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Morreu o ator Patrick Stewart

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29 October 2026 at 22:30
Interpretou Shakespeare no teatro, passou pela televisão britânica. Mais foi com o professor Charles Xavier em “X-Men” e o capitão Jean-Luc Picard em “Star Trek” que ganhou o seu lugar entre as estrelas. O ator britânico de formação shakespeariana Patrick Stewart, que se tornou uma megaestrela de Hollywood com os papéis nas sagas “Star Trek” e “X-Men”, morreu em casa, em Los Angeles. Tinha 86 anos. A morte, na quarta-feira, surgiu após uma “breve e comovente batalha” com a doença de Alzheimer e demência com corpos de Lewy, segundo um comunicado oficial nas suas redes sociais. “A sua voz sonora

The CEO behind Grand Theft Auto has an 8-part longevity routine for shredded abs and sharp decision-making. Here's why peptides aren't part of it.

29 October 2026 at 21:42
Take-Two Interactive CEO and chairman Strauss Zelnick speaking at Business Insider's The Long Play.
Take-Two Interactive CEO and chairman Strauss Zelnick, 69, loves a hard workout.

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  • Strauss Zelnick, the CEO of Take-Two Interactive, said he prefers working out to playing video games.
  • He is a longevity buff, deep into fitness and anti-aging habits.
  • In a candid conversation with Business Insider, he said skip the peptides, and try these 7 things instead.

Media mogul Strauss Zelnick spends his days hyper-focused on making the most creative, innovative, best video games in the world.

As the CEO and Chairman of video game-maker Take-Two Interactive, he's readying to release Grand Theft Auto 6 next month.

At home though, he doesn't play games. He prefers to spend his time working out and staying healthy for a long time.

At Business Insider's "The Long Play" event on Thursday, Zelnick said his formula for healthy aging is both simple and effective.

While he calls biohacker Bryan Johnson, the man behind the "Don't Die" movement, a friend, he said trying to live forever is a pretty silly strategy.

"There's almost no evidence that anything anyone is doing will increase your lifespan," he told Business Insider's Senior Leadership & Workplace Correspondent, Sarah Needleman. "How many of us really want to increase our lifespan from like 96 to 101? Look, that is not on my bucket list, thank you very much."

Instead, Zelnick, who wrote a book on "Becoming Ageless" in 2018, focuses on the same core behaviors for "taking care of yourself" that longevity experts around the world swear by for maintaining health and happiness for the long haul.

1: Do not smoke

"Smoking is the factor most highly correlated with a short, unhealthy, and frankly, unhappy life," Zelnick said. "Don't smoke."

2: Don't abuse alcohol and drugs

These lead to "a bad old age, or no old age," he said.

3: Get some exercise

Zelnick said: "You don't have to do what I do," with 6 a.m. wakeup calls for group training sessions, or twice-a-day workouts.

"I do what I do because I love it, it's my passion," he said. "If you walk 30 minutes a day, four or five days a week — just walk — you're like 80% of the way there."

4: Eat a "responsible" diet

Zelnick says he doesn't have an "insanely healthy diet," but he tries to maintain some balance. "I eat a lot of vegetables and salads and protein — I also like sweets, and I do eat carbs."

5: Sleep at least 7 hours a day

Zelnick says he treats this as a non-negotiable for his business.

"If you're getting less than six hours, you're making bad decisions," he said.

6: Have "some kind of emotional or spiritual life"

Longevity experts stress this is key for mental health, and establishing a sense of purpose in the world.

7: Find community

Zelnick said it's critical to get support from "people who love you."

8: Skip overhyped health hacks

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Strauss Zelnick, 69, is the CEO of Take Two Interactive.

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Zelnick says don't waste your time with all the overhyped, unproven health hacks.

"All the other stuff, like, peptides? A: No," he said. "We have an FDA for a reason. Don't take something that is not double-blind tested."

And, he said, be careful with some of the internet's most famous longevity gurus. He name-checked controversial Harvard professor David Sinclair, who has made bold promises about the anti-aging effects of unproven supplements, including resveratrol, a plant polyphenol found in grapes and red wine, and NMN, which is a precursor to NAD, the vital coenzyme that's in every cell of our body.

