By Holly Yan, CNN

(CNN) — The grisly discoveries of three bodies in south central Utah have spurred a multi-county manhunt, prompting schools to shut down and businesses to shutter while an unknown killer is on the loose.

Authorities received a call Wednesday afternoon about “two deceased females located on a hiking trail” in Wayne County, the Utah Department of Public Safety said.

“During the course of the investigation, a third victim was located deceased at a residence in Wayne County,” the department said.

The three women were in their 30s, 60s and 80s. Their names have not been publicly released as authorities try to notify their relatives, DPS said.

Wayne County is sparsely populated with about 2,500 residents, according to the US Census. But the area is popular with hiking and outdoor enthusiasts because of nearby Capitol Reef National Park, Canyonlands National Park and Fishlake National Forest.

Officials describe the case as a “homicide investigation.” But they have not said how the three women died or whether there is any connection between the bodies found on the hiking trail and the body found in the home.

“Multiple scenes are being investigated and processed in Torrey and the surrounding areas,” Utah DPS said.

Authorities urged residents in those areas to be vigilant and “take extra precautions, such as locking doors, remaining at home or with others,” DPS said. “Please report any suspicious activity to 911.”

The Wayne County School District will be closed for the rest of the week as authorities scramble to find a suspect.

“Due to unfolding events in the county, out of an abundance of caution and concern for student and public safety, schools will be closed” Thursday and Friday, the school district said.

“We will also have counselors in place to support students when we are back in session next week. We will communicate updates as things unfold.”

The Wayne Community Health Center, Kazan Memorial Clinic and Wayne County Courthouse in Loa also closed because of the manhunt Thursday, CNN affiliate KSL reported.

Several sheriff’s offices in southern, central and eastern Utah urged residents to lock their doors and stay vigilant as the investigation unfolds, KSL reported.

Investigators are asking for the public’s help in finding a 2022 white Subaru Outback with license plate U560YF. Anyone who sees the vehicle should not approach it and instead call 911.

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En peligro de extinción es una expresión que evoca formas muy concretas: la vaquita marina del golfo de México, el tigre de Sumatra, el rinoceronte de Java. Sin embargo, los tentáculos largos de la pérdida de hábitats, el cambio climático y otras amenazas se extienden a miles de especies, entre ellas algunas que forman parte de un tesoro a menudo olvidado del que depende de nuestra salud: las plantas medicinales.

¿En qué piensas cuando te hablan de plantas medicinales? ¿El aroma del té con jengibre, limón, menta y canela que te tomas abajo de la frazada para paliar un resfrío molesto? ¿El gusto de una manzanilla cuando te duele la panza? ¿La sensación del aloe vera calmando la piel tras una quemadura del sol? Son eso y mucho más. ¿Pero cuánto más? En el mundo se cosechan entre 50.000 y 70.000 especies de plantas medicinales y aromáticas, según la Convención sobre el Comercio Internacional de Especies Amenazadas de Fauna y Flora Silvestres (conocida como CITES por sus siglas en inglés), plantas que son clave para los sistemas de salud tanto tradicionales como modernos.

Y muchas de ellas enfrentan los riesgos crecientes de la pérdida de hábitat, la sobreexplotación y el comercio ilegal y el cambio climático que ya han hecho estragos en la biodiversidad.

Si crees que el uso de las plantas medicinales se remonta a la época de tu tataratatarabuela, estás equivocado. ¿A la época de la Biblia? También. Hay que mirar milenios más atrás. La evidencia del uso de plantas para la salud data de hace 60.000 años, tal como explica esta revisión de la medicina árabe herbal publicada en la Librería Nacional de Medicina de EE.UU. En el suelo de un yacimiento funerario de esa época ubicado en una cueva del norte de Iraq —que fue descubierto en la década de 1960— se hallaron cantidades extraordinarias de polen de ocho especies alrededor de huesos humanos. De esas ocho especies, siete eran de plantas medicinales que aún hoy se usan. No hay ninguna duda: las plantas medicinales son la forma más antigua de medicación.

Desde entonces los remedios con base en plantas se desarrollaron a lo largo y ancho del planeta, desde la medicina tradicional china hasta la ayurvédica, pasando por la árabe y la occidental.

