by | Sep 13, 2024 | Fox News
Aging may not be quite as gradual as it seems.
A new study from Stanford University in California has revealed that there are two periods when aging seems to accelerate.
These two spurts tend to occur around age 44 and again at age 60, the study found.
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In the study, 108 participants ranging from 25 to 75 years old gave blood and biological samples over the course of several years, according to a Stanford University press release.
The researchers analyzed more than 135,000 molecules and microorganisms (bacteria, viruses and fungi), finding that most of them don’t change in a “gradual, chronological fashion.”
“We’re not just changing gradually over time; there are some really dramatic changes,” said Michael Snyder, PhD, professor of genetics and the study’s senior author, in the release.
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“It turns out the mid-40s is a time of dramatic change, as is the early 60s. And that’s true no matter what class of molecules you look at.”
The findings were published in the journal Nature Aging last month.
Dr. Brittany Ferri, a New York-based occupational therapist with the National Council on Aging, agreed that aging doesn’t always happen steadily.
“Big changes can happen at certain points in your life,” Ferri, who was not involved in the study, told Fox News Digital. “People tend to experience shifts that will impact their health going forward.”
In their 40s, people are likely to face more stress or make lifestyle changes that could affect their well-being, and by the 60s, age-related changes will impact the organs and immune system, according to Ferri.
“With aging happening in distinct stages, certain phases will bring noticeable shifts in how the body functions,” she added.
These “abrupt changes” can have an impact on people’s health as they age, the study found.
“During your 40s and 60s, key molecules and microbes related to heart health and the immune system change considerably,” Ferri told Fox News Digital after reviewing the findings.
“In your 40s, changes in molecules that affect how your body processes fats and alcohol could raise your risk of heart disease if they’re not managed well,” she went on.
“In your 60s, shifts in your immune system can make you more prone to age-related health problems.”
The researchers noted that they were not surprised by the shift in the early 60s, as this is a time when age-related diseases and conditions tend to emerge.
The surge in the mid-40s, however, was not expected. While they initially thought this shift was due to menopause or perimenopause in women, they realized it was also occurring for men at that age.
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“This suggests that while menopause or perimenopause may contribute to the changes observed in women in their mid-40s, there are likely other, more significant factors influencing these changes in both men and women,” first author Xiaotao Shen, PhD, a former Stanford Medicine postdoctoral scholar, said in the release.
“Identifying and studying these factors should be a priority for future research.”
The main limitation is that these changes could be caused by lifestyle or behavioral factors that tend to emerge in the 40s and 60s, Snyder acknowledged.
Looking ahead, the team plans to conduct further research into these aging spurts.
They also emphasized the importance of healthy behaviors to counteract these changes.
“That could look like increasing exercise to protect your heart and maintain muscle mass at both ages or decreasing alcohol consumption in your 40s as your ability to metabolize alcohol slows,” the researchers wrote.
Added Snyder, “I’m a big believer that we should try to adjust our lifestyles while we’re still healthy.”
For those in their 40s, it’s important to eat healthy, manage stress, and cut back on alcohol to support the changes in metabolism and heart health, according to Ferri.
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“In your 60s, try to focus on staying active to help boost your immune system and stay at a healthy weight,” she recommended.
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The Stanford study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Stanford Data Science Initiative.
Fox News Digital reached out to the researchers for comment.
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by | Sep 13, 2024 | Fox News
District Attorney Fani Willis did not testify at a Georgia state senate hearing Friday after she was subpoenaed for her testimony.
The Senate Special Committee on Investigations, chaired by Republican state Sen. Bill Cowsert, subpoenaed Willis to compel her testimony related to the committee’s investigation into allegations she misused taxpayer funds.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Cowsert said after Willis refused to testify voluntarily, the committee issued a subpoena, adding her legal counsel had indicated to the committee she would not be complying with the subpoena.
“We think it’s unlikely that she will appear but disappointing that she considers herself above the law,” Cowert said.
