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DJ Snake and Lil Jon’s ‘Turn Down for What’ Video Is Perfect Insanity

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It’s hard to pinpoint specifically what makes the video for DJ Snake and Lil Jon ‘s “Turn Down for What” so compelling and ripe for repeat viewings. Maybe it’s the manic flailing and ostentatious pelvic thrusts of our energized protagonist; a man who looks like he just took equal parts coke and angel dust. Maybe it’s his ability to yell into a phone and melt a cop’s face off on the other end. Maybe it’s the breaking of bricks and flower pots over his genitals, an act sure to injure the turnt down. Maybe it’s the sweet mother’s unintentional, asymmetrical breast dancing.

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Whatever it is, the Daniels-directed clip (Tenacious D’s “Rize of the Fenix,” Foster the People’s “Don’t Stop” ) will be viewed more than once by many, so start your first viewing now.

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"Turn Down for What" is a song by French DJ and record producer DJ Snake and American rapper Lil Jon released on December 18, 2013. The song and its viral music video popularized the use of the phrase. The song's success climaxed in North America where it has earned six platinum certifications in both the United States and Canada.

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• William Grigahcine is a French DJ and producer whose stage name is DJ Snake. He has collaborated with an eclectic collection of artists including Diddy, Pitbull, Tyrese, and T-Pain, but is best known for his production work with Lady Gaga. Snake worked on " Government Hooker ," which was voted best song by Gaga's fans after the release of Born This Way . He also contributed towards the Artpop singles, " Applause " and " Do What U Want ."
• This collaboration with the King of Crunk, Lil Jon, became Snake's first US Top 40 hit under his own name. It was brought to many people's attention after featuring in a RadioShack commercial promoting Sol Replic and Motorola's DECK wireless speakers.
• This was Lil Jon's first appearance in the Hot 100's Top 40 since he was one of the featured performers on Jay Sean's 2009 hit, " Do You Remember ."
• Lil Jon explained the song title: "When DJ Snake sent me the track with a sample of Redman saying 'bang the underground,' he wanted me to redo it with my voice. When I heard the song I was like this beat is too crazy for that sample. I wanted to make it hip and current and the first thing that came to mind was the phrase 'Turn Down For What!'"
• The bizarre music video stars Daniel Kwan, who is part of the directing team the Daniels, which put the clip together. The Daniels have also worked with Foster the Beat filming their visuals for " Houdini " and " Don't Stop (Color on the Walls) ." Kwan told Billboard magazine : "The idea was a guy humping his way through a building. Each floor would have its own series of gags."
• Lil Jon told Billboard magazine why he feels the track has proved to be so popular. "The genre of the song is dance, but it's really a hip-hop beat," he explained. "It captures a moment with people - they listen to the song, and no matter what they're doing, it pushes them to do something. If you're in the gym and it comes on, it's like, why are you going to stop? Work out harder! If you're out partying and the song comes on, it's like, let's have another shot!"
• When Rolling Stone asked Lil Jon if there's anything he would turn down for, the rapper listed two things: sleep and the police.
• This was the only hit song of its time with a chorus, but no verses. The structure of the song is: chours-break-chorus-break-chorus-break.
• Lil Jon showed up at the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show in Las Vegas, where he brought the heat with "Turn Down For What" before joining Ludacris and the show's headliner, Usher, on " Yeah! " While the cameras were on Lil Jon, Usher changed out of the roller skates he used while performing "OMG." The show was as exciting as the game, which the Chiefs won in overtime against the 49ers.
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• Siahara Shyne Carter from United States The bass on it is not hard and I love it it blends You can still hear the cute sound and Turn down for what! in the music [hehehehe]
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Turn down for what.

What does turn down for what mean?

At its core, turn down for what is a phrase used to promote having a good time. The phrase itself implies that there is no reason to turn down and stop partying. It seeks to feed the hype of whatever is going on.

Where does turn down for what come from?

