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At around noon Pacific time, both Reddit and X (nee Twitter) suddenly spiked on Down Detector showing outages for both social media services.

Reddit appears to be suffering more with over 30,000 reports rolling in the since the outage started, while X is hovering around 16,000 reports.

Tom’s Guide has had hit or miss problems with both sites. Some of us have found that Reddit is down while X appears to be loading, if sluggish.

https://twitter.com/NewsRaw1st/status/1905346695157653695?t=FfWQ1RLHl2eV6iwGa4pmxA&s=19

Keep an eye here to see how the outages progress and what’s happening.

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The countries that eat the most processed foods — Ranked:

Processed food makes up 58% of the average American diet — and the UK isn’t far behind. In the United States, more than 40% of people are obese and 10% are morbidly obese.

Their high-calorie mix of refined carbs, fats, salt, and sugar—rarely found in nature—triggers cravings and overeating.

One study shows that people consuming ultra-processed diets eat an extra 1,000 calories per day compared to those on minimally processed diets. In particular, “hyperpalatable” foods like french fries strongly activate the brain’s reward system, making them especially addictive.

This graphic shows the share of ultra-processed food in adults’ diets across select countries, based on data from the British Medical Journal via BBC.

While there is no standard definition for ultra-processed foods, they typically contain additives, sweeteners, and chemicals not found in domestic kitchens.

These ingredients include emulsifiers and high-fructose corn syrup, which was introduced in the 1960s as a cheaper replacement for cane sugar. As the table below shows, they make up 58% of American adults’ diet based on nationally representative surveys.

In response, the newly appointed secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to crack down on ultra-processed foods.

In particular, he has criticized the scale of additives in the American food supply, which have been shown to increase the risk of chronic health conditions, cancer, and fatty liver disease. He has also noted that U.S. food products often contain additives that are banned in Europe.

The UK follows closely behind America, with 57% of adults’ diets consisting of ultra-processed foods. More concerningly, this share jumps to 65% for children. Overall, the most popular ultra-processed foods in the UK are factory-made bread and pre-packaged meals.

As we can see, ultra-processed food diets are not exclusive to Western countries. In countries like South Africa, Mexico, and Japan, they make up at least 28% of total calaries consumed.

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UsaToday

Aldi recalls thousands of cheese pouches in 4 states over possible metal contamination.

A voluntary recall says that 400 cases of Happy Farm’s Colby Jack Deli Sliced Cheese may contain stainless steel fragments, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Each cases includes 12 pouches of cheese that hold 12 ounces.

Nearly 5,000 pouches of shredded cheese sold at Aldi’s stores in four states have been recalled after a possible metal contamination, health regulators warn.

Exposure to the contaminants may cause temporary health risks with an unlikely chance of serious adverse health consequences, the FDA reports.

The Aldi products blend shredded Colby and Monterey cheeses sold in flexible plastic stand-up pouches.

The 400 cases of Happy Farms’ Colby Jack cheese pouches were distributed across in Connecticut, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, the FDA reports.

They include expiration dates of July 13 and 14, 2025 and a bar number of 4061463330840, according to the FDA.

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Arsell issued a recall involving about 2,300 bottles of Benadryl Liquid Elixir sold from July 2023 through October 2024.

The 100 mL bottle contains diphenhydramine, which must be in child-resistant packaging as required by the Poison Prevention Packaging Act.

The medicine poses a risk of poisoning if the contents are swallowed by young children, according to the Consumer Products Safety Commission.

The product was sold in a round dark plastic bottle with a pink and white label on the front with the word “Benadryl” in blue text. It was packaged in a paper box with the code “X003VRIGUL” at the bottom.

No incidents or injuries related to the recall have been reported.

Consumers are advised to keep the Benadryl out of sight and reach of children and contact Arsell for a full refund. They are asked to submit their Amazon order numbers, along with a photo showing disposal of the recalled bottle, to recall@arsellsupport.com.

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FoxNews

Today, the first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrived in our country. They were immediately transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center, for a period of one year (renewable).

The United States will pay a very low fee for them, but a high one for us.

Over time, these actions, combined with the production already being generated by more than 40,000 inmates engaged in various workshops and labor under the Zero Idleness program, will help make our prison system self-sustainable. As of today, it costs $200 million per year.

On this occasion, the U.S. has also sent us 23 MS-13 members wanted by Salvadoran justice, including two ringleaders. One of them is a member of the criminal organization’s highest structure.

This will help us finalize intelligence gathering and go after the last remnants of MS-13, including its former and new members, money, weapons, drugs, hideouts, collaborators, and sponsors.

As always, we continue advancing in the fight against organized crime. But this time, we are also helping our allies, making our prison system self-sustainable, and obtaining vital intelligence to make our country an even safer place. All in a single action.

