Researchers found that people who undergo bariatric surgery are twice as likely to get married, while married people who go through the procedure are twice as likely to divorce, when compared to the general population.
The team examined data from 1,441 U.S. adults — aged 19 to 75 — between 2006 and 2009 who underwent the two most common surgical procedures for severe obesity.
Approximately 79 percent of adults involved in the study were women and 62 percent of participants were married or living with a partner. The remainder were separated, divorced, widowed or had always been single.
Two of the most common weight loss surgeries for severe obesity have been linked to greater chances of both divorce and marriage, according to a new study.
Researchers from University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health found that people who undergo bariatric surgery are twice as likely to get married while married people who go through the procedure are twice as likely to divorce, when compared to the general population.
The team examined data from 1,441 U.S. adults — aged 19 to 75— between 2006 and 2009 who underwent the two most common surgical procedures for severe obesity and were enrolled in a longitudinal study.
Approximately 79 percent of adults involved in the study were women and 62 percent of participants were married or living with a partner. The remainder were separated, divorced, widowed or had always been single.
Researchers found that 18 percent of people involved in the study were married within five years of the procedure compared to 7 percent in the general population. Likewise, the 8 percent who divorced doubled the number in the general population.
“Weight loss is generally the goal of bariatric surgery, but people have a variety of motivators for wanting to lose weight – for example, remission of Type 2 diabetes and improvement in joint pain,” lead author Wendy King, an associate professor of epidemiology at Pitt Public Health, said in a news release.
“Patients have also described the desire for romantic partnership or improving relationships as important motivators,” King continued. “Before this study, we had no quantitative data in the U.S. on how marital status changes after bariatric surgery – are patients more likely to get married, divorced, find romantic stability?”
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King said there were a host of factors that could lead a couple to change their relationship dynamic, including the notion that those living with a partner were already on track for marriage. Still, weight loss mattered when it came to divorce and separation as those who lost more weight were more likely to get divorced.
“This could indicate that a patient’s changing lifestyle post-surgery put them out of sync with their spouse,” King said.
“It can be really hard when one spouse changes what they eat and how active they are, and desires more sexual activity, while the other doesn’t. That can put significant strain on a marriage. It may be important for couples to consider this and have strategies to maintain their connection after surgery.”
On Friday, Marc Short, former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, warned the Jan. 6 committee to consider the ramifications of calling a former vice president to testify before Congress. The question posed to him by CBS’s Catherine Herridge specifically pertained to whether Pence was actively considering being interviewed by the committee. But Short spun the question toward the committee’s subpoena power, cautioning that subpoenas could be used to compel President Biden to testify before a Republican-controlled Congress next year if the Jan. 6 committee were to establish the “risky precedent” of compelling former vice presidents to testify.
Beyond Short’s seeming lack of concern for addressing the grievous harm wrought to our democracy during last year’s coup attempt, his discussion of subpoenas is a leap. Investigative committees often rely on subpoenas where voluntary testimony, or else the mere threat of a subpoena, fails.
Yet, in Pence’s case, the committee has stated a clear preference for his voluntary testimony. Although Short himself testified only after a subpoena had been issued, this need not be the case for Pence, who already publicly rebuffed President Trump’s pressure during the events in question and is in a position to elevate himself above partisan rancor, if he so chooses.
Short’s warning also misses the mark as it pertains to precedent. As numeroussources make clear, there is centuries’ worth of precedent concerning current and former executive branch elected officials testifying before Congress. President Washington testified before the entire Senate in 1789 concerning Indian treaties. President Lincoln and President Wilson likewise testified before Congress during their presidencies. Vice President Schuyler Colfax testified while in office as part of a corruption investigation that concerned his actions prior to assuming the role of vice president. Notably, President Ford testified before a House Judiciary Subcommittee concerning his decision to pardon President Nixon. Other high-level executive branch officials have done the same.
If sitting executive branch elected officials can be asked to testify, how much more so for former executive branch elected officials? Precedent exists for this too. President Theodore Roosevelt, and others, testified before Congress after their presidencies ended. Roosevelt in fact testified twice, voluntarily, on unrelated matters, even when difficult. He, of course, was also a former vice president.
Where precedent exists for requesting voluntary testimony from such officials, why should there be a special rule barring compulsory testimony of these same officials? So long as the legislative purpose requirement is met and executive privilege is not violated, subpoenaing a former executive branch elected official to testify may at times even be necessary. Such is certainly the case here, where Pence has unique knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the unprecedented attack on our nation’s democratic process by virtue of having been at the center of it, as the Framers intended.
