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Have you ever woken up from a nap and thought you were too tired to do anything? Sleep medicine physician Seema Khosla calls this sleep inertia. It’s a sign that you’ve overshot the napping mark, and it could affect your sleep. As an avid napper myself (who wakes up bright and early to get this newsletter to you each morning), I’ve been guilty of bad nap habits. You can use these tips to take better ones.
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President Biden made a case that voters should give him a second term in Thursday’s State of the Union address, in which he focused on some of the achievements of his first term.
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Exactly five months after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, Israel’s counteroffensive has killed more than 30,000 Palestinians. Biden empathised with the rising civilian death toll and called on Israel to allow aid into Gaza. But he stopped short of calling for a permanent ceasefire, which some congressional Democrats and voters have been pushing for.
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The State of the Union is one of the most watched television shows by the president. Here are some moments you might have missed.
“This is not an ordinary moment”, Biden said in his opening remarks. He drew a comparison between President Franklin Roosevelt’s State of the Union Address in January 1941 and World War II, where “freedom and democracy were under assault.”
Biden said it is critical for the U.S. to stand by Ukraine in its war against Russia, more than two years after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion. And he urged Congress to pass a bipartisan bill to provide aid to Ukraine, which is currently idling in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
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One of his guests was Kate Cox, a Texas woman who was forced to travel out of state for an abortion when her fetus was diagnosed with a genetic condition that is almost always fatal. Another was Latorya Beasley, an Alabama woman whose IVF treatments were paused after the state’s Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are legally children.
He pledged to enshrine the protections of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that established the right to an abortion before it was overturned in 2022, in federal law, “if Americans send me a Congress that supports the right to choose.”
The bipartisan deal Biden called for would have put border security measures with foreign assistance. The deal fell apart after House Republicans came out against it.
Later in the speech, Biden got into a back-and-forth with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene about Laken Riley, a University of Georgia student who was killed last month. An undocumented Venezuelan immigrant has been arrested in connection with her death.
The new pier will be set up on the Mediterranean coast of Gaza in order to deliver aid to the territory.
The president’s age has caused concern among voters of both parties. He nodded and acknowledged those concerns with a wink, saying, “I know it may not look the same but I’ve been around a while.”
He continued: “When you get to be my age certain things become clearer than ever. … My life has given me a good understanding of America’s core values of honesty, decency, dignity, and equality. To respect everyone, to give everyone a fair shot, and to not allow hate no safe harbor.