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☆ Indiana prosecutor seeks to punish doctor in 10-year-old's abortion case
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Gabriella Borter | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, a Republican, accused Dr. Caitlin Bernard of "violating a patient’s privacy rights" and the obligation to immediately report child abuse to Indiana authorities. Rokita has been investigating whether Dr. Bernard followed state law requiring doctors to report abortions, even though public records showed Dr. Bernard promptly reported the abortion as required. The attorney general is not questioning whether the girl met the Indiana statutory requirement that she be no more than 22 weeks pregnant. When Dr. Bernard learned of the situation, the girl was three days past the six-week limit in Ohio. News of the 10-year-old's case launched a bitter legal battle between Dr. Bernard and Rokita.

☆ Kanye West owes millions all over town for unpaid contract work and music samples, lawsuits allege
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

He tried that earlier with his music and has been hit with copyright lawsuits related to sampling. And what followed was a thicket of lawsuits from people who alleged West failed to properly credit their songs when using samples for the album. Worse still, according to the lawsuit, West and his pals used "Life of the Party" to market the Stem Player. The company squandered months on the work, even relocating its headquarters to better closely work with West. In the end, the lawsuit alleged, West used a rip-off of MyChannel's e-commerce technology to sell his clothing at a concert.

A human skull was found near Interstate 5 in northern Oregon, authorities said Wednesday. The discovery Monday morning was reported by members of an Oregon Department of Corrections cleanup crew, Oregon State Police said in a statement. The find, near Keizer, a northern suburb of Salem, was initially reported as a suspicious object. State police, which took the item for investigation, described it as a skull inside a "small" backpack. The Oregon State Medical Examiner’s Office will try to determine the identity of the remains, they said.

☆ France shocked by second schoolgirl rape and murder in a month
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] Flowers and toys are displayed in front of a school following the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl in Tonneins, France, November 21, 2022. REUTERS/Vincent WestPARIS, Nov 21 (Reuters) - France was shocked by the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl in the south of the country, just weeks after the brutal killing of a 12-year-old girl in Paris. Police on Friday arrested a 31-year-old man suspected of raping and killing the girl, named Vanesa, after forcing her into his car as she left school in Tonneins, France that day. The murder comes just weeks after France was rocked by the brutal killing of a 12-year-old girl named Lola, whose battered body was found in a suitcase outside her Paris home. The main suspect in that case, a 24-year-old woman, has been accused of murder, rape and acts of torture.

☆ North Korea says its nukes are about the children after photos dropped of Kim Jong Un bringing his daughter to a missile launch
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

After the test, North Korea reportedly said that nuclear weapons and missiles are about the country's children. State media outlet KCNA confirmed that the North Korean leader attended the launch "with his beloved daughter and wife." North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walks away from an ICMB in this photo released on November 19, 2022 by North Korean state news. In September, the North Korean leader declared North Korea's nuclear-armed status irreversible. This photo provided on Nov. 19, 2022, by the North Korean government shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, and his daughter inspects a missile at Pyongyang International Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, Nov. 18, 2022.

☆ Father and son missing as floods hit northern Albania
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

TIRANA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - A father and son were missing in Albania on Sunday after their car was swept into a river during floods in the north of the country as heavy rains led emergency services to evacuate those at risk. A girl who was also in the car when it was caught in the flow of a swollen stream managed to escape, police said. Some schools were closed in the affected areas and Albanian emergency services had begun to evacuate people close to the town of Shkoder as a result of the flood danger. Albania, which relies all its electricity domestic production from hydro, has seen its worst drought in years during 2022, forcing the government to import more power. Reporting by Florion Goga; writing by Fatos BytyciOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Twitter users flood the site with eulogies amid mounting fears of its imminent collapse and concerns that 'critical' teams are spread thin
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Twitter users worried about a possible site collapse shared memes and tweets with #RIPTwitter. Nithish Billava replied to Musk's tweet with the same meme, but with Musk's face over the tombstone saying, "Fixed it" with the sweat smile emoji. Gluscevic's tweet shows Musk's face on the little girl's face and the Twitter app on the house. Other Twitter users compared the demise of Twitter to the sinking of the Titanic. As we wait to see what happens next, Twitter users continued bidding adieu to the website on Friday morning.

☆ I worked on Netflix's 'The Jeffrey Dahmer Story' and the experience was so bad it broke me. The aftermath proved there are no safe spaces for Black women to talk about Hollywood.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Eboni Boykin-Patterson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

It's not always easy being a Black crew member on a major production, because you'll often be one of the few. But the worst experience I ever had as a Black woman on a production was "Dahmer." The experience I had was tied in with the lack of diversity within the crew: Black crew members did not last long on this show. Black people — Black women specifically — have it hard enough already. Editor's note: Netflix declined to comment on human resource matters between employees and the number of Black crew members on this production.

