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Concerns for children’s mental health rise as school begins in the Dayton area
“We’re seeing more kids, and we’re seeing more kids coming in crisis,” Blankenship said. Death by suicide increasing in children Suicide in teens and younger adults was already a concern because the COVID-19 pandemic cause disruptions and challenges. Data show those suicides are increasing in many areas in Ohio and nationally. Suicide is the leading …
Senate begins ‘vote-a-rama’ to advance Democrats’ sweeping health and climate bill
The package is the product of painstaking negotiations and will give Democrats a chance to achieve major policy objectives ahead of the upcoming midterm elections. Senate Democrats are using a special process to pass the package without Republican votes. Once the legislation has passed in the Senate, it would next need to be approved by …
Jury begins deliberations for Clinton campaign lawyer charged with lying to FBI
Jury deliberations began Friday in the case of Michael Sussmann, a former lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s campaign who is charged with lying to the FBI in hopes of orchestrating an “October surprise” against Donald Trump during the 2016 election. The two-week trial in Washington, D.C., is the first arising from special counsel John Durham’s investigation into the …
Major banks react after interest rate hike; NSW teachers strike begins; Putin may officially declare war on Ukraine; NSW records 11,939 new cases, 21 deaths; 10,779 new cases in Victoria, 11 deaths
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed his government will freeze deeming rates, which simplify payments and income reporting for pensioners, for two years after yesterday’s interest rate rise. The Coalition says 890,000 Australians will benefit, including 450,000 aged pensioners. Mr Morrison also called on banks to pass out the increased interest rate to deposit-holders, as …
Russia invades Ukraine, battle for Donbas begins
Having regrouped to launch an offensive in the east of Ukraine, Russian forces have started what one Ukrainian official described as the “second phase of the war” — the battle for Donbas. Control of Kreminna, a town in the eastern Luhansk region, has already been “lost” during heavy fighting, a Ukrainian official said. The developments …
Biden begins long, tense meeting with Putin
GENEVA — President Joe Biden sits down for the first time since taking office with Russian President Vladimir Putin here on Wednesday in what’s expected to be an hours-long, contentious meeting — one where Biden has said he will lay out where U.S. red lines are, and the consequences for Russia if they’re crossed. Biden …
Breaking up with oil and gas begins at the Roundhouse
Jared Berenice Estrada, Your view Published 3:48 a.m. MT June 6, 2021 Jared Berenice Estrada (Photo: Courtesy) New Mexicans know very well that we are living in a ‘toxic’ relationship. For far too long, the oil and gas industry has created a dependency model which has trapped our people into thinking ‘we are nothing without oil …
HS2 high-speed rail project begins underground tunnel
The largest tunnelling machine ever used on a UK rail project is officially starting work. Florence – named after Florence Nightingale – will spend the next three-and-a-half years cutting through the chalk beneath the Chiltern hills in Buckinghamshire. The tunnel will form part of controversial high-speed rail project HS2’s first phase, which will link London …
Grossmont College Begins Next Phase of $36 Million Science, Technology Project Funded by Bond
A rending of the new Grossmont College science and technology building. Photo credit: Courtesy, Grossmont College Grossmont College broke ground Thursday on the second phase of a $36.2 million science, math and career technology complex, which also will house a new Veterans Resource Center. The project will expand classroom, lab and office spaces for programs …
Landmark trial with drug distributors over the opioid crisis begins in West Virginia federal court
Cabell County and its county seat the City of Huntington say the three co-defendants — McKesson Corporation, AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health — created a public nuisance with the ongoing opioid epidemic by failing to monitor, divert and report suspicious orders under the Controlled Substances Act. Between 2006 and 2014, the three companies distributed a combined …