"A medical doctor actually is a degree: M-D, an MD degree," Zelnick said. "Not a David Sinclair degree, he is not actually a doctor."

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Morreu o ator Patrick Stewart. Tinha 86 anos

29 October 2026 at 20:07
Ator tinha 86 anos e sofria de doença de Alzheimer. Participou em séries como "Star Trek: A Geração Seguinte" e filmes como "X-Men"

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O ator participou em séries como "Star Trek: A Geração Seguinte" e filmes como "X-Men"

House GOP launches probe into Peltola campaign ballot stacking allegations

29 October 2026 at 18:20
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) launched an investigation Thursday into allegations that Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign sought to recruit candidates to peel votes away from incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) in the state’s Senate race. A New York Times report found that Peltola’s campaign worked with national Democrats to recruit someone with the…

House GOP launches probe into Peltola campaign ballot stacking allegations

29 October 2026 at 18:20
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) launched an investigation Thursday into allegations that Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign sought to recruit candidates to peel votes away from incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) in the state’s Senate race. A New York Times report found that Peltola’s campaign worked with national Democrats to recruit someone with the…

Les coulisses sordides de l'aquaculture

29 October 2026 at 17:13

Les produits de la mer consommés en France, dont environ les trois quarts sont importés, proviennent d'élevages où ils sont nourris avec des farines de poisson. Partout, la fabrication de ces aliments est synonyme de pollution, de surpêche, d'insécurité alimentaire dans les régions pauvres et de maltraitance des travailleurs. Cachés ou transférés, ces coûts sociaux apparaissent rarement au bilan des producteurs.

À entendre M. Pascal Goumain, les cages à saumons de son entreprise, Saumon de France, installées en mer dans la rade de Cherbourg, sont un maillon essentiel de l'avenir alimentaire hexagonal. Interviewé en mars 2024 par The Fish Site, le patron français détaille ses projets d'adaptation au changement climatique, soulignant que les directives officielles vont dans son sens : « Le ministère français de l'agriculture a fixé un objectif de 20 000 tonnes de saumons d'élevage en France d'ici à 2030. » Fin 2025, il déplore : « On devrait être un grand pays d'aquaculture, on est minables » (1).

Du côté des industriels comme de celui des pouvoirs publics, l'argumentaire en faveur de l'aquaculture en France est on ne peut plus clair : elle permettrait de satisfaire la demande croissante de produits marins tout en épargnant les océans. En novembre 2023, le Haut-Commissariat au plan notait que, dans un contexte de dérèglement climatique et de surpêche, le développement « responsable » de l'aquaculture pouvait accroître l'offre « sans fragiliser la filière pêche » (2). La France est, en volume, le deuxième producteur de l'Union européenne (UE) de produits de la mer d'élevage, derrière l'Espagne.

Cette mise en avant de la protection des océans (« élever plus pour capturer moins ») explique en bonne part l'expansion mondiale — la plus rapide de toutes les industries alimentaires — de ce secteur qui pèse aujourd'hui 313 milliards de dollars (278 milliards d'euros). La moitié des poissons et crustacés consommés sur la planète sont désormais issus de l'élevage plutôt que pêchés.

Au-delà des belles déclarations se pose toutefois un problème de taille : deux tiers des exploitations aquacoles du monde recourent à la farine de poisson, une poudre riche en protéines fabriquée, précisément, à partir des espèces sauvages que l'aquaculture prétend protéger, contribuant donc à l'épuisement des océans. C'est ainsi que sont nourris les produits d'élevage les plus prisés des consommateurs français — saumons, crevettes, truites, bars et daurades.

« Pour évaluer l'impact véritable de l'aquaculture, il ne faut pas partir des fermes, mais des aliments que l'on donne aux poissons, explique M. Daniel Pauly, directeur du projet Sea Around Us à l'université de Colombie-Britannique. Un tableau bien différent de celui dépeint par l'industrie se dessine alors. »

La situation s'apparente de fait à une forme de colonialisme alimentaire. Environ 90 % des prises qui servent à fabriquer les farines de poisson sont comestibles pour les humains. Autrement dit, l'aquaculture mondiale prive des régions pauvres d'espèces dont elles dépendent pour leur apport en protéines afin d'offrir des produits haut de gamme aux consommateurs riches.

