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This is Lauren Osweiler with K-U-W-T-K News.

You may want to rethink your intake of probiotics after hearing their potential harms.

In hopes for good health, people have been ingesting living micro-organisms in food, capsules, and even beauty products. Probiotics have the potential to improve health, the problem is that the proven benefits have a small number of conditions. Probiotics are less regulated than drugs and they don’t need to be proved effective to be marketed.

From two thousand sixteen to two thousand seventeen, the F.D.A. inspected more than six hundred and fifty facilities and determined that fifty percent had violations. Some of the violations included issues with the purity, strength and even the identity of the promised product. Probiotic supplements have also been found to be contaminated with organisms that are not supposed to be there. Maddy Borden shares her thoughts on the problem, “Probiotics are meant to be good for your body. However, probiotics that aren’t regulated shouldn’t be trusted. Too much ingestion of probiotics can really mess up the resident microbial flora in our bodies. Our normal flora is especially at risk if the probiotics aren’t regulated and there are organisms in them that are harmful to our own microbes.”

In recent news, Florida withdrew the denying of felons to vote.

On Tuesday, Florida voters approved a measure to restore the voting rights of those convicted with felonies as long as they have served their sentences and their crime was not murder or sexual abuse.

Florida was one of just three remaining states that prevented people with felony records from voting, the others being Iowa and Kentucky. A current Iowa resident shares their thoughts, “I honestly don’t think convicted felons should be able to vote. Like, they for real have committed a serious crime. No way should they be able to voice their opinion on who gets to be a leader to the good people when they are bad people.”

In other news, Facebook admits the social media site was used to incite violence in Myanmar. Facebook failed to prevent its platform from being used to “foment division and incite offline violence” one executive said on Monday. A report by Business for Social Responsibility explains how Facebook unwittingly entered a country new to the digital era and still emerging from decades of censorship, all while tormented by political and social divisions. A Morningside student gives her opinion on the matter, “This is very concerning to me. Facebook is supposed to be a place where I can share photos and status updates about my family. Hearing that they are inciting violence in an underdeveloped country honestly hurts my heart.”

This was Lauren Osweiler with K-U-W-T-K News, have a great night.

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Drag Queens and Political Activism

The article basically talks about how drag queens are becoming more political. The frame of the feature story is how drag queens are becoming very popular and people throughout the community are starting to accept them being more involved in the community. The article mentions RuPaul and his opinion on drag queens involved in politics.

I think the nut graf is in the third paragraph when it talks about how drag queens are becoming more political and aren’t just about DragCon and RuPaul’s Drag Race.

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been fired by President Trump on Wednesday, replacing him with a loyalist.

Mr. Sessions delivered his resignation letter to the White House at the request of the president, who called Matthew G. Whitaker, Mr. Session’s chief of staff, as acting attorney general. Mr. Whitaker, a former United States attorney in Iowa and a onetime Senate candidate in that state, has previously questioned the scope of the Trump investigation.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Speech on Climate Change

Leonardo DiCaprio gave a speech last night to the United Nations on climate change. Leonardo DiCaprio was selected by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as the UN Messenger of Peace on Climate Change.

DiCaprio explains throughout his speech the effects of climate change and his findings on the topic. He had traveled around the world the past two years to observe the climate situation.  “All that I have seen and learned on this journey has terrified me,” says DiCaprio.

He then goes on about how the problem is just going to get worse if we decide to ignore these changes and continue on with our daily routines. DiCaprio said, “Our planet cannot be saved unless we leave fossil fuels in the ground where they belong.” DiCaprio received a lot of applause after this statement.

To conclude the speech, DiCaprio told the audience that they need to start making changes today instead of tomorrow.

Leonardo DiCaprio gave a speech last night to the United Nations on climate change.

News Comment 11

Diplomatic pressure from the United States and Britain, Saudi Arabia’s biggest arms suppliers, abruptly intensified on Wednesday for a cease-fire in the Yemen War.

The motion for a halt to the three-and-a-half-year-old conflict — made by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, his British counterpart, Jeremy Hunt, and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis — came against the backdrop of rising global criticism of Saudi Arabia, which has led a bombing campaign that is a major cause of civilian deaths and destruction in Yemen.

“It is time to end this conflict, replace conflict with compromise, and allow the Yemeni people to heal through peace and reconstruction,” Mr. Pompeo said in a statement on the State Department website.

The push comes as relations between Saudi Arabia and the United States have cooled in the month since a prominent dissident, Jamal Khashoggi, was killed.