Adoptaron inicialmente la forma de tés, jarabes, infusiones, ungüentos y polvos. El desarrollo de la química y de la medicina moderna llevó su uso a un nuevo nivel: las sustancias activas de miles de especies fueron aisladas para usarlas en medicamentos hechos en los laboratorios. Hoy, según la Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (IUCN, por sus siglas en inglés), cerca del 25% de los medicamentos modernos se derivan de plantas.

En ocasiones, una cifra dice más que mil palabras. ¿Entonces cuatro? Aquí, algunos números que ayudan a dimensionar la importancia de las plantas medicinales que reconocemos intuitivamente pero que podemos llegar a olvidar en un mundo cada vez más inundado de pastillas envasadas cuyos ingredientes no nos detenemos a mirar.

70 % – 95 %: en los países en desarrollo, los cuidados de salud primarios de entre el 70 % y el 95 % de la población dependen de la medicina tradicional, según la Organización Mundial de la Salud.

20 %: más del 20 % de las especies de plantas medicinales y aromáticas que se usan a nivel mundial están consideradas

By Lily Hautau, CNN

(CNN) — So how much sleep do kids really need? It’s more than many parents may think.

The National Sleep Foundation recommends 14 to 17 hours for newborns, 12 to 15 for infants, 11 to 14 for toddlers, 10 to 13 for preschoolers and 9 to 11 for school-age children.

Yet 44% of American children do not consistently get the recommended amount of sleep for their age, with younger children more likely to fall short, according to a new National Sleep Foundation poll.

“We don’t live in isolation, we don’t sleep in isolation — as much as it is an independent behavior it is also something that happens within a social context,” said Dr. Joseph Dzierzewski, senior vice president of research and scientific affairs at the National Sleep Foundation.

It’s vitally important for your current and future health: Not only does sleep in your early years set the stage for mental and physical health, but it also creates the foundation for how you sleep later in life, Dzierzewski added.

The poll surveyed 977 caregivers of children 13 and younger, including 53% biological mothers and 33% biological fathers, with the remaining participants including stepparents, grandparents, aunts and uncles. The online questionnaire was offered in both Spanish and English and took place September 12 to October 5.

The study supports what pediatric sleep doctors have been saying for a long time, said Dr. Laura Sterni, director of the Johns Hopkins Pediatric Sleep Center and associate professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She was not involved in the study.

Poor sleep affects everyone

Ninety-five percent of all caregivers agreed that good sleep is essential to overall family function, and nearly 80% said their own sleep suffers when their child sleeps poorly, the poll found.

Parents also tied sleep to how kids function during the day: Sixty-nine percent said poor sleep hurts their child’s mood and daytime performance, while 86% said a good night’s sleep improves mood and behavior.

Dzierzewski said most parents recognize the downsides of lost sleep — and that it’s encouraging that so many also see the benefits of when kids sleep well, reinforcing how important sleep is to family well-being.

What’s our problem with sleep?

The problem is threefold: First, while parents think a lot about their children’s sleep, their kids aren’t getting enough of it; second, parents underestimate how much shut-eye their children need; and third, the family isn’t discussing sleep.

The poll found that 74% of caregivers think about their kids sleeping daily. In fact, that group spent more than two hours a day on average thinking about slumber, Dzierzewski said, which affects parents’ mental load. Some 61% of the parents said they would even be willing to pay — $71 on average — for their kids to have a good night’s rest.

That stress could be tied to uncertainty about what “enough sleep” looks like for babies — especially in the earliest months. Some 78% of parents with kids between 0 and 3 months old underestimated their children’s sleep needs. That percentage drops to 68% for parents of children between 4 and 11 months old. Oftentimes, parents fall below recommendations by more than an hour.

Lastly, while sleep is a

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Los fans del manga “One Piece” han tenido una semana ajetreada. Para celebrar que la historieta alcanzó los 600 millones de ejemplares vendidos, el canal oficial de “One Piece” en YouTube difundió el martes un video en el que su creador, Eiichiro Oda, escribió en un papel en qué consiste el tesoro secreto clave de la historia, lo guardó en cofre y lo lanzó al océano para que los fans lo encuentren.

El anuncio desató un frenesí entre los aficionados al manga, publicado originalmente el 22 de julio de 1997.

Lo sorprendente: en apenas 24 horas decenas de fans aseguran en redes sociales haber descifrado la ubicación exacta del cofre ocultado en el mar por Eiichiro Oda a 651 metros de profundidad.

