By Kristen Rogers, CNN

(CNN) — Scrolling on TikTok during a break one day, I watched a content creator named Kara make a vegan bean soup recipe to boost her iron levels during her menstrual period.

“All my anemic girlies this one is for you,” the young woman from central Florida, who goes by her first name online, wrote in the caption.

Many people liked and commented positively on her video, but others had questions: “What if I don’t like beans?” and “Can I substitute the beans with something else?”

Um … what? I wondered why they didn’t just look for a different recipe.

Welcome to the strange phenomenon of people expressing anger or helplessness to online content creators or writers who don’t acknowledge their specific lifestyles or limitations.

“This is something that has always existed but has been very much exacerbated by social media and accelerated rather intensely in … recent years,” said Dr. Jessica Maddox, an associate professor of entertainment and media studies at the University of Georgia.

Those comments on Kara’s August 2023 video made it go viral and gave the behavior its trendy “bean soup theory” nickname that’s still frequently lobbed and discussed today. The attitude is also referred to as “whataboutism” or “what about me-ism.” (Kara didn’t respond to my request for comment.)

“It’s normal for us to have egocentric processing, to filter the world through our own experiences,” said Micheline Maalouf, a Florida-based licensed mental health counselor and content creator with more than 1 million followers on TikTok.

But people shouldn’t stop there, experts said — so unpacking other psychological, emotional and technological factors that limit critical thinking and empathy is important.

Moments of strange outrage

A woman named Daisey posted on X (formerly Twitter) about a morning ritual she and her husband enjoy together, sharing that “my husband and i wake up every morning and bring our coffee out to our garden and sit and talk for hours. every morning. it never gets old & we never run out of things to talk to. love him so much.”

I loved that for her! Many other people, however, did not. “I hope you know how privileged that sounds. I bet most people have sacred things but aren’t as lucky,” one person replied.

“Lovely intention,” someone else responded. “But when I read it, I felt cringe as well. Not cuz she’s living her best life with her love … but (unintentionally) coming off to the (rightfully) bitter ppl who (a) don’t have gardens which can be extremely therapeutic.”

Daisey caught so much heat and sparked such widespread discourse that she deleted her post. (She didn’t respond to my request for comment.)

Maalouf, the mental health counselor, has also faced criticism over her social media posts, she said. She posted videos on using sour candy or spicy food to shorten a panic attack since the activation of your diges

Por Ashley Strickland, CNN

Un meteorito de más de 1 kilogramo que se estrelló contra el techo de una casa en Nueva Jersey hace dos años podría arrojar luz sobre la existencia de agua antigua en el sistema solar.

Observadores en Nueva York, Nueva Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island y Pensilvania informaron haber visto una bola de fuego cruzando el cielo durante el día del 16 de julio de 2024. Al pasar a toda velocidad justo al sur de la Estatua de la Libertad, el objeto provocó un estampido sónico que fue sentido por los residentes de la ciudad de Nueva York y Nueva Jersey.

El fenómeno provino de una roca espacial, del tamaño estimado de una maleta de avión grande, que atravesó la atmósfera terrestre a una velocidad de 14,4 kilómetros por segundo.

A diferencia de otros meteoritos, esta roca espacial era particularmente frágil y se fragmentó a unos 35,4 kilómetros de altura. El radar meteorológico Doppler del Aeropuerto Internacional Newark Liberty detectó una nube de fragmentos que caían desde Staten Island hasta Nueva Jersey.

Solo se recuperó un fragmento que atravesó el techo de un dormitorio principal en una casa de Hillsborough, Nueva Jersey.

El impacto no causó heridos, y los propietarios se pusieron rápidamente guantes desechables y recogieron los fragmentos negros y el polvo de la cama y la alfombra con papel de aluminio y frascos de vidrio, explicó Peter Jenniskens, científico investigador sénior del Instituto SETI y del Centro de Investigación Ames de la NASA en Silicon Valley, California.

Jenniskens es el autor principal de un estudio publicado el miércoles en la revista Science Advances que detalla el análisis del meteorito de Hillsborough.

Los propietarios también repararon el techo de su casa antes de que lloviera esa noche, un paso crucial porque el frágil meteorito es poroso y absorbe la humedad del aire, añadió Jenniskens.

Esta rápida reacción evitó que el meteorito se contaminara en exceso. Los científicos pudieron estudiar el objeto. El análisis reveló que se trata de un tipo de meteorito raro y primitivo que ofrece una ventana al sistema solar primitivo.

