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Nov. 13, 2025, 11:00 AM ESTBy Kaitlin SullivanEating more ultra-processed foods is tied to an increased risk of precancerous colorectal growths in women under 50, according to a study published Thursday in JAMA Oncology.These growths, called adenomas or polyps, can later turn into cancer and are a good indicator of a person’s cancer risk, experts say.Rates of colorectal cancer in people under 50 have risen sharply in recent decades. The findings could offer new insights into what’s driving this increase.“One approach we’ve been taking is trying to understand what has changed in our environment that could be driving this. What are some trends that mirror this acceleration in cancer rates?” said study leader Dr. Andrew Chan, a gastroenterologist and the chief of the clinical and translational epidemiology unit at Massachusetts General Brigham in Boston.Ultra-processed foods now make up the bulk of the average American’s diet, especially among kids. The foods, which tend to be high in calories, have been linked to depression, Type 2 diabetes and early death. Some experts have also suspected eating these foods could be driving the increase in colorectal cancer rates among young people.To test this hypothesis, Chan and his team used data from more than 29,000 women who participated in the Nurses’ Health Study II, an ongoing study of female registered nurses established in 1989. The women, who were between 24 and 42 when they enrolled in the study, were followed for 24 years, from 1991 through 2015. Every four years, everyone filled out a questionnaire about their diets, and everyone had at least one colonoscopy before 50.The researchers looked at whether the women were diagnosed with precancerous polyps: either adenomas, which are more likely to turn into cancer, or serrated lesions. While only about 5% of adenomas are cancerous, about 75% of colorectal cancers start as adenomas, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Serrated lesions are still considered precancerous but are linked to fewer cases of colorectal cancer, Chan said.The study found a connection between eating more ultra-processed foods and developing an adenoma before 50. It didn’t see any links between the foods and serrated lesions.Because the majority of colon cancers arise from adenomas, the study showing a link between eating more ultra-processed foods and an increased risk of developing adenomas specifically gave Chan and his team more confidence that these foods could increase colorectal cancer risk, he said.“The strength was that we looked at two major types of polyps — it’s the adenoma type that seems to underlie cancer, and we saw the link between that,” he said. “About 1,200 women in the study developed adenomas. Compared to those who ate the fewest ultra-processed foods, those who ate the most — accounting for one-third of their daily calories — were about 1.5 times more likely to develop adenomas. Specific foods also appeared to increase risk. Diets higher in sugar and artificial sweeteners were most linked to higher rates of adenomas, followed by diets high in sauces, spreads and condiments.Although the study included only women, the majority of whom were white, other studies have also found a link between men eating more ultra-processed foods and developing cancer.“We don’t have any reason to believe there would be a difference in men compared to women,” Chan said, adding that additional research should include men to be sure.Most colorectal polyps do not turn into cancer, but nearly all colorectal cancer does start as a polyp, said Dr. Folasade May, a gastroenterologist and an associate professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, who wasn’t involved with the research.This is why doctors remove any polyps they find during a colonoscopy, and why people who have polyps are considered to be at higher risk for developing colorectal cancer. “They are looking at the first step, who is more likely to get these polyps that can turn into cancer,” May said of the study.The problem is that routine screening for colorectal cancer does not happen until age 45, said Dr. Christopher Lieu, the co-director of gastrointestinal medical oncology at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine in Aurora.“The concern is that whenever you have a polyp in a young person, that polyp is allowed to grow unnoticed, and because you are not screening those young patients,” Lieu said. This makes it even more important to identify the modifiable lifestyle factors that are driving increased rates of colorectal cancer in young people, added Lieu, who wasn’t involved with the new research.Although scientists have yet to determine a clear cause, the rise in rates is unlikely to be driven by genetics, May said.