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In a big safety breach, a journalist was unintentionally added to a gaggle chat with high U.S. nationwide safety officers to debate plans to bomb the Houthis in Yemen. Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was invited to the chat on March 11 on the encrypted messaging app Sign, which is not a safe authorities community. Goldberg revealed the message chain’s existence yesterday in a story in The Atlantic.

• 🎧 Goldberg initially thought the invitation was a hoax, NPR’s Greg Myre tells Up First. Nevertheless, over the following few days, Goldberg mentioned the texts more and more appeared extra actual. He informed All Issues Thought-about that simply two hours after receiving a struggle plan, U.S. bombing began in Yemen. The Nationwide Safety Council launched an announcement yesterday saying the fabric “gave the impression to be genuine.” Based mostly on Goldberg’s account, no senior nationwide safety official raised concerns about sharing war plans on Sign.

A federal appeals court docket in Washington, D.C., is reviewing whether or not the White Home can deport alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua utilizing the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a rarely-used wartime authority. The Trump administration invoked the state secrets and techniques privilege final evening and plans to proceed withholding key details about the deportation flights that will have violated court docket orders.

• 🎧 The Alien Enemies Act has solely been used 3 times in U.S. historical past, all when the nation was at struggle, in response to NPR’s Joel Rose. The Trump administration argues the act ought to apply to those deportations as nicely as a result of it has designated Tren de Aragua a international terrorist group. A decide reaffirmed his temporary restraining order barring the administration from utilizing the act to deport Venezuelans on the grounds that these migrants haven’t been given due course of to argue that they don’t seem to be members of the gang. The White Home says it is assured that all the folks deported utilizing the act are a part of the violent gang. The administration conceded in authorized findings that “many” do not have legal information within the U.S.

Second girl Usha Vance is touring to Greenland this week, elevating eyebrows due to President Trump’s repeated feedback suggesting that the U.S. ought to take it over. Denmark controls the territory, which is a strategic location wealthy in minerals utilized in know-how. Greenland and Denmark have rebuked Trump’s statements, making it recognized the land isn’t on the market. The White Home says Vance’s journey is a cultural tour, and she or he is predicted to go to historic sights, study Greenland’s heritage and attend its nationwide dogsled race.

• 🎧 NPR’s Deepa Shivaram says that is an uncommon journey for Vance. Individuals who have studied first and second women inform Shivaram they had been shocked concerning the journey announcement due to how contentious the politics are. As a result of it is early within the administration, it’s unclear what Vance’s portfolio is or what points she’ll concentrate on. It is attainable she might carve out area to convey a constructive picture of the U.S. and herself. The response from Greenland has been unfavourable, Shivaram says. The prime minister mentioned in a Greenlandic newspaper that the territory has to face the seriousness of the U.S. eager to annex it.

Deep dive

The state of Virginia has seen drug overdose deaths plunge by greater than 40% in a single 12 months. Many different states are seeing enhancements above 30%. Why is that this taking place? Researchers say it might be a mix of things, some hopeful and a few painful.

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During the last six months, NPR’s Brian Mann has been monitoring the thriller behind why drug deaths are plummeting within the U.S. at a charge specialists say is hopeful but baffling. Beforehand, probably the most formidable efforts to gradual drug deaths solely resulted in lowering deadly overdoses by 8% or 9%. On the time, that was a giant win. Now, nationwide, deaths have plunged over 26% from the height in June 2023, in response to the most recent preliminary knowledge by the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention. That’s roughly 30,000 fewer folks dying yearly. Here are some leading theories behind the decline, in response to specialists:

• ➡️ Public well being employees say Naloxone, also referred to as Narcan, has had a huge effect. The nasal spray rapidly reverses opioid and fentanyl overdoses and has been distributed free in lots of high-risk communities.
• ➡️ In lots of elements of the U.S., the fentanyl bought by drug sellers has seen a big drop in purity, in response to organizations that take a look at the drug.
• ➡️ It is attainable the deaths are declining partly as a result of a heartbreaking variety of folks utilizing fentanyl and different road medicine did not survive. Over the previous 5 years, roughly 110,000 folks have died resulting from drug overdoses yearly within the U.S.
• ➡️ Analysis suggests fewer younger folks and youngsters are utilizing medicine apart from hashish. This pattern issues as a result of new customers have low bodily tolerance for opioids, making them extra more likely to overdose and doubtlessly die.

Dwelling higher

TikTok movies on ADHD — consideration deficit hyperactivity dysfunction — are sometimes not backed up by credible sources.

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Dwelling Higher is a special series about what it takes to remain wholesome in America.

TikTok has grow to be a well-liked go-to supply for sharing ADHD recommendation and experiences for teenagers and younger adults. ADHD-related hashtags have garnered thousands and thousands of views. Content material creators faucet into humor and themes that really feel relatable to many dwelling with the psychological well being situation. Therapists say the content material has helped lead many adults to a analysis after being ignored for years. Nevertheless, a brand new research discovered that much of the information was misleading.

• 📱 Many content material creators oversimplified or overstated the signs of ADHD with out dependable sources to again them up.
• 📱 A relentless stream of this content material might result in folks changing into “hyperaware of lapses in focus,” says Vasileia Karasavva, the research’s creator and a postdoctoral scholar on the College of British Columbia. That would clarify why folks view signs as extra extreme once they watch extra of those movies.
• 📱 Within the movies, strains will be blurred between ADHD signs and signs that will level to different psychological well being circumstances like anxiousness and melancholy, says Kevin Antshel, a medical psychologist at Syracuse College.
• 📱 The common American could have two or three ADHD signs, however that does not correlate to a analysis. It’s a largely genetic situation, says Maggie Sibley, a medical psychologist on the College of Washington College of Drugs. It is not a brief response to an individual’s surroundings.

3 issues to know earlier than you go

USA’s Lindsey Vonn poses together with her second place medal on the rostrum for the ladies’s Tremendous-G occasion on the Audi FIS Ski World Cup Solar Valley Finals in Solar Valley, Idaho on March 23, 2025.

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1. Lindsay Vonn, one of many world’s most adorned skiers, made historical past on Sunday by becoming the oldest woman to earn a medal in a World Cup race at age 40.
2. An overdue copy of Wild West by Bertrand W. Sinclair was returned to a Cincinnati library last year — 98 years late. The e-book was due again on Nov. 23, 1926. (through WVXU)
3. Jim Pollard, 70, has had a lifelong fascination with fossils and their tales. He opened his own museum referred to as the Southern Minnesota Museum of Pure Historical past. The small storefront close to the Minnesota-Iowa border is about up with fossil shows. (through MPR News)

This article was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.