Deeply troubled parents spoke to senators Tuesday, sounding alarms about chatbot harms after kids became addicted to companion bots that encouraged self-harm, suicide, and violence. While the hearing was focused on documenting the most urgent child-safety concerns with chatbots, parents’ testimony serves as perhaps the most thorough guidance yet on warning signs for other families, as many popular companion bots …
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Mom ‘comes back from the dead’ after scooter accident leaves ‘brain hanging out her head’
An Illinois mom ‘came back from the dead’ after an e-scooter accident left her brain ‘hanging out of’ her head. Savanah White, 28, and her seven-year-old son Malakye were crossing an intersection on July 24, 2024, when a car knocked them off their e-scooter. White smashed her face on the ground, breaking 26 bones and leaving part of her brain …
Read More »How a young mom is “living, not just surviving” after incurable cancer diagnosis
Elissa Kalver was 34 when she found a lump in her breast. She had no family history of cancer and had just welcomed her first child. She assumed the lump was a cyst. But when she went to get it checked out, doctors found another lump in her armpit. Biopsies found that both lumps were malignant. More tests found the …
Read More »How a young mom is “living, not just surviving” after incurable cancer diagnosis
Elissa Kalver was 34 when she found a lump in her breast. She had no family history of cancer and had just welcomed her first child. She assumed the lump was a cyst. But when she went to get it checked out, doctors found another lump in her armpit. Biopsies found that both lumps were malignant. More tests found the …
Read More »Madness on a mountain: for 15 years, my mom was trapped in a mutual psychosis | Family
Composite: Rita Liu/The Guardian/Getty Images/Photos courtesy of Joelle Fraser For days before her last hospital visit, Mom’s texts worried me. She sent them from the one-room mountain cabin she shared with my stepfather, Mark. They pinged each day on my phone like tiny arrows: two dozen or more, with random all-caps. Mom: Making mark red velvet CAKE. we have the …
Read More »Mom nearly died after catching flesh-eating bacteria on the beach
Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email A Florida mother of three is warning other beachgoers after nearly losing her life to a deadly flesh-eating bacterial infection that ravaged her leg and left her and her family traumatized. …
Read More »Emily Blunt's Daughters Look Just Like Their Mom With Red Hair During Rare Family Outing With John Krasinski – AOL.com
Emily Blunt’s Daughters Look Just Like Their Mom With Red Hair During Rare Family Outing With John Krasinski AOL.com Emily Blunt, John Krasinski’s rare outing with daughters caught on jumbotron USA Today What Emily Blunt & John Krasinski Have Shared About Their Family Life yahoo.com John Krasinski and Emily Blunt’s Daughters Are All Grown Up in Rare Public Appearance at US Open E! News …
Read More »Mom charged after nonverbal son who disappeared from home is killed in alligator attack
The mother of a nonverbal 12-year-old boy who died following an alligator attack more than a week after he went missing from his New Orleans home was arrested. Hilda Vasquez, the mother of Bryan Vasquez, was taken into custody Sunday evening on charges of second-degree cruelty to a juvenile and negligent homicide, the New Orleans Police Department said at a …
Read More »Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner Take Kids, His Mom to Theater
Ben Affleck & Jennifer Garner Curtain’s Calling Our Family … Take His Mom, Kids to Show Published September 6, 2025 2:56 PM PDT Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner brought the whole family together for an afternoon with his mom … and, the two are all smiles in these pics. The stars were spotted out with two of their children at …
Read More »Does Lauryn Licari still talk to her mom, the ‘High School Catfish?’
The Netflix documentary “Unknown Number: The High School Catfish” tells the story of Lauryn Licari, whose own mother, Kendra Licari, anonymously cyberbullied her for over a year. Lauryn was 13 when she and her then-boyfriend, Owen McKenny, started receiving messages from an unknown number in October 2020. The messenger claimed that Owen planned to break up with Lauryn and didn’t …
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