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State laws targeting transgender people made trans and nonbinary young people more likely to attempt suicide in the past year, according to a first-of-its-kind study. The study compared suicide-related outcomes for trans and nonbinary young people in those 19 states to the outcomes for trans and nonbinary youth in states that did not enact any such laws. It found that these laws caused an increase in suicide attempts among trans and nonbinary youth by an estimated 7% to 72%. After time periods two and three, which were between December 2019 and December 2020, past-year suicide attempts increased by 72% and 52% for that same age range. She added that the researchers expected that type of misclassification to underestimate the percent increase in suicide attempts.

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☆ Jimmy Carter is setting a new record for American presidents. It’s important for everyone
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-30 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +25 min

Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images Carter works at a construction site sponsored by the Jimmy Carter Work Project in Asan, South Korea, in 2001. Alex Wong/Getty Images Carter meets with Obama and other former presidents at the White House in January 2009. Richard Lewis/The Elders/Getty Images Carter was interviewed for "The Presidents' Gatekeepers" project at the Carter Center in Atlanta in September 2011. Chris McKay/Getty Images Carter talks about his cancer diagnosis during a news conference at the Carter Center in Atlanta in August 2015. The 1983 tweaks to Social Security included, for instance, the counting of some Social Security benefits as taxable income and a gradual increase of the retirement age from 65 to 67.

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☆ Inside Rep. Rob Menendez's fight to be more than a 'nepo baby'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +19 min

"I don't have the capacity to think through, well, what if, what if, what if," Menendez told me. Mayor Bhalla told me that he began contemplating his primary challenge shortly after the elder Menendez was first indicted in September. AdvertisementSitting in his recently opened campaign office, the mayor told me that the most important facet of his candidacy was his fight against New Jersey's party boss-driven political culture. "Everything here is a headline or a deadline driving the process," Councilman Paul Presinzano said of Mayor Bhalla. Menendez looks on as Bhalla's opening remarks at a Jersey City candidate forum are filmed by a cameraman.

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☆ Google suspends Gemini from making AI images of people after a backlash complaining it was 'woke'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Google says it will fix Gemini, its answer to OpenAI's GPT-4, after people complained the multi-modal AI model's image-generating feature was "woke." On Thursday, the company said in a statement sent to Business Insider that it was pausing Gemini from generating AI images of people while it makes the changes. AdvertisementNew game: Try to get Google Gemini to make an image of a Caucasian male. Woke AI Gemini is awkward… it keeps inserting the word “diverse” into its responses even though the prompt isn’t for such content. Google; Business InsiderThe spokesperson added that Google will "re-release an improved version soon."

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☆ A Cartier Ring Inspired by the Work of a 20th-Century Style Icon
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Lindsay Talbot | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In 1847, Louis-François Cartier opened a modest jewelry workshop in Paris where he sold crystal bracelets, strands of pearls and brooches with floral motifs. In 1914, Louis Cartier met Jeanne Toussaint, the Belgian French style icon who would become his muse and rumored lover. Often immaculately dressed in her signature turban and silk pajamas, she captivated Cartier, who recruited her to oversee the house’s handbags and silver accessories. When Toussaint was appointed the creative director of the brand’s jewelry department in 1933, she, too, found unlikely inspiration in utilitarian objects: gas hoses, bolts and even handcuffs. Now, Cartier is revisiting Toussaint’s archival designs in the form of a ring topped with an 8.92-carat cabochon-cut emerald encircled by rounded onyx, diamonds and turquoise accents.

Persons: Louis, François Cartier, Louis Cartier, Santos pilot’s, Jeanne Toussaint, immaculately, Cartier, Toussaint, Elise Lebaindre Locations: Paris, Brazilian, Belgian French

☆ I answer the Butterball turkey hotline. I get lots of funny questions on Thanksgiving Day.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Jenny Powers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Phyllis Kramer is a Butterball Turkey Talk-Line expert based in Aurora, Illinois. AdvertisementI've been talking turkey on the Butterball Talk-Line for 22 years now. AdvertisementSome people assume my job must be easy, but they couldn't be more wrongKramer answers calls to the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line. AdvertisementOur average call lasts 3 minutes, and the most common question is how to thaw a frozen turkeyA herb- and citrus butter-roasted Butterball turkey. I always thaw turkey in the refrigerator.