☆ This school in the Indian desert stays cool even in extreme heat
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Chelsea Lee | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Here, buildings have long been designed to adapt to the heat, a tradition that New York architect Diana Kellogg has followed with her work on the Rajkumari Ratnavati Girls’ School. Named the 2020 “Building of the Year” by Architectural Digest India, the eco-friendly sandstone school opened in November 2021 and 120 girls are currently enrolled in its curriculum, according to Kellogg. High ceilings and windows release rising heat in classrooms, while a solar panel canopy provides shade and energy. Kellogg calls it “a big, tight hug.”A view from above of the Rajkumari Ratnavati Girl's School. Particular wind directions and different sandstones would regulate temperatures differently to the materials found and used in Jaisalmer, for example.

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Oct 26 (Reuters) - TikTok Inc won dismissal of a lawsuit accusing it of causing the death of a 10-year-old girl by promoting a deadly "blackout challenge" that encouraged people to choke themselves on its video-based social media platform. U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond in Philadelphia ruled Tuesday that the company was immune from the lawsuit under a part of the federal Communications Decency Act that shields publishers of others' work. Jeffrey Goodman, a lawyer for the girl's mother, Tawainna Anderson, said in a statement that the family would "continue to fight to make social media safe so that no other child is killed by the reckless behavior of the social media industry." Anderson sued TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance Inc in May, saying the company's algorithm showed her daughter, Nylah Anderson, a video suggesting the blackout challenge. In December 2021, Nylah attempted the blackout challenge using a purse strap hung in her mother's closet, losing consciousness and suffering severe injuries, according to the lawsuit.

☆ Macron urges France to unite against 'extreme evil' of 12-year-old's murder
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

PARIS, Oct 21 (Reuters) - France should unite in solidarity with the parents of a 12-year-old girl whose battered body was found last week in a suitcase outside her Paris home, President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday, calling her murder an act of "extreme evil". In his first public comments on the death of the girl, named Lola, Macron said the unspeakable atrocity that the crime represented was what has shocked the country most. "When we are faced with extreme evil and we realize that this is possible in our society," he told reporters at a European Union summit. The main suspect, a 24-year-old woman, was arrested on Monday and put under formal investigation on accusations of murder, rape and acts of torture. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Dominique Vidalon; Pascal Rossignol, editing by John Stonestreet, Kirsten DonovanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ France probes murder of 12-year-old girl in Paris
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

The suspect was a woman under 25 who had been staying in France illegally, he said. She regularly came over on to our national territory as a student. About a month ago, she was told to leave our national territory," Darmanin told RTL radio. The Paris prosecutor's department said the girl's body was discovered late on Friday near her home in the 19th Arrondissement. Lawyer Alexandre Silva, representing the suspect, told BFM TV that he could not comment on the case.

Doctors are trying to save her but there (may be) no hope of survival,” the girl’s mother told CNN on Thursday. But the girl did not tell her mother about the alleged attack, and instead, like many survivors of sexual assault, lived in silence. Since we belong to the same family, we settled the matter,” said the girl’s mother, adding she now wants the alleged rapist to be hanged. The victim’s home is in a low-income neighborhood in the city of Mainpuri in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state. Devendra Singh Chauhan for CNNIf Uttar Pradesh were a country, it would be the world’s fifth largest with a population of more than 200 million.

Oct 11 (Reuters) - As online gaming platform Roblox Corp (RBLX.N) confronts a lawsuit alleging it enabled a California girl's exploitation, its chief scientist said finding dangerous content in the company's virtual world is nothing like spotting it in video. He had no comment on the recent lawsuit but said Roblox was built with safety and civility at the forefront. San Mateo, Calif.-based Roblox is deploying bots to patrol user-generated games and press buttons to detect any dangerous content that players have disguised. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register"This is more like shutting down speakeasies," he said, referring to U.S. prohibition-era bars hiding from law enforcement. McGuire said Roblox bars users from posting phone numbers or off-platform links.

☆ Mountain Girl’s heartbreaking memoir: An icon of the Sixties opens up about Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, and what the age of free love was really like
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-09 | by ( David Kushner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +40 min

Now 76 and living in Oregon, Mountain Girl has gave us an exclusive look at her memoir. Altamont, the free concert that Mountain Girl and Jerry Garcia helped organized, was meant to revive the spirit of the Sixties. Today, 60 years since she took that ride with Neal Cassady, Mountain Girl is still forging her own path. Before I leave Kesey's farm, Mountain Girl and I walk outside to the old brown barn where Furthur now rests. But for Mountain Girl, it lives forever, an emblem of everything her generation believed in, and all that they achieved.