Perhaps the most troubling aspect of Short’s CBS interview is his threat to investigate President Biden and his family following the November election if the Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Vice President Pence. This is concerning for three reasons. First, it conditions a future investigation of suspected corrupt dealings on the present investigation of a known attempt to subvert our democratic process writ large. The two are not linked nor are they comparable. Second, there is a qualitative difference between Pence merely being asked to provide evidence and Biden, along with his family, being the target of a potential future investigation. Third, Short’s mendacity is clear from the way in which he refers to Biden as a former vice president, rather than the current commander in chief.
In sum, Short’s interview was beneath the dignity that is demanded when discussing Jan. 6. He would do well to avoid falsely equating interviews with subpoenas and claiming a lack of precedent where ample precedent exists. Short would also certainly be wise to avoid making retaliatory threats against the president.
As members of Short’s own party understand, the Jan. 6 committee was established to examine the truly unprecedented attack on our democratic process that occurred 18 months ago. An invitation to appear before it should be met with cooperation rather than threats of reprisal after the next election. Harry William Baumgarten served as legislative director and counsel to members of the House of Representatives. He is also a member of the Supreme Court Bar whose writings have been featured in leading domestic and
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday pushed back on criticism claiming she faked being handcuffed when police arrested her at an abortion rights rally outside the Supreme Court.
“Politics has become performative art,” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) tweeted on Wednesday. “So of course @aoc fakes being in handcuffs. Performance, not policy, is the name of the game up here.”
“No faking here,” Ocasio-Cortez responded on Twitter a few minutes later. “Putting your hands behind your back is a best practice while detained, handcuffed or not, to avoid escalating charges like resisting arrest.”
U.S. Capitol Police said they began arresting the activists for blocking First Street NE after giving three warnings to protesters.
Videos of Ocasio-Cortez’s arrest, which showed her keeping her hands behind her back as police escorted her from the scene of the protest, gained significant attention online and in conservative media.
Many conservatives mocked the progressive lawmaker, saying the hand position showed she was pretending to be handcuffed.
Other lawmakers who were arrested included Democratic Reps. Alma Adams (N.C.), Cori Bush (Mo.), Bonnie Watson Coleman (N.J.), Madeleine Dean (Pa.), Veronica Escobar (Texas), Sara Jacobs (Calif.), Barbara Lee (Calif.),Andy Levin (Mich.), Carolyn Maloney (N.Y.), Jan Schakowsky (Ill.), Jackie Speier (Calif.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) and Nydia Velazquez (N.Y.).
The protest came less than a month after the court overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, ending the constitutional right to abortion.
The ruling has led to fury from Democrats, sparking protests across the country and attempts to codify abortion rights that have little chance of becoming federal law.
The superintendent of Uvalde, Texas schools has recommended that Pete Arredondo, the school district’s police chief, be fired in the aftermath of the Robb Elementary massacre.
According to the school board’s meeting agenda released Wednesday, a special meeting will be held on Saturday to decide on Arrendondo’s future, following the recommendation of superintendent Dr. Hal Harrell.
A source told CNN that Uvalde’s school board is expected to vote to terminate Arredondo, who was placed on administrative leave by the district last month.
The school board’s agenda says it will meet at 10 a.m. for “discussion and possible action regarding termination for good cause as recommended by the Superintendent.”
The superintendent’s announcement comes after community members and parents addressed the school board in a special meeting on Tuesday, calling for the firing of Arredondo and other district officers, saying that the school board needs to “clean house”.
“If he’s not fired by noon tomorrow, I want your resignation and every single one of these board members because you don’t give a damn about us or our children,” Uvalde resident Brett Cross, whose niece died in the incident, told the school board.
The meeting followed a report released by a Texas House investigative committee that found “systemic failures and egregiously poor decision making” from local authorities in response to the May 24 mass shooting.
The gunman killed 19 students and two teachers in a fourth-grade classroom. Police who responded to the shooting spent more than an hour in the hallway before confronting the shooter.
Arredondo, who recently resigned from his position with Uvalde’s city council, said in an interview that he does not believe he was the officer in charge at the scene.
The Hill has reached out to Harrell’s office and the Uvalde school district for comment.
A group of bipartisan senators led by Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) have unveiled legislation clarifying that the vice president does not have the power to overturn the results of a presidential election and making it harder for lawmakers to object to the results of the Electoral College vote.