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☆ An Epic Pilgrimage Across Three Great Religions
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Aatish Taseer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +111 min

Before there was tourism, there was pilgrimage: a trip of endurance, hardship and ecstasy in celebration of one’s faith. On an epic pilgrimage of his own, one writer ventures into the heart of three great religions in Bolivia, Mongolia and Iraq. The Imam Hussein shrine in Karbala the day after Ashura. “They’re poor, but they come thousands of kilometers for the love of Imam Hussein.” PILGRIMAGE WAS A great equalizer. “Labaik ya Hussein,” came the solemn chorus of surrounding voices.

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☆ Hezbollah leader set to weigh in on Middle East war
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Many people in Lebanon are anxiously awaiting the 3 p.m. (1300 GMT) speech, rattled for weeks by fear of a catastrophic conflict. OVERSEEING THE BATTLEWhile Nasrallah has stayed out of the public eye since Oct. 7, other Hezbollah officials have indicated the group's combat readiness. But they have not set any red lines in the conflict with Israel. The speech will be broadcast to coincide with rallies called by Hezbollah to honour fallen fighters. Mutual threats of destruction have deterred Israel and Hezbollah from waging war across the Lebanese-Israeli frontier since 2006.

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☆ A New York driver accused of beating a Sikh man to death after a collision is charged with hate crimes
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Elizabeth Wolfe | Jessica Xing | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A New York City man accused of fatally beating a 66-year-old Sikh man following a car collision nearly two weeks ago was arraigned Tuesday on a slew of charges, including hate crimes, prosecutors said. Singh suffered a brain injury and was taken to a hospital, where he died the next day, the news release reads. Jasmer Singh, a 66-year-old Sikh man, died on October 20 after sustaining a brain jury, prosecutors say. Moloney's Lake Funeral Home & Cremation CenterThe incident was not initially investigated as a hate crime, a New York Police Department spokesperson said. During a verbal argument that followed, Augustin became angry with Singh and referred to him several times as “turban man,” prosecutors said, citing the witness.

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☆ Man Accused in Fatal Beating of Sikh Driver Faces Hate Crimes Charges
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Erin Nolan | More About Erin Nolan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A man accused of beating a 66-year-old Sikh man to death after a minor car crash this month was motivated by “rage inflamed by hate,” the Queens district attorney said on Tuesday while announcing that the killing was now being prosecuted as a hate crime. The man charged in the killing, Gilbert Augustin, repeatedly called the victim, Jasmer Singh, who was wearing a turban as part of his faith, “turban man” before attacking him brutally, the district attorney, Melinda Katz, said in a statement. The killing of Mr. Singh occurred amid what New York police officials have described as a wave of reported hate crimes in the city since the war between Israel and Hamas began. Image Jasmer Singh, who was beaten to death in Queens earlier this month after a fender-bender. The deadly encounter between Mr. Augustin, 30, and Mr. Singh, both Queens residents, happened just before noon on Oct. 19, after Mr. Singh’s car collided with Mr. Augustin’s on the Van Wyck Expressway, Ms. Katz said in her statement.

Persons: Gilbert Augustin, Jasmer Singh, Melinda Katz, Mr, Singh, Augustin, Augustin’s, Katz Organizations: New York, Hamas, Mr Locations: Queens, Israel, Van Wyck

In 2001, following the 9/11 terror attacks, anti-Muslim motivated crimes became the second highest reported among religious-bias incidents, according to FBI data. Two of the attackers have been charged with assault and menacing as a hate crime; four others remain at large, according to the complaint. She was charged with assault as a hate crime, and other charges, the complaint states. A 28-year-old man was arrested this week and charged with a hate crime and aggravated assault. “Hate crime is still down but since the incident in Gaza, there has been an uptick,” Kenny said.

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“When I spoke to them … they were basically saying, ‘We think this is it, we will not survive this one,’” he said. “When this individual said, ‘You Muslims must die,’ this was a message not to the boy and the mother. Last weekend, as Israel continued to bombard Gaza in response to the October 7 Hamas attack, activists staged pro-Palestine rallies in New York City’s Times Square and in cities across the country. Many Muslim or Arab leaders say they feel compelled to speak out against the climate of Islamophobia to stem further violence. “Anxiety and fear are high.”Sarsour said a unified message from US officials would help address Islamophobia at home.