The phrase turn down for what was popularized by a song of the same name by DJ Snake and Lil Jon that was released on December 18, 2013. It draws its meaning from words and phrases that came before it including turnt , turnt up , or turn up . When it’s used in reference to partying, turn up means to have a good time and be excited, possibly under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

So, naturally, the opposite of turning up would be turning down . To turn down is to become sober or to calm down. It’s about winding down from a wild, crazy time. In the song, the singer is posing a question—why should we stop partying? The defiant response? Intense, loud, pulsating dance music. Of course, there no good reason to turn down . The partying will go on.

The song itself has very few lyrics, but those it does have are important to the vibe of the song. The lyrics besides “turn down for what” set the stage that there’s a really great party going on: “Fire up that loud / another round of shots.” “Fire up that loud” is a reference to marijuana. Loud , in this context, means pot. Firing up refers to smoking up. “Another round of shots” has a pretty transparent meaning. This is clearly a raging party with lots of alcohol and weed.

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Companies and individuals have harnessed the song’s popularity to push their own message. For example, former first lady Michelle Obama made a Vine video with a play on words of the song’s lyrics. She says “turnip for what,” while dancing with a turnip to promote her campaign to encourage healthier lifestyles. Disney Channel also used the song to promote their programming with “Tune in 4 What?!”

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Stephen Williams (Israel-Premier Tech) followed moves and covered all attacks in the final two kilometers before unleashing his sprint with 250 metres to take the win in Mt Lofty and secure the overall win of the 2024 Tour Down Under.

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Even losing the wheels of his BORA-Hansgrohe's teammates couldn't stop Sam Welsford who claimed his third victory in Port Elliot. The Australian simply used other riders to launch himself to victory ahead of Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty) and Lars Boven (Alpecin-Deceuninck). Isaac Del Toro (UAE Team Emirates) safely crossed the line and still leads the general classification with a slim one-second as we head to a showdown for the GC contenders in the final two stages.

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The Australian six stage event, centered in Adelaide, winds its way across South Australian roads in the height of the southern hemisphere summer, delivering a usually sweltering opener to a new WorldTour season. 

The race, which was first held in 1999 and has been part of the WorldTour since 2008, starts in Tanunda in 2024 and once again finishes on top of Mount Lofty, where Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates) claimed overall victory in 2023 . The race is often a place where Australian riders rise to the top, putting their best foot forward as they return from Europe to race on home soil, but with the strong international field delivered by its WorldTour status there is no guarantee they will have it all their way. 

Caleb Ewan will be among those hoping to capture a winning start to the 2024 season in front of the home-nation crowd as he lines up with the Australian squad Jayco-AlUla once again, having returned after five years with Lotto Soudal.

The first four stages are where chances exist for the sprinters, although there is some potential for the opportunists to grasp a win instead along the way. There is no doubt, however, that riders that are happier on the flat will just be trying to hang on as long as possible on the final two stages as that is where the battle for the leader's ochre jersey will be in the spotlight. 

The two summit finish stages, Willunga Hill and Mount Lofty, provide the makings of a thrilling weekend finale. Both climbs have featured in the race before but never before together, with Willunga having a long history at the race and Lofty making its debut as a finishing climb in 2023.

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• Stage 3, Tea Tree Gully to Campbelltown - 145.3km
• Stage 4, Murray Bridge to Port Elliot - 136.2km
• Stage 5, Christies Beach to Willunga Hill - 129.3km
• Stage 6, Unley to Mount Lofty - 128.2km

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The Tour Down Under marks the beginning of the new WorldTour season for both the men’s and women’s peloton. 

Returning to the calendar after a two-year absence due to the global pandemic, the race will see multiple big name riders get their campaigns underway as they look to build form ahead of the coming months. Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe), Ben O’Connor (AG2R Citroen) and Luke Plapp (Ineos Grenadiers) are three homegrown heroes who will be due to race in Adelaide. 

Grace Brown (FDJ-Suez) will also be one to watch. 

