The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline has fielded over 2 million calls, texts and chats since the phone number was shortened to three digits last summer, CNN reports. “It’s really eye-opening to see the increase in the texts, chats and calls that are coming in,” Hannah Wesolowski, the chief advocacy officer for the National Alliance … Read more
A family of seven has revealed how they were forced to live in a tent after being booted from their home that needed repairs. Patricia Thompson took to the social media app TikTok to document the family’s struggles during Australia’s horrific rental crisis. The family needed to leave their home in August after the property … Read more
Jackie Kennedy was prepared to die during the tense days of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, according to revelations in a new book by the former first lady’s Secret Service bodyguard. When he offered to hide Kennedy and her children, John and Caroline, during the nuclear standoff between the Soviet Union and the US, … Read more
It’s the beginning of the end for “The Crown.” The penultimate season of the Netflix series dropped a two-minute trailer on Thursday, and it’s full of royal family drama. “In light of the events of the last 12 months,” Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth narrates over a fire in the opening scene, “perhaps I have … Read more
Valentine Low’s new book about the royal family, “Courtiers,” is out in the UK on Thursday. In an excerpt published in the Daily Mail, Low writes about Prince Harry and Prince William’s rift. Harry declined a crisis meeting with William in 2019, Low reports. Loading Something is loading. The Duke of Sussex declined to meet … Read more
Flint residents reported changes to the water’s color, smell and taste soon after the city turned to the Flint River as a water source in April 2014. Following outraged pushback by residents and reports of children with mysterious illnesses, tests by the US Environmental Protection Agency and scientists at Virginia Tech detected dangerous levels of … Read more
For years, human civilization has been embroiled in a quiet public health crisis: Some of our antibiotic drugs have stopped working. The over-prescription of antibiotics has turned the bugs we could once easily defeat into super-pathogens capable of evading even our best defenses, as they have evolved faster than we can design drugs to defeat … Read more
A Bay Area legislator has warned that San Francisco is “moving toward a public health disturbance” over monkeypox, citing a Wednesday announcement from the San Francisco Department of Public Health that the agency is running low on monkeypox vaccines. and will close its clinic in Zuckerberg. San Francisco General Hospital until more supplies arrive. State … Read more