Columbus, OH

UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS: (Chanting in non-English language). EMMANUEL AKINWOTU, BYLINE: A few hundred protesters have gathered here on a main expressway in Lagos, and this is just one of several demonstrations happening across the city and the country, organized today in response to the economic crisis in Nigeria, which is one of the worst in decades. Food inflation is more than 40% and is rising. Fuel costs have more than tripled in the last year. The cost of transport, the cost of electricity have all gone up significantly. And so many people who I have spoken to here have said enough is enough.

'Enough is enough' : Nigerians take to street in protest over a cost-of-living crisis

Los Angeles Times

A rights group says at least nine people were killed by security forces in Nigeria during mass protests against the economic crisis gripping the country.

Rights group says security forces have killed 9 as Nigerians protest over hunger, hardship

New York City, NY

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Cheryl E Preston

Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

The Guardian

Human Rights Watch accuses RSF militia of ‘countless’ cases of rape and torture in Khartoum in 15-month civil war

Girls as young as nine gang-raped by paramilitaries in Sudan – report

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Total Apex Sports & Entertainment

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are two of the biggest celebrities in modern times. While much of the happenings between the two involved their marriage and divorce, there are bigger things for them to focus on. Most notably their children.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s Son Diagnosed With Rare Skin Condition

Chicago, IL

Foodie in Chicago

Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

Lucia Moris of South Sudan toppled to the ground in agony during a preliminary heat of the women's 100-meter race at the Paris Olympics on Friday. But before medics arrived, someone else rushed to her side: fellow competitor Silina Pha Aphay of Laos. Moris, in Lane 1, was keeping pace...

An Olympic sprinter fell during a race. The first person to help was her opponent

People throughout much of the Middle East are anxiously awaiting what comes next. After two assassinations this week of leaders from Hamas and Hezbollah, Iran and its allies have promised revenge. And Israeli officials have also said they are ready for anything, with the Biden administration in the US saying it will help Israel, while cautioning it to avoid an escalation with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

UNICEF spokesperson: ‘Children are losing their childhood’ in Gaza

A rise in sexual violence means food prices have leapt in CAR as women and girls say they fear working in the fields

‘They turn our farms into rape centres’: Russian mercenaries accused of abuse in Central African Republic

The Independent

Over 10 million people in Sudan, or 20 per cent of the population, have been displaced since the beginning of the war in April 2023, according to the International Organisation for Migration.Millions have fled to neighbouring countries like Chad and South Sudan, in what has quickly become the world’s worst displacement crisis.The conflict has left half of Sudan’s 50 million citizens facing severe hunger, with nearly 18 million experiencing acute food insecurity and in desperate need of humanitarian aid.Award-winning photographer Peter Caton recently visited Majok Yinthiou on the South Sudan border to document the hardships of families fleeing violence and poverty.Awel...

Spotlight on Sudan: the world’s worst displacement crisis

Africa is home to multiple certified billionaires and other high-net-worth individuals, including the richest black man on earth. The continent is home to 135,200 high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) with liquid, investable wealth of $1 million or more. Also, there are 342 centi-millionaires worth $100 million or more and 21 dollar billionaires,...

Here are the top 5 African countries with the fastest-growing millionaire populations

Denver, CO

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David Heitz

A dangerous drug that is being mixed into fentanyl is causing those who inject it to develop a rash of sores that resembles a case of flesh-eating bacteria. People experiencing homelessness around Denver can sometimes be seen with these bloody, weeping wounds. I recently mentioned this phenomenon to a fentanyl user who told me about the xylazine connection.

Denver homeless people suffer sores as xylazine enters fentanyl supply

Cheyenne, WY

In this week's StoryCorps, a mother talks with her son about how she overcame her addiction to drugs. It's Friday and time for StoryCorps. Irene Montoya is the owner of Sunflower trucking in Cheyenne, Wyo. She drives a dump truck alongside construction and road crews. She's also raising her 14-year-old son, Gianni. But 15 years ago, her life looked very different. Irene was addicted to methamphetamines. She came to StoryCorps with her son to talk about how becoming a mother was the turning point in her life.

A woman addicted to methamphetamine says becoming a mother turned her life around

Missouri State

Fulton, MO

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Updated on July 17, 2024, concerning two of the missing children listed below. Bringing them home: for 40 years, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) has been helping to locate missing children.

Seven teenagers have been missing in Missouri since June 2024

Wisconsin State

When Shyamala Gopalan approached her father with an acceptance letter to the University of California, Berkeley and announced her dream of becoming a scientist, she was just 19 years old. It was an unusual move by a woman whose own barrier-breaking choices would allow her daughter, Kamala Harris, to do...

The story behind the woman who inspired Harris to break barriers

An intended limited operation in Rafah has turned into a decimation of the area and the closure of what was once a main evacuation route for aid workers and injured Palestinians.

A CNN analysis shows major artery for aid in Gaza is destroyed

ZAMZAM CAMP, Sudan (Reuters) -A famine-stricken camp in Sudan's conflict-torn Darfur region is facing a significant new influx of displaced people while floods threaten to contaminate water and sanitation facilities, according to satellite imagery published on Friday. The findings from Yale Humanitarian Research Lab show that toilets and nine out...

Sudan's Famine-Stricken Zamzam Camp Hit by Devastating Floods

NBC News

Among all of the atrocities of war, it’s the broken and bloodied children that devastate doctors working in Gaza. “The first child I saw was a 3-year-old girl with her thigh peeled off her bone,” said Dr. Javid Abdelmoneim, a physician with Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders, who returned Wednesday after two months of duty at Nasser Hospital in Gaza. “The last patient I saw that day was a girl who we had to leave for dead. She was unaccompanied. She had no family. She was breathing. She had a head injury, but the system was overwhelmed. We didn’t have enough blood, and there were no beds.”

Doctors in Gaza describe the horror of caring for children affected by war

Virginia State

Ronkonkoma, NY

The New York Post reveals that two men who died in a plane crash at MacArthur Airport were from Virginia. The men had been visiting friends in Long Island and were returning home when the tragedy occurred.

Life partners from Virginia have been identified as the victims of a New York plane crash

In addition to collecting more than 8,000 used needles in the past year from Denver drug users, the Harm Reduction Action Center passed out 10,000 meth pipes and “snort kits,” according to a newsletter sent to its supporters Thursday. They also connected about 1,700 people to medical, mental health and substance abuse treatment.

Denver group hands out 10K meth pipes, ‘snort kits,’ connects 1,700 to treatment annually

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Children in northern Nigeria are suffering from acute malnutrition, aid groups say

Nigeria has one of Africa's largest economies but is seeing record rates of child malnutrition. Aid groups call it a nearly unprecedented crisis. Africa's largest economy...

Children in northern Nigeria are suffering from acute malnutrition, aid groups say

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