Both the men’s and women’s action will begin with the Schwalbe Classic, an evening criterium on Saturday 14 January. However the criterium will have no say in the overall general classification battle. The men’s race will get underway on Tuesday 17 January with a 5.5 kilometre prologue, whereas the women’s race will begin the day after the criterium on Sunday 15 January with a flat 110.4 kilometre stage between Glenelg and Aldinga.

According to Hindley , the short and explosive stages will make for what he believes will be “fun and aggressive racing”. Check out the full start list here . 

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If you're planning on tuning into all the action down under from the UK, then you'll be pleased to know that there are a couple of options so you won't need to miss a single pedal stroke. One option is via Eurosport/discovery+ You can buy a month long pass to get access to the action via the Eurosport player or discovery+ website. At just £6.99, the pass is certainly money well spent but be aware that it will then auto renew at the same price each month unless you cancel prior to the renewal date. If you know you want access to all of the action from the WorldTour season all year long, you may want to go for a year long pass instead. The year long pass costs £59.99 and represents a saving of £23.89. Another option is subscribing to GCN+ at a cost of £39.99 for the year or £6.99 per month. Setting up a GCN account will also give you access to live or on demand race footage as well as long or short highlights and analysis. If you're based in the USA, Flobikes will also show both the men's and women's races. You can subscribe for a year for $150 in the USA or $209.99 in Canada.

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Television coverage of all stages of the Santos Tour Down Under is set to begin at 01:30am GMT (20:30 EST). You can also access the coverage across Europe on GCN+ and Eurosport - discovery+

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If you're lucky enough to be down in Australia right now, you'll be able to tune into most of the action via a multitude of Australian TV channels. The race is live in the seven network, but we advise you to check out the full television schedule here in order to find all the information you need depending on where you are in the country. Don't forget, you can also download an ExpressVPN if you're over in Oz and want to access your favourite broadcasters from back home. 

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He has reported from some of professional cycling's biggest races and events including the Tour de France and the recent Glasgow World Championships. He has also covered races elsewhere across the world and interviewed some of the sport's top riders including Tom Pidcock, Wout van Aert, Primož Roglič and Lizzie Deignan. 

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Jennifer Lopez Quietly Rebrands Tour as Greatest Hits Show Amid Weak Ticket Sales

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After canceling seven dates of her first North American tour in five years amid weak ticket sales, Jennifer Lopez has renamed it to apparently broaden its scope, changing it from “This Is Me… Now” to “This Is Me… Live | The Greatest Hits.”

Requests for comment from Lopez’s reps and Live Nation, which is producing the tour, went unanswered. Live Nation’s site hasn’t been updated to reflect the tour’s name change, but it does have conflicting titles on Lopez’s listings, including “This Is Me… Live” and “This Is Me… Now The Tour.” While some venues hosting Lopez’s performances haven’t changed the original listings on their respective sites, there are a few instances confirming the rebrand, for shows at Palm Springs’ Acrisure Arena and Inglewood’s The Forum . A sponsored Facebook ad from Lopez also features a graphic with the new title.

Upon release in February, “This Is Me… Now” struggled to find an audience, selling 14,000 copies in its first week. While the album did debut atop the Billboard Top Album Sales Chart due to 11,000 in physical sales, it arrived at No. 38 on the Billboard 200, becoming the second of her nine studio albums to bow outside the top 10.

The album was one part of a self-financed $20 million multimedia project including the tour and the two films, “This Is Me…Now: A Love Story,” and a documentary, “The Greatest Love Story Never Told.” Variety described the endeavor as an examination of “Lopez’s life as a serial romantic” following her romantic rekindling with actor Ben Affleck, who she married in 2022 after nearly two decades apart.

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2024 women's NCAA Tournament Final Four dates, game times, TV, location, teams and more

The stars will be out on Friday night in the women's Final Four.

Iowa's Caitlin Clark , South Carolina's Kamilla Cardoso, UConn's Paige Bueckers and NC State's Aziaha James will all take the court in Cleveland with a trip to the national championship game on the line, and each has their own calling card as they enter the championship rounds.