“Detectamos un conjunto complejo de aminoácidos, los componentes básicos de las proteínas, en extractos acuosos del meteorito de Hillsborough”, declaró el Dr. Danny Glavin, coautor del estudio y científico sénior de la División de Retorno de Muestras en la Exploración del Sistema Solar del Centro de Vuelos Espaciales Goddard de la NASA en Greenbelt, Maryland.

“La mayoría de los aminoácidos detectados en Hillsborough son raros o inexistentes en la vida en la Tierra, por lo que su origen es verdaderamente extraterrestre”.

Un análisis detallado del meteorito de Hillsborough mostró que se trataba de una condrita carbonácea de tipo CM. La C significa carbonácea, mientras que la M hace referencia al meteorito Mighei, una condrita carbonácea que cayó en Ucrania en 1889.

Estas rocas espaciales son restos de cuerpos rocosos que surcaban el espacio durante los primeros días del sistema solar y contienen minerales hidratados y compuestos orgánicos.

Existen dos tipos de meteoritos CM primitivos —CM1 y CM2— y la principal diferencia entre ellos radica en la cantidad de agua que alteró su composición mientras estaban unidos a un asteroide de mayor tamaño.

Los investigadores clasificaron el meteorito de Hillsborough como un CM½, ya que se encuentra en una fase intermedia entre ambos tipos. Esta muestra representa la segunda vez que se observa la caída de un meteorito CM½ a la Tierra, señaló Jenniskens, pero es la primera que los investigadores han podido estudiar en una muestra tan prístina. Meteoritos similares que cayeron en Indonesia en 2020 se incrustaron en el lodo, explicó Jenniskens.

“Es el primer meteorito tipo CM que contiene fragmentos de roca que conservan

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN

(CNN) — Several witnesses will testify on Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee about whether Todd Blanche should be confirmed as US attorney general.

Blanche fielded hours of questions from the Senate panel yesterday, acknowledging there were some errors in the department’s vetting of the Epstein files, but defending his handling of the case. He also called Trump’s US Capitol riot pardons “generous.”

Blanche’s path in the committee is razor thin, as just one Republican no vote could derail his nomination.

The acting attorney general had to tread carefully before the panel – reassuring Republicans that he would keep up his aggressive approach at the Justice Department, while also signaling that President Donald Trump won’t be able to interfere politically.

Yet some Republicans still said Wednesday that they hadn’t reached a final decision.

The fate of Blanche’s nomination hinges on two Republican senators with nothing to lose: Texas’ John Cornyn and North Carolina’s Thom Tillis. Cornyn recently lost the Republican primary in his state to a Trump-backed rival, while Tillis announced last year that he would not seek reelection.

If either lawmaker votes against Blanche’s nomination in the committee, it would effectively kill it.

Both senators have been among the sharpest Republican critics of the Justice Department’s earlier proposal of a nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, which Blanche has said is “dead.”

Cornyn told CNN on Tuesday that his concerns are far from alleviated, while Tillis said that he’s “leaning yes” on Blanche.

For Thursday’s hearing, Republicans will put forth former Attorney General John Ashcroft, who served under President George W. Bush; Jon Adler, the president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association Foundation; and Jennifer Bos, the mother of an Illinois woman whose body was allegedly abused by an undocumented person.

Democrats on the committee will call Elizabeth Oyer, who had served as a career pardon lawyer at DOJ before being fired by Blanche last year. Oyer, who sued over her ousting, claimed she was terminated because she refused to bow to pressure from Trump appointees who wanted her to restore the gun rights of actor Mel Gibson, which he lost after a 2011 state domestic violence conviction.

Committee Democrats are also calling Dani Bensky, a Jeffrey Epstein survivor, as a witness.

The committee will likely hold a vote on the nomination later this month.

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Las detenciones arbitrarias, la falta de un debido proceso, los tratos inhumanos al interior de las cárceles o las muertes en los centros penales son resultado del régimen de excepción y “podrían” constituir delitos de lesa humanidad, según un informe de Amnistía Internacional (AI) divulgado este miércoles.

El reporte “Seguridad sin derechos” es resultado de cuatro años de investigación, entre 2022 y 2025. Durante ese tiempo, AI realizó 109 entrevistas con víctimas, familiares, abogados, especialistas e incluso exmiembros de la Policía Nacional Civil, revisó expedientes y fallos judiciales.

La investigación, dice Amnistía Internacional, dejó evidencia documentada de 470 muertes al interior de los centros penitenciarios de personas detenidas durante el régimen de excepción.

CNN consultó al gobierno de El Salvador para obtener comentarios acerca del estudio y aún espera respuesta.