May God bless El Salvador, and may God bless the United States.

“We have sent 2 dangerous top MS-13 leaders plus 21 of its most wanted back to face justice in El Salvador. Also, as promised by @POTUS, we sent over 250 alien enemy members of Tren de Aragua which El Salvador has agreed to hold in their very good jails at a fair price that will also save our taxpayer dollars.

President @nayibbukele is not only the strongest security leader in our region, he’s also a great friend of the U.S. Thank you!” Rubio posted to X. 

The deportations of the gang members come as U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered the Trump administration to halt its deportations of illegal immigrants under a wartime powers act that President Donald Trump invoked on Friday to target Tren de Aragua members in the U.S. 

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A power outage in Panama, triggered by an explosion at the La Chorrera Thermoelectric Power Plant, has caused widespread darkness and disrupted water services

A massive power outage has plunged Panama into darkness following an explosion and fire at the La Chorrera Thermoelectric Power Plant. The incident, which authorities believe was caused by a “technical fault” within one of the plant’s generators, has disrupted electricity across the country.

Vicente de la O Levy, Cuba’s minister of energy and mines, said on X Friday night that the country was making progress in restoring electricity. He gave no reason for the power grid’s crash apart from saying it started at the Diezmero substation, which then caused the National Electric System to fail.

Power was still out early Saturday morning; officials gave no estimation of when it would be restored.

CNN showed footage from Havana showing the city in darkness and pedestrians walking with flashlights.

In October, a dayslong power outage forced some in Havana to resort to cooking over improvised stoves in the street. The situation also spurred protests, a rarity in the communist nation. Protesters blocked streets with heaps of trash before security forces dispersed them.

At the time, O Levy dismissed the protests as “isolated and minimal incidents.”

Many Cuban families use electric equipment to prepare their meals. The outage could cause food to thaw in refrigerators and possibly spoil due to the island’s tropical climate.

“When I was about to start cooking and making some spaghetti, the power went out. “And now what?” Cecilia Duquense, a 79-year-old housewife who lives in the working-class neighborhood of Central Havana, said Saturday.

In Havana, people were shopping for food Saturday. Businesses were open, although some were operating using batteries or small home generators.

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AccuWeather

Overall, at least 34 deaths have been recorded from the cross-country storm system. At least 6 dead in tornadoes in Mississippi: Governor

At least six people have died in Mississippi in the outbreak of tornadoes Saturday, the governor said.

Another three people are missing and 29 people are injured, Gov. Tate Reeves said in a social media post Saturday night.

“Please pray for those who lost their life, those who are missing and those leading the search efforts, those who are healing, and their families,” Reeves said in the post.

Millions of Americans across the country are on alert for a severe weather outbreak as violent, long-track tornadoes with damaging winds of up to 80 mph and large hail are expected across the Midwest and South with the cross-country storm moving east.

The same storm system delivered raging winds to the Plains states earlier, leading to wildfires and severe dust storms that left more than a dozen people dead in Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

Over the past 24 hours, more than 40 reported tornadoes have swept across eight states in the Midwest and South — and the dangerous severe weather threat continues.

The eight states with reported tornadoes in the past day are Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Illinois, Indiana and Tennessee.

Overall, there have been more than 500 reports of severe weather since late Friday, from the Midwest into the South, including not only tornadoes, but damaging wind gusts and large hail.

Across the South, Tornado watches remain in effect in portions of Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee and Georgia as a line of powerful storms continues to sweep east.

From eastern Tennessee, including Knoxville, into northwestern Georgia, a tornado watch remains in effect until 1 a.m. ET. Additional watches could be posted in the coming hours for points east, across George and into the Florida Panhandle.

There is also the threat of additional severe thunderstorms bringing potentially damaging wind gusts and large hail. Any stronger, slow-moving thunderstorms could also bring torrential rain and frequent lightning.

Dangerous flash flooding is also a concern. Flash flood warnings are in effect from southern Mississippi through central Tennessee.

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AOL

California District Court Judge Herman Vera granted Hunter’s motion to dismiss the case Thursday after the former first son claimed he was too broke to continue suing former Trump staffer Garrett Ziegler and his nonprofit Marco Polo.

Hunter Biden fled last week to South Africa for a luxury vacation — with round-the-clock Secret Service protection — avoiding a grueling deposition scheduled for this week in a California lawsuit.

Ziegler’s lawyers alleged to the court last week that Hunter had fled to South Africa to potentially “avoid his deposition in this case,” which was set for this week, after originally being planned for February.

“He was in South Africa before the judge even decided the case,” Ziegler said Friday. “That means he is assuming his daddy’s appointee is gonna rubber stamp what he wants.”