The introduction of legislation follows months of negotiations in which senators sought to respond to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, when a mob of pro-Trump protesters tried to stop Congress’s certification of Joe Biden’s election victory.
It reforms the Electoral Count Act of 1887, which many senators thought was too vague and which former President Trump tried to exploit to stop Biden’s transition to power.
The bill would make it explicitly clear that a sitting vice president only has a “ministerial” role when Congress convenes to certify the results of a presidential election and has no authority to overturn the results.
The legislation would require at least one-fifth of the membership of each chamber of Congress to lodge an objection to any state’s slate of electors.
And it would identify state governors as responsible for submitting certificates identifying slates of electors unless state law specifies otherwise.
The legislation directly responds to Trump’s claims that then-Vice President Mike Pence had the power to not recognize Biden’s victory in the Electoral College after winning the 2020 election by more than 7 million votes.
The senators who negotiated the proposal said they consulted with a wide variety of election experts and legal experts.
“We have developed legislation that establishes clear guidelines for our system of certifying and counting electoral votes for president and vice president. We urge our colleagues in both parties to support these simple, commonsense reforms,” they said in a joint statement.
Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) participated in the negotiations and are expected to vote for the measure.
The legislation provides for expedited judicial review of disputes over a state’s slate of electors, authorizing a three-judge panel to resolve challenges and setting up a fast-track process for the Supreme Court to hear appeals.
The accelerated judicial review would be available only to presidential candidates.
The legislation clarifies that Congress would have to defer to the slates of electors submitted by state officials.
It would make clear that the vice president does not have the power to solely determine or adjudicate disputes over electors.
Sasse praised the legislation as “a good bill” and highlighted provisions “clarifying the vice president’s limited role and increasing the threshold for objections.”
“This bill cleans up some ambiguity in the ECA that was dishonestly exploited on Jan. 6,” he said.
A public library in Iowa closed its doors this month after the resignation of its director – the library’s third in two years.
All three former library directors have cited book challenges from community members as a primary reason for their departure. In March, one Vinton resident accused the library of pushing a “liberal agenda” for including titles that reference LGBTQ+ issues and identities.
The library re-opened on Monday. A new director has not yet been appointed.
An Iowa public library temporarily closed its doors this month after a series of departures over LGBTQ+ book bans left it short-staffed.
The Vinton Public Library, serving a community of just under 5,000 people, announced in a Facebook post on July 8 that the library would be closed “until further notice.” The move came just after the library’s director – and its only full-time employee – resigned. It’s the third time in just two years the position has been left vacant.
On July 14, the library in an updated post said its board had met to discuss plans for reopening and announced reduced hours of operations.
The library re-opened on Monday with limited hours while the town searches for a new director.
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Similar to other libraries across the nation, the Vinton Public Library has recently faced an onslaught of complaints from community members over its inclusion of materials referencing LGBTQ+ issues and identities and decisions to hire more LGBTQ+ staff members.
“It appears that there is a slow, quiet agenda moving into our local library culture through the staff hiring decisions and the books that have crept in our children’s section,” Vinton resident Brooke Kruckernberg said during a March library board meeting, the Vinton Eagle reported.
Kruckernberg at the time said she disagreed with the library’s decision to hire a majority of staff who are openly LGBTQ+, which she said reflects poorly on the town. Her mother, Deb Hassan, at the same meeting said that for each book “promoting the LGBTQ lifestyle,” there should be another title addressing a Christian belief that God created people “as either male or female from birth, for life.”
The library’s former director, Renee Greenlee, at the March meeting called the women’s comments “discriminatory” and said she had informed her staff to alert her if they feel they are being harassed or threatened by a library patron. She said an audit of the library’s children’s collection had revealed that, of nearly 6,000 titles, three had a subject heading of “LGBT,” two had a heading of “Gay” and two had a heading of “transgender.”
Another 173 children’s books were based on Christian life, she said, the Eagle reported.
“A big part of this ‘controversy’ WAS because of personnel, people who are important to me who were discriminated against because they are LGBTQIA+,” Greenlee wrote in a Facebook post. “It’s not just about the books.”
Janette McMahon, who served as the library’s director prior to Greenlee, told The Cedar Rapids Gazette this week that some library board members were at times challenging to work with during her tenure. McMahon took the director position in May 2020, resigning just over a year later, according to her LinkedIn page.
