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What if social media isn’t hurting kids?
Psychologist Peter Gray has published *Restoring Childhood*, a direct challenge to Jonathan Haidt’s bestselling *The Anxious Generation*, which blames the decline in teen mental health since 2010 largely on smartphones and social media. Gray, a former collaborator of Haidt’s, argues instead that the causes lie in decades of reduced childhood autonomy and, more recently, rigid…
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Nigeria arrests alleged Mexican drug kingpin at international airport
Nigeria’s drug enforcement agency has revealed the arrest of Arturo Carrera Loaiza, a 40-year-old Mexican national, at Lagos international airport last month as he attempted to leave the country. The arrest led investigators to a suspected industrial-scale methamphetamine laboratory in Ebonyi state, the third such facility allegedly linked to Mexican nationals uncovered in Nigeria within…
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Gunner Jaysley Beck, 19, was ‘let down’ by senior Army officers who tried to cover up a sexual assault on her before she took her own life, court hears
A court martial has heard that Gunner Jaysley Beck, 19, was let down by two senior Army officers after she reported being sexually assaulted at a training exercise, five months before she took her own life. Colonel Samantha Shepherd and Major James Hook are accused of failing to treat her allegation seriously, with Shepherd allegedly…
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Disturbing final moments of Utah dance mom who killed daughter, 11, before shooting herself: Cocktail of drugs, chilling trail of notes… and full horror inside their Las Vegas hotel room revealed
A Utah mother, Tawnia McGeehan, 38, drugged and fatally shot her 11-year-old daughter, Addi Smith, before killing herself in a hotel room in Las Vegas in February, according to a coroner’s report obtained by the Daily Mail. The case has drawn attention because of the disturbing detail revealed in the report, including a handwritten note…
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New Order keyboardist Gillian Gilbert announces she is ‘living with cancer’
Gillian Gilbert, keyboardist with New Order, has revealed she is being treated for cancer, clarifying comments made by her husband and bandmate Stephen Morris in a recent interview that had led fans to believe he was seriously ill. In a statement posted on Instagram, the 65-year-old explained that Morris was in fact well, and that…
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Man fearing for fiancée’s life after suffering miscarriage infection calls 911 to get her help – but she is arrested by ICE instead
A pregnant woman in Massachusetts, Iara do Carmo Santana, 29, was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after her fiancé called 911 during a mental health crisis following her miscarriage, raising concerns about how vulnerable people are treated when emergency services are involved. The case has drawn scrutiny because the call for medical…
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Teen boy is found dead on blackened bedsheets inside ritzy San Francisco apartment marking city’s first death caused by frightening new drug that’s STRONGER than fentanyl
A 16-year-old boy’s death in San Francisco has been linked to cychlorphine, a synthetic opioid estimated to be ten times more potent than fentanyl, marking the drug’s first confirmed fatality in the city. Dante Lacourte was found dead by his mother in their Nob Hill apartment in April, and the case has since led to…
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Hospital worker FAINTS during court hearing into his alleged child sex crimes when he hears the life-long jail sentence he may face
An Arizona hospital maintenance worker collapsed in court on Monday after prosecutors told the judge he could face up to a century in prison if convicted on 10 felony counts of sexually exploiting a minor. Joshua James Lozano, 42, was arrested last week following an investigation that traced explicit material shared online back to his…
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The HYROX pooper’s defiant message to ‘haters’ reveals a disturbing truth about modern fitness culture. We all know an amateur ‘athlete’ who’ll hate me for saying this: AMANDA GOFF
An Australian HYROX competitor, 22-year-old Joanna Wietrzyk, has sparked controversy after continuing to compete during a race in Beijing despite losing control of her bowels, with other athletes then having to use the soiled equipment. The incident has drawn criticism over hygiene and fairness, while also being held up by columnist Amanda Goff as symptomatic…
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The Buddhist priests getting up to monky business: How scandals have repeatedly blighted Thai monks from temple sex tape and penis pump stash to drug smuggling and child porn
The Buddhist clergy in Thailand has been rocked by another scandal after a senior monk was filmed having sex with a woman on CCTV and accused of embezzling £2million from his temple. Phra Wachirayan Wi, the 66-year-old abbot of the 14th-century Wat Phutthaisawan temple in Ayutthaya, was caught in footage that has since been widely…