Finns took more parental leave from work last year than in 2023 , according to the Social Insurance Institution of Finland , Kela .

The year-on-year increase was 5.3 percent , with fathers using about one-fifth of available parental leave benefits.

In 2022 , only 12 percent of fathers left work to care for their children, but the following year the proportion of dads taking the leave grew to 21 percent .

State Medicaid and Affordable Care Act coverage programs have long struggled to connect with lower-income Americans to help them access health care.

Some programs are trying an alternative approach: meeting people at the laundromat.

Outreach workers visit laundromats to help people get and use health coverage, including by helping schedule checkups or maternity care.

Fabric Health helped keep people enrolled during the Medicaid unwinding’ when everyone on the program had to get renewed.

Outreach workers focused on laundromats in towns that had high rates of people being disenrolled for paperwork reasons.

“Good help is hard to find,” Paola Flores , 38 , of Clinton , Maryland , told a Fabric Health worker she needed help switching Medicaid plans.

70% of astronauts who spent six to 12 months aboard the International Space Station experienced significant changes to their vision due to a condition called "spaceflight-associated neuroocular syndrome" SANS involves symptoms like swelling of the optic nerve, flattening at the back of the eye and general changes in vision.

SANS occurs when fluids in the body shift while exposed to microgravity conditions, thereby putting pressure on the eyes.

The good news is that these changes often reverse after astronauts return to Earth .

Kim Yong-hyun called protesters who stormed a court over last month's decision to extend President Yoon Suk Yeol's detention.

Hundreds of angry supporters of the arrested president stormed the Seoul Western District Court on Jan. 19 , smashing windows and equipment inside.

More than 60 people have been arrested, many of them in their 20s and 30s , local media reports.

Scientists used satellite trackers to track young sea turtles during a key part of their lives.

Researchers attached GPS tags to the fast-growing shells of young wild turtles.

Each tag stayed on long enough to transmit a few weeks to a few months of location data.

The findings give biologists a better idea of how young turtles use the Gulf of Mexico .

Scientists have uncovered a mechanism for reinvigorating the immune system to stop it from flagging when it’s fighting long-term conditions like chronic infections and cancer.

Discovery could make treatments more effective and improve clinical outcomes.

The understanding gained from the present study could lead to vaccines that provide longer-lasting protection.

NEW: Police chief says there is "a lot to indicate" that the gunman had shot himself.

NEW: Three women and two men, all with gunshot wounds, are in serious but stable condition.

The gunman was found dead when police reached him, a police official says.

Police raided the suspect's home after the shooting, but it wasn't immediately clear what they found.

RNZ can reveal AI is taking on diverse roles across New Zealand's public service.

Some academics want greater transparency in the government's use of AI .

50 public agencies surveyed in July last year and 37 were using at least one type of AI , from chatbots to transcription software to image analysis.

Health NZ clinicians used AI to work out the risk of a patient dying after surgery.

"There are many, many discussions, many conversations about AI happening in many parts of government," he said.

"If a government service or government department is using an AI system, then the public should know about it, and should know as much as possible about how it works, and how it's used".

Motassembelah "Motassem" Abuzayed was a junior in high school and dreamed of going to college or university.

He was severely injured by an airstrike while he was outside with his friends in his neighborhood in the Gaza Strip .

More than 25,000 children have been injured in the Israel -Hamas war, according to the United Nations .

Motassem was medically evacuated to Egypt on New Year's Eve in 2023 through a program run by the Gaza Ministry of Health .

He had several operations on his arm and fingers and needed to have a chest tube placed on his left side after doctors found he had a hemothorax, which occurs when blood pools in the pleural space, or the space between the lungs and the chest wall.

He also developed a severe bacterial infection, but it's unclear which infection he had.

Motassem arrived in the U.S. at John F. Kennedy International Airport on his birthday, Oct. 19, 2024 .

He said he was held up in questioning for four hours and asked if he was a Hamas supporter.

He was put on a direct flight from Cairo to New York City with another child being medically evacuated.

He underwent nerve-bundling surgery on Jan. 24, 2025 .

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