Clark's story is well-documented at this point , but endlessly impressive nonetheless: She put together a Her-culean effort in Iowa's win over LSU in the Elite Eight, with a 41-point game (and a bit of revenge). Cardoso has been a force in the paint for the Gamecocks, and she'll look to take her game to the next level at the conclusion of the women's tournament.

J ames has exploded in the tournament , capping off brilliant performance after brilliant performance with a 7-for-9 night from 3-point land in the Wolfpack's win over Texas in the Elite Eight. Last, and certainly not least, Bueckers wants to cap off this UConn run with that elusive championship – but she plans to run it back with the Huskies next season should things go south between now and then.

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However you cut it, the women's Final Four will be filled with excitement, drama and plenty of buckets. Here's what to know about the 2024 women's Final Four:

When is the women's Final Four?

• Date: Friday, April 5
• Start time: 7 p.m. ET (South Carolina vs. NC State); 9:30 p.m. ET (UConn vs. Iowa)

The women's Final Four is set for tip-off on Friday, April 5. The first game begins at 7 p.m. ET (6 p.m. CT), with the second matchup following at 9:30 p.m. ET, or after the conclusion of the first game.

What TV channel is the women's Final Four on?

ESPN will broadcast both games of the 2024 women's Final Four, with the doubleheader beginning at 7 p.m. ET on Friday night.

Where is the women's Final Four?

• Location: Cleveland, Ohio
• Venue: Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse

The semifinal games of the 2024 women's NCAA Tournament will take place at the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, Ohio. The arena is home of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers and seats over 19,000 fans.

Women's Final Four bracket

Here's how the women's Final Four bracket shapes up entering the final weekend of the tourney:

• (1) South Carolina vs. (3) North Carolina State
• (1) Iowa vs. (3) UConn

Who is in the women's Final Four?

In one matchup, the South Carolina Gamecocks take on the North Carolina State Wolfpack in a battle of Carolina supremacy. South Carolina, led by 6-foot-7 senior Kamilla Cardoso, looks to keep its undefeated season rolling against the Wolfpack. Aziaha James has been on a tear in the tournament, last exploding for seven 3-pointers in NC State's win over the Longhorns.

In the other showdown, Caitlin Clark looks to keep her historic 2023-24 season alive when she and the Hawkeyes face off against Paige Bueckers and UConn in the semifinal. Clark put up a masterful performance in their regional final vs. LSU, scoring 41 points in 40 minutes and exacting revenge against the Tigers.

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Sickened by U.S. Nuclear Program, Communities Turn to Congress for Aid

In St. Louis and around the country, people harmed by the drive for an atomic bomb have been shut out of a federal law enacted to help such victims.

Hundreds of thousands of tons of nuclear waste from a St. Louis factory were dumped over decades, seeping into the soil and nearby Coldwater Creek. Credit... Bryan Birks for The New York Times

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By Catie Edmondson

Catie Edmondson, who covers Congress, surveyed St. Louis’s radioactive contamination from three sites, including the banks of Coldwater Creek.

• April 6, 2024

When Diane Scheig’s father, Bill, came home from work at the Mallinckrodt factory in St. Louis, he would strip down in their garage and hand his clothes to her mother to immediately wash, not daring to contaminate the house with the residue of his labors.

Mr. Scheig, an ironworker who helped build the city’s famous arch, never told their family exactly what he was doing at the plant, where scientists first began processing uranium for the Manhattan Project in 1942. But by the age of 49, he had developed kidney cancer, lost his ability to walk, and died.

Decades later, Diane’s older sister Sheryle, who years earlier had given birth to a baby boy born with a softball-sized tumor in his stomach, died of brain and lung cancer at 54. Her neighbor two doors down died of appendix cancer at 49. So many of her classmates have died of cancer that a large round table covered with their pictures is now a staple of her high school reunions.

“I know for myself, I was thankful when I passed the age of 49,” Ms. Scheig said. “And I was thankful when I passed the age of 54.”

The Mallinckrodt plant processed the uranium that allowed scientists at the University of Chicago to produce the first man-made controlled nuclear reaction, paving the way for the first atomic bomb.

