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Inside the vigilante group of New Yorkers who hunt rats at night
Rats aren't only a part of New York City’s underground — they're an inseparable part of its pop culture. There’s Master Splinter from the Ninja Turtles, Pizza Rat, and even Cannibal Rat. But for every celebrity rat, there’s another 250,000 to 2 million anonymous rodents living in the city — and the city health department is fighting to bring down.
Last year, three people in a Bronx city block made the news for contracting leptospirosis through rat urine. Only two survived.
Inside the vigilante group
Wildlife experts urge Americans to catch, cook and EAT rat-like rodents terrorizing the nation
Gene Hackman, Betsy Arakawa’s property was ‘breeding ground for infestation’
Hotel employee, 26, dies of rare rat-linked virus
Rats attack ritzy NYC block
Parents, 24, are charged after hairy beast starts eating their six-month-old twins
RAT INFESTATION TAKES OVER MASSACHUSETTS CITY
'Worst I've ever seen'
NYC unleashes rat death squad to gas vermin with carbon monoxide
Mexican singer says he was trafficked and abused as a teenager
Luis Armando Campos says singing is his life. At 23, he's already had a very impressive singing career that started when he was just a child in his native Tampico, a port city in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
"I was about 11, almost 12, when I first appeared on a local TV show in Tampico," Campos said.
In 2014, he was a semi-finalist in "The Voice Mexico." The international reality singing competition franchise took his career to new levels. Even though he didn't win, Campos has since toured Mexico with his music. But what his increasing number of fans didn't know, Campos says, is that while his career was taking off, he was forced to live a double life -- as a sex slave.
Mexican singer says he was trafficked and abused as a teenager
Monsters kidnap toddler in India before raping, beheading her
The TRUTH of 'Maryland dad' Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Two Muslim 13-year-olds are jailed for raping girl, 12, because she was Jewish
UK ‘shied away’ from ethnicity of grooming gangs in child sex abuse inquiries
Fat Joe denies sex acts with minors after former hype man’s $20 million lawsuit
Soccer coach admits drugging and raping young boys
The sad reason customers have fled El Salvadoran restaurant that went viral for helping LA riot cops
On Monday, Elizabeth stood in front of her business, a Salvadoran restaurant called La Ceiba, just two days after the terrifying incident when a handful of LA County Sheriff's deputies overcome by tear gas burst into her small restaurant.
Without missing a beat, Mendoza's cousin, Rosa, jumped in and splashed milk and water into the grateful deputies' eyes.
‘I helped them because we are all humans,’ Rosa told DailyMail.com. ‘They needed our help and we are here to serve.’
The sad reason customers have fled El Salvadoran
Fetterman slams fellow Dems for ‘crazy’ rhetoric, criticism of DC military parade
Arnold Schwarzenegger brutally terminates Joy Behar's attempt to stir anti-ICE hatred
29 million girls, women victims of modern slavery
A new report estimates that 29 million women and girls are victims of modern slavery, exploited by practices including forced labour, forced marriage, debt-bondage and domestic servitude.
Grace Forrest, co-founder of the Walk Free anti-slavery organisation, said Friday that means one in every 130 women and girls is living in modern slavery today, more than the population of Australia.
"The reality is that there are more people living in slavery today than any other time in human history," she told a U.N. news conference.
Walk Free defines modern slavery "as the systematic removal of a person’s freedom, where one person is exploited by another for personal or financial gain," she said.
According to the report, titled "Stacked Odds," women account for 99% of all victims of forced sexual exploitation, 84% of all victims of forced marriage, and 58% of all victims of forced labour.
29 million girls, women victims of modern slavery
The shocking words father spewed in Arabic after 'trying to choke daughter in honor killing' at her American school
Outrage in Somalia after man says he married missing eight-year-old
Rifts growing in the Taliban over the ban on girls' schooling
...couple accused of holding teen captive, abusing her for 7 years before she escaped
Teen was fed 1 Pop-Tart per week, forced to sleep in bathtub by abusive couple
Inside Saudi Arabia's 'hellish' secret prisons for 'disobedient' women and girls
Mom who sold daughter, 6, so her eyes and skin could be cut out and used for ‘medicine’ gets life in prison
...pro wrestler boyfriend was holding her against her will
How a mob of boys raped 71 girls in night of depravity with 19 victims killed
Is Being an Older LGBTQ+ Person as Terrifying as It Sounds?
Someone asked me the other day what my favorite movie was, and I immediately said Arthur, like I always do. Then they said, “Never heard of it? When did it come out?” I didn’t answer 1981, nearly 40 years ago. At that moment I felt old, out of date, and superficially shallow.