Le tribut payé par les océans est particulièrement lourd et largement invisible. La plupart des bateaux liés à la production de farines de poisson ne respectent pas pleinement les dix principes de la « Charte mondiale pour la transparence des pêches », un guide élaboré par une coalition d'organisations de la société civile afin de promouvoir des pratiques de pêche industrielle plus responsables (3). Ainsi, moins de 30 % d'entre eux rendent publiques leurs données de localisation, et moins de 25 % disposent d'un numéro d'identification unique (leur « plaque d'immatriculation »). Une telle opacité complique les opérations de contrôle. Par ailleurs, d'après les scientifiques mobilisés par notre enquête, au moins 50 % de leurs prises appartiennent à des espèces classées, a minima, comme « surexploitées ». Ces navires sont en majorité des senneurs et des chalutiers, à l'origine d'importants volumes de « captures accessoires » (des espèces non visées au départ). Au moins 165 des bateaux étudiés étaient des chalutiers de fond qui, avec leurs filets lestés, raclent le sol et détruisent tout ou presque sur leur passage.

Outre le sort des océans, cette industrie s'accompagne de quantité d'autres coûts cachés. En Gambie et en Mauritanie, elle contribue à une aggravation de l'insécurité alimentaire, les poissons dont se nourrissent les populations locales étant de plus en plus détournés vers l'export pour servir à la fabrication de farines. Dans l'Extrême-Orient russe, l'enquête a mis au jour de nombreux cas de travail forcé, avec des ouvriers captifs dans des îles isolées, des villes-usines coupées du monde, ou coincés sur des navires en pleine mer. Au moins quatre-vingts épisodes de troubles civils, parfois violents, ont ainsi été recensés en lien avec cette filière, notamment en Inde, au Pérou et au Sénégal. Ils prennent la forme de mouvements de grève, souvent en réaction à la fragilisation de la pêche artisanale, ou de manifestations populaires pour dénoncer la pollution des eaux ou encore l'épouvantable odeur qui flotte autour des usines de transformation, dans lesquelles mijotent des milliers de tonnes de poissons en décomposition.

La fabrication de ces aliments contribue enfin à aggraver les tensions géopolitiques. En août 2021, une douzaine de chalutiers de fond turcs qui pêchaient illégalement en mer Égée ont tenté de percuter un navire grec à bord duquel des chercheurs filmaient leurs agissements. En novembre 2020, un cessez-le-feu de vingt-neuf ans entre le Maroc et le Front Polisario a volé en éclats à la suite de violents affrontements entre l'armée marocaine et des manifestants sahraouis. Ces derniers tentaient de bloquer le passage de quelque deux cents camions transportant de la farine de poisson obtenue à partir de prises marocaines illicites dans les eaux du Sahara occidental — un territoire occupé par le Maroc depuis le milieu des années 1970 en violation du droit international.

L'historienne Kristin A. Wintersteen rappelle que la farine de poisson est devenue un ingrédient capital de la nourriture animale au lendemain de la seconde guerre mondiale et, à ce titre, un facteur décisif dans l'explosion de l'élevage industriel de poulets et de porcs, puis de l'aquaculture, notamment en Europe du Nord et aux États-Unis (4). Identifié comme une mine de protéines, le courant de Humboldt ‒— un courant de surface froid et riche en plancton qui longe la côte pacifique de l'Amérique du Sud — a transformé le Pérou en superpuissance de la farine de poisson, avec environ un quart de la production mondiale. Depuis lors, ce modèle s'est étendu à d'autres contrées, jusqu'en Afrique de l'Ouest et en Asie du Sud-Est.

Les bénéfices de l'aquaculture sont réels. En Inde, elle représente un vivier d'emplois, en particulier pour les femmes. Au Bangladesh, son développement a rendu les produits de la mer plus abordables pour les ménages pauvres. Et elle émet beaucoup moins de gaz carbonique que les élevages bovins ou porcins. De plus, toutes ses formes ne sont pas problématiques. Les mollusques bivalves tels que les palourdes, les huîtres, les coquilles Saint-Jacques et les moules sont des organismes filtreurs — au sens où ils filtrent l'eau pour y prélever leur nourriture (plancton, détritus organiques) — qui ne nécessitent pas d'alimentation artificielle, d'où une empreinte écologique minimale. En France, près de 80 % des fermes aquacoles les cultivent. Au niveau mondial, on estimait en 2022 qu'environ un tiers des exploitations d'aquaculture ne recouraient à aucune nourriture extérieure.

