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New Mexico officials this week warned people to avoid consuming unpasteurized dairy products following the death. Interest in and sales of raw milk have been rising in recent years, fueled by social media and growing support from the Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'sMake America Healthy Again movement.

State officials provided few details about the newborn, citing privacy restrictions. While investigators said they could not determine the exact cause of the baby's death, "the most likely source of infection was unpasteurized milk." That conclusion was based on information gathered during the investigation, including the timing of the infection and reports that the mother drank raw milk during pregnancy, an official said.

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Raw milk can contain several disease-causing germs, including listeria. That is a type of bacteria that can cause miscarriage, stillbirth, preterm birth, or fatal infections in newborns, even if the mother is only mildly ill.

Pasteurization — the process of heating milk to a high enough temperature to kill germs — can prevent infections from listeria as well as other types of bacteria as well as viruses. Raw milk can contain germs that cause infections from avian influenza, brucella, tuberculosis, salmonella, campylobacter, cryptosporidium and E. coli. Many of those infections are particularly dangerous to young children, people older than 65 and those with weakened immune systems.

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Hamilton, a moderate lawmaker respected by Democrats and Republicans alike who also led a congressional probe of the Reagan administration'sIran-Contra affair, died Tuesday peacefully in his Bloomington, Indiana, home, said his son Doug Hamilton, who did not cite a cause.

The elder Hamilton was at the forefront of congressional opposition tothe 1991 Persian Gulf Warwaged by President George H.W. Bush and advocated continued economic sanctions against Iraq before military action over its invasion of Kuwait.

He decided against seeking reelection in 1998 and said after leaving Congress that he believed the U.S. needed to be regarded around the world as more than a leader of military coalitions.

"The United States must be — and must be seen as — an optimistic and benign power," Hamilton said in 2003. "We must speak and act as a source of optimism, a beacon of freedom, a benign power forging a consensus approach toward a world of peace and growth and freedom. And American power must be accompanied by American generosity."

President Barack Obama presented Hamilton with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015, saying during the ceremony that Hamilton was a man "widely admired" on both sides of the aisle, "for his honesty, his wisdom, and consistent commitment to bipartisanship."

"Indiana mourns the passing of Lee Hamilton, a man whose life embodied integrity, civility, and public service," Indiana Gov. Mike Braun, a Republican, said in a statement Wednesday.

9/11 investigations

Hamilton was a small-town lawyer known for his exploits as a high school basketball star when he first won election to his southern Indiana congressional seat in 1964 at the age of 33.

With his thick glasses and calm, deliberate manner, Hamilton rose to become chairman of the House Foreign Affairs and Intelligence committees and a Democratic leader on international relations before retiring from Congress in 1999.

His reputation as an evenhanded moderate had Capitol Hill leaders turn to him for some of the most tumultuous matters facing Washington. But he also faced criticism that he was not aggressive enough in pursuing allegations of wrongdoing by Republican administrations.

Hamilton was tapped in 2002 as vice chairman of the Sept. 11 attacks commission. That group spent 20 months investigating the 2001 attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people when 19 hijackers flew airliners into New York's World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania countryside.

He presented a united front with the panel's Republican chairman, former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean, through clashes with the George W. Bush White House and its lobbying efforts for changes to the U.S. intelligence system.

The commission found that both the Clinton and Bush administrations failed to grasp the gravity of terrorist threats and took actions so feeble that they never even slowed the al-Qaida plotters.

"The fact of the matter is, we just didn't get it in this country," Hamilton said when the commission released its report in 2004. "We could not comprehend that people wanted to kill us; they wanted to hijack airplanes and fly them into big buildings."

Iran-Contra committee

Hamilton gained national prominence in the mid-1980s with his selection as a co-chairman of the congressional Iran-Contra committee, which investigated the Reagan administration's diversion of profits from Iran arms sales to help Nicaragua's Contra rebels. The panel's report found that President Ronald Reagan created an atmosphere at the White House in which subordinates felt free to skirt the law and Constitution.

"There was too much secrecy and deception," Hamilton said at the time. "Information was withheld from the Congress, other officials, friends and allies and the American people."

Hamilton, however, gained little Republican support for the committee's work. Then-Rep. Dick Cheney, a top Republican on the Iran-Contra committee, called the report a political document that selected only the most damaging evidence against the Reagan administration.

Hamilton was considered as a possible vice presidential running mate both for Michael Dukakis in 1988 and Bill Clinton in 1992, but they decided against picking the nontelegenic congressman from a Republican-leaning state.

Born April 20, 1931, in Daytona Beach, Florida, Hamilton was the son of a Methodist minister and moved with his family to Evansville, Indiana, as a child.

He went on to college at DePauw University and attended Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, before graduating from Indiana University's law school in 1956.

Former Indiana governor and former vice president Mike Pence, a Republican, said in a statement that while their politics differed, his respect for Hamilton was "boundless."

After Congress

After serving in Congress, Hamilton continued with his interests in foreign affairs and congressional reform as director of the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson Center. He also spent time as a faculty member at Indiana University, which in 2018 named its School of Global and International Studies after Hamilton and longtime Republican Sen. Richard Lugar,who died in 2019.

Hamilton's son said he took his father into his office on Monday, the day before he died.

"He believed in doing as much good as he could for as long as he could," Doug Hamilton said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Hamilton and his wife were married for 58 years after meeting while students at DePauw. Nancy Hamilton died in 2012. He is survived by three children, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Associated Press writer Isabella Volmert contributed from Lansing, Michigan. Davies is a former Associated Press writer.