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Less than 4,000 tigers remain in the wild. New research gives conservationists a better understanding of their genetics in order to help save them.

Scientists report that tigers possess six unique subspecies. One of those subspecies, the South China tiger, survives only in captivity. “The results presented in this paper are important because they contradict the currently accepted international conservation classifications for tigers,” said Uma Ramakrishnan, a molecular ecologist at the National Center for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, India, who was not involved in the study.

With scientists classifying the world’s tigers into two subspecies could harm the remaining tigers rather than benefit them. Preserving what is left of tigers’ genetic diversity will ensure that all remaining subspecies are taken into account.

Dr. Luo hopes that their new finding put to rest a decade-long debate over whether tigers constitute six, five or two subspecies. The latest analysis confirmed six living subspecies: Bengal, Amur, South China, Sumatran, Indochinese and Malayan. Scientists also believe that three additional subspecies — Caspian, Javan and Bali tigers, described in the 1930s — already have been lost to extinction.

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You may want to rethink your intake of probiotics after hearing their potential harms.

In hopes for good health, people have been ingesting living micro-organisms in food, capsules, and even beauty products. Probiotics have the potential to improve health, the problem is that the proven benefits have a small number of conditions. Probiotics are less regulated than drugs and they don’t need to be proved effective to be marketed.

From two thousand sixteen to two thousand seventeen, the F.D.A. inspected more than six hundred and fifty facilities and determined that fifty percent had violations. Some of the violations included issues with the purity, strength and even the identity of the promised product. Probiotic supplements have also been found to be contaminated with organisms that are not supposed to be there.

What is Happening With the Housing Market

The housing market is declining across the United States, but in recent years has stayed strong locally.

According to an article in the New York Times, Denver, a city that is blooming in every aspect, has seen their housing market dwindle recently. Sales and construction activity have slowed in recent months. Also, houses that would once have drawn countless offers are now sitting on the market for days or weeks.

The selling prices on houses are slowly rising while asking prices are being slashed to bring in buyers. The decline in the housing market isn’t only in Denver, it has hit cities such as New York, Seattle, and even San Francisco. The common reason behind this issue is home buyers are reaching a breaking point after years of breakneck price increases that far exceed income gains.

In an article from CNN, one of the problems is contractors are not building as much as they used to. With the crackdown on immigration, contractors are losing employees being one cause of the decline in new homes. There are also tariffs on imported lumber making it more difficult and expensive for builders.

Despite what is happening around the country, Sioux City’s housing market is continuing to hold out throughout the years. According to an article in the Sioux City Journal, Kerry Fladung, vice president of the Siouxland Rental Association, says, “It’s easier to find a place. Instead of five people looking to rent one house, maybe it’s 1.5 or 2 people looking to rent one house. And they’re not desperate for it.”

Fladung said that the market is becoming more balanced, unlike how it once was when people would have to drop everything they’re doing and call immediately. Although the rental market is slowing down, Julie Fischer, a Sioux City real estate agent, says the market remains strong.

Madison Schueth, a third-year student but graduating this spring, had thoughts on the housing market in Sioux City. “I feel like its bad” Schueth says but other sources say otherwise. In Schueths defense, she doesn’t plan on staying in Sioux City and plans on living wherever she decides to go to graduate school.

Meagan Andersen, a recent Morningside graduate, says that it wasn’t hard for her and her roommates to find a house. “But I do feel like we just settled. I wish we would have looked at other options.” Andersen says.

Rare Paralysis Cases Found in Minnesota

I chose a national story about Acute Flaccid Myelitis, A.F.M.  The news article, where I first found this news, was from the New York Times and had a lot of information about the virus. The news broadcast was found on CNN’s website.

The lead in the article was decent, could have been more interesting, but got the point across to the reader. In the broadcast, the lead is sort of crappy in my opinion. The lead in the broadcast just seems boring and not very interesting unless you could be affected by the story. Both stories are structured well in what they say.

The article definitely has more information than the broadcast. This is probably because the broadcast is only given so much time to tell viewers what is happening. In the article though, it tells readers what the virus is, how to prevent it, how common the virus is and what causes the virus. Whereas the broadcast just talked about what the virus is, how common it is, and side-effects.

The article got most of its information from the C.D.C. and had some direct quotes from them. The broadcast also received its information from the C.D.C., but I believe they paraphrased everything that was said. Overall, both stories gave credit to the C.D.C. for the information.

The article didn’t have any pictures, but the broadcast of course did. The broadcast showed a family affected by the virus. The broadcast also showed part of an interview with the father of a child with the virus.

 

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