Selon les industriels de l'alimentation animale, la dépendance à l'égard de la farine de poisson tendrait à se réduire. Pourtant, la demande progresse au même rythme que l'aquaculture elle-même. Les scientifiques explorent d'autres sources de protéines : algues, déchets du manioc, larves de la mouche soldat noire et même protéines unicellulaires extraites de champignons ou de bactéries. Pour l'heure, leur exploitation à grande échelle demeure trop coûteuse, si bien que le modèle perdure : les entreprises capturent des poissons sauvages, les transforment en aliments et transfèrent ailleurs les coûts engendrés par cette activité.

En France, ces problèmes concernent moins le saumon élevé sur le territoire national que les produits de la mer importés (pour plus de 6 milliards d'euros chaque année). L'outil interactif Bait to Plate — conçu par The Outlaw Ocean Project pour cartographier les chaînes d'approvisionnement du secteur (5) — a par exemple révélé que les crevettes vendues par de grandes enseignes comme Leclerc ou Carrefour, cultivées dans des fermes équatoriennes, sont nourries avec des farines provenant d'usines latino-américaines où l'on déplore des décès d'ouvriers, des pratiques de pêche illégales et des nuisances olfactives faisant l'objet de dénonciations populaires. Le groupe Carrefour, qui possède également les magasins Cora, a déclaré ouvrir immédiatement une enquête et promis de prendre « toutes les mesures nécessaires dans le cas où ces manquements seraient confirmés ». Le groupe Leclerc, lui, n'a pas répondu à nos questions.

En 2025, la France a importé pour plus de 124 millions de dollars (110 millions d'euros) de poissons et crustacés de Chine, où les volumes élevés représentent désormais quatre fois ceux pêchés en mer. Le Tibet et le Xinjiang sont deux des régions où l'aquaculture connaît la plus forte croissance, à grand renfort de répression politique. Notre enquête a identifié plus de mille exploitations dont l'essentiel de la production, estimée à 0,5 milliard de dollars (0,4 milliard d'euros) par an, est exporté vers deux douzaines de pays.

Épuiser les écosystèmes

L'Union européenne interdit la vente sur son sol de produits issus du travail forcé, y compris lorsqu'il s'agit d'importations. Toutefois, avec la mondialisation du secteur et l'allongement des chaînes d'approvisionnement, il devient de plus en plus difficile de s'assurer du respect des règles éthiques et environnementales. Et cela vaut autant pour les consommateurs que pour les revendeurs au détail, qui s'approvisionnent chez des grossistes. Selon M. Robert K. Stumberg, professeur au Law Center de l'université Georgetown à Washington, il n'est pas rare non plus que les entreprises choisissent volontairement de rester dans l'ignorance pour ne pas subir l'opprobre public ni payer le prix des réparations.

Cette relative impunité vit peut-être pourtant ses derniers instants. Aux États-Unis, depuis 2020, au moins neuf procès pour publicité mensongère ont été intentés contre six producteurs dans six juridictions différentes. Les plaignants dénonçaient l'usage de termes comme « durable », « écologique », « 100 % naturel », « sauvage », ainsi que la mise en avant des conditions de sécurité exemplaires offertes aux travailleurs, alors même que l'examen des chaînes logistiques suggérait tout le contraire. Dans au moins quatre de ces affaires, l'utilisation de farines ou d'huiles de poisson et leur lien avec la pêche industrielle et l'épuisement des écosystèmes étaient en cause. Au cours de la même période, les producteurs de fruits de mer ont déboursé plus de 2 millions de dollars (1,8 million d'euros) en dommages et intérêts pour mettre fin à de telles poursuites.

