Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! This story was originally reported by Chabeli Carrazana of The 19th. Meet Chabeli and read more of her reporting on gender, politics and policy. Parents, you’re not imagining it: The cost of child care is rising. By a lot. The average...
Divya Talwar & Tammi Walker BBC Tassie Weaver says she was treated like “a hysterical woman” by a midwife When Tassie Weaver went into labour at full term, she thought she was hours away from holding her first child. But, by the time she was giving birth, she knew her son had died. Doctors had...
A man has been charged with the murder of a 13-month-old boy in Blackpool nearly two years ago. Police were called at about 19:15 BST on 27 July 2023 after an unresponsive baby boy was taken to Blackpool Victoria Hospital. Preston Davey was pronounced dead a short time later, said Lancashire Police. Jamie Varley, 36,...
Fergal Keane Special correspondent Watch: BBC joins malnourished baby on journey to Jordan for treatment The cry was frail but I could hear Siwar Ashour even before she was carried out of the coach. It was the cry of a voice that won’t give up, of a child born in this war and who has...
Vick explores Tooney & Russo’s future, baby names, football maternity, and family bonds. Read full article at source...
Asha Patel BBC News, Nottingham PA Media Sarah and Gary Andrews daughter Wynter died 23 minutes after being born while under the care of Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust in 2019 Parents whose babies died under the care of maternity units in Nottingham have welcomed a corporate manslaughter investigation into an NHS trust but...
A corporate manslaughter investigation has been opened into failings at maternity units in Nottingham, police have said. Nottinghamshire Police said it was examining whether maternity care provided by the Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS trust had been grossly negligent. The trust is at the centre of the largest maternity inquiry in the history of the...
Andy Giddings BBC News, West Midlands Trentham Monkey Forest The three monkeys were discovered by the Monkey Forest’s head guide Three Barbary macaque monkeys have been born at a sanctuary in Staffordshire. Fewer than 8,000 of the endangered animals are believed to live in the wild and Trentham Monkey Forest said staff were “beaming from...
California’s high school athletics’ playoff and championship governing body, commonly known in the Golden State as CIF, hastily took action in the wake of the threat this week by Donald Trump of pulling funding, perhaps permanently, from California if biological boys were allowed to continue competing against biological girls. Title IX of the Education Amendments...
At Leicestershire they have a “passion” for proving people wrong. They won two County Championship titles in three years between 1996 and 1998 and are among the English game’s most decorated T20 clubs, having won the competition three times. The One-Day Cup success of two years ago, after a barren period of more than a...
Shyamantha Asokan BBC News, West Midlands Harry Rashid Harry Rashid, from Solihull, was at the victory parade with his wife and three daughters on Monday “People going flying and people screaming and just terror, pure terror… I thought I’d lost everything.” Daniel Evason from Telford, Shropshire, was one of multiple pedestrians hit by a car...
Fergal Keane BBC News, Jerusalem Warning: Upsetting content There is no excitement as the camera passes. The children barely glance. What can surprise a child who lives among the dead, the dying, the waiting to die? Hunger has worn them down. They wait in queues for scant rations or for none at all. They have...
I seem to be on a ‘renewables suck so bad they blow’ kick here all of a sudden. But holy smokes – it’s as if the floodgates have opened and commonsense, coupled with a cold firehose dose of reality checks, is beginning to wash through state houses and parliaments all over the world. And hallelujah....
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Women’s football stars Sam Kerr and Kristie Mewis have announced the birth of their first child together. Chelsea and Australia striker Kerr and West Ham and United States forward Mewis posted a picture on Instagram, external of them together with their newborn son. “Our little man is here, Jagger Mewis-Kerr,” read the caption on Kerr’s...