Gates told"Nine News Australia"in an interview posted Wednesday that it was "foolish" to have spent time with Epstein, the convicted sex offender, and that Epstein's claims about him in the files were "false."

" Apparently, Jeffrey wrote an email to himself. That email was never sent; the email is false," he said. "So I don't know what his thinking was there. Was he trying to attack me in some way?

"It just reminds me, every minute I spent with him I regret, and I apologize that I did that," he added.

Gates was one of several of the world's richest and most prominent men mentioned in the millions of filesthe Justice Department released Fridayin connection with Epstein.

He said that he met Epstein in 2011, years after Epstein was convicted of sex crimes, and that they had "a number of dinners" together.

He denied ever having gone to Epstein's private island.

"The focus was always he knew a lot of very rich people, and he was saying he could get them to give money to global health," Gates said. "In retrospect, that was a dead end, and I've said many times, but I'll say again, I was foolish to spend time with him. I was one of many people who regret ever knowing him."

In a series of emails from 2013 that he sent to himself, Epstein appeared to suggest that Gates was having an extramarital affair and seeking illicit drugs.

Epstein wrote in an email dated July 18, 2013, that he had decided to resign from a role he had with the Gates Foundation and BG3, a think tank Gates founded, because he got "caught up in a severe martial dispute between Melinda and Bill." Melinda French Gates is Gates' ex-wife.

"I have the greatest respect for my friend of 7 years, and wish them both well," Epstein wrote.

With multiple typos, Epstein wrote about his relationship with Gates: "In my role as his right hand I had been asked on mulitple occassion and in hindsight , wrongly acquiesced into participating in things that have ranged from the morally inappropriate , to the ethically unsound and had been repeatedly asked to do other things that get near and potentially over the line into the illegal."

Epstein described those activities as "helping Bill to get drugs, in order to deal with consequences of sex with russian girls, to facilictating his illicit trysts, with married women,to being asked to provide adderal."

A spokesperson for Bill Gates denied the allegations in a statement Tuesday. "These claims are absolutely absurd and completely false," the statement said. "The only thing these documents demonstrate is Epstein's frustration that he did not have an ongoing relationship with Gates and the lengths he would go to entrap and defame."

Melinda Gates said in an interview with NPR's "Wild Card" podcast Tuesday that she felt "unbelievable sadness" seeing her ex-husband's name mentioned in the new batch of files.

"Whatever questions remain there ... for those people, and for even my ex-husband, they need to answer to those things, not me," she said. "And I am so happy to be away from all the muck that was there."

Gates was among a long list of powerful men, which includes President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and former President Bill Clinton, named in the millions of files the Justice Department collected.

Trump, Musk and Clinton have denied wrongdoing, and authorities have not accused them of any crime in connection to Epstein. Clinton and former Secretary of StateHillary Clintonagreed Monday to testify in Congress about Epstein in the near future.

Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's former girlfriend and accomplice, is the sole person to have been charged and convicted of crimes associated with Epstein. She is serving a prison sentence in Texas.

Epstein died in jail awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges in 2019. His death was ruled a suicide.

NBA insider Michael Scottoreportsthat reigning MVPShai Gilgeous-Alexanderof theOklahoma City Thundersuffered an abdominal strain duringlast night's gameagainst theOrlando Magic. He is expected to be out through at least the All-Star break.

SGA had been selected as an All-Star Game starter. 2026 would have marked his fourth consecutive All-Star Game appearance.

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When did SGA suffer his injury?

Gilgeous-Alexander suffered his abdominal injury during Oklahoma City's128-92win against the Magic on Feb. 3.

Despite the injury, SGA still managed 20 points and nine assists, extending his streak of consecutive 20-point games to 121 games. He played 28 minutes in the contest, scoring his final point with just over two minutes remaining in the game.

When will SGA return?

SGA will miss at least five games, and will be re-evaluated following the All-Star break. Oklahoma City's first game after the break will be on Feb. 20 at home against theBrooklyn Nets.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Shai Gilgeous-Alexanders injury update: Ab strain for Thunder star

That player is Coby White, whose contract status has beenthoroughly coveredon this site. The TL;DR version is this: The Bulls just traded him to the Charlotte Hornets at his lowest possible value, which has been a theme of theirs when dealing away players.

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The trade itself is slightly complicated.

On Wednesday, the Oklahoma City Thunder shipped out Ousmane Dieng to the Hornets for Mason Plumlee. Dieng was then re-routed to Chicago, leading to this total trade:

Coby White and Mike Conley Jr. went to Charlotte for Collin Sexton, Dieng, and three second-round selections.

Let's get into the trade-grade game.

Charlotte Hornets: B+

This up-and-coming team just got a heavy upgrade in White, who is especially solid moving off the ball, and it did so without relinquishing much.

The acquisition of White is Charlotte's pre-agency play, as it can now enter the summer with the hope of re-signing the high-scoring guard, who now returns to his home state.

White can start or come off the bench, providing the team with scoring, some playmaking and improved defense. He's essentially a better version of Sexton, which has to be considered a win.

Chicago Bulls: C

Look, we can talk about how the Bulls at least got something out of this deal, and that's all fine and well. But when you consider White had enormous value a year ago and the Bulls failed to pull the trigger, this is what happens.

The Bulls simply waited too long, again, which is underlined thoroughly by this post from Stephen Noh:

We shouldn't celebrate that the Bulls finally got off their butts to act on the Coby White situation, when they should have done it so long ago.