L'enquête « Food for feed : The price paid beyond the plate » (« Nourriture destinée à l'alimentation animale : le prix à payer au-delà de l'assiette ») (6) , conduite pendant cinq années par l'équipe de The Outlaw Ocean Project, a mobilisé plusieurs dizaines de journalistes. Elle a porté sur plus de 1 400 usines de farine de poisson à travers 64 pays et sur plus de 2 400 bateaux liés à cette activité dans au moins 30 pays. En remontant les chaînes d'approvisionnement depuis les navires de pêche jusqu'aux sites de transformation, aux fermes d'aquaculture et aux enseignes de distribution, les reporters ont établi une cartographie détaillée de cette industrie mondiale.

(Traduit de l'anglais [États-Unis] par Élise Roy.)

Voir en ligne : /2026/11/URBINA/70185

(1) Cité respectivement par Amélie Di Bella, « How France's flagship salmon farm plans to adapt to climate change », 6 mars 2024, et par Christophe Blondel, « Le seul saumon d'élevage français grandit à Chartres… dans un hangar ! », Le Parisien, 18 décembre 2025.

(2) « Le développement de l'aquaculture : un enjeu de souveraineté alimentaire », Stratégie, n° 16, Haut-Commissariat au plan, Paris, 30 novembre 2023.

(3) « Charte mondiale pour la transparence des pêches », (PDF), Coalition for Fisheries Transparency.

(4) Kristin A. Wintersteen, The Fishmeal Revolution : The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2021.

Booker: Schumer Isn't 'on the Ballot in Texas or in Mississippi or in Iowa'

29 October 2026 at 02:23

On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) responded to a question on if he supports Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) leading the party if Democrats take the majority in the midterms by saying that

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As a single mom with ADHD, I don't hide my burnout from my kids

29 October 2026 at 14:54
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The author said she wasn't diagnosed with ADHD until she was in her 30s.

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  • I was diagnosed with ADHD at 38. I spent most of my life masking things I didn't know were ADHD.
  • Instead of pretending I'm fine, I tell my sons when my brain is full and my battery is running low.
  • I'm teaching them that everybody has different limits and it's important to know and respect them.

There are nights when I look at my two boys, 13 and 10, and announce, "My battery is at 1%."

They know what this means.

I get much quieter. The pile of clothes I told myself I was going to fold gets moved to the floor and becomes tomorrow's problem. Video game sounds that normally wouldn't bother me suddenly send my whole system into overdrive. If both kids are talking to me at once, I sometimes have to say, "I can't process what either one of you is saying right now."

Eventually, I can hit what feels like an actual wall. I go into a burnout shutdown where decision-making becomes almost impossible. My brain feels frozen. I know there are things I should be doing, but I can't organize them into a next step. If I'm overstimulated enough, I can barely formulate a cohesive thought.

Sometimes the only thing that helps is going into my room, closing the door, and sitting in complete silence.

I don't hide this from my kids. I let them see it on purpose.

I spent most of my life not knowing my brain worked differently

I was diagnosed with ADHD at 38. Until then, I genuinely didn't know other people's brains worked the way mine did. The best way I can describe my brain is that there are three musicals happening on three different stages at the same time. There are songs, conversations, ideas, and a constant stream of thoughts all competing for my attention.

From the outside, I looked highly functional. I was an A+ student. I worked hard. I got things done. I became an entrepreneur.

Internally, I was exhausted to the point that it sometimes felt like an existential level.

I remember hitting this same wall when I was around the same age as my sons. My parents didn't understand what was happening, and why would they? ADHD wasn't something anyone was considering for me. I wasn't physically hyperactive. All of the pinging was happening inside my head. So I learned to push through it and, eventually, to look calm while doing it.

In our family, we talk about our batteries

Our family therapist gave us an analogy that has become part of our language: Everybody is like a cell phone. Our batteries drain differently, and they recharge differently.

My older son is an introvert like me. We can love being around people and still need significant quiet afterward. For me, recharging means real quiet — a chunk of time when nobody is talking to me, asking me a question, or needing me to make a decision.

My younger son, who also has ADHD, is almost the opposite. I always say he's fueled by people. Talking to friends and being around other people can actually charge him. I love that distinction because even people whose brains are wired similarly don't necessarily need the same things.

There isn't one correct way to recharge.

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The author said she wants to make sure her sons know that everyone needs to recharge their batteries from time to time and that's OK.