But the factory — and the program it served — left another legacy: A plague of cancer, autoimmune diseases and other mysterious illnesses has ripped through generations of families like Ms. Scheig’s in St. Louis, and other communities across the country that were exposed to the materials used to power the nuclear arms race.

Now Congress is working on legislation that would allow people harmed by the program but so far shut out of a federal law enacted to aid its victims — including in New Mexico, Arizona, Tennessee and Washington state — to receive federal compensation.

A Toxic Legacy

In the 1940s, as workers churned out 50,000 tons of uranium to feed the nation’s nascent atomic arsenal, the factory was also spitting out heaps of nuclear waste.

Over the next several decades, hundreds of thousands of tons of radioactive waste stored in open steel drums were hauled and dumped across the city. The waste seeped into large swaths of soil, including on land that later became ball fields.

And it drained into Coldwater Creek, a tributary that snakes through the metropolitan area for 19 miles through backyards and public parks where children play and catch crayfish. In heavy storms, the creek routinely floods.

There are similar stories across the country, among the Navajo workers in New Mexico and Arizona who were sent into mines with a bucket and a shovel to dig up uranium and were never told about the dangers; the children of workers at uranium processing plants in Tennessee and Washington state; and the downwinders across the Southwest who breathed in the fallout from the mushroom clouds of aboveground tests.

None of those communities qualify for aid under the only federal law to compensate civilians who sustained serious illnesses from the nation’s nuclear weapons program. Passed in 1990, that statute was narrowly constructed to help some uranium miners and a handful of communities who were present for aboveground testing. Claimants, who can include children or grandchildren of those who would have benefited from the program but have since died, receive a one-time payment of $50,000 to $100,000.

The Senate earlier this month passed legislation led by Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, and Senator Ben Ray Luján, Democrat of New Mexico, that would update and dramatically expand the law to include thousands of new participants, including Missouri families like the Scheigs.

If Congress does not pass the bill before June, the law will expire altogether, shuttering the fund for those who are currently eligible and cutting off access to cancer screening clinics in neighborhoods that have been hit hard by radioactive exposure and rely on federal money to continue operating.

To read their legislation is to visualize a map of the physical and psychic toll the nation’s nuclear weapons’ legacy has seared into communities across the country, years after the first atomic test at Los Alamos.

“It speaks to the enormity of the burden,” Mr. Hawley, a conservative Republican who is up for re-election this year, said in an interview. “It speaks to the heroism of these people who, for 50-plus years in almost all these cases, have borne the burden themselves. Some of my colleagues complained about the cost. Well, who do they think is bearing the cost now?”

For years, momentum to expand the nuclear compensation program had sputtered along in fits and starts on Capitol Hill, adopted by various lawmakers who inched it forward but were not able to secure a vote in the House or Senate.

But it got a shot in the arm when Mr. Hawley took up the issue, working with Mr. Luján to draft legislation and using his perch on the Armed Services Committee to attach it to the annual defense policy bill.

When the measure was stripped out of the final version of the legislation after Republicans objected to its hefty price tag, which congressional scorekeepers estimated could hit $140 billion, the senators went back to the drawing board. Cutting out expansive new provisions that would have forced the federal government to cover victims’ medical fees, Mr. Hawley and Mr. Luján also added new communities, enticing more senators to support the bill now that it would benefit their states.

When the measure finally got a vote on the Senate floor last month — made possible after some horse-trading between Mr. Hawley and Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the minority leader — it passed 69 to 30.

‘Bleeding Through’

St. Louis’s radioactive fate was decided over lunch at the elite Noonday Club in the city’s downtown in 1942, when Arthur Compton, a top administrator of the Manhattan Project and the former head of physics at Washington University met with Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. , a scientist who ran his family’s chemical and pharmaceutical company. Three other companies had already refused Mr. Compton’s request — to begin refining uranium for the development of the bomb. Mr. Mallinckrodt, a longtime friend of Mr. Compton, said yes.