“This has happened very fast, so it is likely unfortunately something we have done to ourselves as humans, in the way we live our lives,” she said. “It’s jarring, hearing stories every week about people in their 20s, 30s, 40s getting cancers that, when I was in medical school, we were taught happen in people in their 80s.”Ultra-processed foods cause inflammation in the gut — which includes the colon — that impairs the gut’s ability to repair itself when damaged and keep tumors at bay. High levels of inflammation are also linked to cancer in general, May said. Another hypothesis is that people who eat more ultra-processed foods are more likely to have obesity and Type 2 diabetes, both which are linked to a higher risk for colorectal cancer.“More likely, it’s the direct toxic effects of these ultra-processed foods,” May said.Chan, the study author, said ultra-processed foods are known to alter the gut microbiome, which, in theory, could make cells in the gut more likely to turn cancerous.The next step in the research is determining whether any of these hypotheses appear to have a causal effect on who develops colorectal cancer at a young age. It’s likely part of the puzzle, Chan said.“One thing that has been clear is that the U.S. intake of ultra-processed food has really risen in the past few decades in a way that mirrors the staggering increase in colorectal cancer cases,” he said.Kaitlin SullivanKaitlin Sullivan is a contributor for NBCNews.com who has worked with NBC News Investigations. She reports on health, science and the environment and is a graduate of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at City University of New York.
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Nov. 13, 2025, 2:48 PM ESTBy Matt Dixon and Allan SmithPresident Donald Trump’s once unquestioned grip on his MAGA political base is showing signs of strain as some of his supporters have started pushing back on White House policy proposals they see as contrary to his long-held promises on immigration and the economy.As Trump takes heat from even the most loyal segments of his political base, he has remained defiant.“MAGA was my idea. MAGA was nobody else’s idea,” Trump told Fox News host Laura Ingraham in an interview that aired Monday. “I know what MAGA wants better than anybody else, and MAGA wants to see our country thrive.”Trump remains popular with Republicans, and he’s still able to make or break candidates in Republican primaries — 88% of Republican registered voters approved of Trump in the latest NBC News poll, conducted in late October, before the latest elections. Among voters who consider themselves part of the MAGA movement, it’s even higher — 96% — highlighting the loyalty he commands from core supporters. But there’s a belief among some of Trump’s MAGA supporters that is spilling out online that the president is increasingly swayed by wealthy donors who have access to him at private White House events, his exclusive Mar-a-Lago club and the luxury boxes he sits in when he attends sporting events, including a Washington Commanders football game on Sunday. “President Trump is instinctually America First, but things are seriously askew,” said Paul Dans, the architect of Project 2025 who is running against Trump-endorsed Sen. Lindsey Graham in South Carolina’s GOP primary. “America First is experiencing a hijacking right now. He’s [Trump’s] getting bad advice and is being kept in a bubble.”It’s a shift in focus that some on the right say can be traced back to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the influential conservative leader of Turning Point USA who was gunned down in September.“Charlie Kirk was the last person who could walk into the Oval Office and speak on behalf of the base,” Mike Cernovich, a prominent MAGA social media personality, posted on X. “Now it’s all donors.”The White House pushed back on the idea that Trump is distancing himself from the ethos of his MAGA agenda on key policy planks, such as on H-1B visas.“In record time, President Trump has done more than any president in modern history to tighten our immigration laws and put American workers first,” White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said.On Wednesday, the Trump administration had to contend with another issue that has divided and frustrated his base: the case of Jeffrey Epstein. The House Oversight Committee released more than 20,000 pages of Epstein emails — some of which discussed Trump. A bipartisan pair of House lawmakers also secured enough signatures — including from some Trump allies — to force a vote in the coming days compelling the Justice Department to release all of its documents in the Epstein case against Trump’s wishes. Democrats release Epstein emails mentioning Trump02:28A Trump ally said that if the issues prompting loud online pushback continue, there could be broader political problems electorally for Trump and Republicans. But, they said, they are not convinced that point has been reached yet, because past base concern has often been overblown.