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Federal auto safety regulators opened an investigation Tuesday into possible defects in Tesla doors that have reportedly left parents with children trapped in the back seat and forced to break windows to get them out. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the preliminary probe is focused on 2021 Tesla Model Ys after receiving nine reports of electronic door handles …

UNICEF’s new report warns that junk food and weak regulation are driving a hidden epidemic that could cost trillions and derail decades of progress in child health UNICEF’s new global report, “Feeding Profit: How Food Environments Are Failing Children”, makes clear that the old definition of malnutrition no longer holds. For decades, it meant hunger — children visibly stunted and …

Something striking just happened in global nutrition: As of 2025, children worldwide are now more likely to be obese than underweight. According to UNICEF’s new Child Nutrition Report, about 9.4 percent of school-age kids (ages 5–19) are living with obesity, compared to 9.2 percent who are underweight. Twenty-five years ago, the gap was much wider: Nearly 13 percent of kids …

Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, the self-described village kid from a South Carolina seaport, who had two (partial) college scholarship offers, who saved her dad’s life at age 17, is now the world 100m champion. Jefferson-Wooden ran away to win in 10.61 seconds in Tokyo, becoming the fourth-fastest woman in history. One year ago, she was the Olympic 100m bronze medalist. “When this …

While some experts and health care providers had hoped that next week’s ACIP meeting would add clarity to the situation and allow healthy adults and children better access to the shots, the Post’s reporting suggests that’s unlikely. According to their sources, Kennedy’s ACIP is considering recommending the vaccines to those 75 and older, while instructing those 74 and younger to …

Pavel Muravev/iStockphoto/Getty Images Frances Daniels, a Baltimore mother of three, read the Trump administration’s 20-page report called “Make Our Children Healthy Again,” and noticed some notable words were missing from it: “Smoking” and “nicotine.” The word “tobacco” is mentioned once in the document, in a reference to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. “I was horrified,” Daniels says. “It …

Vaccines Respiratory viruses Women’s health Federal agencies See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Health officials under US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are preparing analyses that may tie safety risks in pregnant women and children to the Covid-19 vaccine, while considering whether to narrow recommendations for elderly people to receive the shot, according to a …

Selena Gomez shared her love for the Inside Out movies with Joy herself. The multi-hyphenate recently appeared on Amy Poehler‘s Good Hang podcast. She said that she believes the Pixar films should be required viewing in schools. “I watched it with my sister and I completely sobbed because it is so factual,” Gomez said. Poehler plays Joy, the embodiment of …

Colin Cowherd has flipped his opinion of J.J. McCarthy faster than McCarthy led the Vikings to a comeback victory over the Bears in his NFL debut on Monday night. But it’s not because he suddenly believes McCarthy has all the traits to be a great player. “I don’t know how good J.J. McCarthy is. I don’t know how good Bo …

Obesity has skyrocketed among children and adolescents bombarded by “unethical” marketing of junk food, outpacing undernourishment to become the leading form of malnutrition worldwide for the first time among those aged five to 19, the United Nations agency for children warned on Tuesday. In a dire report, Unicef projected that nearly one in 10 individuals within that age group will …