The comedy and sorrow of the refugee experience are explored in Mo Amer’s Netflix series “Mo”: NPR

Mohammed Amer has spoken about his family’s experience as Palestinian refugees in standup comedy. He spent nearly a decade turning it into a television series, which is arriving on Netflix this week.
Spiders exhibit REM-like behaviors, which begs the question, “Do they dream?”

A team of researchers filmed jumping spiders overnight and observed behaviors that mirror rapid eye movement sleep in other species. It helps that baby jumping spiders have translucent exoskeletons.
Some establishments are actively battling the monkey pox within the LGBTQ community.

Monkeypox is spreading primarily among gay and bisexual men, and owners of bars that serve that community feel well-positioned to share information without adding to stigma against LGBTQ people.
Kristi Noem, governor of South Dakota, may have broken the law, the ethics board claims.

A state ethics board said Gov. Kristi Noem may have engaged in misconduct when she intervened in her daughters application for a real estate appraiser license.
Tuesday’s primaries in New York and Florida test the redrawn political boundaries.

Voters in New York and Florida settled intra-party battles in competitive House races and picked the Democratic nominee to face Florida’s Republican firebrand
The life expectancy decreased most dramatically in these 8 states in 2020.

The average life expectancy in the U.S. dropped by nearly two years in 2020. In New York, it declined by three years.
Twitter whistleblower claims serious security flaws and claims the business deceived the public.

Twitters former head of cybersecurity has accused the company of a number of egregious security flaws and oversights, according to a whistleblower complaint
One state declined to employ a federal option to provide free meals during the summer. Numerous children suffered the price.

Missouri was the only state that did not allow a grab-and-go option for summer meals, an NBC News analysis found. Up to 97% fewer meals were served in some areas.