“Sure, could this all end up adding up and become a real problem? Yes, it could,” said the person, who, like others in this article, was granted anonymity to speak candidly. “But that, I do not think, is the point we are at yet. Worth watching, sure, but I think much of this will pass.”’What an atrocious thing to say’The right-wing backlash intensified this week following Trump’s interview with Ingraham, which aired Monday and Tuesday. Trump batted away concerns about affordability as a Democratic “con job,” and he said a controversial new proposal for 50-year mortgages was “not even a big deal.” He also talked up having 600,000 Chinese students study at U.S. universities and said the U.S. needed to bring in more workers from overseas through the H-1B visa program because native-born Americans lack “certain talents.” “What an atrocious thing to say,” actor and Trump supporter Kevin Sorbo posted on X of Trump’s comments on American workers. “This will cost republicans the midterms.” The H-1B visa issue has split two segments of the new GOP base. The right-wing MAGA supporters who have long backed Trump oppose the program because they believe it hands over jobs to foreigners that could be filled by Americans, while the tech industry, a newly powerful political force on the right, has long supported the program as a way to recruit high-skill labor. On his “Human Events” program Wednesday, right-wing influencer Jack Posobiec scrutinized Trump’s visa policy following his interview with Ingraham and asked Tom Sauer, another influencer on the right, “what message” the administration’s posture sends to MAGA supporters. “I think it really says we don’t value you as much,” Sauer said. “We worship GDP, and we worship profits more than we do the health of the American worker and the health of the American nation.”The White House pushed back on the idea that Trump’s recent comments were not aligned with the MAGA political base, noting an executive order he signed increasing the cost it takes to obtain an H-1B visa.“The $100,000 payment required to supplement new H1-B visa applications is a significant first step to stop abuses of the system and ensure American workers are no longer replaced by lower-paid foreign labor,” Rogers, the White House spokesperson, said. Trump administration raises fee for H-1B visas to $100,00000:49The idea for a 50-year mortgage — which was not something Trump previously touted — also faced withering criticisms. Commentators said the proposal would lead to homeowners paying significantly more in interest over the life of their mortgage, something that would benefit banks that hold those mortgages. “The idea behind the 15- and 30-year mortgage is that you eventually own the home you live in, whereas the 50-year mortgage abandons this pretense altogether and fully embraces the idea of housing as a speculative asset,” right-wing activist Christopher Rufo posted on X. “Not good, unless you’re a bank.”Others defended the president, saying critics had their facts wrong while acknowledging that the White House may need to work on its messaging. Trump said during his interview with Ingraham that he is comfortable with 600,000 Chinese students studying in American universities on visas — which is roughly current levels — but angered many in his MAGA base who believe Trump promised to decrease those numbers.“This is about one interview, not any policy changes,” a former Trump campaign official said of the Ingraham interview. “On the Chinese visas, he’s not pushing for more; it’s just the status quo. On H-1Bs, he signed an executive order making them more expensive, and the Labor Department has announced probes into H-1B abuse.”“So, it’s not like he did a 180 on anything,” the former official added. “It’s just bad clips from an interview.” ‘Get out and meet with the people’Trump has run all three of his presidential campaigns as a populist, but throughout this term, he has been surrounded by billionaires. At his inauguration, some of the richest men in the world — Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and tech titan Elon Musk — had VIP seats. Musk then became one of Trump’s top advisers, wreaking havoc on the federal government by trying to get rid of large numbers of civil servants. Trump frequently spends his weekends at Mar-a-Lago. He received criticism for hosting a lavish “Great Gatsby”-inspired Halloween party — with the theme “A Little Party Never Killed Nobody” — as federal workers went without pay and low-income food benefits were set to expire for millions of people during the government shutdown. Trump has also traveled across the country less in his second administration. At this point in his first term, he had gone to 27 states; this year, he’s done just 15. He hasn’t