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☆ Woman gets 40 years for giving husband lethal dose of tranquilizer in attack captured on dashcam
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Antonio Planas | Antonio Planas Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Prosecutors say she killed Timothy Hovanec in 2022 to keep him from seeing their children. The Hovanecs, who were divorcing, had three children, prosecutors said. She initiated divorce in 2020 and later began to deny her husband visitation with their children despite a court order allowing it, prosecutors said. Hovanec later confessed to authorities, saying she knew the drug would kill her hsband “within minutes,” the affidavit said. Theodorou obtained the substance used to kill the victim and also helped Hovanec bury her husband’s body, the affidavit said.

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☆ The Vexing Problem of the ‘Medium Friend’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-22 | by ( Lisa Miller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

My friend R. once went a step further. Call them the “medium friends.”As an example, R. told me about a certain friend. R. simply did not feel as connected to this friend as he once did. And so, without malevolence or even conscious intent, he shuffled her down in his personal friend deck. But we’re just not that kind of friend.

Persons: —, ”, Emily Langan, I’m, we’re Organizations: Wheaton College

☆ A sociopathic therapist says her lack of emotions made her good at her job
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Julia Pugachevsky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

She got a PhD in psychology and worked as a therapist helping other sociopaths. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementAll her life, Dr. Patric Gagne had the symptoms of sociopathic personality disorder, but few answers. "Despite the numerous advancements in mental health awareness and treatment options, sociopathy still seemed to be getting ignored," Gagne said in her book. AdvertisementOnce she was licensed, she said she "earned a low-key reputation as 'the sociopath therapist,'" and took on similar patients that her cohorts felt unable to help.

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☆ Putin looms over a third successive US election
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

CNN —“Russia, Russia, Russia.”Ex-President Donald Trump’s scathing catch phrase for a torrent of investigations during his administration also serves as an apt catch-all for the current meltdown over Moscow roiling US politics. But Russia and its leader, whom President Joe Biden described as a “crazy S.O.B.” at a Wednesday fundraiser, won’t go away. All the ways Putin is playing in US politicsPutin is advancing Russian interests against the US on multiple fronts. Putin recently formalized his warming ties with North Korean tyrant Kim Jong Un by presenting him with a new limousine. The Russian leader was particularly incensed by the US-led operation to topple Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in 2011.

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☆ Opinion | We’re Running Out of Names for Trump. At Least Polite Ones.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Frank Bruni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

And that’s not principally because we used them too often in the past — though we’re somewhat guilty of that. We do our best, but finding words for worse than worst, a marker that Trump passed long ago, stumps us. Our society needs front pages beyond the usual front pages, superlatives beyond our superlatives, a thesaurus to supplement our thesaurus. Trump tests more than our sanity and surviving optimism. When you’ve been dwelling at Defcon 1, there’s no new emergency declaration for Americans deaf to Trump’s con.

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☆ Tech Industry Made Americans Lonelier, Now It Has to Help Connect Us
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( David Risher | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

A company that prioritizes product-market fit can build a great, customer-focused business. The venture capitalist Marc Andreessen has said that for startups, product-market fit is "the only thing that matters." I appreciate Marc's wisdom: Great product-market fit produces a sugar high. And that goal is well aligned with the broader social goal of making people less lonely. Over time, it became apparent that this was not a great social fit.

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☆ Killer UK nurse Lucy Letby jailed for the rest of her life
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Members of the media work near a large screen showing a picture of convicted hospital nurse Lucy Letby, ahead of her sentencing, outside the Manchester Crown Court, in Manchester, Britain, August 21, 2023. REUTERS/Phil Noble Acquire Licensing RightsLONDON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Nurse Lucy Letby, Britain's most prolific serial child killer in modern times, will spend the rest of her life behind bars, a judge ordered on Monday following her conviction for murdering seven newborn babies and trying to kill another six. "This was a cruel calculated and cynical campaign of child murder involving the smallest and most vulnerable of children," said the judge, James Goss, who sentenced her to life imprisonment with no prospect of release. "There was a deep malevolence bordering on sadism in your actions ... You have no remorse. Reporting by Michael Holden, Editing by Kylie MacLellanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Lucy Letby, Phil Noble, Countess, Chester, James Goss, Michael Holden, Kylie MacLellan Organizations: Manchester Crown Court, REUTERS, Thomson Locations: Manchester, Britain, England

☆ Lucy Letby: Who is the killer British nurse jailed for whole life?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Cheshire Constabulary/Handout via REUTERS Acquire Licensing RightsLONDON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - British nurse Lucy Letby was jailed for life on Monday, with no prospect of release, for murdering seven babies and trying to kill another six at the hospital where she worked in northwest England. Here are details about Letby, one of the country's worst serial child killers, and the case:WHO IS LUCY LETBY? WHAT IS THE LUCY LETBY CASE ABOUT? Other babies, who suddenly collapsed and did not die, recovered, with both their collapse and recovery defying usual medical norms. The police and medical experts were called in and as they looked for a cause, they eventually focused on one common factor -- Lucy Letby.

Persons: Lucy Letby, LUCY LETBY, Countess, Chester, Prosecutors, Letby, Paul Hughes, James Goss, Nicola Evans, Evans, Hughes, Michael Holden, Christina Fincher, William James Our Organizations: Cheshire Police, Manchester Crown, Reuters, . Cheshire Constabulary, REUTERS Acquire, WHO, Chester University, Chester Hospital, Chester Hospital ., Police, Liverpool Women's Hospital, Thomson Locations: Manchester, Britain, England, Hereford

☆ ‘Beau Is Afraid’ Review: A Visit With Mommy Dearest
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Manohla Dargis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Ari Aster’s “Beau Is Afraid” is a supersized, fitfully amusing, self-important tale of fear and loathing. As the title announces, its protagonist, Beau Wassermann — a terminal sad-sack played by the invariably watchable Joaquin Phoenix — is anxious, well, about everything. Outwardly, “Beau Is Afraid” seems to be a departure for Aster, whose first two features center on horrific happenings and some seriously bad relationships. In “Hereditary” and “Midsommar,” Aster meticulously peels back the ostensibly ordinary surface of the world, its patina of normalcy, to reveal the annihilating malevolence beneath it. In “Beau Is Afraid,” Aster changes things up by making Beau difficult to cozy up to.

☆ Bill Gates says he was surprised at being targeted by COVID-19 conspiracy theorists and 'people were looking for a boogeyman'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Bill Gates told the BBC he was surprised by some COVID-19 conspiracy theories. He said he thinks people were "looking for a boogeyman" around vaccines. Several COVID-19 conspiracy theories have surrounded Gates in recent years. Gates has also joked that he was more often the target of conspiracy theories than Anthony Fauci, former chief medical advisor to the president of the United States, because he's more known internationally. Representatives for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation did not reply to Insider's request for comment made outside normal working hours.

☆ 'Hocus Pocus 2' review: Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker conjure the same old brew on Disney+
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Review Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

“Hocus Pocus 2” should benefit from that dynamic, delivering a breezy sequel – 29 years later – that should provide go-down-easy Halloween viewing for families in the less-demanding confines of Disney+. Then again, this kind of movie hardly needs to reinvent the cauldron, representing more of a cut-and-paste job. While the not-too-scary hijinks are acceptable for kids, those scenes will likely deliver more of a kick for parents who caught the movie way back when, helping turn it into a Halloween favorite. By that measure, “Hocus Pocus 2” finds what amounts to the streaming sweet spot, feeling just big enough, but not too big. “Hocus Pocus 2” premieres September 30 on Disney+.

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