Eight decades later, the consequences of that decision are immediately visible on a drive through St. Louis. Cleanup of the creek is expected to take until 2038, according to The Missouri Independent.

At the site of the old airport, where the first radioactive waste from the plant was stored, workers clad in white Tyvek hazardous materials suits with bright yellow boots can be seen from the highway, digging into the ground behind fences adorned with yellow warning signs and next to rail cars loaded with contaminated soil.

Some miles down is the West Lake landfill , a pit holding thousands of tons of radioactive waste that originated at Mallinckrodt and was illegally dumped in an area now surrounded by chain restaurants, warehouses, and a hospital. By 2010, a growing underground fire about 1,000 feet from the radioactive material was discovered.

Around the same time, Kim Visintine, an engineer-turned-medical professional, began to realize in conversations with friends that the rate at which their families and classmates were falling ill with serious, rare cancers “was just historically way beyond the norm,” she said. Ms. Visintine’s son, Zach, was born with glioblastoma — the most aggressive type of brain tumor — and died at age 6.

She started a Facebook page called “ Coldwater Creek — Just the Facts ” and began mapping reports of serious illnesses linked to radiation, coloring in heavily affected neighborhoods in shades of red. There were soon thousands of examples.

“It just looked like it was bleeding through,” Ms. Visintine said of the red on the maps.

Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down

The illnesses have stretched across the city, and reached deep into family trees.

Carl Chappell’s father, a chemical operator, used to walk to work at the plant in the early 1950s, until he began working at the company’s sprawling Hematite facility , where scientists researched and produced high-enriched nuclear fuel. It was there, in 1956, that his father was exposed to a radiation spill.

“We didn’t know that that was radioactive,” Mr. Chappell recalled in an interview. “All we knew was he was exposed to some toxic chemical spill and hospitalized for a few days or several days down there until he was released to come home.”

Eight years later, his father was diagnosed with renal cancer. Within another eight years, he had died. He was 48.

Decades later, at the age of 40, Mr. Chappell’s son Stephen was diagnosed with a rare kind of mucinous cancer that began in his appendix and spread throughout his abdomen. He died at 44.

For some families, developing cancer feels inevitable. Kay Hake’s father, Marvin, was an engineer at the Mallinckrodt plant and survived bladder, prostate and skin cancer. Her husband, John, who worked as a heavy equipment operator, was among a team of workers dispatched years ago to help clean up toxic waste from another of Mallinckrodt’s uranium plants . Sometimes he was given protective equipment to wear, but other times he was not.

“Every time we get sick, we think it’s probably cancer,” Mr. Hake said in a recent interview over coffee. “Sometimes we’re planning for the future and it’s like, ‘Let’s not plan too far and try to enjoy our lives more.’ Because we don’t know if we’re going to make it.”

“It’s not if it’s going to happen,” Ms. Hake added. “It’s when.”

Christen Commuso, who grew up near the creek and has lobbied extensively for the expansion of the program through her work for the Missouri Coalition for the Environment, has found a small comfort in hoping that the suffering in her family will stop with her.

After Ms. Commuso developed thyroid cancer, doctors removed her thyroid, adrenal gland, gallbladder and eventually her uterus. At first, Ms. Commuso said in an interview, she “really mourned the loss of my ability to have my own children.”

“But at the same time, there’s a part of me that feels like well, maybe it was a blessing in disguise,” she added. “Because I didn’t pass something down to a new generation.”

She was in the Senate chamber in March when lawmakers approved the legislation to expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to cover Missourians like her. Just the provision in the existing law to fund screening clinics for survivors would help, she said, because she sometimes skips doctor’s appointments when she cannot afford them.

“I wanted to clap and scream and holler” when it passed, Ms. Commuso said.

But she also found it jarring to see how nonchalant senators were as they voted on her fate — with a customary thumbs up or thumbs down to the Senate clerk.

“To watch people kind of give a thumbs up or a thumbs down on your life — and does your life matter to them? It’s like, what do you have to say and do to convince people that you matter?”

