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Workplace Injury Study Has Blunt Takeaway
Your unbiased daily news brief
James Kratch
February 26, 2024
Good morning and happy Monday. We'll keep it quick as you get back in the swing of things after the weekend: If you need clarification about your generational group, this rundown can help you figure things out. Have a great start to your week!
In Today’s Brief
NORAD: Mystery balloon was no big deal
Gaza: Ceasefire, hostage deal could be near
Newsom: Says Biden should debate Trump
AT&T: Account credits after outage
SAG Awards: Another Oppenheimer win
... and more
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Top Tips
1) High risk
States that legalize recreational marijuana sales tend to see a subsequent surge in workplace injuries involving young people, according to research.
The study: Researchers at San Diego State and two other schools established a 10% increase in workplace injuries among individuals aged 20-34 after their state legalized weed and a 12% rise among full-time workers in the age group. The data comes from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics from 2006-2020.
Go deeper: The researchers theorized the injury rate spike could be attributable to marijuana diminishing cognitive function or being a gateway to abuse of harder drugs. The study notably found the injury rate for older workers typically declined after weed became legal in their state.
Big picture: Twenty-four states and Washington D.C. have legalized weed in the last 12 years. But, the researchers say, there is little known about the broader impacts of increased adult marijuana usage.
2) Trump-proofing
A Republican official is trying to protect the national party's neutrality -- and checkbook -- as former President Donald Trump continues his march toward the GOP presidential nomination.
The proposals: Longtime RNC member Henry Barbour has presented resolutions blocking national party support for Trump until he clinches the party's nomination and barring the RNC from paying Trump's legal bills.
The response: Trump's campaign criticized the first resolution hours before he won the South Carolina primary by 20 points, saying the RNC should immediately acknowledge him as the nominee. But Trump's campaign co-manager, Chris LaCivita, vowed the RNC would not pay for his legal bills.
Big picture: Trump will be the presumptive nominee within weeks based on his current pace in primary contests. But the specter of legal bills, and the RNC's role, will likely linger. Trump faces four criminal trials and over $500M in civil penalties and has pitched installing loyalists, including daughter-in-law Lara Trump, into party leadership roles.
3) Defusing the situation
Over 10K people are back home after several tense days in an English port city.
What happened: An unexploded and massive World War II explosive was discovered last Tuesday in a private garden in Plymouth, which sits on the English Channel about 215 miles southwest of London.
The origin: The bomb, which weighed about 1.1K pounds, was dropped during a Nazi air raid in 1941. Plymouth was one of the Germans' most targeted British cities during the war.
Evacuation order: Police immediately evacuated about 3K people within close vicinity upon the bomb's discovery. Another 7K or so were sent to a temporary shelter Friday so a military convoy could remove the bomb from the ground and move it about 1.5 miles into the sea, where it was detonated without issue.
Quick Tips
U.S. News
NORAD said the high-altitude balloon it intercepted appears to have been launched by a hobbyist and did not threaten national security. The balloon flew over Colorado and Utah before exiting U.S. airspace (More)
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said he would not prosecute IVF families and providers after the state's supreme court ruled embryos are children. State lawmakers have proposed legislation to protect IVF treatment (More)
The Odysseus lunar lander is on its side after apparently getting caught on a moon rock. It is not clear whether the lander's orientation will significantly hinder its mission objectives (More)
World News
Israel and Hamas are reportedly close to an agreement that would see a six-week ceasefire and the release of about 40 hostages. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a deal would delay, but not halt, a ground operation in Rafah (More)
Russia turned over the body of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny to his mother. She has alleged the Kremlin is trying to prevent a public funeral (More)
Royal Canadian Mounted Police networks were hit with a large cyberattack. The agency said the magnitude was "alarming," but no safety and security operations appeared to be impacted; an investigation has been launched (More)
Campaign News
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said President Joe Biden should debate former President Trump. Biden has not committed to general election debates against the GOP nominee this fall (More)
Billionaire Charles Koch's political network has stopped spending on former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's presidential campaign. Haley has vowed to stay in the GOP race through the Super Tuesday primaries (More)
At least seven former House members will seek re-election this year after extended periods outside Congress. Former Democratic presidential nominee Dennis Kucinich is among the retread candidates (More)
Business & Markets
Major indexes closed mixed on Friday. The Dow Jones and S&P 500 closed at record highs (Dow +0.16%, Nasdaq -0.28%, S&P 500 +0.03%).
AT&T will give a $5 account credit to customers impacted by last week's nationwide outage. The company said that is the average cost for a day of service (More)
Google says Microsoft tried to sell its Bing search engine to Apple in 2018. The claim is part of an Alphabet filing in its antitrust lawsuit against the Department of Justice (More)
Entertainment & Sports
Oppenheimer won Best Motion Picture Cast at the SAG Awards. Lily Gladstone scored an upset Best Actress win for Killers of the Flower Moon over Poor Things' Emma Stone (More)
A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction suspending the NCAA's name, image and likeness compensation rules for college athletes. The decision came after Tennessee and Virginia sued the governing body (More)
The NFL set its player salary cap for the 2024 season at just over $255M. The cap went up about $31M from last year; new media deals and the settling of pandemic measures generated the spike (More)
Quick Hitters
Fun Stuff: Anton Thomas spent three years drawing a pictorial map of the world. It features almost 1.7K animals indigenous to every corner of the globe.
Be Safe: Toyota has recalled 280K vehicles due to a transmission issue that increases the risk of crashes. The impacted models include Tundras, Sequoias and Lexus LX 600s.
New Idea: A London-based food technology startup claims it has developed an enzyme that converts sugar into fiber when digested. Zya believes the enzyme could be added to foods like candy and cereal to make them healthier without compromising taste.
Cold Change: Scientists who make long-term research trips to Antarctica are stuck with each other for months on end. And that isolation is altering how they speak.
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Looking Ahead …
There are growing fears Mexico City could run out of water within months. A confluence of issues have created a crisis for the city, which has 22M residents. Government officials are downplaying the risk, but experts are concerned.