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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ipresnel on 2025-04-03 18:57:33+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1989 Val Kilmer punched and threw actress Caitlin O’Heaney to the floor during an audition for the lead female role of The Doors. There was not any punching in the scene Oliver Stone laughed about it and the company wrote her a check for $24,500 to not discuss the allegations publicly.

Teams that fulfilled requests for government documents lost their jobs on Tuesday as part of the Trump administration's 10,000-person staff cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services. Their work, mandated by Congress since the 1960s under the Freedom of Information Act or FOIA, gives the public a view of the inner workings of federal health agencies.

Some public records teams were entirely cut at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health and other agencies on Tuesday, according to multiple current and former staffers who did not want to be named because of fears of retribution. A few people have been left standing on other FOIA teams within these agencies, for now.

Lyon (AFP) – A French court on Thursday sentenced a daycare worker to 25 years in prison for killing a baby by making the infant drink drain cleaner to stop her from crying.

Myriam Jaouen, 30, was charged with murder but the court in the southeastern city of Lyon found her guilty of "torture" and "barbarism resulting in death," but with no intention to kill.

There is an "unfathomable" element to the 2022 killing of baby Lisa, said prosecutor Baptiste Godreau, adding that Jaouen was "perfectly conscious" of what she was doing.

He said that the "heavy" sentence was needed to punish "the extreme seriousness of this act, for having taken the life of a defenceless child in a cowardly fashion, to protect society in a lasting way and to protect the interests of the family".

The accused admitted in police custody that she had given Lisa the corrosive liquid, but insisted that she had not intended to kill her.

She gave several versions before admitting during the trial that she had held the child's head and poured the product directly into her mouth.

She said that she could no longer bear the infant's crying.

Baby Lisa's parents were "shocked" that Jaouen had not been convicted of murder, their lawyer said after the trial.

The verdict "adds pain to pain," Catherine Bourgade told reporters, adding that the parents "have the impression of having lost their child twice."

"Who can put drain cleaner into the mouth of a child and then tell us that she didn't mean to kill her?" Bourgade said, adding that she hoped the prosecution would appeal the verdict.

Godreau denounced the defendant's "cowardice" after the incident, saying she did not call for help herself, got rid of the bottle before she finished her workday and then went shopping, seemingly indifferent to the baby's "agony."

At the time of the killing, the woman, who is partially deaf, was living with her parents after a difficult school career and on-off jobs in the sector.

Despite her lack of experience, Jaouen was hired by the People and Baby group, a major player in the creche sector in France, which managed the nursery.

On June 22, 2022, she was alone at the opening of the facility when Lisa's father dropped off the infant.

A few minutes later, two women who had come to drop off their sons found the employee panicking and the child vomiting.

The girl, seriously burned, died hours later at the hospital where she was taken.

The death sparked outrage in France and triggered investigations by the government and media which highlighted shortcomings in the private daycare sector.

In their evidence at the trial, Lisa's parents sought to highlight the responsibility of the defendant, whom they described as the "monster" who killed their daughter.

“It was like a heavyweight sparring featherweights,” the attorney said about his time representing companies owned by Trump’s in-laws, whose apartments were known for shoddy maintenance and aggressive legal tactics.

Cross-posted from "TIL that the name Beverly means "beaver clearing" or "beaver meadow"" by @CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world in !til@lemmy.world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_(name)

Unlike other systems that Doge has accessed, two former HHS officials say, the UAC portal contains no financial or employee records and is intended to be a means of tracking unaccompanied children to provide them with care. The portal’s data is highly sensitive because the children’s case files may include reports of trauma such as physical or sexual abuse, and because the data could be used for immigration enforcement purposes.

“I certainly would be concerned about Doge access to the portal – why it was used, which child information was accessed and for what purpose? Were mental health records accessed?” former HHS official Jen Smyers said. “These are the most vulnerable children in their most vulnerable moments.”

In a city like Madrid, men live, on average, three years longer in the Chamartín neighborhood, with greater purchasing power, than in Puente de Vallecas, a working-class area. The trend is similar worldwide, because economic capacity correlates with health and life expectancy. However, according to a recent publication in The New England Journal of Medicine, this dynamic changes when comparing the rich and poor in the U.S. and Europe.

The study, led by Irene Papanicolas, a professor of health services at the Brown School of Public Health, sampled 73,000 Americans and Europeans aged between 50 and 85. They were followed since 2010 to observe the effect of wealth on an individual’s likelihood of dying. First, it was found that, in both the U.S. and Europe, the rich lived longer than the poor, although the gap was much greater in the United States.

This finding was consistent with previous studies showing that the wealthy live longer, but when the comparison was made across continents, the result was even more surprising. Mortality rates across all wealth levels in the U.S. were higher than in the European regions included in the study. The wealthiest Americans had a lower life expectancy than the wealthiest Europeans, and did not exceed that of the poorest in some European countries such as Germany, France, and the Netherlands.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60281002

cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/5558928

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/mvea on 2025-04-03 10:04:48+00:00.

Original Title: Study found that people who were not married were less at risk (at least 50% lower risk) than married people for dementia. One contributing factor may be that single people are better at maintaining social ties. Single people may also have a greater variety of interesting and unique experiences.