held a rally-style event since July 3. Trump has, however, done a significant amount of international travel, going to 14 countries.Dans said that as Americans are struggling with rising electric and utility bills, property taxes and health care premiums, the president needed to go around the country and hear from more than just the “Mar-a-Lago dining set.” “I would encourage the president to get out and meet with the people and actually hear from voices who are being shut out by the inner circle,” he said. Seeming to respond to right-wing criticism that the president’s attention has drifted from key domestic issues, Vice President JD Vance posted on X after last week’s Democratic electoral romps: “We need to focus on the home front.” “The president has done a lot that has already paid off in lower interest rates and lower inflation, but we inherited a disaster from Joe Biden and Rome wasn’t built in a day,” he added.This is not the first time this year Trump has faced pointed criticism from supporters. A number of prominent voices on the right raised objections to his decision to strike Iran over the summer amid its conflict with Israel. Many too blasted the administration for pledging to release a trove of information on Epstein before suddenly pulling back. That blowback subsided. But last week’s elections reignited some concerns, after Democrats performed better than expected in key races. NBC News polling released earlier this month showed that just 34% of registered voters believe Trump has “lived up” to expectations on the economy.The president “needs to recalibrate and address the big stuff,” one Trump ally said, pointing to inflation, jobs and the overall economy. This person also said the president needs to talk up policies from his so-called big, beautiful bill, which polling has found to be unpopular as a whole.“I’ve watched the right wing implode over the last two weeks and the reason we are is because many are afraid to legitimately criticize the admin,” Savanah Hernandez, a conservative political commentator, posted on X on Tuesday. “It’s our job to openly put the pressure on when we don’t feel the country is headed in the right direction.”But the former campaign official said on one of Trump’s core promises, immigration, he has been consistent. They noted that those who have been let into the country of late have mostly been white South Africans, a move largely backed by Trump supporters.“Obviously, refugee admissions are hilariously low and mostly white South Africans,” the person said, adding that “a lot of the loudest voices on the right online” tend to “spiral over everything.” “That is one thing hard to deal with,” they said.The most recent NBC News poll found Trump’s overall approval rating was at 43%, a 4-point dip from March, while 51% said he had lived up to their expectations on the issue of immigration and border security. Some allies pointed the finger less at Trump losing his way than how the White House has handled messaging.“The MAGA pushback on affordability wasn’t big until the H-1B visas [comment],” a Republican close to the White House said. “Now it’s a firestorm.”This person, who said the current White House messaging on the economy “appears pretty chaotic,” added that the way for the administration to turn the tide is to do a better job of informing the public how Trump’s policies are making life more affordable. “Don’t send him around the country cutting ribbons at factories,” this person said. “Come with facts.”Matt DixonMatt Dixon is a senior national politics reporter for NBC News, based in Florida.Allan SmithAllan Smith is a political reporter for NBC News.Henry J. Gomez, Jonathan Allen, Megan Shannon, Elyse Perlmutter-Gumbiner and Tara Prindiville contributed.
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Oct. 18, 2025, 7:45 AM EDTBy Max GaoEthan Hawke and Richard Linklater have one of the all-time greatest partnerships between an actor and a filmmaker in cinematic history. After meeting in the early 1990s in New York City, where Linklater saw Hawke in a play that co-starred their mutual friend Anthony Rapp, Hawke and Linklater have worked together on the beloved “Before” trilogy, the decade-spanning “Boyhood,” and experimental indie hits such as “Tape” and “Waking Life.”But for their ninth collaboration, which has been a dozen years in the making, Hawke and Linklater have chosen to examine the end of an artistic partnership. “Blue Moon,” directed by Linklater and written by Robert Kaplow, premieres in theaters Friday. It follows 20th-century lyricist Lorenz “Larry” Hart (Hawke) as he crashes the opening night party for “Oklahoma!,” the hit musical by his former partner, musician Richard Rodgers (Andrew Scott), and Rodgers’ new collaborator, Oscar Hammerstein II (Simon Delaney), at the legendary Sardi’s restaurant in New York City.Starting in 1919 until Hart’s death of pneumonia in 1943, Rodgers and Hart combined their respective geniuses to create a string of musical comedy hits: “My Funny Valentine”; “The Lady Is a Tramp”; “Isn’t It Romantic?”; “My Heart Stood Still”; “Manhattan”; “Bewitched” and “Blue Moon.” In a career-best performance that could very well earn him his third acting nomination at the Academy Awards (and his fifth overall), Hawke captures Hart’s many contradictions as both a brilliant songwriter and an alcoholic with a penchant for self-destructive behavior.