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Family says 79-year-old detainee Julia Benitez’s dementia has worsened during months in Arizona ICE custody, as advocates warn more elderly immigrants are being held without humanitarian release.

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One of the study’s participants asleep during the experiment Mia Lux Your brain could be gently coaxed into working on complex problems while you sleep, making you better able to tackle them the next day. Neuroscientists and psychologists are increasingly using sounds, touch, movement and, particularly, smells to influence the content of people’s dreams. This dream engineering has shown promise for helping smokers quit, treating chronic nightmares and even boosting creativity. Advertisement Now, Karen Konkoly at Northwestern University in Illinois and her colleagues have shown it could also aid problem-solving. The team recruited 20 self-identified lucid dreamers – people who are aware they are dreaming during a dream and can control the narrative – who attempted a series of puzzles while fully awake across two sessions in a sleep lab. Each puzzle was paired with its own soundtrack, such as birdsong or steel drums. The researchers monitored the activity of each participant’s brain and eyes to determine when they had entered the rapid eye movement (REM) stage of sleep, when dreams tend to be long and abstract. At this point, the team randomly selected some of the puzzles that the participants had been unable to solve and played their associated...

A hockey game in Musquodoboit Harbour, N.S., had to be stopped and a young referee was escorted out of the arena by police after the official was targeted by hate-motivated verbal assaults from a pers...

An immigration judge has axed the Trump administration's deportation case against Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia University graduate student and pro-Palestinian activist, marking another major legal blow to the government's crackdown on college campus demonstrators in recent weeks.The judge terminated t...

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To date, no scientist has been able to solve the enigma of the origin of the mysterious blue stones.

"It’s time to take the gloves off and fight for our future," the democratic socialist congresswoman asserted.