• Growing number of kids on disability

    Mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders make up 80 percent of children's disability cases, according to Kela.

  • Ahmedabad shows its feelings in Hardik's night of agony

    You couldn't not see it. It was that obvious.Even those on the broadcast couldn't not mention it. Kevin Pietersen wondered when an Indian player was last booed at home. Ian Bishop asked what Hardik Pandya could do to win them over. Brian Lara had a ready solution: "Play for India here."The Ahmedabad crowd vehemently voiced their disapproval of Hardik switching teams, ringing out loud boos every time he was involved in the game. One of the biggest IPL trades in player history may have been okayed...

  • THL survey: Over 40% of immigrants in Finland have faced discrimination

    The health agency's survey queried around just over 7,800 adults whose parents and themselves were born abroad.

    • MSNBC

    North Carolina ballot to feature a growing number of GOP radicals

    When North Carolina held primary campaigns earlier this month, there wasn’t a lot of national interest in the Republican race to oversee the state’s public-school system. There was a surprise outcome in the GOP contest — conservative activist Michele Morrow upset incumbent Superintendent of Public Instruction Catherine Truitt — but outside of the state, this didn’t generate headlines. That changed when CNN ran this report. Yes, the Republican nominee to oversee public education in North...

  • Staggering Percentage of Gen Z Women Identify as LGBT, Survey Shows

    More than one-in-five members of Generation Z now identify as LGBT, with close to 30% of generational women falling into that category, according to new data released this week by Gallup. Roughly 22% of young adults ages 18 to 26 self-identified as LGBT, a higher percentage than the nearly one-in-10 Millennials—ages 27 to 42 years old—who identified as such, and even greater than the 5% of Generation X, 2% of Baby Boomers, and 1% of the Silent Generation who claimed such identities. Get your...

  • Survey study shows workers with more flexibility and job security have better mental health

    A team of community health specialists at the Boston University School of Public Health, working with a psychiatrist from Brown University, has found evidence that suggests workers who have more job flexibility and security tend to have better mental health overall.

  • Abortion pill usage surged post-Roe. These numbers show the dramatic rise

    Less than a quarter of a century ago, abortion pills could not be legally obtained from a U.S.-based medical provider. Now, they are the most common method of terminating a pregnancy — used by 3 out of 5 abortion patients in the U.S. Americans' use of medication abortion has rapidly expanded since 2000, when the FDA approved the use of mifepristone, one of the two drugs used in the most common medication abortion regimen. Over the last eight years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has...

  • Home loan arrears: The growing number of Australians whose bills exceed their income

    By Stephen Johnson, business reporter for Daily Mail Australia Published: 11:58 p.m. EDT, March 24, 2024 | Updated: 00:03 EDT, March 25, 2024 A worrying number of Australians with a mortgage now have bills that are higher than their income.One in 20 borrowers now have negative cash flow when spending exceeds their income, according to the Reserve Bank's March Financial Stability Review.“Most borrowers...

  • Did You Feel It? Taylor Swift Fans Caused A ‘Swift Quake’ During SoFi Stadium Shows

    A study conducted by researchers at Caltech and UCLA has concluded that the 73,000 attendees at Taylor Swift’s Aug. 2023 show at SoFi Stadium created seismic activity. Her July tour stop at Seattle’s Lumen Field was similarly reported to have resulted in seismic activity the “equivalent of a 2.3 magnitude earthquake” last year. The researchers […]

  • Editorial: As refugee numbers grow, officials must stop politicking, address immigration crisis

    People who have been to the U.S.-Mexico border, and even crossed into Matamoros, Reynosa or other northern Mexican cities, probably have seen a major demographic change. More people approaching our border, or waiting in Mexico to see if they are admitted into this country, are from Haiti; creole French is becoming increasingly common here.

  • Why media agency execs are attending tech shows in greater numbers as AI disrupts their businesses

    As Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference kicked off this week, agencies are getting a sense of how much computing and artificial intelligence will grow in the next few years – and what that could mean for the advertising industry.

    • CNBC

    Fed could cut rates fewer times than expected as economy keeps growing, according to CNBC survey

    The average probability of a soft landing was 52%, up from 47% in the January CNBC Fed survey.