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Thank you @Ring for helping capture this 🥹😭 welcome home next door baby!!! #ring #newborn #pregnant #duedate

Good morning,

Need a smile? Or a cry? Watch this viral video of a couple updating their neighbors that they were “still pregnant” through their Ring doorbell camera. And then their update (in hushed voices) after the baby was born, “We had the baby… not pregnant.”

Technology: it’s not always bad 🙂 

Mosheh, Jill, & Lauren

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⚖️ PARENTS OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL SHOOTER GET 10-15 YEARS IN PRISON

The parents of the teenager responsible for the 2021 school shooting in Oxford, Michigan were each sentenced yesterday to 10-15 years in prison, after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter in separate jury trials.

It’s the first time parents of a school shooter faced manslaughter charges, and follows spikes in school shooting incidents in the US over the past few years.

POSSIBLE DETERRENT
Both James and Jennifer were found guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter after their then-15-year-old son, Ethan Crumbley, fatally shot four students and injured seven others.

• The case centered around the Crumbley parents buying their son a gun, not properly securing it, and not taking action when the school notified them of troubling behavior.

• Sentencing guidelines suggest a maximum sentence of about seven years in jail, but prosecutors pushed for more.

• Judge Cheryl Matthews said that the expanded sentence of 10-15 years was "to act as a deterrent" and reflected the parents' failure to stop the attack.

  • "Parents are not expected to be psychic, but these convictions are not about poor parenting. These convictions confirm repeated acts, or lack of acts, that could have halted an oncoming runaway train -- about repeatedly ignoring things that would make a reasonable person feel the hair on the back of their neck," Judge Matthews said.

  • Their son Ethan, now 17, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life without parole.

💡 57 COMPANIES LINKED TO 80% OF CO2 EMISSIONS SINCE 2016

As many people try to buy electric cars, eat less meat, and reduce water usage, new data points to a relatively small group of companies that contribute to 80% of the world’s CO2 emissions.

It comes as March was the 10th straight month in a row to break monthly heat records.

BEHIND THE NUMBERS
From 2016-2022, 57 fossil fuel and cement producers accounted for the majority of global emissions, the non-profit InfluenceMap found.

• Leading the pack: Three state-owned groups in Saudi Arabia (Saudi Aramco), Russia (Gazprom), and India (Coal India). While US oil & gas producers like ExxonMobil dominate the private sector, emission surges are primarily led by state-owned producers, particularly in the Asian coal sector.

  • During the timeframe, state-owned companies accounted for 37% of CO2 emissions.

  • Since the start of the industrial revolution, 122 companies have been linked to 72% of all the fossil fuel and cement CO2 emissions, with Chinese state coal production alone accounting for 14% of historic global emissions.

  • The US is currently the largest oil and gas producer in the world, but production is broken up among different companies rather than one massive state-owned group.

• 🚨 Since 2016, most of the companies expanded their fossil fuel production. This is notable as the UN Paris Climate Agreement, which Russia and Indian signed, went into effect that year.

WHAT’S NEXT
March 2024 averaged 14.14 degrees Celsius or 57.9 degrees Fahrenheit — that’s 1.68 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrialized times. It’s now used as the base to measure rising temperatures.

• The Paris Agreement set a target of keeping warming at or below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit).

• The El Nino season, which peaked in December-January, is weakening and could lead to cooler temperatures next year. If that doesn’t happen, scientists warn climate change could enter “uncharted territory.”

🤰 NEW THINKING AROUND “GERIATRIC" PREGNANCIES

35 ain’t what it used to be when it comes to pregnancy. In fact, some say it may be nearing a “sweet spot.” New CDC data shows that over half of babies born in the US last year were to mothers over the age of 30, and a record number of women had their first child in their 40s.

While pregnancies for women ages 35+ were once labeled as "geriatric" — causing some to say?! (here’s one woman’s shock)— there is a shifting understanding surrounding the term and the implications, and even benefits, of pregnancies later in life.

