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[ad_1] A new California bill headed to the govenor’s desk will force judges to weigh which parent is better affirming their kids’ gender during a nasty divorce … which Elon Musk thinks is BS. The Twitter/X chief lashed out online Friday, denouncing the proposed law as an “outrage” — this as word came down that Cali’s State Legislature had passed the controversial legislation — AB 957 — after it got voted on through in the State Assembly by a wide margin. This bill is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. What it would actually mean is that if you disagree with…

[ad_1] More than 700,000 people across the world die by suicide every year. That’s almost 2,000 people every single day. Anyone who has reached the point of wanting to end their life needs support and compassion. Yet, in 23 countries, attempting suicide is considered a criminal offence punishable with anything from a fine to years of imprisonment. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Association for Suicide Prevention mark September 10 as World Suicide Prevention Day, to help end the stigma surrounding suicide. It is a day designed to send a message to the world that suicide can be prevented.…

[ad_1] It’s hard to turn on the news without seeing a report about how inflation is battering the American middle class. Census Bureau data show about a quarter of middle-class American families were struggling to pay medical bills in 2020.Since then, inflation has surged, peaking at 9% in June 2022. Some families that were middle class in 2020 may no longer be in that category.Oliver Rust, head of Product at independent inflation data aggregator Truflation, says that the number of middle-class families has remained fairly stable over the last decade, but lately, they have struggled with financial insecurity and have…

[ad_1] NEW YORK (AP) — This was what so many folks figured Coco Gauff would do at some point. Didn’t matter how young she was. Didn’t matter whether there were setbacks along the way. Those outsized expectations did not make the task of becoming a Grand Slam champion as a teenager any easier — especially when that chorus was accompanied by voices of others who doubted her. She did it, though. At age 19. At the U.S. Open, where she used to come as a kid with her parents to watch her idols, Serena and Venus Williams, compete. WATCH: Coco Gauff’s journey…

[ad_1] One of John F. Kennedy’s Secret Service agents — who was with him in the car that day — says the famed magic bullet theory doesn’t quite add up … based on what he remembers. Paul Landis shared his story with NYT, which will also be touched on in a new book of his due out in Oct. Here, he recounts what he says happened when the Prez was assassinated … insisting the first bullet to hit JFK wasn’t the same one to pierce Gov. Connally. The reason that has been the official view of the U.S. Government for…

[ad_1] On January 11, 2023, April Valentine went to the Centinela hospital in Los Angeles, CA to give birth. She never made it out. The baby girl survived, but Valentine didn’t, nor did she get to meet her daughter. In an account shared widely on social media, before her death, Valentine and her boyfriend complained for hours that she could not feel her legs, and were told the nurses could not call the doctors, “because they would get upset.”  Valentine is one of the 700 women who die annually in the United States during pregnancy, labor, or the postpartum year.…

[ad_1] Medical bills are the source of many consumer issues these days. They can lead to bankruptcy and ruin someone’s credit rating if they’re not paid.Following up on its report “Medical Bills: Everything You Need to Know About Your Rights,” the U.S. PIRG Education Fund is warning consumers that the next time they’re faced with a hefty medical bill, they might find themselves pressured to sign up for a medical credit card. PIRG claims those cards are a win for the financial industry, benefiting from the millions of people who use those cards, but often a loss for the consumer.PIRG’s latest…

[ad_1] Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to disable Starlink satellite communications near the coast of Russian-occupied Crimea last year to sabotage a planned Ukrainian drone strike. Musk was worried the drone submarine attack, which was targeting the Russian naval fleet in Sevastopol, would escalate tensions and potentially lead to a nuclear war, according to an extract from historian Walter Isaacson’s upcoming biography “Elon Musk.” Musk on Thursday evening painted a slightly different picture to the one described by Isaacson. He said satellites in those regions were never turned on in the first place and he simply chose not to activate them.…

[ad_1] Martin Short’s fans are coming to his defense on social media after he was skewered as a “desperately unfunny” comedian in a recent op-ed. All the drama started Friday when Dan Kois published an opinion piece for Slate, calling into question Short’s talents as a funnyman to the point of what many might interpret as being rude. An incredible torrent of jokes from Steve Martin & Martin Short’s recent SNL monologue, as they practice giving each other’s eulogy. pic.twitter.com/C4UhsANuhG— Nick de Semlyen (@NickdeSemlyen) August 31, 2023 @NickdeSemlyen Kois wrote, “He (Short) would do anything, anything, for a laugh” ……

[ad_1] In early August, the Iraqi Culture and Media Commission issued a directive banning the use of the term “gender” in all public communications. It also recommended the replacement of the word “homosexuality” with “sexual deviance”. The decision came on the back of an organised disinformation campaign in Iraqi media outlets largely owned or controlled by the dominant post-2003 political parties. The campaign linked the use of the term “gender” in Iraq with the “proliferation” of homosexuality, the “promotion” of transgender identities, “moral decay” and the violation of religious and national values. The ban has already had negative consequences on the work of academics in…