Catie Edmondson covers Congress for The Times. More about Catie Edmondson

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What we know about the container ship that crashed into the Baltimore bridge

• The ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday was the Singapore-flagged Dali.
• The container ship had been chartered by Maersk, the Danish shipping company. 
• Two people were recovered from the water but six remain missing, authorities said.

A container ship crashed into a major bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday, causing its collapse into the Patapsco River.

A livestream showed vehicles traveling on the Francis Scott Key Bridge just moments before the impact at 1:28 a.m. ET.

Baltimore first responders called the situation a "developing mass casualty event" and a "dire emergency," per The Associated Press.

James Wallace, chief of the Baltimore Fire Department, said in a press conference that two people had been recovered from the water.

One was uninjured, but the other was transported to a local trauma center in a "very serious condition."

Wallace said up to 20 people were thought to have fallen into the river and some six people were still missing.

Richard Worley, Baltimore's police chief, said there was "no indication" the collision was purposeful or an act of terrorism.

Wes Moore, the governor of Maryland, declared a state of emergency around 6 a.m. ET. He said his office was in close communication with Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary.

"We are working with an interagency team to quickly deploy federal resources from the Biden Administration," Moore added.

Understanding why the bridge collapsed could have implications for safety, in both the shipping and civil engineering sectors.

The container ship is the Singapore-flagged Dali, which is about 984 feet long, and 157 feet wide, per a listing on VesselFinder.

An unclassified Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency report said that the ship "lost propulsion" as it was leaving port, ABC News reported.

The crew notified officials that they had lost control and warned of a possible collision, the report said, per the outlet.

The Dali's owner is listed as Grace Ocean, a Singapore-based firm, and its manager is listed as Synergy Marine, which is also headquartered in Singapore.

Shipping news outlet TradeWinds reported that Grace Ocean confirmed the Dali was involved in the collapse, but is still determining what caused the crash.

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Staff for Grace Ocean declined to comment on the collision when contacted by Business Insider.

"All crew members, including the two pilots have been accounted for and there are no reports of any injuries. There has also been no pollution," Synergy Marine said in a statement.

The company did not respond to a request for further comment from BI.

'Horrified'

Maersk chartered the Dali, with a schedule for the ship on its website.

"We are horrified by what has happened in Baltimore, and our thoughts are with all of those affected," the Danish shipping company said in a statement.

Maersk added: "We are closely following the investigations conducted by authorities and Synergy, and we will do our utmost to keep our customers informed."

Per ship tracking data, the Dali left Baltimore on its way to Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, at around 1 a.m., about half an hour before the crash.

The Port of Baltimore is thought to be the largest in the US for roll-on/roll-off ships carrying trucks and trailers.

Barbara Rossi, associate professor of engineering science at the University of Oxford, told BI the force of the impact on one of the bridge's supporting structures "must have been immense" to lead to the collapse.

Dr Salvatore Mercogliano, a shipping analyst and maritime historian at Campbell University, told BI: "It appears Dali left the channel while outbound. She would have been under the control of the ship's master with a Chesapeake Bay pilot onboard to advise the master.

"The deviation out of the channel is probably due to a mechanical issue as the ship had just departed the port, but you cannot rule out human error as that was the cause of the Ever Forward in 2022 just outside of Baltimore."

He was referring to the incident two years ago when the container ship became grounded for a month in Chesapeake Bay after loading up cargo at the Port of Baltimore.

The US Coast Guard found the incident was caused by pilot error, cellphone use, and "inadequate bridge resource management."

Claudia Norrgren, from the maritime research firm Veson Nautical, told BI: "The industry bodies who are here to protect against incidents like this, such as the vessel's flag state, classification society, and regulatory bodies, will step in and conduct a formal investigation into the incident. Until then, it'll be very hard for anyone to truly know what happened on board."

This may not have been the first time the Dali hit a structure.

In 2016, maritime blogs such as Shipwreck Log and ship-tracking site VesselFinder posted videos of what appears to be the stern of the same, blue-hulled container vessel scraping against a quay in Antwerp.