HOW WE GOT HERE
Last year, 17% of mothers in the US were ages 35-39 and 4% were 40+ — nearly double from 25 years ago.

• Research shows that certain complications are still more likely for women over 35 years old, but some studies are also showing some benefits.

• The term “geriatric pregnancy” emerged back in the 1970s with the popularity of amniocentesis, a test to screen for genetic disorders like Down syndrome and spina bifida. The NIH said 35 was the age that the test’s risk of harming the fetus was roughly equal to the chance of a fetus being born with Down syndrome.

  • More recent data shows that the test is less risky than previously believed, and the idea that 35 is some sort of cut-off is absurd.

• Sometimes it’s better to be 35+: Non-invasive prenatal tests (NIPT), which also screen for genetic conditions, are accessible to patients of any age. However, some insurance companies cover the cost of the test for mothers 35+.

MORE BRIGHT SIDES
And more testing sometimes means better health results. Because soon-to-be mothers over 35 receive more prenatal care, research indicates that they had slightly less prenatal mortality compared with slightly younger women.

• Mo money: The gender wage gap is smaller for women who wait to have have kids after 35.

• Mo memories: Another study says having your last child after age 35 could lead to better brainpower after menopause (like verbal memory).

Doctors are catching on that 35-year-olds don’t love being called “geriatric.” A recent poll found that 40% of pregnant women in their mid-30s and older have seen their healthcare providers start using "35+ pregnancy" or “advanced maternal age” instead of "geriatric pregnancy."

• It follows the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) guidelines that the preferred terminology is “pregnancy at age 35 years or older,” and that rather than lumping all 35+ pregnancies into a single group, pregnancy risks should be evaluated within specific five-year age brackets (35-39, 40-44, and so on).

⏳ SPEED READ

🚨NATION

📌 Senate Democrats to dismiss Mayorkas charges today, skip full impeachment trial (AXIOS)

📌 Norfolk Southern reaches $600M settlement more than a year after Ohio train derailment (CBS NEWS)

📌 Idaho teen arrested and accused of planning to kill churchgoers in the name of ISIS (NBC NEWS)

📌 18 states sue to block Biden's student loan handout plan as lawsuits pile up (FOX BUSINESS)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 2,000 Swiss women win landmark climate change ruling (AXIOS)

📌 Netanyahu's defense minister contradicts him, tells U.S. Rafah invasion date not set (AXIOS)

📌 “Where is the outrage?” Secretary of State Blinken says world is “deafeningly silent” when it comes to Hamas (MO NEWS)

📌 Russia, China to work on ‘double counteracting’ US-led alliance (BLOOMBERG)

📌 Canadian DNA lab knew its paternity tests identified the wrong dads, but it kept selling them (CBC)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 TikTok to take challenge Instagram with new TikTok photo app (BBC)

📌 New EPA rules for about 200 US chemical manufacturers take aim at ‘cancer alleys’ (CNN)

📌 More Americans now prefer hybrid over fully remote work, survey finds (AXIOS)

📌 A whistleblower claims that Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner is flawed. The FAA is investigating (CNN)

📌 Election worker turnover has reached historic highs ahead of the 2024 vote, new data shows (NBC NEWS)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Joker 2 Trailer: Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix unleash bad romance (VARIETY)

📌 Matt Lauer is “planning a comeback” years after he was fired from NBC amid allegations of sexual misconduct (US WEEKLY)

📌 Sylvester Stallone accused of mocking ‘ugly’ actors on ‘Tulsa King’ set (NY POST)

📌 Paris Olympics medals production hit by strikes and protests (NBC NEWS)

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🗓 ON THIS DAY: APRIL 10

• 1912: The Titanic began its voyage, en route to New York City from Southampton, England. It ended in tragedy four days later when the luxury liner struck an iceberg and sank, killing about 1,500.

• 1925: ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald was first published.

• 1970: Paul McCartney announced that he was leaving the Beatles.

• 1998: The Northern Ireland peace talks ended with the landmark Good Friday Agreement, which ended 30 years of bitter rivalries and bloody attacks.