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The state Senate will likely seek to compel her testimony through a judicial order that will work its way through the court system the next few weeks.
“We do have the authority to investigate and to issue subpoenas to compel testimony and the production of documents, and if tested in court, that will be validated,” Cowsert said Thursday prior to the hearing.
“She’ll be required to attend, and she’ll be required to produce certain requested documents. It may require a court order for her to obey them, but that’s where we’re headed.”
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Friday’s hearing featured a presentation from David Cook, the former Georgia secretary of the Senate, on the investigative powers of legislative bodies and the ability to subpoena.
Legislative counsel Stuart Morelli will also testify on the committee’s legal authority to conduct investigations and to subpoena individuals to testify or to produce documents.
The Republican-led committee was established in January by a resolution that passed by a 30-19 vote.
Willis, who is spearheading the sweeping prosection case against former President Trump, has come under scrutiny after she was accused in February of having an “improper” affair with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, whom she had hired to help prosecute the case.
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A decision by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee not to disqualify her from the case is now on appeal, and that hearing is slated for December.
On Thursday, Judge McAfee dismissed two criminal counts in Willis’ case against Trump, ruling that prosecutors had no authority to bring the charges, which related to alleged filing of false documents in federal court.
The Georgia Senate committee has already held several hearings, including one featuring the testimony of a whistleblower who said she was fired after she raised concerns about Willis’ office’s alleged misuse of funds.
Willis said in May she believes the committee has no authority to subpoena her and told a news reporter she “will not appear to anything that is unlawful.”
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“I have not broken the law in any way,” Willis told reporters at a press conference in May. “I’m sorry folks get p—ed off that everyone gets treated equally.”
But Cowsert said the committee members are “all extremely confident that we’re acting within the constitutional and legislative authority of the state Senate.”
A representative for Willis did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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by | Sep 13, 2024 | Fox News
The Mexican government has started busing migrants to the U.S. border if they have appointments under a controversial use of a phone app implemented by the Biden administration that allows migrants to be paroled into the U.S.
The Mexican National Institute of Migration posted the video of what it said was the first bus transporting “foreigners” from Tapachula in the south of the country near Guatemala, to Reynosa near the U.S. border. It said that migrants will attend their appointments scheduled via the CBP One app. It is part of an “Emerging Safe Mobility Corridor” launched by the Mexican government last month.
The CBP One app was expanded during the Biden administration to allow up to 1,450 migrants per day to schedule an appointment at a U.S. port of entry to be paroled into the U.S. if they meet certain conditions. The app also allows them to upload documents ahead of that appointment.
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The Biden administration has said that the app is a key part of its migration strategy, which involves increasing funding to the border while expanding “lawful” migration pathways. It has also used the app to allow up to 30,000 nationals from four countries to fly directly into the U.S. after being approved.
But Republicans have accused the administration of abusing humanitarian parole, which is supposed to be used on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit. They have said that the administration is waving in migrants quasi-legally, and have pointed to numbers suggesting that over 95% of migrants who schedule an appointment are allowed in.
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The Mexican government announced in a press release last month the plan to transport foreigners to the U.S. border as part of a “safe mobility corridor.” Mexico said it will issue a temporary 20-day visa for those with a confirmed CBP One appointment, and give them transportation as well as food.
The app recently came under fire from a DHS Inspector General report, which found issues with vetting among other problems with the app.
“Although CBP uses biographic and biometric information submitted to CBP One to determine whether arriving noncitizens have derogatory records, it does not leverage the information to identify suspicious trends as part of its pre-arrival vetting procedures,” the report said.
Meanwhile, immigration has become a top election issue after a three-year crisis at the southern border that repeatedly smashed records. The Biden administration has called for the backing of a bipartisan Senate bill that would increase funding to the border. It has blamed the crisis on the failure of Congress to provide that funding.
