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Do you think you have ADHD? You're not alone. After the pandemic hit, there was a huge jump in ADHD diagnoses among adults. And at the same time, the internet is more and more obsessed with saying everything is a sign of it. To identify the red flags when a diagnosis goes viral. Listen to the It's Been A Minute podcast today. Lye from NPR News. I'm Lakshmi Singh. Former New York Congressman George Santos is getting 87 months, a little over seven years, in prison as his punishment for committing wire fraud, identity theft, and other crimes during his 2022 campaign. After sentencing in a New York federal courtroom today, U.S. Durham detail Santos's offenses stole personal identities and financial information of country campaign contributors made unauthorized

transfers of money to his campaign and to himself personally. He defrauded perspective political supporters by convincing them to make campaign contributions based on false statements. And then he took the money for himself. Santos reportedly sobbed in court as he read a brief statement of remorse over his actions, but he brought up pardons last night when he made an appearance on the Matt Gaetz show. Santos told his former Republican House colleague that he has not directly asked President Trump for a pardon, but would be grateful for one. Large crowds have been flocking to Rome to pay their final respects to Pope Francis who was lying in state at St. Peter's Basilica. Now they're turning their attention to his funeral. One of

the Cardinals participating in Francis' burial on Saturday is upsetting victims of clergy sex abuse and their advocates. More from NPR's Jason DeRose. Taking part in the burial rite is former Los Angeles Archbishop Cardinal Roger Mahoney. Court documents show Mahoney actively participated in the clergy sex abuse cover-up by moving accused priests in order to avoid law enforcement. The archdiocese ended up paying out hundreds of millions of dollars in settlement money to victims. Mahoney's successor later barred him from public ministry in Los Angeles.

Victims and their advocates say Mahoney's participation in the burial is shameful and indicates the church hasn't learned enough from its errors in handling clergy sex abuse. Jason DeRose, NPR News, Rome. World leaders, including President Trump, are on their way to Rome for Francis' funeral tomorrow, Trump who'd visited with Francis twice. Remember the pontiff fondly today. As the president prepared to depart the White House, he told reporters U.S. and Russia talks are underway about ending the war in Ukraine.

We're meeting with Putin right now as we speak, and we have a lot of things going on. And I think in the end, we're going to end up with a lot of good deals, including tariff deals and trade deals. We're going to make our country rich, but we're going to try and get out of war so that we can save 5,000 people a week. And that's what my aim is. I want to save 5,000 young men. Meanwhile, Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, is now observing an official day

of mourning for the lives lost in Russia's drone and missile strikes early yesterday. Local officials say at least 12 people were killed and dozens more were injured in the Russian assault. From Washington, this is NPR News. The man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last December is pleading not guilty to federal murder. Luigi Mangione appeared in court today where prosecutors said they intend to seek the death penalty. A number of people went to the federal courthouse where Mangione was arraigned, including former

Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. Manning spent several years in prison for stealing classified materials. Scientists have had a week to pour over claims that a distant planet shows possible signs of life. NPR's Nell Greenfield-Boys reports one astronomer has already done a new analysis that casts doubt on the findings. Jake Taylor at the University of Oxford specializes in using the James Webb Space Telescope to study the atmospheres of faraway planets.

So he reanalyzed the published data from the group that claimed to have found life-associated gases on planet K2-18b. His conclusion? There's too much noise in the data to reliably detect any signals. The researchers who made the original claims say that this analysis was too simplistic to be relevant, but Taylor disagrees, saying it's a commonly used method.

More reassessments are expected in the coming weeks as the full set of data from the telescope's observations of this planet will be made public on Saturday. Nell Greenfield, Voice, NPR News. At the last check on Wall Street the Dow was down 110 points, the S&P was up 18 and the NASDAQ climbed 140 points. It's NPR News.