“Not everyone was as supportive as others when the library needed to stand up for inclusion and diversity in its materials,” she told The Gazette.
In addition to complaints about LGBTQ+ materials, McMahon said she heard grievances from community members about other children’s books, including “Joey,” written by First Lady Jill Biden, and “Superheroes Are Everywhere” by Vice President Kamala Harris.
She said some residents had questioned why more books about former President Trump were not available and accused the library of pushing a liberal agenda. In response, McMahon said there simply were not “quality books” about the former president, adding that the process by which the library chooses its materials is lengthy and thorough.
“We pay attention to reviews and publishers and our collection needs as a whole,” she told The Gazette. “We don’t just say ‘what looks good on Amazon.’”
McMahon said she quickly became unhappy with her job and said the library was no longer able to “function correctly” under her leadership. “I decided to find a community that better fit me as a librarian and my standards for library ethics,” she told The Gazette.
McMahon now serves as director of the DeWitt Community Library, just under two hours away.
California has allotted $10 million to go towards the creation of a new online textbook that will help high school and college instructors educate students on AAPI history and cultures.
The textbook is being created by the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Teachers will be able to access online materials like lesson modules and archival video and footage for free via the “textbook.”
The Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles has received $10 million in state funding for teacher training.
The funds will be used to create a free online textbook of sorts to help high school teachers and college instructors fill in curriculum gaps on Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences, according to a statement from the university.
“The textbook will be the most comprehensive, scholar-informed, online history of AAPIs that redefines the American narrative and opens unlimited possibilities for building a just, multiracial and democratic future,” said Karen Umemoto, Helen and Morgan Chu Endowed Director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center.
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The online textbook, which was curated by members of AAPI communities, will include open-access online platforms with lessons for high school and college students.
Chapters will go over AAPI histories, struggles, cultures and contributions and will feature audio, visual and archival artifacts.
“This AAPI Multimedia Textbook produced by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center will provide an authoritative and invaluable resource for California high schools and colleges as we prepare for the teaching of ethnic studies throughout the state,” said California state Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi.
Funds for the new online resource are a one-time allotment in the state budget, according to a statement.
The U.S. Postal Service will order more than twice the number of electric vehicles initially projected for its new fleet, the agency announced Wednesday.
The move follows months of controversy after the Postal Service initially sought to make about 10 percent of its fleet electric. Now it plans to make at least 40 percent of its fleet electric.
The Postal Service said in a statement it adjusted the fleet’s Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement to include more electric vehicles under the current contract. The Postal Service is targeting a purchase of at least 25,000 electric vehicles, it said.
The Postal Service said in February that its initial order to have 10 percent of its new trucks be electric included an option to adjust the percentage later, but the announcement sparked pushback from members of Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency.
The Postal Service maintains the largest vehicle fleet in the federal government, and critics argued that not including more electric vehicles in the fleet would fly in the face of President Biden’s push for the federal government to pursue carbon neutrality.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy argued increasing the electric vehicles in the fleet was financially unfeasible, but critics suggested DeJoy, a longtime donor to Republicans and former President Trump, was deliberately undermining the Biden administration’s climate goals.
In June, the Postal Service opened the door to increasing the number of electric trucks but maintained it was always an option and was not in response to the controversy.
In March, Congress passed a Postal Service reform package freeing up billions in funds, while DeJoy has also reorganized mail carrier routes that make the charging process for delivery drivers more efficient. Also significantly, however, Biden has secured a majority of appointees on the Postal Service’s board of governors, the only entity with the power to dismiss DeJoy.
In the meantime, a coalition of environmental groups and 16 state attorneys general have sued the Postal Service over the initial order, arguing it was based on faulty data that exaggerated the cost of electric vehicle batteries. The Hill has reached out to California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D), who led the multistate lawsuit, for comment.
The Senate has passed a $52 billion subsidy for U.S. semiconductor manufacturers. The bill gained bipartisan support because it simultaneously appeals to congressmen with protectionist views, misplaced national defense concerns and politicians “bringing home the bacon” for special interests.
In 1990, U.S. firms produced 37 percent of the world’s semiconductor chips. Today that share is down to 12 percent. But the decline in and of itself should not cause concern. Industries expand and contract all the time in a global economy. The range and quantity of goods with chips in them have expanded massively since 1990 while prices have fallen. These gains would not have been possible without increased foreign production.