“We always talked about this film as a little howl into the night of an artist being left behind. Not only by the times changing — ‘Oklahoma!’ is the future; his kind of music is the past — but his partner’s leaving him,” Linklater told NBC News in a joint interview with Hawke. “There’s a lot of movies about romantic breakups almost to the point that there’s kind of a similarity there, but not enough films about artistic breakups, which are so complex. Because, in this case, it’s not about the art. It’s really about Larry’s life and his addictions, his problems. He’s made himself hard to work with, and it’s just heartbreaking to see that relationship coming to an end.”Richard Linklater directs scene of “Blue Moon.”Sabrina Lantos / Sony Pictures ClassicsHawke noted that “there’s an intimacy to artistic relationships” that is difficult to articulate. “The relationship with Rodgers is the most important relationship in his life. It’s almost beyond a lover,” he said of Hart, whose working relationship with Rodgers spanned more than 1000 songs. “So to lose that is to lose a huge aspect of yourself, of your professional life, of your self-esteem — it’s all coming apart at its very foundations, because his whole identity is wrapped up in his relationship with Rodgers.”Linklater, 65, first sent Hawke, 54, an early draft of Kaplow’s screenplay a dozen years ago, but Linklater said he felt Hawke was still too young — and, as the director joked, “too good-looking” — to play Hart in the final months of his life. Every few years, they would pull out the script and workshop the dialogue, which was crafted to gradually reveal details about Hart’s personal and professional lives. When the time came to finally step into Hart’s shoes, after years of researching the lyricist on his own time, Hawke joked that he was “stripped” of all of his “vanity.” The nearly 6-foot actor was made to look a foot shorter; given a balding, combover haircut; and was forced to adopt a completely new diction and set of mannerisms.“Him perceiving himself as diminutive in status was essential to the way he interacted with the world. There’s a lot of people that talk a lot that are kind of blowhards, and they’re trying to dominate. Larry’s not trying to dominate. He’s trying to be seen,” Hawke explained. “If he’s not talking, if he’s not the smartest person in the room, if he’s not the funniest, if he’s not the most insightful, nobody notices him — that’s how he feels. He feels tossed away sexually, like he’s not a viable romantic interest for anyone. So things like the comb over, the bad skin, the awkward body language — all that stuff was essential to how he perceived himself so that the audience could understand who Larry was.”In the April 2013 edition of The Atlantic, writer Robert Gottlieb reported that many of Hart’s contemporaries knew he was gay, but he still went to great lengths to try to conceal his sexuality. While writing “Blue Moon,” Kaplow got ahold of 11 letters addressed to Hart from a young woman named Elizabeth, who was a student at Yale University. The screenwriter chose to dramatize that relationship by having Elizabeth (played by Margaret Qualley) show up at Sardi’s on the opening night of “Oklahoma!” to meet Hart, a man more than twice her age who had become infatuated with her.Andrew Scott and Ethan Hawke in “Blue Moon.”Sabrina Lantos / Sony Pictures Classics“I found that such an interesting part because today we forget that to be gay in the ’40s is to be underground. Your sexuality is against the f—ing law. You could be arrested,” Linklater said. “So even the people who worked with him, Larry’s sexuality was never on the table. Rogers never referenced it.”Linklater found there was something “touching but very complex” about the short life of Hart, who died in 1943 at age of 48.“It was a tough time to be around, but then he was born at the right time to do what he does with his gift, to write a thousand songs. They were doing so many shows,” he added. “So we benefit from that, that Larry Hart was alive at this time, but he suffered like so many because of the time he was in.”Hawke said for his interpretation of Hart, “the pain of losing Rodgers is so great and so significant” that “he can’t actually absorb the impact of what’s happening to him.” Instead, “he’s distracting himself with a new wound”: his sexuality.