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☆ Chicago-area stabbing: 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy who authorities say was fatally stabbed by his landlord will be buried today
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Chris Boyette Keith Allen Lauren Mascarenhas | Chris Boyette | Keith Allen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —A funeral and burial will be held Monday for the 6-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed when his Chicago-area landlord allegedly attacked him and his mother because the family is Muslim. The attack, which also left Wadea’s mother seriously injured, is being investigated by the Department of Justice as a hate crime. Czuba was taken to the Will County Adult Detention Facility and is awaiting his initial court appearance, according to the sheriff’s office. “He was a 6-year-old boy, he loved everything,” Rehab said of the child, recalling how Wadea’s father had described his son. In response, Israel has pounded Gaza with airstrikes that have killed more than 2,750 people, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

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Their mother is Narges Mohammadi, a woman whose name has become synonymous with the fight for human rights in Iran – a battle that has cost this activist almost everything. “This period was and still is the era of greatest protest in this prison,” Mohammadi told CNN in written responses to questions submitted through intermediaries. Now, those same women are experiencing sexual assault and harassment against themselves.”‘Systemic’ abuse of women detaineesIn her letter and responses to CNN, Mohammadi details incidents of sexual violence against her and other female detainees at different facilities dating back to 1999. Political prisoners and women held on criminal charges were assaulted by security forces, prison authorities and medical personnel, she says. Mark Esplin/CNNAli, like his father, is resolute, saying his mother must keep going “for Iran, for our future.”“I am really proud of my mom,” Ali told CNN.

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The Sikh temple leader wanted as a terrorist by India walked toward his pickup truck late one Sunday last June after a long day at his place of worship. He and an associate discussed some upcoming programs while making their way across the large parking lot behind the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara temple near Vancouver. It was Father’s Day and, once inside his gray Dodge Ram, the leader, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, called his family and said he was heading right home. Then, witnesses say, they heard a burst of automatic gunfire and saw two hooded men running away from Mr. Nijjar’s immobilized pickup. Running, Mr. Singh was the first to reach the Dodge Ram, where he found a still-buckled Mr. Nijjar slumped over the center console, his right arm stretched out toward the passenger seat.

Persons: Nanak, Dodge Ram, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, ”, Bhupinder Jit Singh, Singh, Nijjar Locations: India, Vancouver

☆ Air India unveils new logo in rebranding push under Tata Group
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Aditi Shah | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File PhotoNEW DELHI/BENGALURU, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Tata Group on Thursday unveiled a new logo, branding and plane livery for Air India as part of a multi-million dollar transformation of the former state-run carrier. The airline's new logo includes a design with golden, red and purple colours, and will replace the old logo of a red swan with orange spokes. Since taking control in 2022, Tata has spent millions of dollars to update Air India's old planes, while also placing an order for hundreds of new jets. "The vision we have for the airline is also in the backdrop of a new resurgent India where the aspirations of everyone are limitless," Air India chairperson N. Chandrasekaran said. Over the past year, Air India has expanded its network and flights to several new domestic and international destinations, but it still faces challenges in operating a seamless and timely schedule of flights.

Persons: Adnan Abidi, Campbell Wilson, Tata, Chandrasekaran, Wilson, Aditi Shah, Ganesh, Arun Koyyur Organizations: REUTERS, Tata Group, Air India, Tata, IndiGo, Emirates, Air, Thomson Locations: New Delhi, DELHI, BENGALURU, India, Air India, Bengaluru

☆ Sweden and Denmark consider ban on Quran-burning protests as security fears rise
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Christian Edwards | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —A spate of Quran-burning protests in Sweden and Denmark has caused angry demonstrations in Muslim-majority countries, heightened security fears at home and left both Scandinavian nations questioning whether they need to review their liberal laws on freedom of speech. But both countries signaled Sunday that they are exploring legal ways to prevent such protests, amid security and geopolitical concerns. While freedom of speech has long been a constitutional right in Sweden and Denmark, the scrapping of blasphemy laws was a more recent development. But neither country tightened their free speech laws in response to these attacks. “Sweden is right now the target of influence campaigns, supported by states and state-like actors, whose purpose is to harm Sweden and Swedish interests,” said Bohlin.

