chic with her signature, bright red bob paired with tinted sunglasses. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new Showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. This week, she sparked concern among her fans as she displayed her drastic transformation in her recent social media post. While showing support for her husband Ozzy Osbourne's song War Pigs, she appeared gaunt with loose-fitting clothes hanging off of her shrinking frame. Her concerned fans took to her comments section to discuss her appearance as some said she looked 'ill' while others asked her to 'stop losing weight.' The TV star was among the first of the many stars to publicly confirm using the diabetes drug after her slimmed-down appearance sparked widespread concern. Though she was initially pleased with her results after starting the medication in December 2022, Osbourne later admitted she feared she had taken it to far. Last November, she said she had been off the drug for 'a while' but was still struggling with her weight. Despite feeling 'frustrated,' she said she was 'satisfied' with the way she looks now. 'I can't put on weight now, and I don't know what it's done to my metabolism, but I just can't seem to put any on, because I think I went too far,' she shared on Howie Mandel's podcast. Though she was initially pleased with her results after starting the medication in December 2022, Osbourne later admitted she feared she had taken it to far; pictured September 2019 in Los Angeles In February, she told The Guardian she had lost 'three stone [42 pounds] in four months. Too much.' Osbourne recently told that she hasn't regained any of the weight she lost while taking the drug and admitted she's been left feeling 'frustrated' by the lingering effects. 'Now, I weigh just over 7 stone. I need to put on 10 pounds, but however much I eat, I stay the same weight,' she said. 'I've had enough,' she continued. 'I've given up on all interventions. I couldn't have much more facial surgery — there's not that much skin left to stretch, pull or cut. And I won't have any more fillers or Botox. 'I don't think I'll ever be happy with the way I look,' she added. 'But I'm now satisfied. It's taken years for me to say this but I've learned my lesson. This is me. It's finally time to leave well alone.'
New York Times
4 days ago
- Health
- New York Times
The Unparalleled Daily Miracle of Tap Water
I used to have no problem with tap water. I grew up in Cincinnati with parents who, at dinner, filled a pitcher straight from our kitchen sink. In St. Louis during college, I subsisted on campus water fountains. I later moved to New York, which boasts 'the Champagne of tap water' and claims it to be the secret ingredient in its bagels. During a two-year stint in Montana, I went on long hikes and sipped stream water, shockingly cold and straight from the glaciers, but other than that, I drank from the tap. And then I landed in Los Angeles, where everyone I met used a filter. My office had water delivered in five-gallon jugs. I was told this was because of sediment in the tap water. A few months in, I called a plumber because the gush from my kitchen sink had dwindled to a drip, and he said there was a buildup blocking the water's path. I asked him directly: Was the water safe to drink? He shrugged. He'd be cautious, he said: No one really knew what was in those pipes. I freaked out. What if I'd been poisoning myself? What irrevocable damage had I done to my body or mind? Everyone in L.A. — at friends' homes, at the grocery store, in public parks — seemed to fear the tap water. So I bought my first Brita filter. This was not the only anxiety I developed. Thanks to warnings from seemingly everyone around me in the city, I began to worry about things I never before considered threatening, like dust (could cause cancer), anything with seeds (could cause cancer) or certain planetary configurations (responsible for all other misfortunes). If I put my purse on the floor, or oriented my bed the wrong way, it was endangering my energy! Maybe I'd been lulled into a false sense of security about everyday life. One Tuesday this January, I awoke to a terrible headache and ash outside my door. The wind grew so strong that doors slammed open and branches broke off trees. Fires were decimating the Pacific Palisades to the west and Altadena to the east. No one knew how toxic all the smoke was or when the fires would stop. And then, the Department of Water and Power accidentally sent out a bulletin telling residents in my area not to drink the tap water without boiling it first. Officials retracted the message, which was supposed to be for other neighborhoods, but I became more paranoid than ever. I bought bottled water. Then I started worrying about microplastics. But I didn't like this version of myself — a person who distrusts her own environment. In those weeks that the fires ravaged L.A., while I watched powerlessly as tens of thousands of homes were wrecked by untamable forces, I started to rethink my received notions around tap water. Part of the local concern over water does feel justified: Lead was found in the water in the city's Watts neighborhood a year ago, and there have been severe cases of unclean water causing public-health crises elsewhere, as in Flint, Mich., in the 2010s. But these cases are rare. And, I realized, fixating on the risks of anything too much can put you in an isolationist mentality. As I huddled in my hermetically sealed apartment while fires wreaked desolation outside, I suddenly worried less about what was coming out of my faucet and more about my tenuous connections to the outside world. I used to be a person who dove right into their physical surroundings with enthusiasm and curiosity; why had I been so quick to give that up? So after the fires were contained, I returned to drinking tap water. It became an act of rebellion against a city that had scared and confused me, a city in which I never quite fit in, anyway. Understanding my own cultural discomfort this whole time made me feel more relaxed. Tap water is great. It's incredible that we've worked out a system in which anyone with a faucet can get it. It is cheap and plentiful, and it connects you to the ecosystem around you — the shared resource pulling you into contact with all the other plant and animal life around. It might taste better in some places than in others, but whenever you drink it, you are reckoning with some sense of home. Having spent two years in a mild hysteria over tap water, I no longer have my old, unthinking faith in it. Sometimes I miss that naïveté. But in its place, I have something better. The whole ordeal encouraged me to ask questions and engage others in dialogue instead of trafficking in superstition — to make up my own mind. Instead of simply relying on the warnings of others, I did my own research, learning that tap water is subject to more regulation than bottled water; the most recent survey of L.A. tap water showed it to be compliant with the Environmental Protection Agency's measures. (Although this study was conducted before the fires, so it doesn't account for the weakened quality of water in burn zones.) Drinking tap water feels to me like a kind of civic duty too, because it means consuming the public resource that an ostensibly well-intentioned government system — and not a for-profit bottled-water company's marketing firm — has worked hard to offer its citizens. I don't judge anyone who wants to use a filter or get their water from other sources, but I maintain that tap water is unrivaled in its price, abundance and evocation of community. Recently, I moved out of Los Angeles and landed in New Mexico. Upon my arrival, I filled up a glass straight from the sink and relished my first big sip.
