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A Landmark Verdict Against Meta and Google

After deliberating for nine days—and emerging at one point to tell the judge that it was having a difficult time reaching a decision—a jury in Los Angeles finally returned its verdict today, findin...

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A court just ruled that tech addiction is real—and dangerous. It could be Meta and YouTube’s Big Tobacco moment

A Los Angeles jury has sided with a young woman known as Kaley or KGM in a landmark case, ruling that the “addictive design” of Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube helped fuel her serious mental healt...

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A Legal Decision That Could Change Social Media

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Higher Dose Wegovy Shot Could Help People Lose More Weight With GLP-1s

The FDA has approved a higher dose of Wegovy, which promises greater weight loss. Image Credit: Bloomberg/Getty Images The FDA has approved a higher dose version of the GLP-1 drug Wegovy f...

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Need to parent differently now your kid’s a teen or tween? 5 techniques that actually work

Maskot/Getty ImagesAs your child approaches their teenage years, they’ll want more independence, their emotions will run higher and you might see more disagreements in your household. This is ...

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Demoralized CDC Workforce Reels From Year of Firings, Funding Cuts, and a Shooting

On the coffee table at her home in Atlanta, Sarah Boim has a pile of documents from her old job at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They are printouts of her employment records. ...

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An Arm and a Leg: Steep Health Care Costs Steer Americans to Tough Decisions

Health insurance is out of reach for millions of Americans this year. Many are making difficult decisions about how to pay for coverage amid the loss of Affordable Care Act subsidies and nosebleed-...

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The $165 billion economy devoted to making you annoyed

Getty Images; Tyler Le/BII recently received a letter from my health insurance. They said they had sent me a $50 (paper) check and noticed I never cashed it. Had I not received it? I was excited. I...

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49 “Very British Problems” That Even The King Can Laugh About

Americans and Brits really are a pond apart. And not just physically. The two nations differ when it comes to how they use the English language, how they deploy humor (or humour) and wit, and of co...

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Morning Exercise May Help Lower Your Risk of Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes

Research shows that exercising in the morning may lower cardiometabolic risk. Image Credit: Olga Rolenko/Getty Images A recent study found that morning exercise may help lower your cardiom...

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Rising need for mental healthcare could be linked to social disadvantage

I strongly concur with Smith’s comment about mental healthcare: “There are logical explanations for rising levels of need.”1For some years, the demand for mental health treatments has risen nationa...

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The Meme-Washing of RFK Jr.

Millions of people have watched Robert F. Kennedy Jr. body-slam a man dressed up as a Twinkie. In an AI-generated video that Kennedy posted to X last week, he walks into a wrestling ring—shirtless,...

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“Bullies Are All Secretly Cowards At Heart”: 51 Times Karma Hit Jerks Like A Train

The thing with bullies is that they think they can get away with anything. And often, for a while, they do. But there's a beautiful and poetic unwritten rule in life that states, "As you sow, so sh...

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‘They Tricked Me’: A Father Was Chained After He Went to ICE To Reunite With His Kids

Carlos arrived at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in New Mexico in December, believing he was one step closer to reuniting with his children. By that point, his 14-year-old son and 16...

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Psychological toll of betrayal trauma may help explain why women kept silent for decades after their allegations of abuse against civil rights icon Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chavez became a national hero for his advocacy of farmworkers' rights. Here he gives a talk at Boston University in April 1979. Ted Dully/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesMultiple women told ...

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