Es importante destacar lo importante de este anuncio para el que muchos consideran el mayor fandom en la industria del manga: durante casi 30 años, ha sido un secreto la identidad del One Piece, el legendario tesoro de Joy Boy, y considerado la clave para convertirse en el rey de los piratas, por primera vez. Es la mayor incógnita para los lectores de “One Piece”, ya que Oda nunca lo había escrito explícitamente antes.

El anuncio, por supuesto, busca también generar interés por el estreno de la temporada 2 de la serie con actores “One Pïece”, que debuta en Netflix este 10 de marzo, y que la plataforma de streaming esperar exhibir en simultáneo sus dos primeros episodios en 200 salas de cine de Estados Unidos, Canadá y Japón.

Según la plataforma de streaming especializada en anime Crunchyroll, Eiichiro Oda es actualmente el octavo autor más vendido de todos los tiempos, justo detrás de J. K. Rowling, quien ha vendido un estimado de 600 a 650 millones de copias de las novelas de Harry Potter. Oda es el único autor japonés entre los 10 primeros y el segundo autor de lengua no inglesa.

A continuación, algunas de las cuentas de fans en X que afirman haber descrifrado las coordenadas de dónde está oculto el cofre con el secreto de “One Piece”.

Oda ha prometido que el secreto del tesoro del One Piece será rebelado cuando se complete la historia del manga.

Quizás la espera del fandom de “One Piece” requiera más tiempo.

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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN

(CNN) — In front of the Louvre Pyramid, Eileen Gu stepped out this week wearing a set of diaphanous wings — a fitting ensemble for an Olympic athlete whose sport sends her airborne. Gu attended the museum’s second annual fundraiser, Le Grand Dîner du Louvre, timed to Paris Fashion Week, trading out her ski suit for couture less than two weeks after taking home three medals at the 2026 Winter Games.

The peach-plum gradient gown is the creation of Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen, whose high-fantasy sculptural gowns emphasize movement and eye-tricking form, often to gravity-defying effect.

When van Herpen created the garment for her couture collection “Sympoiesis,” shown last summer in Paris, she likely wasn’t thinking about the Louvre’s art trove; the collection was more based around the fragile relationship between ecology and technology (including one gown that incorporated glowing bioluminescent algae). But Gu’s rippling halter gown, adorned with two weightless wings, found a connection with one of the museum’s most famous sculptures: the goddess Nike as the Winged Victory of Samothrace, presiding over a grand staircase.

“I suppose life does imitate art,” Gu said in an Instagram post following the event, with van Herpen chiming in: “It was moving to see you in dialogue with the Winged Victory sculpture, two embodiments of female strength and grace across time.”

Le Grand Dîner did have a theme — Le Louvre, la nuit, or The Louvre, by night — as well as a guest list that included Diane Kruger (also in Iris van Herpen), Anya-Taylor Joy, Alexa Chung and Love Island’s Olandria Carthen. But Le Grand Dîner doesn’t — yet — entail the spectacle of the Met Gala in New York City, where A-List celebrities (but mostly their stylists) attempt to solve the year’s thematic dress code in the most social media-grabbing way. Still, Gu’s interpretive garment may be an early indicator of how Met Gala guests will arrive on the first Monday of May; after all, this year’s theme is Fashion is Art, and some will undoubtedly take direct inspiration from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s vast collection.

Gu’s appearance also continues her streak of fashion week (and adjacent) appearances, following her arrival at Prada’s show in Milan last week alongside WNBA star Caitlin Clark. It’s a well-trodden path from Olympic podium to runway, as gymnasts Suni Lee and Jordan Chiles made multiple New York Fashion Week appearances following the 2024 Summer Games, and Chiles and sprinter Noah Lyles both made their runway debuts for Kim Shui and Willy Chavarria, respectively.

Over the past few years, fashion designers have eagerly courted top athletes, and Gu has been emblematic of that shift since rising to sports superstardom, with luxury campaigns, fashion editorials and a close relationship with Louis Vuitton that included her runway debut at the brand’s 2023 Cruise show. She’s said that sports and fashion aren’t dissimilar, and though she’s worked with a spate of luxury brands and designers, in van Herpen she’s found a visionary also committed to pushing the limits of physics.

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