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Inside the deadly conditions for children in Gaza · Apple News Today

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  [INTRO MUSIC FADES IN]
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  Yasmeen Khan, Narrating: Good morning. It's Monday, January 29th. I'm Yasmeen Khan in for Shamita Basu.
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  This is "Apple News Today." Coming up…
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  Why Gaza's called the most dangerous place to be a child right now…
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  Museums cover up exhibits of Native American artifacts…
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  And a thrilling comeback and an upset set the stage for the Super Bowl.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  But first, let's take a look at some big developments in the Middle East.
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  Three U.S. troops are dead and dozens more injured after a drone attack
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  in Jordan, near the Syrian border.
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  The U.S. says Iran-backed militant groups were behind the attack,
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  and President Biden promises a response.
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  The difficult part is how to respond in a way that doesn't start a larger conflict
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  between Iran and the U.S.
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  Retired Air Force Colonel Cedric Leighton talked about this tricky balance on "CNN."
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  [START CNN ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Cedric Leighton: There are several options here. Most of them are very bad.
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  But the best option of a bad series of choices is going
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  to be to hit something that is very important to the Iranians,
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  but it is not something that strikes at the core of the regime
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  or at the core of some of their capabilities,
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  but it would serve as a warning to them. So something like attacking naval assets
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  in the Persian Gulf, something like that kind of goes up to the line.
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  [END CNN ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Khan, Narrating: Iran denied involvement in the drone strike.
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  This latest violence comes as the U.S., Qatar, and Egypt are encouraging Israel
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  and Hamas to make a new deal for a ceasefire.
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  There were high-level talks in Paris yesterday, which included
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  the CIA's director.
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  One proposal could stop fighting for up to 60 days in exchange for the release
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  of hostages and more aid to Gaza.
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  And the U.N. is urging the U.S. and other countries to restore aid money
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  for the U.N.'s agency working in Gaza.
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  This came after Israel accused several U.N. workers of involvement
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  in the October 7th Hamas attacks on Israel.
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  The U.S., Germany, and many other countries halted funding.
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  The U.N. has fired several employees and says it's investigating,
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  including considering criminal prosecution,
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  which is rare for aid workers.
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  But at the same time,
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  the U.N. says countries should still provide money
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  [REFLECTIVE MUSIC FADES IN]
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  because the humanitarian situation in Gaza remains desperate
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  and U.N. aid is a lifeline for civilians.
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  We've been reporting daily about the dangerous situation for civilians
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  in Gaza.
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  Today, we want to get more specifics about conditions on the ground.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  Before the U.N. aid story broke, I spoke with Dr. Tania Hach Hassan,
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  a pediatric intensive care doctor
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  with Doctors Without Borders, also known as MSF.
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  Dr. Haj-Hassan is in frequent touch with colleagues working in Gaza.
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  She told me what doctors and nurses are seeing
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  is unlike any other war zone they've worked in.
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  Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan: There is literally no safe space. People cannot flee.
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  This is a population that is completely entrapped,
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  who has been asked or forced to move sequentially
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  into a smaller and smaller pocket of land.
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  And even in those areas that are declared, quote unquote, safe, where they're told
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  to flee to, they are being actively killed.
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  So it's completely unprecedented in modern day history.
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  Khan, Narrating: How are your colleagues in Gaza doing right now?
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  What's the latest that you're hearing from them?
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  [HAJ-HASSAN INHALES DEEPLY]
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  Haj-Hassan: Since the very beginning, the messages have been dire,
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  and they've become increasingly dire as time has gone by.
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  I would say last week, I got a lot of messages
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  to the effect of, we're literally living in hell.
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  We never imagined something so horrific.
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  We feel like the world has completely abandoned us.
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  I think there was a sense of frustration. One colleague,
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  I can actually just pull up her messages to me here.
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  One colleague described feeling a kind of numbness, and I quote,
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  that's how I feel, complete numbness.
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  Haj-Hassan, Narrating: Nothing matters, nothing affects me, I care about nothing.
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  If you told me right now that the whole world was on fire,
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  I wouldn't blink.
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  I don't know why this is, but that's how I feel. I feel numb.
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  Khan: Mm.
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  I would like to ask about Gaza's youngest patients,
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  newborns and their mothers.
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  The UN reported that some 20,000 babies were born
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  in Gaza in the first 105 days of the war.
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  I'm also seeing reported spikes in miscarriages and stillbirths.
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  Haj-Hassan: Mm-hm.
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  Khan: What capacity is there for treating pregnant women and infants?
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  Haj-Hassan: Almost none at this point.
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  We've heard numerous stories, rather horrific stories of women trying
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  to access care for delivery.
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  A pregnant woman known to the MSF team had tried
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  to find somewhere to deliver her baby, but the hospitals were full
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  and ultimately delivered in the latrine near her tent.