A representative for the Port of Antwerp told BI the Dali did collide with a quay there eight years ago but couldn't "give any information about the cause of the accident."

The Dali is listed as being built in 2015 by Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea.

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Joey Gallo’s 447-foot homer highlights Nationals’ win over Pirates

The Washington Nationals’ 5-3 win Wednesday night offered another reminder of the folly of drawing too many conclusions from the first week of a 162-game season. The bullpen, expected to be a strength but responsible for losses in their previous two games, was doomed? Joey Gallo, signed to bring power to an otherwise slap-hitting lineup, was washed after a rough March? Right-hander Trevor Williams, in a battle for the fifth spot in the rotation after a shaky spring, deserved to be counted out?

On a brisk, wet night at Nationals Park , the hosts rebutted each of those early assessments and handed the Pittsburgh Pirates (5-1) their first loss. The Nationals (2-3) did what they often did to win last year: string together enough hits to take a lead, then count on the bullpen not to let it get away.

The Nationals got things started in the second inning with Gallo, whose power has never been in question. He reminded the fans scattered in the second deck in right field just how far he is capable of hitting a baseball when he blasted a cutter from Pirates righty Mitch Keller 447 feet, ending an 0-for-12 start to the season.

No National hit a ball that far last season, per TruMedia . And, sure, Washington had signed Gallo to a one-year, $5 million contract in the offseason in hopes that he could. But the slugger had hit .103 in spring training without a homer. He openly noted that he was in danger of not getting another MLB contract if this season went south. He had begun the regular season hitless. But he was the type of player who Manager Dave Martinez said would rattle off a hot week once he finally found his swing.

And then he did.

Gallo seized on Keller’s mistake in the middle of the strike zone, bouncing it into an empty row of seats in a section unaccustomed to seeing balls coming its way. Now, fans in that area might have to start preparing for that possibility when the 6-foot-5, 250-pound slugger steps to the plate. Gallo added a double and finished 3 for 4; he attributed his success to a simplified swing. He noted that he was trying to lift the ball too much during his first few games, even though his swing already has a natural uppercut.

“Thank God that I did something good,” Gallo joked when asked about his mind-set after the homer. “Sometimes it takes one swing or one game to just kind of feel something and get that confidence going, and then things just go from there.”

“I was expecting that from the first game in Cincinnati; we know he’s got tremendous power,” second baseman Luis García Jr. said through an interpreter. “I was very excited for him.”

Gallo’s blast trimmed an early deficit — courtesy of former National Michael A. Taylor’s two-run single in the top of the inning — to 2-1. By the time the second was over, García had driven in a run with the first of his three doubles and CJ Abrams had driven in two more with a hard single to right for a 4-2 lead.

The question then turned to whether Williams could hold that lead. After posting a 5.55 ERA in 144⅓ innings last year, Williams has a leash that might not be long, especially with what’s behind him. Righty Cade Cavalli is expected to return to the rotation this summer. There’s also young starter depth in the Nationals’ system, highlighted by righty Jackson Rutledge and lefty Mitchell Parker among others.

But Williams’s performance against the Pirates provided hope that he could hold things down until the kids arrive. Those two runs were the only he conceded in 5⅓ innings. He allowed three hits and two walks while striking out five.

“You see the writing on the wall. You see they’re not going to swing until I throw strikes,” Williams said. “Pitching in general, once you attack and once you get ahead, you’re in the driver’s seat.”

Martinez then went to his bullpen, an issue in the previous two games. Things started poorly when lefty Robert Garcia allowed a home run to Jack Suwinski on his first pitch. But Jordan Weems, Hunter Harvey and Kyle Finnegan pitched 3⅓ scoreless innings.

The win didn’t come without some concern, however. Victor Robles, in the middle of that second-inning rally after drawing a walk, came up limping after Abrams’s single to right. After the game, Martinez said Robles hurt his left hamstring and would undergo an MRI exam Thursday.

“I don’t want to assume anything, but he said he felt it pretty good,” Martinez said. “So we’ll see what the MRI says and go from there.”

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