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I want my kids to know before they're 38

Being a single parent means I can't disappear into silence every time my battery gets low. Sometimes the video game is still playing. Somebody still needs something. Life keeps happening.

I've stopped believing that being a good mother means hiding the fact that I have limits. I'm not asking my children to take care of me. I'm letting them know me.

I want them to understand that people who love each other get to be human in front of one another. You can say, "I need quiet." You can say, "I need people." You can say, "My brain is too full right now." Limits aren't character flaws, and rest isn't something you earn only after you've completely depleted yourself.

For most of my life, I thought strength meant pushing through until nobody could tell I was struggling. I'm trying to teach my kids something different: learn what drains your battery. Learn what charges it. Tell the people you love what you need. And don't wait until you're at 1% to plug yourself back in.

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Colon cancer looks different in young people — and often more aggressive, a new study found

29 October 2026 at 10:00
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A new study found cellular differences between colon cancer tumors in younger and older patients.

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  • A new study explored the differences between tumors in younger and older colon cancer patients.
  • Younger patients sometimes had more aggressive, treatment-resistant forms of colon cancer.
  • Staying active, cutting down on processed foods, and getting screened are good ways to lower risk.

People under 50 aren't only at a higher risk of colon cancer today than they were a few decades ago. They're also developing a different, sometimes more aggressive form of it compared to older patients, scientists say.

A new study published in Nature Medicine analyzed 189 tumors from colorectal cancer patients aged 29 to over 90, including measurements of gene activity in more than 850,000 cancer cells.

The goal was to look at how tumors varied "across the entire spectrum of age," Dr. Ana Anderson, a co-senior author of the study who leads the cancer immunology program at the Gene Lay Institute at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, told Business Insider. "Is it the same colon cancer but just happening in younger people, or is there something different about it?"

As a result, the study was able to map out gradual, subtle differences in colorectal cancer tumors correlated with age. While the researchers couldn't pinpoint exactly why tumors in younger people look different, Anderson said the study is an exciting starting point for further research.

"There's a lot of interest in lifestyle factors and environmental exposures as potential contributors; however, nothing specific has been pinned down," Anderson said. "What we did is take a rather simple but comprehensive approach just to try to understand the disease itself."

Younger patients' tumors had a different cellular makeup

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Fibroblasts are types of stromal cells that can create a "shield" around tumors and make them harder to treat. They were more prevalent in younger patients.

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The study's researchers couldn't definitely state that colon cancer in younger patients is always more aggressive — that would require more study.

However, what they did find was that younger patients "generally have more aggressive disease and they are generally more resistant to the standard of care therapies, which is mostly chemotherapy," Anderson said.

Tumors in younger patients generally had a higher presence of supporting and connecting cells known as stromal cells. Stromal cells, such as fibroblasts, can produce factors that suppress the immune response, making it harder for chemotherapy drugs to work. "They essentially can form a shield that protects the tumor from infiltration," Anderson said.

The study found that the presence of stromal cells generally declined from younger to older patients, and the youngest patients tended to have the highest number of stromal cells in proportion to cancer cells.

The reverse was true for the oldest patients, who generally had the fewest stromal cells and the highest numbers of cancer cells.

Researchers narrowed down where to look for answers

Single strand ribonucleic acid, RNA research and therapy
Not enough research has been done on long non-coding RNAs, which had higher levels of activity in younger colon cancer patients.

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Younger patients also had higher activity of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), which are associated with cellular signaling in cancer. The study also found gene activity in younger patients that suggested stronger signaling between cells — potentially helping cancer cells move and invade nearby tissue.

The problem is, lncRNAs are still a fairly recent discovery; they only became linked to cancer research in the late 2000s, with some poorly understood ones referred to as "dark RNAs." "A lot of them have just not been researched, and that's why they're called 'dark RNAs' — it's a big mystery," Anderson said.

For that reason, she said it was the finding she considered most promising. "There's a world of biology to be discovered there — we know where to focus our research efforts," she said.

Anderson, an immunologist, also hopes to explore the presence of immune cells in younger colon cancer cases, as immune cells are involved in killing cancer cells but were "under-captured" in this study, she said. "There are many types of immune cells," she said. "Are there different subsets that are more present in the young tumors or absent in the young tumors versus the older tumors?"