Persons: “, Ulf Kristersson, Denmark “, Salwan Momika, Momika, Ahmad Al, ” Marten Schutlz, ” Sofie Blomback, ”, Bruno Jerup, Chris McGrath, Blomback, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Sweden’s Kristersson, Posten, Prophet Mohammed, Lars Vilks, Mohammed, ” Kristersson, Carl, Oskar Bohlin, ” Bohlin, ” Schulz Organizations: CNN, NATO, of Islamic Cooperation, ”, Danish, Protesters, Getty, Stockholm University, Sweden’s, Appeal, Mid Sweden University, Sweden’s Civil Defense Locations: Sweden, Denmark, Stockholm, Turkey, Danish, Copenhagen, ” Sweden, Iraqi, Sweden's, Baghdad, Iraq, AFP, Swedish, United States, Istanbul, Ukraine, Vilnius, Turkish, Russia

☆ Who is the Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The demonstration was called by supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr, 48, an influential Shi'ite cleric who commands the loyalty of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. He led two anti-U.S. revolts, prompting the Pentagon to call his Mehdi Army militia the biggest threat to Iraq’s security. In Iraq's sectarian 2006-2008 civil war, the Mehdi Army was accused of forming death squads that kidnapped and killed Sunni Muslims. In 2008, after clashing with the Iraqi army, he disbanded the Mehdi Army, renaming it the Peace Brigades. - Sadr has opposed Iranian influence in Iraq, setting him apart from other Shi'ite leaders who have close ties to Tehran.

Persons: Muqtada, Mehdi, Sadr, Mohammed Sadeq al, Saddam Hussein, Mohammed Baqir, Saddam, sayyid, Prophet Mohammad ., Sadr's, Tom Perry, Angus MacSwan Organizations: Protesters, Pentagon, Mehdi Army, Brigades, Sweden, Thomson Locations: BAGHDAD, Swedish, Baghdad, Sweden, Muqtada al, Sadr, U.S, Iraq, Tehran, Iran, Stockholm, Iraqi

☆ 'American Sikh:' How a turbaned Captain America shatters stereotypes
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Harmeet Kaur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

In 2013, a photographer convinced the cartoonist to don a Captain America costume for a shoot on the streets of New York. Something about a Sikh Captain America seemed to resonate with people. He wants others to see Sikh Captain America as just AmericanIn summer 2011, Singh saw a promotional poster for “Captain America: The First Avenger” that sparked an idea. “I never fathomed that a 10-year-old White kid would connect to a turban and bearded Captain America,” Singh said. Singh’s Sikh Captain America subverted typical ideas of patriotism – instead of fighting Nazi agent Red Skull and other members of the Axis Powers, Sikh Captain America would fight hate crimes and intolerance in the US.

Persons: America, Chris Evans, Vishavjit Singh, Singh, ” Singh, Ryan Westra, Whoopi Goldberg, Indira Gandhi, Gandhi, “, ”, –, Osama bin Laden, Mark Fiore, White, Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, Red, Drew Heskett, Westra, Beard, ” “, ” Westra, they’ve, heartening, – Singh, “ Osama ” Organizations: CNN, Police, Tribeca, Sikh, Captain America, New York Comic Con, Nazi, America Locations: United States, New York, New Delhi, India, California, East Coast, Nazi Germany, America

According to Amazon, Temu, an e-commerce marketplace that launched in September, does not meet its "strict qualification standards" for Amazon's fair pricing policy. That means some low-priced general merchandise on Temu, owned by PDD Holdings, could beat out prices offered by Amazon's marketplace sellers. But Amazon is wary of engaging in a price war with a marketplace that it says is not reputable. Much of the merchandise sold on Temu is from vendors and suppliers based in China. The pending U.S. lawsuits are among the first legal battles between Amazon sellers and Temu, according to court filings.