El informe recoge una muestra de 82 casos en los que se refleja una repetición de los siguientes patrones: Detenciones arbitrarias, desaparición forzada, tortura y tratos crueles, inhumanos o degradantes y el desmantelamiento del debido proceso.

Para AI, la investigación arroja indicios de delitos de lesa humanidad porque han sido cometidos durante un periodo prolongado, han sido implementados de manera sistemática, dirigida a la población civil y han sido defendidos por actores del Estado.

“Es condicional cuando decimos que podrían constituir crímenes de lesa humanidad. No expresa una duda acerca de los hechos, los hechos están documentados, expresa un respeto por los tribunales y las instancias que deben juzgarlos. Amnistía Internacional no puede dictar una sentencia, lo que hacemos es documentar, preservar la evidencia, analizar a la luz del derecho internacional y exigir que las instituciones competentes actúen”, aseguró Ana Piquer, Directora de Amnistía Internacional, durante la presentación en línea del informe.

En la conferencia participó Noah Bullock, de la organización Cristosal e Ignacio Jovtis, director para América Latina de InterJust. Bullock sostiene que en El Salvador la justicia dejó de funcionar ya que hay madres con cartas de libertad en sus manos, pero sus hijos siguen detenidos.

“La gente ha pasado por la Procuraduría para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos, la Procuraduría General de la República y Centros Penales y encontraron instituciones cooptadas que estaban más al servicio del Ejecutivo que a la ciudadanía que estaba buscando protección de derechos”, dice Noah Bullock, director de Cristosal, un destacado grupo de derechos humanos crítico del presidente de Nayib Bukele, que suspendió operaciones en El Salvador desde julio de 2025, alegando hostigamiento, represión y persecución por parte del gobierno hacia defensores de derechos humanos.

Por su parte, Jovtis destacó que diferentes organizaciones estén llegando a la misma conclusión. “Cada vez empieza a quedar más claro que no es una casualidad metodológica, sino que es un indicador y eso es importante porque empieza de a poco a enlazar el centro de la discusión”, agregó.

El Gobierno aún no se pronuncia sobre este informe. Sin embargo, Bukele en el pasado ha defendido su política de seguridad porque afirma que ha reducido los niveles de violencia. También ha criticado a los detractores de sus métodos al asegurar que resguardan los derechos de los delincuentes y no los de la población honrada. El presidente será recibido este martes por Donald Trump en la Casa Blanca.

El régimen de excepción está vigente desde marzo de 2022 y ha sido prorrogado por más de 50 ocasiones. Desde su vigencia hasta la fecha hay más de 92.000 personas detenidas, y

By Kevin Liptak, Tierney Sneed, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump is expected to use his primetime address Thursday to reveal what he will claim is new information related to foreign efforts to influence US elections, though how much to reveal has been the subject of intense internal debate in the lead up to the speech, according to people familiar with the plans.

Alongside Trump’s speech, the White House has been weighing whether to release a cache of documents related to, among other topics, China and its role in US elections, the people said.

Some of the materials derive from intelligence gathered during Trump’s first term, which he and other officials will allege was suppressed, the people said.

Trump is also expected to discuss purported vulnerabilities in election infrastructure, including voting machines.

The exact contents of Trump’s speech have been closely held, though the president said this week that the address would include a major announcement related to election security. Trump has faced criticism for seeking to undermine faith in elections and denying results, and state elections officials told CNN they are watching closely, fearful he might use the primetime venue to do so again.

“It doesn’t get bigger, because without free and fair elections, you don’t have a country,” Trump said. “We’ll be discussing other things too, but it’s going to be a very big announcement.”

A major effort has been underway inside the administration in recent weeks to locate intelligence information that could support Trump’s claims of widespread election fraud and interference. A task force, under the direction of conservative writer John Solomon, has been working to identify documents to be declassified and made public, the people familiar with the matter said.

Not all administration officials are on board with the effort, however. Some worry declassifying wide swaths of information could provide a muddled picture of American voting security and undermine confidence in elections. And others fear the information could risk jeopardizing intelligence collection methods.

China’s alleged meddling in US elections is not wholly new. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in 2024 that the US had seen evidence of Chinese attempts to “influence and arguably interfere” with the upcoming US elections, despite an earlier commitment from leader Xi Jinping not to do so.

But when it comes to the 2020 election — which Trump has repeatedly and falsely claimed he won — the US intelligence community released a report assessing that the Russian government meddled with an influence campaign “denigrating” President Joe Biden and “supporting” Trump. The report said China did not interfere and “considered but did not deploy influence efforts intended to change the outcome of the US Presidential election.”

That assessment contradicted comments from Trump and members of his administration, including former Attorney General William Barr and former national security advis