Author: Kelvin Santos

The number of teenage girls experiencing suicidal thoughts and behaviors increased during the second year of the pandemic, new federal data showed. The percentage of high school female students who seriously considered attempting suicide rose from 24.1% to about one-third, or 30%, between 2019 and 2021, according to the latest results of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The percentage of those who made a suicide plan increased from 19.9% to 23.6% and there was also an increase in suicide attempts from 11.0% to 13.3%, according to the CDC survey. Differences were seen when it…

Hong KongCNN — Sandwiched between two Pacific superpowers, the Philippines has long had to tread delicately when it comes to dealing with Beijing and Washington’s competing interests, a complex juggling act that has been on vivid display in recent weeks. April has been a particularly busy month for Philippine diplomacy with the country hosting its largest joint military drills yet with the United States while also receiving a top envoy from China, which has grown increasingly rattled – and outspoken – about the archipelago’s defense ties. Only a few years ago US-Philippine relations were in a delicate place. The country’s then leader, Rodrigo…

            Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama sharply rebuked British Home Affairs Minister Suella Braverman for her comments about “Albanian criminals” entering Britain by boat, DPA reported, BTA reported . During his visit to Britain, Rama described Braverman’s comments as “a very embarrassing moment for British politics” and negatively affecting the relationship between the two countries. “We refuse to identify any criminals with Albanians in general. Putting an ethnic stamp on crime is itself a crime,” Rama said on BBC radio today. “Unfortunately, we are witnessing how we and our community are being rejected in this country for political reasons,” Rama said in response to…

MEPs are scrambling to declare trips paid by states, such as Qatar, in the wake of a corruption scandal that has landed the parliament’s former vice-president in pre-trial detention for allegedly accepting bags full of cash. Among them is Romanian centre-right Cristian Bușoi, who chaired the now banned EU friendship group with Qatar between 2019 and 2021. His office, in an email sent on 12 December of last year, told EUobserver that the group was inactive due to restrictions imposed by the pandemic and given his busy work as chair of the powerful committee on industry, research and energy. “Please…

The Mississippi River drought was big news when barges got stranded, receding waters revealed historic artifacts, and river traffic briefly ground to a standstill in October. But the drought didn’t end when the channel reopened. Barges have been able to transport goods down the historically shallow Mississippi only because the US Army Corps of Engineers has been constantly vacuuming the bottom of the river. “There was a few months of pretty intense management,” Lou Dell’Orco, the chief of operations and readiness at the Corps’ St. Louis District, told Insider. The Corps maintains a 9-foot-deep channel down the Mississippi River so…

The Jacksonville City Council early Wednesday morning approved legislation that bans any message projected onto someone’s building or property without permission. City Council’s agenda included two identical bills that were created to address a series of hate messages that recently appeared in Jacksonville. The most recent hate message that sparked the swift response from council members was a swastika and an outline of an antisemitic cartoon apparently displayed on the CSX building during a Jaguars’ game. The image was seen in a photo that was circulated on social media. The response by council seemed unanimous — outright condemnation from members…

Opening statements began Tuesday in the trial for Shaetavia Cooper. Cooper is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of 16-year-old Teneria McClendon. Video from the shooting in July 2020 shows what happened outside a Wawa gas station on 103rd Street. The video shows Cooper with a gun and McClendon falls to the ground. In court on Tuesday, attorneys played the video for jurors to see. Both the state and the defense said the video clearly shows what happened. In the video, Cooper walks toward McClendon and the other girls she was with then Cooper backs away, points the…

The owner of the Hotel O in North Jackson has 150 days to bring his facility into compliance with city code or face jail time. Friday, Jackson Municipal Court Judge Jeffrey Reynolds found Noah Muthanal guilty for multiple violations of the International Property Maintenance Code as adopted by the city of Jackson, and sentenced him to 90 days behind bars. However, Reynolds suspended that sentence on the condition that the defendant tear down the hotel or bring it into full compliance with all applicable city codes within 150 days. Muthanal is the owner of Hotel O, located at 4639 U.S.…