Persons: Temu, Mandell Menkes, Feixiang Wang, Arriana McLymore, Vanessa O'Connell, Deepa Babington Organizations: YORK, PDD Holdings, Amazon, MaiBo Technology Company, Reuters, Northern District of, Shenzhen Kangmingcheng Technology, Thomson Locations: China, U.S, Northern District, Northern District of Illinois, Shenzhen

☆ India rebukes Canada over parade float showing assassination of Indira Gandhi
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

NEW DELHI, June 8 (Reuters) - India's foreign minister on Thursday hit out at Canada for allowing a float in a parade depicting the 1984 assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her bodyguards, perceived to be glorification of violence by Sikh separatists. "I think it is not good for relationships, not good for Canada," he said. Canada's High Commissioner for India also condemned the incident at a parade by Sikh activists in the Canadian city of Brampton. "I am appalled by reports of an event in Canada that celebrated the assassination of late Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi," Cameron MacKay said on Twitter. Indira Gandhi was assassinated in 1984 by two Sikh bodyguards after she allowed the storming of the holiest Sikh temple, aimed at flushing out Sikh separatists who demanded an independent homeland to be known as Khalistan.

Persons: Indira Gandhi, Jaishankar, Gandhi, Cameron MacKay, Canada's, Rupam, Peter Graff Organizations: Indian, Sikh, Canada, Canada's, Twitter, Reuters, Thomson Locations: DELHI, Canada, New Delhi, India, Canadian, Brampton, Punjab

☆ High-Ranking Iranian Cleric Gunned Down by Bank Guard
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Farnaz Fassihi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A senior Iranian cleric and member of a powerful government committee was shot and killed by a security guard at a bank in the northern province of Mazandaran on Wednesday, according to the Iranian authorities. In CCTV camera footage shown on the Iranian news media, the cleric, Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani, is seen sitting on a chair in the bank when the security guard casually approaches him from behind, points his rifle at his head and fires a shot. Ayatollah Soleimani, 75, slumps in the chair, his white turban knocked to the floor, as the guard calmly wanders to the side. Strangely, nobody comes immediately to the cleric’s aid, and the room remains rather calm. Two men grab the security guard and wrestle away his gun, then seem to let him slip away.

CNN —The violence that has exploded in Sudan as the country’s two top generals grapple for power has unfolded at a terrifying, breakneck speed. Hemedti uses this discourse as a bloody shirt to maintain his influence and military forces for future use,” Fareid said. Marwan Ali/APFrom a subclan of the Mahariya Rizeigat tribe, nomadic people that herded camels in Darfur, Hemedti got his start as a commander of the Janjaweed. Unlike Sudan’s former dictator, Hemedti has not faced charges from the International Criminal Court. The general’s shared sense of impunity was underlined in October 2021, when they staged a coup, arresting Hamdok and his cabinet.

☆ Former Indian lawmaker slain live on TV while in police custody, state restricts gatherings
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( Saurabh Sharma | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] Police officers escort Atiq Ahmed, a former lawmaker in India's parliament, accused in several criminal cases, outside a court in Prayagraj, India, April 13, 2023. A gunman is seen reaching over the shoulders of police to point a pistol at the temple of the former lawmaker, Atiq Ahmed, whose turban is blown off as the gun discharges. Fearing the possibility of violent unrest in the wake of the killings, the Uttar Pradesh government barred gatherings of more than four people across the entire state. He had been wanted in connection to a murder case that was being investigated as part of a wider crackdown into a land mafia operating in Uttar Pradesh. Police in Uttar Pradesh have killed more than 180 suspected criminals during encounters over past six years.

☆ 1,000-year-old Mayan 'scoreboard' for ancient soccer-like game discovered in Mexico
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-15 | by ( Isobel Van Hagen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

An ancient stone "scoreboard" was discovered at an archeological site in Mexico earlier this week. The stone depicts two figures playing an ancient soccer-like ball game, experts said. The circular relic was discovered at the Mayan Chichen Itza site in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. A worker shows a circular-shaped Mayan scoreboard used for a ball game found at Chichen Itza's archaeological site during a news conference, in Merida, Mexico April 11, 2023. Mesoamerican people played the ball game as a form of traditional practice, and it is thought to have had ritual connotations, per Reuters.

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