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Blue States Sue HHS Over Ban on Transgender Youth Care
1+ hour, 48+ min ago (321+ words) A coalition of blue states is heading to court over the Trump administration's latest move on transgender health care for minors. Nineteen Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia filed suit Tuesday to block a new Health and Human Services…...
Billionaire With 100 Kids Pays Women to Use His Sperm
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (456+ words) Women have been lining up at a Moscow fertility clinic for a very specific freebie: sperm from Telegram billionaire Pavel Durov, the Wall Street Journal reports. The 41-year-old tech founder says he has fathered more than 100 children in at least…...
It's Good News for Those Who Weren't Child Prodigies
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (382+ words) Being the star kid in the classroom or on the team may not be the ticket to top-tier success later on, according to a sweeping new study of elite performers. Researchers led by Arne Gullich at Germany's University of Kaiserslautern-Landau…...
Flashlights Shining Into Hospital Windows Bring Some Joy
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (318+ words) Volunteers gripping flashlights waved them high above their heads when the clock struck 8pm, shining beams through the frigid night sky'and into the hospital's windows. Exactly 10 minutes later, the enthusiastic crowd, still holding their flashlights aloft, in unison hollered "sweet dreams…...
Children Contract HIV After Blood Transfusions in India
5+ day, 9+ min ago (753+ words) At least five children in central India are at the center of growing alarm over blood safety after routine transfusions for a genetic disorder left them infected with HIV. Local media reports six children are affected. Authorities in Madhya Pradesh…...
'6-7,' Dubai chocolate, Labubu: You took 2025, now scat!
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (1215+ words) Scat. Don't follow us into the new year. You've had your 15 minutes. We're over you. The young have made up slang for centuries. For Gen Alpha and their juniors, it's skibidi and rizz and, yes, "6-7." The numbers come with a…...
Pete Davidson, Elsie Hewitt Welcome First Child Together
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (267+ words) Pete Davidson has added a new role to his r'sum': father. The 32-year-old comedian and former Saturday Night Live cast member and his girlfriend, model Elsie Hewitt, 29, on Thursday announced the arrival of their first child, a daughter named Scottie…...
A nightly tradition brings light and hope to children at Michigan hospital
1+ week, 8+ hour ago (574+ words) Exactly 10 minutes later, the enthusiastic crowd, still holding their flashlights aloft, in unison hollered "sweet dreams" toward children in the hospital several stories above them. The nightly Moonbeams for Sweet Dreams tradition is again lighting up the night outside Corewell…...
Reddit Goes After Australia's Social Media Ban on Kids
1+ week, 5+ day ago (806+ words) Reddit on Friday filed a court challenge to Australia's world-first law that bans Australian children younger than 16 from holding accounts on the world's most popular social media platforms. California-based Reddit Inc.'s suit filed in the High Court follows a…...
Australia's social media ban leaves a 15-year-old worried about losing touch with friends
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1010+ words) Riley's family lives 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Wudinna, a community of just over 1,000 in South Australia state. But some of his school friends live as far as 70 kilometers (43 miles) away. "I don't think the impact will be very positive for us....