CANCER MISDIAGNOSIS
Gallery is a blood test that can help detect up to 50 types of cancer before symptoms emerge. In an email sent yesterday, Grail Inc., which makes the test, said 400 customers were incorrectly sent letters suggesting they had cancer. It's unclear where the impacted patients live. Grail said the error was not due to incorrect test results but rather a software issue and added that all of the patients have been contacted without compromising their privacy.
MISINFORMATION CRACKDOWN
YouTube will no longer remove videos with misinformation about the 2020 election or claims that the election was "stolen," after a change to their internal policies. Since December 2020, the platform said it has removed tens of thousands of videos making false claims that the election was stolen from former president Donald Trump or that there was widespread fraud. In a blog post, the Google-owned service wrote that "while removing this content does curb some misinformation, it could also have the unintended effect of curtailing political speech without meaningfully reducing the risk of violence or other real-world harm."
A limousine service manager was convicted of manslaughter Wednesday in a crash that killed 20 people in rural New York, one of the deadliest U.S. road wrecks in two decades.
Writers' group PEN America and publisher Penguin Random House sued a Florida school district Wednesday over its removal of books about race and LGBTQ+ identities, the latest opposition to a policy central to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ agenda as he prepares to run for president.
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Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle were involved in what their spokesperson is calling a "near catastrophic" chase involving paparazzi in New York City on Tuesday. Cheddar News explains.
Black people are disproportionately denied aid from state programs that reimburse victims of violent crime.
Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. went up slightly last year after two big leaps during the pandemic.
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Cheddar News correspondent Shannon LaNier reports from the pop-up Malibu Barbie Cafe, which offers a Barbie-inspired dining experience at the South Street Seaport in downtown Manhattan.
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