“He believes that an aspect of him is heterosexual, and he could live a normal life, and he sees her as a path to rescue,” Hawke said of Hart’s view of Elizabeth. “He has so much work to do before he’s the partner that Rodgers wants — this guy who’s showing up on time — and he’s not going to do that work. Elizabeth is another wonderful, glorious distraction like the alcohol.”Hawke and Linklater acknowledged the irony of telling a story about an artistic breakup at a time when their own creative partnership has never been stronger. But whereas Hart and Rodgers worked only with each other for a quarter-century, Hawke said he and Linklater have “been lucky that we are not the only well we draw water from.”“We’ve changed because having grown children changes you, time changes you, politics changes you. You have a different relationship to the community as an older person than you do as a younger person,” Hawke said of how his relationship with Linklater has evolved over time. “But the thing that probably would surprise people the most, what’s remarkable about it, is how consistent it’s been. We started talking in 1992, and we just kept talking.”Linklater concurred, adding that he and Hawke have always been “really simple, in that we just want to do the work” at hand. “No matter what’s going on, our priority is seemingly working and making movies, expressing ourselves. I think if I had become a raging alcoholic, or vice versa, the partnership would’ve drifted,” Linklater said with a laugh. “We’re lucky that 30 years later, we’re still on a similar track, I guess, until you’re not. That’s why this film about an artistic breakup is heartbreaking because it’s like, ‘Oh yeah, things do come to an end.’”Max GaoMax Gao is a freelance entertainment and sports journalist based in Toronto. He has written for NBC News, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Sports Illustrated, The Daily Beast, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Men’s Health, Teen Vogue and W Magazine. 
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Oct. 2, 2025, 7:39 PM EDTBy Gordon Lubold, Courtney Kube and Yamiche AlcindorThe Trump administration informed Congress in a confidential notice this week that President Donald Trump has “determined” that the United States is in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels and that members of the organizations can be targeted as unlawful combatants.“The President determined these cartels are non-state armed groups, designated them as terrorist organizations, and determined that their actions constitute an armed attack against the United States,” the notice said.”In response, based upon the cumulative effects of these hostile acts against the citizens and interests of United States and friendly foreign nations, the President determined that the United States is in a non-international armed conflict with these designated terrorist organizations,” it added.The designation essentially puts drug cartels in the same legal category as terrorist groups like Al Qaeda or the Islamic State.In recent weeks, the U.S. military struck at least three boats from Venezuela allegedly carrying narco-traffickers and drugs that could threaten Americans, Trump said on Truth Social.The notice to Congress listed examples of actions Trump could take in targeting cartels and cited an attack on Sept. 15 that killed “approximately 3 unlawful combatants.”The White House has defended the strikes.“As we have said many times, the President acted in line with the law of armed conflict to protect our country from those trying to bring deadly poison to our shores, and he is delivering on his promise to take on the cartels and eliminate these national security threats from murdering more Americans,” White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said in a statement Thursday.NBC News reported last month that the administration is considering strikes on drug cartels inside Venezuela.Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has denied any role in drug trafficking and has repeatedly alleged that the United States is trying to force him from power.Many critics of the strikes, including congressional Democrats and some Republicans, maintain the administration still does not have the legal authority to target the drug cartels using the U.S. military and that it remains a law enforcement matter relying on interdiction. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is also acting national security adviser, has declared interdiction efforts ineffective.Gordon LuboldGordon Lubold is a national security reporter for NBC News.Courtney KubeCourtney Kube is a correspondent covering national security and the military for the NBC News Investigative Unit.Yamiche AlcindorYamiche Alcindor is a White House correspondent for NBC News.
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