Reduce your risk with these simple habits

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Regular exercise can reduce your risk of developing colon cancer.

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While the study doesn't present any immediate new takeaways for young people concerned about colon cancer, Anderson suggested following existing guidance for lowering your risk.

She noted that the recommended screening age for most people was lowered from 50 to 45 a few years ago, but that it's wise to see a doctor sooner if you experience common colon cancer symptoms like rectal bleeding, abdominal pain, bloating, or changes in bowel movements.

If you're "extra cautious," she said, it's never a bad idea to stay active and cut down on inflammatory foods such as ultraprocessed snacks and alcohol.

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Thune goes all-in on campaign trail as Schumer stays on bench, faces rejection from fellow Dems

29 October 2026 at 09:00

FREMONT, Neb. — Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., likes to joke that he’ll be whatever his candidates need him to be in order to win their races.

"I tell all of our candidates, I'll come out for you or against you, whichever helps you the most," Thune told Fox News Digital.

Thune’s tongue-in-cheek response came just before he attended a roundtable in Nebraska alongside Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., who is running a tight race against independent Dan Osborn. That stop inside a corrugated metal building nestled among row after row of cornfields was among several visits the top Senate Republican has made across the country this cycle.

Since the Senate left Washington, D.C., last month to hit the campaign trail, Thune has been busy, hitting key states like Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa and Ohio. But as Thune racks up miles on the road, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has been largely absent.

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Schumer has shifted to virtual events while high-profile surrogates, like former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Kamala Harris and others have descended upon battleground states that could make or break his ambitions of Democratic control of the Senate.

His most recent event came earlier this week: a virtual fundraiser for Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon, the Democratic Socialists of America-affiliated nominee running against Sen. Ashley Moody, R-Fla.

Many candidates running in key races across the map from Michigan to Mississippi have tried to distance themselves from Schumer or outright said they wouldn’t support him to lead Senate Democrats.

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One of those candidates includes Scott Colom, a district attorney in Mississippi running against Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss. The Senate Majority PAC, a super PAC closely aligned with Schumer, has teed up $1.2 million in advertising in the state, but Colom isn’t welcoming the top Senate Democrat with open arms.

When asked by Fox News Digital if he would support Schumer should he win his race, Colom said, "I don't want to get into hypotheticals, because I don't know what the options are, who the options are."

"But I'll say this, I don't like that our party is represented by two people that live in the same borough," Colom said, referring to Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.

"We need to have people that understand rural America. You know, that's part of the problem is we don't have enough rural voices in leadership in the Democratic Party, because we have values and we have a vision that might not be the same as the people in New York," he continued. "And we need to make sure our values and visions are part of the Democratic Party."

Others, like Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan or Adam Hamilton in Kansas, have been more explicit in saying they won’t support Schumer if they make it to the Senate.

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Republicans have leaned into that growing schism between Schumer and the ones who could make his wish of a Democratic-controlled Senate come true.

"If you look at Republicans, there's not a single Republican running nationally that's saying, ‘Hey, if you elect me, I'll vote against John Thune as leader,’" Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, said. "On the Democrat side, you have virtually every candidate running saying, ‘If you elect me, I will vote against Chuck Schumer.’"

"They're going to have a huge problem, because the Democrats are really, really pissed off about Schumer," he continued. "So he's the problem."

Meanwhile, as the outlook for control of the Senate remains in the air, Thune has dedicated his time to showing up wherever his candidates need him.

"We're getting out and about — It's whatever we can do to help," he said.

On the other side of the political coin, Thune argued that the Democratic Party was struggling to find its identity in an election with high stakes for both parties.

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He contended that socialists were the rising faction within the party, which was "creating problems for their leadership. And I think it's in both the House and the Senate, you're having to decide, is that what we want to be? Does that really represent us?"

And that ascendant left flank of Schumer’s could cause problems in a political environment that could be leaning Democrats’ way, Thune said.

"They've gotten so far left that they really are out of the mainstream of where the country's at," Thune said. "And I think that's going to hurt them in this election in what otherwise might be arguably a decent political environment for them, but I just — their party has really, really drifted."

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