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  And unfortunately, her son died.
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  We had one nurse colleague who very early on described her cousin
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  or relative delivering at home, delivering a healthy baby
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  and being so grateful that she made it through labor
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  at home safely and that the baby survived and was healthy.
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  And 10 hours later, their home was bombed and the new mother
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  and her new baby were both instantly killed.
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  Khan, Narrating: UNICEF says Gaza is the most dangerous place on earth to be
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  a child right now.
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  They've called it a graveyard for children.
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  Dr. Haj-Hassan says that even if a child is lucky enough to survive
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  the bombing, there's no guarantee they'll survive
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  the war.
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  Haj-Hassan: The new mothers describe not being able to keep their babies warm.
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  If you're lucky and you can produce breast milk,
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  your supply is likely to be limited by dehydration
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  with ongoing limited access to drinking water.
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  And then if you cannot produce breast milk,
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  formula is almost impossible to come by these days.
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  We've had report over report about starvation in Gaza,
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  and families eating at most one meal a day,
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  sometimes not at all, no access to clean water.
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  And then in children what this often translates to even more so
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  than in adults is this vicious cycle of diarrheal disease,
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  illness and malnutrition.
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  Multiple humanitarian organizations are sounding the alarm that the deaths
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  from disease and epidemics and starvation are likely
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  to even surpass those of the bombardment.
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  Khan, Narrating: According to the Gaza Health Ministry, more than 26,000 Gazans have died,
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  including many children.
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  [INSPIRING MUSIC FADES IN]
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  Dr. Haj-Hassan says collecting data has been difficult,
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  and the number of deaths is likely much higher.
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  Several museums across the U.S. are changing
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  or closing exhibits displaying Native American artifacts.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  This is to comply with new regulations from the Biden administration.
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  The new rules require consultation and consent from descendants, tribes,
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  or Native Hawaiian organizations in order to display or do research
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  on human remains or cultural items.
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  The American Museum of Natural History in New York
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  just closed two major exhibition halls to comply.
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  Museum President Sean Decatur talked to "CNN"
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  about the thinking behind the moves
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  President Sean Decatur: The intent of the regulations, and I think the intent of this process,
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  is to make sure that the voices of Indigenous peoples have a say both in
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  in how their stories are told in museums and participate actively
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  in the presentation of their narratives in museums.
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  Khan, Narrating: Decatur said in a letter to staff that the exhibits were also out of date,
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  from a time when museums did not respect the perspectives
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  and shared humanity of indigenous peoples.
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  Similar moves are happening at the Field Museum in Chicago,
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  Denver Art Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, and others.
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  Curators are removing objects or covering up display cases
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  until staffers can research what needs consent.
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  Interior Secretary Deb Haaland rolled out the new regulations last month.
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  [INSPIRING MUSIC FADES IN]
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  She's the first Native American to hold a cabinet position.
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  She said the process will help return what was stolen back to communities.
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  And she said it's, quote, laying the groundwork
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  for the healing of our people.
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  A couple of quick stories from the sports world before we go.
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  Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva is banned
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  for four years for violating doping rules.
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  The ruling from the Court of Arbitration for Sport is backdated to December 2021.
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  That's when she tested positive.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  The decision likely means Russian skaters will be stripped of their team gold medal
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  from the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, and the U.S. team will get gold instead.
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  Medals have been in limbo for years as legal wrangling over
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  the doping allegations dragged on.
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  And in the NFL, the Super Bowl is now set, with the Kansas City Chiefs taking
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  on the San Francisco 49ers.
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  It'll be a rematch of the 2020 Super Bowl, which the Chiefs won.
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  The Niners pulled off a big comeback win that ended a historic playoff run
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  by the Detroit Lions.
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  The Chiefs knocked off the Baltimore Ravens in an upset.
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  And finally, we've got a narrated article on a writer's journey to use science
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  to heal his own broken heart.
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  [START APPLE NARRATED ARTICLE]
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  Todd Martens: More than 400 days after the breakup, I continue to stew on it,
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  analyze it, grieve it.
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  I also haven't had more than three consecutive hours of sleep
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  since the fall of 2022.
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  [END APPLE NARRATED ARTICLE]
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  Khan, Narrating: That's the voice of LA Times reporter Todd Martens.
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  If you've ever been through a bad breakup, you know how much it hurts.
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  And you also know that it's not just psychological pain.
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  [OUTRO MUSIC FADES IN]
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  Martens talks with researchers to explore how our brains get rewired
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  after heartache.
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  He learns about how heartbreak affects our immune systems.
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  It can literally make us sick.
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  And he finds out what science has to offer to fix a broken heart.
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  That's cued up for you next in the Apple News app.
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  And if you're listening in the Podcasts app,
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  follow Apple News Plus Narrated to find the story.
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  And I'll be back with the news tomorrow.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]