Tag: Crisis

Britney Spears sparks ‘mental health crisis’ concerns at Chateau Marmont in LA as barefoot star is pictured wrapped in blanket and attended to by emergency services – in scene reminiscent of her 2008 breakdown

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Britney Spears sparked ‘mental health crisis’ concerns at the Chateau Marmont in the early hours of Thursday morning as shock photos showed the barefoot star wrapped in a blanket being escorted out to emergency services.

In scenes reminiscent of her 2008 meltdown, Spears, 42, who has sparked increasing concern with her recent behavior and is claimed to be ‘completely dysfunctional’, was seen clad in her underwear, clutching a pillow and appearing distressed as she left the hotel.

Spears had abrasions

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The Use of “Attention Capture” Technologies in Our Classrooms Has Created a Crisis 

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April 22, 2024

We have a choice: We can allow Big Tech to solve the problem with invasive brain technology. Or we can let educators teach students how to pay attention. 

Students use their laptops in a middle school in California. (Sandy Huffaker/Corbis via Getty Images)

By now, most of us know that the technologies we rely upon most heavily do not have our best interests at heart. The majority of the apps we use, websites we visit,

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Macron’s explosive home front in the Gaza war

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PARIS  — In the days after Hamas struck Israel, French President Emmanuel Macron made a national address vowing his “unreserved solidarity” with Israel. 

A month later, he swerved to redress the balance, organizing a conference to support Gaza, joining calls for a cease-fire. In the days and months following Israel’s ground operation and airstrikes, Macron has amped up his support for Gaza, organizing aid airdrops with Jordan and even dispatching a helicopter carrier turned hospital ship to treat a trickle … Read more

Beauden, 3, scraped his knee..days later both limbs were amputated: Doctors warn of a sepsis crisis that’s killing one American every 90 seconds – and hospitals are missing it

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The toddler who fell of his bike and scraped his knee. The woman with a common bowel disease injury. And the man with Strep throat. 

All are victims of a minor, treatable problems that turned deadly in a matter of seconds. Thankfully, all four survived – but left with life-changing injuries, including legs so destroyed they had to be amputated.

The culprit is a terrifying condition that occurs in response to a minor infection, and affects one American every 20-seconds:

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They’re linked to cancer, heart disease, diabetes – and our shocking obesity crisis. But what exactly are they and how can you avoid them? Britain’s top experts provide the definitive guide to cutting ultra-processed food from your diet

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It is a scary thought that in 1980, when I went to medical school, only one in every 14 British adults was obese. Now it is close to one in four.

We didn’t see a lot of overweight patients when I was a medical student. These days, the NHS spends millions every year reinforcing beds, building bigger scanners and even designing larger mortuary fridges.

And this is only a fraction of the many billions spent treating and managing diseases caused

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The Looming Imperial Crisis That Could Topple American Hegemony

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March 15, 2024

Washington now finds itself facing three complex global crises, each demanding its undivided attention.

An American flag above the Washington Monument is seen split nearly in two in June 2018.

(Sarah Silbiger / CQ Roll Call)

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Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of

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Crisis talks, a mea culpa and troubling unanswered questions: How Kate’s Mother’s Day photo became a PR nightmare – as sources insist Princess merely made ‘minor adjustments’… so why won’t Palace reveal what they were?

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The Princess of Wales issued an extraordinary mea culpa yesterday after admitting she ‘edited’ an image showing her celebrating Mother’s Day with her children.

In a rare personal message on Twitter, signed ‘C’ for Catherine, the future queen said she ‘occasionally experimented’ as an ‘amateur photographer’.

And she apologised for any ‘confusion’ the photograph had caused. It came after six global picture agencies sensationally pulled the image from their wires and libraries – an unprecedented reaction to an official royal

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Formula 1 – Bahrain Qualifying: Live timing and updates as Christian Horner sits at pit wall following crisis talks with FIA chief Mohammed Ben Sulayem with drivers vying for opening pole position of the season

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Who’s going all the way this year?

We’re less than 20 minutes away now from the first qualifying session of 2024 – but who’s going to end up on pole?

Furthermore, who’s going all the way at the end of the year?!

You can see nobody went against Verstappen, and only one went against Leclerc for second, which tells you

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More States Are Using Doulas to Help Solve the Maternal Health Crisis

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February 22, 2024

Over a dozen states reimburse services provided by these nonmedical professionals before, during, and after birth under Medicaid. But with this coverage comes new regulations.

A mother holds her baby at their home in Houston, Tex. The mother and her husband planned to have a natural childbirth with the help of a doula.

(Jahi Chikwendiu / Getty)

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Asylum Seekers Didn’t Create the ‘Migrant Crisis’

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When the mayor of New York, of all places, warned that a recent influx of asylum seekers would destroy his city, something didn’t add up.

“I said it last year when we had 15,000, and I’m telling you now at 110,000. The city we knew, we’re about to lose,” Eric Adams urged in September. By the end of the year, more than 150,000 migrants had arrived. Still, the mayor’s apocalyptic prediction didn’t square with New York’s past experience. How could

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