DHS is also pointing to a sharp decrease in apprehensions since President Biden signed an order to allow authorities to temporarily suspend the entry of illegal immigrants across the border. Officials say that has led to a 50% decrease in apprehensions since that time. It also says it has removed more than 131,000 individuals to 144 countries, including 420 international deportation flights. Officials say they have also tripled the percentage of non-citizens processed through Expedited Removal to Mexico while in custody.
Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, have blamed the crisis on the policies of the administration and the rolling back of what they see as successful Trump-era policies. Trump has promised to shut down parole policies and launch a massive deportation operation if elected in November.
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by | Sep 13, 2024 | Fox News
FIRST ON FOX: There is a new bipartisan effort in Congress to take on the growing threat of cyberattacks by China and other U.S. adversaries.
A bill led by Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, would impose new guardrails on the technology the U.S. government is able to purchase by forcing a federal agency or office to only purchase it from “original equipment manufacturers” or “authorized resellers,” according to the bill text obtained by Fox News Digital.
Fallon explained this would ensure U.S. technology is bought from “trusted sources” rather than a third party that could potentially be sourcing that equipment from nations like China, Russia or Iran.
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“[O]ur adversaries have been targeting our hardware and software systems through selling the U.S. government counterfeit products through what are known as ‘gray market’ sellers,” Fallon explained. “These products, although marketed as genuine hardware, allow our enemies to gain access to U.S. government systems, making it far easier to conduct subsequent cyberattacks.”
The Texas Republican warned the U.S. was being hit with “millions of attacks daily,” and that the growing sophistication of artificial intelligence (AI) technology was making cyberattacks easier to pull off.
The House bill, the Securing America’s Federal Equipment (SAFE) Supply Chains Act, is backed by a bipartisan companion bill in the Senate.
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That push is being led by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Senate Homeland Security Committee Chair Gary Peters, D-Mich.
A “gray market” refers to an alternative channel for purchasing and selling genuine goods without the authorization of the manufacturer.
It has been a particularly prevalent issue in the high-tech sphere, and though the lack of transparency makes its full scope hard to quantify, the technology gray market is believed to have cost manufacturers billions of dollars in losses, according to AGMA Global.
China’s technology gray market is prevalent. A report from the Hong Kong-based Asia Times earlier this year said Chinese firms were getting around U.S. export controls to acquire high-end American AI chips for their own military and research uses.
Additionally, while the U.S. government does have existing bans on certain Beijing-backed companies, the new bill would prevent China from using middle men to obscure those and other illicit sources and flooding the U.S. market.
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Fallon said the legislation would “prevent the federal government from even being at risk of being duped into procuring these harmful products.”
“The world is at peak instability and danger. Simply put, we are at an inflection point, which means we must do everything in our power to protect our vulnerable systems from cyber-attacks and intrusion from our enemies,” he said.
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by | Sep 13, 2024 | Fox News
Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark stepped off the court and into the batting cage on Thursday.
Clark donned an Indianapolis Indians jersey – the Triple-A minor league baseball affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates – and was in the cage at the stadium. She was hitting off of a tee.
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“It could go anywhere,” she said as she stepped into the batter’s box.
She connected with the ball, and it went all the way down toward the other end of the cage.
“Dinger!” she said after taking her hack.
Clark is about to wrap up the first professional regular season of her WNBA career – and a pretty successful one at that.
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The Fever are back in the playoffs for the first time since the 2016 season, when Tamika Catchings was leading the charge. Indiana’s 19 wins so far this year are also the most since the team had 20 victories during the 2015 season.
A lot of it has to do with Clark and how she has meshed in the offense with last year’s Rookie of the Year Aliyah Boston and veteran guard Kelsey Mitchell.
Since the Olympics break, the Fever turned on the jets and showed off just how much they were able to connect during the month off. The Christie Sides-led team is 8-3 since returning to the floor on Aug. 16.
Indiana has three games left on the year, including one on Friday night against the Las Vegas Aces. The Fever wrap their home schedule on Sunday against the Dallas Wings and finish the 2024 season in Washington, D.C., against the Washington Mystics.
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