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1️⃣ Grim warning: The world’s ice sheets are on course for runaway melting, leading to multiple feet of sea level rise and “catastrophic” migration. The dire prognosis from a group of international scientists suggests that coastlines will pay the heaviest price.

2️⃣ Vaccine shift: The US Food and Drug Administration is changing the way it approves Covid-19 vaccines for Americans — a move that will limit future shots to seniors and others at higher risk. Millions of healthy adults and kids will likely lose access under the new criteria.

3️⃣ Trendy toy: Miniature plushies from China that resemble gremlins exploded into a global sensation with Gen Z. Devoted fans are willing to splurge to expand their collections, so the Labubu dolls seemingly have become recession-proof.

4️⃣ Valuable stash: Two hikers stumbled upon a mysterious aluminum box sticking out of a stony wall in the Czech Republic. Inside were bracelets, cigar cases, a compact, a comb and 598 gold coins. Archaeologists offered some possible explanations.

5️⃣ Dare to bare: Although still taboo in some places, shedding your clothes at the seashore is perfectly acceptable at many spots around the world. Our travel team rounded up 25 of the best nude beaches.

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🤖 Built for agility: Biologists and engineers at the University of California in Berkeley worked together to create a robot that can mimic the leaping and landing abilities of squirrels. See it in action.

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121,000

🧑‍💼 That’s how many federal workers were laid off or targeted for layoffs by the Department of Government Efficiency during Trump’s first 100 days in office. Thousands more took buyouts.

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🐲 Species in peril: Known for their mushroom-shaped canopies and the red sap that courses through their wood, dragon’s blood trees exist in only one place on Earth. Now their survival is under threat.

 Agency leaders said there was evidence to justify approval only for older people and those with medical conditions. Many others may not be able to get the shots.

Top officials for the Food and Drug Administration laid out new standards for updated COVID shots, saying they’d continue to use a streamlined approach to make them available to adults 65 and older as well as children and younger adults with at least one high-risk health problem.

But the FDA framework, published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, urges companies to conduct large, lengthy studies before tweaked vaccines can be approved for healthier people. It’s a stark break from the previous federal policy recommending an annual COVID shot for all Americans six months and older. In the paper and a subsequent online webcast, the FDA’s top vaccine official said more than 100 million Americans still should qualify for what he termed a booster under the new guidance.

Dr. Vinay Prasad described the new approach as a “reasonable compromise” that will allow vaccinations in high-risk groups to continue while generating new data about whether they still benefit healthier people.

 ATLANTA (AP) — A pregnant woman in Georgia who was declared brain dead after a medical emergency has been on life support for three months to let the fetus grow enough to be delivered, a move her family says a hospital told them was required under the state’s strict anti-abortion law.

With her due date still more than three months away, it could be one of the longest such pregnancies. Her family is upset that Georgia’s law that restricts abortion once cardiac activity is detected doesn’t allow relatives to have a say in whether a pregnant woman is kept on life support.

Georgia’s so-called “heartbeat law” is among the restrictive abortion statutes that have been put in place in many conservative states since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade three years ago.

Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old mother and nurse, was declared brain-dead — meaning she is legally dead — in February, her mother, April Newkirk, told Atlanta TV station WXIA.

Newkirk said her daughter had intense headaches more than three months ago and went to Atlanta’s Northside Hospital, where she received medication and was released. The next morning, her boyfriend woke to her gasping for air and called 911. Emory University Hospital determined she had blood clots in her brain and she was declared brain-dead.

Newkirk said Smith is now 21 weeks pregnant. Removing breathing tubes and other life-saving devices would likely kill the fetus.

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Northside did not respond to a request for comment Thursday. Emory Healthcare said it could not comment on an individual case because of privacy rules, but released a statement saying it “uses consensus from clinical experts, medical literature, and legal guidance to support our providers as they make individualized treatment recommendations in compliance with Georgia’s abortion laws and all other applicable laws. Our top priorities continue to be the safety and wellbeing of the patients we serve.”

 The comic shared her gratitude for the doctor who made her feel “seen” and“lifted" her pain at the Endometriosis Foundation of America's Blossom Ball

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• Amy Schumer said she was “vomiting from the pain” before her 2021 endometriosis diagnosis
• The comic gave a surprise speech at the 13th Annual Endometriosis Foundation of America's Blossom Ball in New York City, where she thanked Dr. Tamer Seckin for lifting "the pain" from her body
• Schumer said her appendix was “choked” by endometriosis, which gave her "chocolate cysts" in her ovaries. She said it was a “miracle" she could carry her son Gene

Amy Schumer said she was “on the floor in pain" and "vomiting” because of endometriosis before her diagnosis, explaining that her body was essentially “choked” by the effects of the disease.

The Kinda Pregnant actress, 43, had a hysterectomy and an appendectomy to help treat the disease in September 2021. Four years later, Schumer took the stage on Thursday, May 15, for a surprise speech at the 13th Annual Endometriosis Foundation of America's Blossom Ball at The Pierre in New York City.

In her speech at the event, Schumer told the crowd she was living in "pain that nobody can see" for "most days of the month" before receiving her official diagnosis of endometriosis.

The condition "is a disease in which tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside the uterus," according to the World Health Organization, which estimates that approximately 190 million women worldwide have the disease.

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It wasn’t until the 2019 birth of her son, Gene David Fischer, whom she shares with husband Chris Fischer, that Schumer said her doctor diagnosed her with endometriosis and adenomyosis — when tissue grows into the uterine wall — and sent her to see Dr. Tamer Seckin, founder of the advocacy group EndoFound.

Schumer said it was “a unique experience to have the proof for the first time. To sit down in his office, and have him go through and show me the 33 [attachments] that I had from endo. That my appendix was being choked by endometriosis.

"That I had chocolate cysts [which are full of old blood] in my ovaries," Schumer continued. "And that it was a miracle that I was able to carry a child.”

The conversation, she said, left her “just weeping and weeping and weeping.”

“Sitting there, feeling seen, he lifted the pain out of my body. I am pain-free now for about five or six years,” Schumer said.

She then used her signature stand-up comedy to thank Dr. Seckin for deciding to “not focus in the medical field on what so many do, which is d—k pills, right?"

She joked, "We'll get to the women next lifetime.”

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Schumer previously opened up about how her diagnosis for endometriosis changed her life. While appearing on the Paramount+ docuseries The Checkup with Dr. David Agus in 2022, Schumer said getting treatment for the disease even changed how she parented her young son.

"I felt like a new person. It was incredible," she said at the time. "I feel like someone lifted this veil that had been over me and I just felt like a different person and like a new mom."