Thus, I was not surprised by a new report from The Fenway Institute that found older LGBTQ+ adults in the state of Massachusetts have been diagnosed with depression at twice the rate of their straight, cisgender peers. It could be Massachusetts or any other state, or any other country because depression among older LGBTQ+ people is real, and no doubt much more widespread than we ever realize. I always tell people that if it could happen to me, the proverbial life of the party, it can happen to anyone. Having dealt with severe depression, and then having sought out many older LGBTQ+ people who also experienced similar circumstances, I found it remarkable that we all suffered from some sort of PTSD from our youths.
Again, not surprised that the report also found that LGBTQ+ individuals were twice as likely to fall and be injured in a fall over the past year, and I wouldn’t be shocked to hear if some of that was related to dangerous behavior about feeling alone and useless. Another woman, a lesbian, told me that she had a life-threatening operation, and has not been the same since and feels there’s nothing to live for, except her cat, who is 10. Otherwise, she is alone, without her partner who died, and without a family to take care of her. The family has made her feel shame for who she is, and she worries about being alone for the remainder of her life. Some days, she doesn’t feel like getting out of bed, and subsists on her Social Security checks, desperately afraid that she’ll end up in a nursing home left to die. We didn’t discuss it, but I’m sure she feels equal trepidation about not being able to pay the costs of round-the-clock care.
Is Being an Older LGBTQ+ Person as Terrifying as It Sounds?
...health care employees ‘smacking’ around 29-year-old with autism
...woman allegedly hits elderly sister in the head with cellphone, pushes wheelchair...
Senior living facility worker shoved 76-year-old woman so hard she died
Outrage as seniors are 'kicked out' of their homes in retirement mecca to make way for luxury housing boom
At least 5 killed, fire hydrants running dry in Southern California wildfires
At least 5 killed...
James Woods rips LA Fire Chief Kristin Crowley
A-listers who have just done the most egregious thing imaginable amid the LA fires
LA officials warn of price gouging as those displaced by fire seek housing
LA may have to get rid of its most iconic feature to protect against future wildfires
Berkeley's proposed new law would be among the strictest in California
Green-energy madness will turn NYC family homes into firetraps
Don’t trust the climate doomers spooking us with lies
PS Fire demonstrates readiness to perform hiker rescues as hot summer months approach
Terrifying details of ‘I Kissed a Girl’ singer Jill Sobule’s fatal house fire
Why are we catching more diseases from animals?
The world is grappling with the new coronavirus, which has spread from China to at least 15 other countries.
Outbreaks of new infectious diseases are typically seen as a "one off".
But the new virus - thought to have stemmed from wildlife - highlights our risk from animal-borne disease. This is likely to be more of a problem in future as climate change and globalisation alter the way animals and humans interact.
How can animals make people ill?
In the past 50 years, a host of infectious diseases have spread rapidly after making the evolutionary jump from animals to humans.
The HIV/Aids crisis of the 1980s originated from great apes, the 2004-07 avian flu pandemic came from birds, and pigs gave us the swine flu pandemic in 2009. More recently, it was discovered severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) came from bats, via civets, while bats also gave us Ebola.
Humans have always caught diseases from animals. In fact, most new infectious diseases come from wildlife.
Why are we catching more diseases from animals
Some pet owners are advocating against rabies vaccines
Hundreds of baby emperor penguins stranded on breakaway iceberg miraculously survive
Westfield Health Department Tells Owners to Keep Cats Indoors
It's time to worry about bird flu in cats
PS family says rat infestation caused severe illnesses and forced them out of their home
Rare virus that killed Gene Hackman's wife linked to 3 deaths in California town
First Affordable Housing Complex For LGBT Seniors Opens
History was made on Long Island when the nation’s first suburban LGBT senior housing center opened its doors Friday.
First Affordable Housing
LGBTQ-Inclusive Affordable Housing for Young Adults
LGBTQ senior housing project vandalized with hate speech
LGBTQ seniors can struggle to find affordable housing
SF LGBTQ senior housing awaits funding
New 71-unit affordable housing complex coming to downtown Columbus
He helped create a senior LGBTQ+ residence. Now he’s getting evicted
Why wind energy isn’t living up to its pollution-preventing potential
Wind power isn’t cleaning up as much pollution as it could, especially in communities of color and low-income neighborhoods, new research shows.