Below is a compilation of great personal finance books authored by inspiring women. Other personal finance books by women we consideredThere are many personal finance books by women. While these weren't chosen as our top picks, you also might consider reading some of the following books:Frequently asked questionsWhy should I read personal finance books? Personal finance books can serve as a great resource for anyone interested in learning to use and manage money effectively. Other personal finance books may be ideal as a source of inspiration.

Marilyn Monroe is well remembered for her iconic movies from the 1950s. Below, we rounded up some of Marilyn Monroe's best movies, along with details on where you can stream them online. Marilyn Monroe has a supporting role as Claudia Casswell, a beautiful aspiring actress who doesn't have the talent for the industry. 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'A shot of Marilyn Monroe in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." Two of the Donahue children end up joining a show starring Victoria Parker, a successful performer played by Marilyn Monroe.

☆ 12-year-old Texas girl allegedly shoots self, father in alleged murder pact
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A twelve-year-old girl in Weatherford, Texas allegedly shot both herself and her father on Tuesday night in an alleged murder pact she made with another girl to kill their families and pets, the Parker County Sheriff's Office said in a Facebook post. Investigators believe the girl allegedly shot her father, fled the scene and then shot herself, according to the sheriff's office. A representative for the sheriff's office did not immediately respond to an inquiry from NBC News about their current conditions or whether the 12-year-old had been charged. Police said the shootings were allegedly part of a murder plot the girl made weeks earlier with another girl in Lufkin, Texas, a city about 230 miles southeast of Weatherford. The girls allegedly planned to murder their families and pets and then run away together to Georgia, according to the sheriff's office.

☆ Cool girls don't drink alcohol anymore
▼ + stars: | 2021-11-06 | by ( Allana Akhtar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Young women are using Instagram and TikTok to show others you can be both "cool" and sober. Alcohol alternative drink sales rose this year, on the heels of the "trendy" sober curious movement. Young women like Gomez are on a mission to prove it's "cool" not to drink, and ditching alcohol can even help women achieve self-care and empowerment. Plus, CBD-infused drinks — like ultimate cool girl Bella Hadid's Kin brand — promise a similar buzz without impairing your health or decision-making. Gomez's drink-less Instagram could have an aspirational effect: You can be a cool girl like her — if you don't drink.

☆ Brandy Melville employees describe racism, Hitler memes, and sexual exploitation at the 'evil' cult teen brand
▼ + stars: | 2021-09-07 | by ( Kate Taylor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +34 min

According to Brandy Melville employees, CEO Stephan Marsan wants his staffers to be young, thin, pretty, and white. But to secure their spot in the world of Brandy Melville, employees at all levels said they had to endure — and often enforce — Marsan's beliefs. Hollis Johnson/InsiderIn late September 2017, Stephenie Legros, who is Black, was nearing her first anniversary as a Brandy Melville employee. Brandy Melville USA/InstagramSeveral former employees mentioned the behavior of Longo, the brand's top executive alongside Marsan while Brandy Melville gained footing in the US. Brandy Melville USA/Instagram"Every year that goes by, the beauty standard is shifting a little bit," a Black woman who worked at Brandy Melville from 2016 to 2019 said.

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Insider's experts choose the best products and services to help make smart decisions with your money (here’s how). These are the best personal finance books by women for 2021:If you're lounging around and looking for a good read that can help you get your personal finances in order, we have a list of goodies for you to consider. Below is a compilation of great personal finance books authored by inspiring women. Whatever your income level, this book can help you understand how to stay on track when it comes to your personal finances. It's an effort to prove that personal finance should be simple by fitting the things you need to know about managing money on a few index cards.

☆ 11 TV shows that didn't deserve a reboot — sorry
▼ + stars: | 2019-08-12 | by ( Gabbi Shaw | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

"Gossip Girl's" story seemed finished when the finale aired in 2012 — and the two-season reboot didn't add much. Blake Lively and Leighton Meester in "Gossip Girl." The CW"Gossip Girl" did not need a Max reboot 2021 — and apparently, the studio agreed because it got canceled after just two seasons in 2023. The questionable decision to make Dan "Lonely Boy" Humphrey the titular gossip aficionado made us question why there needed to be another Gossip Girl and a group of unlikable Upper East Siders — and I say this as someone who loved the original. The reboot's version of Gossip Girl — it was the teachers, for some reason?

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