Pandemic-related shocks have disrupted supply chains in many industries, including semiconductors. This may lead U.S. firms to source more from domestic chip producers in the future, but it doesn’t require a government subsidy. The impact that supply-chain disruptions cause to firms’ bottom lines already incentivizes buying from domestic producers when the risks justify it.
This doesn’t mean that competition in the global marketplace is “fair” to U.S. semiconductor producers. It’s not. China, Japan, South Korea, Germany and India all subsidize their semiconductor producers in ways similar to the subsidies passed by the Senate. But the point of competition in the marketplace is to better serve consumers — not to be fair to producers.
When other countries subsidize chip production they lure business from U.S. firms, but we Americans become wealthier because we can import chips more cheaply thanks to foreign taxpayers. That decreases U.S. semiconductor production, but it frees up U.S. labor and capital to produce other goods. So overall, we are wealthier: We get cheaper chips plus the other goods.
Special interests looking for handouts always argue that the standard case for free international trade, which I’ve articulated above, does not apply to their industry. Economists have long recognized that in particular situations, some domestic industries should be protected or subsidized because of national defense concerns. However, this so-called national defense exception is widely and disingenuously misapplied by politicians and interest groups to justify protectionist policies. This semiconductor subsidy bill is no exception.
Last week Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo claimed that a robust semiconductor bill was “core to national security,” and Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks argued that the bill was important because “pretty much every major system that the Defense Department uses” depends on semiconductors. Although semiconductors may be crucial for defense systems, that does not justify subsidizing U.S. producers.
National defense exceptions to the standard case for free trade are sometimes justified for small landlocked countries or those whose sea routes to their trading partners might easily be cut off. But the United States has the world’s largest navy, Atlantic and Pacific coastlines and trade with semiconductor producers to our east and west. There is little chance of a global conflict cutting off all international semiconductor suppliers.
The best defense case for a subsidy might be that a single firm in Taiwan, TSMC, makes 90 percent of the advanced 5nm chips used in military applications and U.S. firms make none. Our supply could be at risk if China invaded Taiwan.
Perhaps a national security case could be made for subsidizing the production of 5nm chips, but that does not justify the untargeted $52 billion proposed subsidy. A better path would be for the Defense Department to announce a willingness to pay progressively higher above-market prices for 5nm chips from producers outside of Taiwan, who face little risk of a Chinese invasion. This way the most cost-efficient firm, whether inside the United States or not, would be the first to satisfy demand rather than politically favored pork-barrel producers.
The $52 billion subsidy bill is just a pig dressed up in high-tech clothes. There is nothing special about the semiconductor industry that justifies subsidies. This is just wasteful pork-barrel politics as usual. Unfortunately, wasteful pork-barrel spending is the one thing that seems capable of getting bipartisan support in Washington these days.
Benjamin Powell, a senior fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, Calif., is director of the Free Market Institute and a professor of economics in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University.
The 12-minute video shows the moments leading up to the arrest of 27-year-old Sadaat Johnson as well as what took place after one of his children shot at police at the drive-thru.
Unified Police Department initially responded to the McDonald’s on Feb. 21 around 1:30 p.m. when employees reported that a man brandished a gun in the drive-thru after his order was incorrect.
Employees asked Johnson to pull to the front of the restaurant after reporting the incident to the police.
Johnson had two children in the car at the time, a 4-year-old and a 3-year-old.
Officers ordered Johnson to get out of the car several times, but he refused, the video shows. Police then opened Johnson’s front driver’s door, pulling him out.
The videos below are courtesy of the Unified Police Department:
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As officers were trying to take Johnson into custody, an officer who turned around saw a gun pointing out of the back window and screamed “gun,” moments before a shot rings out.
The officer used his hand to sweep the gun away as the gun went off, hitting the upper part of the McDonald’s building. The officer then yelled at the person inside of the car to drop the gun, and after looking inside the car, realized that it was a small child.
The children can be heard crying after the incident as officers ushered them out of the car and away from the scene.
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Johnson was later charged in early March with child abuse, aggravated assault, and interference with an arresting officer.
The 4-year-old told police that he picked up the gun because “he wanted his daddy back,” charging records show. The child also told police that Johnson said, “the police officer cannot open the door,” during the altercation.
After being arrested, Johnson told police that he “blacked out” for 30 seconds after he and the McDonald’s employee were arguing over his order. Johnson also denied brandishing the gun in front of the worker, despite surveillance video showing him doing so, court records state.
Johnson also told police that this wasn’t the first time his 4-year-old child had gotten his hands on a gun.
