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Filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland by Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) and Villanova Law Professor Leslie Book on Tuesday, the lawsuit questions why U.S. children are being excluded from receiving the benefits of emergency cash assistance based on their parents’ immigration status. The CARES Act, which was signed into law on March 29, provides emergency financial assistance to millions of people with the distribution of immediate stimulus checks of up to $1,200 per adult and up to $500 for each of the adult’s children under the age of 17....

The team, requested by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, makes New Mexico the seventh state to have military teams deployed or set to be deployed to assist with treatment of COVID patients. Two other 20-member teams are being sent to hospitals in Michigan, according to a U.S. Army statement issued Monday. “As COVID-19 hospitalization rates continue to shift across the country, decreasing in certain areas while increasing in others, we unfortunately find new communities and healthcare facilities overburdened and in need of federal, military assistance,” said Lieutenant General John R....

Although every new museum these days seems to require the prestige of an “international” architect, Botta, 52, offered more than his passport. His thick-walled masonry modernist style – with just enough eccentric twists – promised a striking but not fatally trendy structure. Still, Botta was a risk. Known primarily for houses in Europe, the onetime employee of Louis Kahn had built nothing in America. May we have the edifice, please?...

Only half the newborn neurons managed to take their place in existing brain circuits “when the mice lived in bare, boring cages. But when the mice lived in larger cages with running wheels, colored tunnels and playmates, the percentage of new neurons that slid into (and presumably strengthened) existing brain networks rose to 80 percent. That brings us full circle to the 2006 results on the cognitive benefits of aging: aerobic exercise not only boosts the rate at which the human brain makes new neurons, but also (in mice) makes more of them find a home that should be of benefit to the brain....

Thomas went on to catch a touchdown pass in the Saints’ 38-28 win over the Tennessee Titans. New Orleans improves to 12-3 on the season and are still playing for home-field advantage in the playoffs with one game remaining at Carolina next week. The Titans fell to 8-7 on the season and need to win next weekend at the Houston Texans in order to make the playoffs. Thomas tied the record of 143 in the fourth quarter on a pass that wasn’t thrown by Drew Brees....

title: “New Orleans Is Talking…” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-22” author: “Irene Brough”

Phillip May, chief executive of Entergy Louisiana, the state’s largest power provider, said power crews reached a “major milestone”, with a majority of power restored to Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Entergy said that about 98 percent of customers now have power, and those without had more severe damage. In the four hardest-hit parishes of St. John the Baptist, St. Charles, Terrebonne and Lafourche, at least 80 percent of their utility customers were without power....

According to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll, Trump is ahead of the Democratic front-runners: former Vice President Joe Biden, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. He’s also beating two Texas natives, former U.S. Representative Beto O’Rourke and former San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro. O’Rourke dropped out of the race last week after the poll was conducted. Trump was ahead of both Biden and Warren by 7 percentage points, as 49 percent of registered voters backed the president, compared with 36 percent of voters who would support either Democrat....

The survey, which was conducted by YouGov for the University of Wisconsin-Madison from October 13 to 21, shows Biden backed by 53 percent of likely voters, while just 44 percent support the president. Notably, that’s a gain of 3 percentage points for the former vice president and a loss of 2 percentage points for Trump, compared with results from the survey when it was carried out in September. “It’s actually the first time that the margin is big enough that we can say it’s statistically significant, even accounting for the margin of error,” Barry Burden, a political science professor and director of the Elections Research Center at UW-Madison, told the Wisconsin State Journal....

On Friday, MLB announced that a new form of head protection was approved for use beginning immediately. The major change, per ESPN’s Outside the Lines, is adding detachable padding that can be worn outside the cap, as opposed to the padding being included on the inside. MORE: 2015 breakout candidates | Sandoval fires back at Huff | Mets’ Wheeler to miss start Last year’s isoBLOX cap, manufactured by Pinwrest, garnered too many complaints from pitchers about lack of depth perception and comfort....

What was once simply a matchup between the league’s best rookies and sophomores took a turn over the last few seasons when the format changed to grouped rookies and sophomores by their nationality into two teams: USA vs. World. Now, under the new format, the Rising Stars Challenge will have a completely different look, consisting of a four-team, three-game tournament to decide a winner. For the full explainer on how the new Rising Stars Challenge will work, take a look below....

However, the Kentucky Republican, who has previously refrained from offering a specific timetable, reiterated the next stimulus will not resemble the “$3 trillion, left-wing wish-list” that the Democratic-led House passed earlier this month. “That ain’t gonna happen,” McConnell said. Although the Senate leader was sparse with the details when speaking to reporters at a hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, his public openness to more federal aid comes amid pressure from both sides of the aisle to further alleviate the stress on states’ economies....

“Color pattern differences are thought to have arisen from mutation and artificial selection during and after domestication from wolves,” Danika Bannasch, a geneticist and co-author of the study says. “But important gaps remain in understanding how these patterns evolved and are genetically controlled.” Dogs, like most other mammals, acquire their coloring via the expression of their Agouti-signaling protein (ASIP). This gene controls the variation of yellow and black pigments in mammals....

The test stands out as the first successful molecular diagnostic tool for ME, a development that has been long anticipated by many healthcare providers and patients. This new tool opens up the possibility for differentiation between mild and severe cases of ME. ME is a complex disorder characterized by extreme fatigue that lasts for at least six months and that can’t be fully explained by an underlying medical condition. The fatigue worsens with physical or mental activity but doesn’t improve by resting....

Silicon Valley has come a long way since the days of Net-savvy entrepreneurs who could do no wrong. With dot-coms dead, dying or applying for witness protection, new tech start-ups are following a completely different blueprint, one that goes far beyond the pithy declaration that “profits matter.” Three-word business plans (“selling dogfood online”) are passe; technologically complex products and business models are in. An IPO is still the goal, but it’s not expected to happen for three to five years....

The video, posted by a user named Dmitri, says that “Drunk putin explains why strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure will continue.” “All the nonsense, the informational standoff, the informational throw-ins, all the fakes–they must stand aside,” the Russian president said while holding a glass full of some sort of drink. “They should not prevent us from fulfilling our duty to our people.” Putin said people don’t have to be “particularly well-versed” to understand the current state of affairs, adding that “there’s a lot of noise” about Russia’s repeated strikes against critical Ukrainian infrastructure....

Even if state officials had not badly miscalculated how much money they would have, the prisons don’t offer more than a temporary solution to Florida’s corrections problem. The new prisons, and two expansion wings, were built for 3,100 convicts. But those beds don’t begin to fill the state’s needs: officials have estimated that the system needs to add 5,700 beds each year, at least through 1997. Building enough prison space to meet the demand would cost $116 million a year, with annual operating expenses of $97 million....

Fueled by outbreaks in raccoons, foxes and bats, the disease has “clearly reestablished itself as a major public health concern in New York,” according to the state health department. The current epidemic started in Florida in 1977, among raccoons, and has crept steadily northward. Infected raccoons are now turning up in the densely populated New York New Jersey area, where health officials worry they will transmit the virus to domestic animals....