Hunter and his South African-born wife Melissa Cohen were spotted walking around the high-end shopping district of Cape Town with their Secret Service detail this week in photos provided to The Post by independent reporter Laura Loomer.

$200,000 in legal costs

Ziegler will include the images in his next court filing seeking $200,000 in legal costs incurred after Hunter sued over him over Marco Polo’s digitized version of his notorious “laptop from hell.”

The scandal-prone 55-year-old son of Joe Biden does not qualify for statutory Secret Service protection, which only applies to former presidents’ children aged under 16, per the Former Presidents Protection Act (codified in 18 USC, Section 3056).

But Biden issued an executive memorandum before he left the presidency indefinitely extending Secret Service protection for his son, according to Trump administration sources.

Outrage at expenses

“While we can’t comment on the specifics of our protective means and methods, we can confirm Mr. Biden is an authorized protectee of the US Secret Service,” Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told The Post on Friday.

Guglielmi would not confirm that 18 Secret Service agents have traveled to Cape Town with Hunter. But he said, “Our agents are trained, authorized and mandated by federal law to provide security anywhere in the world for individuals under our protection.”

Loomer cites local sources who claim that Hunter is traveling with 18 agents — three shifts of four agents plus six backup agents — who are staying at a nearby four-star hotel, collecting per-diem payments for meals and renting two cars.

The cost to the taxpayer potentially would be a half-million dollars, at a time when the Secret Service is stretched thin.

President Trump extended Secret Service protection to his four adult children for six months after he left office in 2021, prompting heavy criticism from Democrats and media outlets who complained about the estimated cost of $1.7 million.

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Coin Desk

Bitcoin (BTC 0.80%) is up an incredible 600% since August 2020

Given that Bitcoin (BTC 0.80%) is up an incredible 600% since August 2020, it might seem incomprehensible that any tech stock has been able to keep up with that blistering pace.

But what if I told you that one tech stock is up more than 1,800% during that time period? That tech stock is Strategy (MSTR 13.00%), the company formerly known as MicroStrategy. It might be the only tech stock with more potential than any cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin (BTC) clawed its way back to nearly $82,000, staging a relief rally after dipping below $78,000 late Sunday, leading to a slight run-up in major tokens.

• Bitcoin recovered to nearly $82,000 after a dip below $78,000, causing a slight increase in major tokens such as Ether, BNB Chain’s bnb, XRP, and Cardano’s ADA.
• The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has delayed decisions on XRP, Dogecoin, and Litecoin filings, keeping the market on edge.
• Senator Cynthia Lummis reintroduced the BITCOIN Act, advocating for the U.S. to acquire 1 million BTC as a strategic reserve, sparking speculation about the possible inclusion of major tokens in such a reserve in the future.

Ether (ETH), BNB Chain’s BNB, XRP and Cardano’s ADA rose as much as 3%, alleviating some losses from the past 7 days. The broad-based CoinDesk 20 (CD20) added nearly 4%.

Elsewhere, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) delaying decisions on XRP, Dogecoin, and Litecoin filings. Bloomberg analysts had previously pegged Litecoin’s odds at 90%, Doge at 75%, and XRP at 65% for an ETF approval by year-end, yet the regulator’s hesitation is keeping the market on edge.

Traders still eye a pullback to the $74,000 level, and below, before an eventual push higher.

“Previously, a similar decline would complete a corrective pullback, attracting buyers,” Alex Kuptsikevich, FxPro chief market analyst, told CoinDesk in an email.

“However, the chances of such an outcome are now lower than in previous years due to the powerful influence of traditional financial companies, which has strengthened the link between the crypto market and stock dynamics.

The scenario of a pullback to the $70-$74K area still looks the most probable for us.

This is all the truer as the consolidation and rebound in early March has taken the short-term oversold stance out of the market,” Kuptsikevich added.

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cybersecurity

FBI issues warning to all Gmail, Outlook email users

As of February 2025, the group has impacted more than 300 victims in the medical, education, legal, insurance, technology and manufacturing fields. The group uses phishing campaigns – bogus emails that prompt users to click links or provide personal information – as well as exploitation of unpatched software vulnerabilities. 

The FBI and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are urging users of popular email services like Gmail and Outlook to be on the lookout for a dangerous and potentially costly ransomware scheme.

A bulletin released this week detailed a warning for the Medusa ransomware gang, a group that’s been active since 2021.

“While Medusa has since progressed to using an affiliate model, important operations such as ransom negotiation are still centrally controlled by the developers,” the advisory said. 

The FBI and CISA recommend all accounts use long, unique passwords. People should also use multifactor authentication for webmail, VPNs and accounts that access critical systems. It’s also recommended that all operating systems, software and firmware stay up to date.

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