Why wind energy isn’t living
State of Emergency declared in Moore County
S California city dealing with unprecedented beach crowds, trash
Excess memes and ‘reply all’ emails are bad for climate
Scientists make stunning discovery about health impacts of quitting drinking bottled water
Earliest Evidence of Our Human Ancestors Outside of Africa Found
Our ancient human relatives got around more than scientists previously thought. Researchers in China excavated stone tools that were likely made by our human ancestors some 2.12 million years ago — the earliest evidence ever discovered of the human lineage outside of Africa.
"It suggests a way earlier migration out of Africa than we ever would have imagined," said Michael Petraglia, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, who was not involved with the study. "It's very exciting."
Live Science
Scientist challenges 'out of Africa' theory with new origin for modern humans
Bone fragments of oldest known human face in western Europe found in Spain
Children that fail have parents that didn't teach them the right survival skills. 22-Dec-2024
11 brutally honest reasons millenials don't want kids
When it comes to embarking on the journey of parenthood, lots of millennials are saying, "Meh. No, thanks."
According to data from the Urban Institute, birth rates among 20-something women declined 15% between 2007 and 2012. Additional research from the Pew Research Center reflects a longer-term trend of women eschewing parenthood as the number of U.S. women who choose to forego motherhood altogether has doubled since 1970.
This trend is fascinating, in part because there's long been a taboo associated with people (particularly, women) choosing to opt out of parenthood. Women who choose not to have kids have been referred to as "shallow" and "self-absorbed," and even the pope has said the decision not to procreate is fundamentally "selfish."
In an effort to find out why so many young people are really deciding against parenthood, we solicited dozens of responses from our audience via Tumblr and Google Forms. The responses we received from people of all sexes and identities reveal that there are myriad reasons why people are opting out of parenthood — and all of them are equally valid.
11 brutally honest reasons...
'Kids were crying'
Autistic traits, behavioral problems in 7-year-olds linked with gender nonconforming play
‘Absolutely dumb’ argument over ‘parenting skills’ leaves one dead
Mom Accused Of Taping Her Mother To Chair For 24 Hours
Coach accused of offering $5,000 to buy children from parents
Italy makes it illegal to seek surrogacy abroad
Dad angry after losing video game fatally punched newborn
Mom Let Dad Kill Their Baby Over Fear of Abuse
7-year-old boy died on Christmas weighing only 7 pounds
Dyslexic Gay Man Not Accepted By Tampa Bay Community
Some people thought he was trying to be funny and got mad about it. Then we found out he’s dyslexic but it’s still weird.
Dyslexic Gay Man Not Accepted
Italy not signing LGBTQ+ rights bill
Pronouns, tribal affiliations now forbidden in SD public univ. employee emails
Minnesota bans Gay & Trans Panic Defense
Hundreds of gay men evicted from Dallas hotel after AKA Sorority members complained about their attire
GLAAD’s Sarah Kate Ellis Under Fire
Ford exits LGBTQ+ index
This anti-DEI activist is targeting LGBTQ rights
I Have Tourette’s, and I’m Gay
Ukraine Zoo To Euthanize All Animals
Zookeepers have made the heartbreaking decision to put down all the large animals—including lions and tigers—at a zoo in Ukraine after its enclosures were destroyed by Russian shelling.
Ukraine Zoo To Euthanize All Animals
Private taxidermy collection with more than 1,000 animals
'She deserves to rot in jail'
Toddler, two, sinks her teeth into 20-inch snake
Snake Researcher Dies From Rattlesnake Bite
Beloved Walrus Was Killed Because People Wouldn't Stay Away
Protected wild stallion found shot dead
Man strangles coyote after animal attacks his child during family walk
A coyote attacked several people within hours Monday before being killed by a local man after the animal tried to bite his son, according to Kensington police.
Kensington Police Chief Scott Cain said the man was walking with his family on Phillips Exeter Academy’s Red Trail on the Kensington-Exeter line when the coyote appeared and attacked the family’s young son.
Cain said the coyote was only able to bite the child’s jacket before the father grabbed the animal and strangled it to death. However, in the struggle, the father was bitten and he had to go to the hospital to receive rabies shots, Cain said.
Man strangles coyote
Mountain lion attacks and injures child in Orange County wilderness park
Woman Arrested for Stabbing Dog
Pygmy elephant gores handler to death
Man Charged in Dog Mauling Death of 7-Year-Old Girl
Toddler's Parents Do Nothing As He Hits Pit Bull With A Water Bottle
Sint Maarten approves plan to destroy entire population of vervet monkeys
Polar bear kills woman and boy
Ten lions killed in Kenya
...bear smacks woman in the face on restaurant patio