HealthYahoo Life7 facts about female masturbation that everyone should know, according to experts
There are certain taboo topics that aren't openly talked about, and masturbation — particularly, female masturbation — has certainly been one of them. “There was a time when it wasn't open for women to talk about it,” Dr. Leah Millheiser, director of the female sexual medicine program at Stanford University Medical Center, tells Yahoo Life.
U.S.INSIDERA 30-year-old runner died and 15 others were taken to the hospital after Brooklyn Half Marathon
A 30-year-old man collapsed and died after crossing the finish line of the Brooklyn Half Marathon. One runner died and 15 others were taken to a hospital after running the Brooklyn Half Marathon on Saturday amid unusually warm and humid conditions, according to city officials. The runner who died was a 30-year-old man who collapsed just after passing the finish line, The New York Times reported.
WorldPeopleNude Protester with 'Stop Raping Us' Painted on Chest Interrupts Red Carpet at Cannes Film Festival
A spokesperson for the Cannes Film Festival did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment. Related video: Shaun White, Nina Dobrev make their red carpet debut at Cannes On Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed attendees at the opening ceremony of the French film festival, getting a standing ovation as he spoke about persevering and the power of filmmaking. His remarks come as Russia and Vladimir Putin continue their invasion of Ukraine.
BusinessYahoo FinanceGas prices: Demand destruction is the only way to stop increases, says trader
Gasoline prices will stop rising once consumer demand destruction kicks in, according to one energy trader. It's become really evident that the only thing that is going to alleviate these price rises is demand destruction,” CIBC Private Wealth U.S senior energy trader Rebecca Babin told Yahoo Finance Live. Gasoline keeps hitting record highs as the national average now sits at $4.59 per gallon.
U.S.The Daily BeastEight Arrested After Snatching Teen at Dallas Mavericks Game
Eight people have been arrested in Oklahoma City for allegedly trafficking a 15-year-old Texas girl, who was abducted at a Dallas Mavericks game last month when she left her father to go and use the bathroom. The girl's family is also demanding answers from Texas police about why they refused to investigate their daughter's disappearance and were forced to locate her themselves with the assistance of the Texas Counter-Trafficking Initiative (TXCTI)—a nonprofit organization that was able to track down nude images of the girl on a prostitution website. The teen went to the bathroom at the American Airlines Center on April 8 and never returned, her family's attorney Zeke Fortenberry of the Fortenberry Firm, PLLC said in a release, obtained by Fox News.
U.S.Miami Herald‘Reunited and it feels so good.’ Watch a Florida panther finally find her lost kitten
Thank you, Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission for capturing it and making our weekend. Back in March, after the 4-month-old somehow got separated from her mother in Collier County, staffers launched a search in the area, to no avail. When that didn't work, biologists then tried to attract the Florida panther with her actual baby, by placing the little one in a cage in the same area.
BusinessYahoo FinanceLarry Summers called inflation. Here's what he sees next.
If Larry Summers was right about inflation, then what does he see happening next? That's what I asked myself as I prepared to speak with the noted, public-facing economist this past Thursday. As you may know, last year Summers sounded the alarm about President Biden's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, saying it was the 'least responsible' economic policy in 40 years and that it could engender significant and persistent inflation.
WorldINSIDERPutin's leadership is unraveling as he takes regular breaks for medical treatment and is constantly surrounded by doctors, says British ex-spy
Putin has to break from meetings to take medical treatment continually, said one former spy. Christopher Steele told British talk radio station LBC of "increasing disarray in the Kremlin." Steele's comments follow weeks of rumors about the Russian president's health.
WorldFortuneMonkeypox is on the move across Europe with France and Italy reporting first cases, while U.K. more than doubles its numbers
Monkeypox, the rare virus usually contracted in Africa, is continuing to spread internationally, with several European countries confirming new cases of the disease on Friday. U.K. Health Minister Sajid Javid said Friday that 11 new cases of monkeypox had been identified in Britain — meaning the country's total number of confirmed cases had more than doubled from 9 to 20 in just two days. https://twitter.com/sajidjavid/status/1527605469447086081 Javid said the U.K. government was following the United States' lead by acquiring doses of vaccines that are effective against monkeypox.
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Monsoon storms bring heavy rain, flooding to Arizona
The Arizona monsoon brings to the desert heavy rain, flooding and lightning from the storms every summer.
U.S.NextShark58-year-old missing man found to have had ‘quick and painless passing’ in San Jose
A 58-year-old man who went missing in San Jose, California, was found to have died “peacefully and quickly” last weekend, according to his family. Details about the cause of Lan's death are unclear at this time, but it was confirmed by his son, Kevin Lan, who first shared that his father was missing on Facebook. Peter married at the age of 25 before immigrating to the U.S. from Taiwan and getting a master's degree in computer engineering at Syracuse University.
U.S.American City Business JournalsFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis' planned takeover of Disney's Reedy Creek district could shake up its power structure, say experts
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' plan to have the state control the next iteration of Walt Disney World's (NYSE: DIS) Reedy Creek Improvement District could cause a big power structure shift. DeSantis signed a bill into law in April that will do away with certain special districts, including Reedy Creek Improvement District by June 2023. Reedy Creek Improvement District, the 39-square-mile governing jurisdiction and special taxing district created in 1967 for Walt Disney World Resort's land, is governed by a five-member board of supervisors, elected by the landowners — in this case, primarily Walt Disney World.
U.S.Associated PressFreed California siblings feared opposing rundown housing
Several adult children among the 13 siblings freed in 2018 from virtual imprisonment in their abusive parents' Southern California home found themselves a year later feeling pressured by the county's guardian to move to an apartment in disrepair in a crime-ridden area, court documents showed. Court documents are slowly being released in Riverside County that were previously sealed in the disturbing case that attracted international attention when details emerged showing the parents shackled and starved their children for years. In a 2019 court filing, an attorney for the adult children of David and Louise Turpin wrote that three of the siblings were taken to see the apartment by an employee for the Riverside County Public Guardian's office and were “fearful to object so they indicated that the apartment was okay with the expectation that other apartments would be viewed."
U.S.INSIDERA Boston mother slammed her son's school for calling her to pick him up when he was having a stroke instead of dialing 911
A Boston mother says her son's school failed to immediately call 911 when her son was having a stroke. Alishia Hicks told local news that the school called her first to pick her son up. A Boston mother said her son's high school called her instead of immediately contacting 911 when he had a stroke, according to multiple reports.
U.S.The New York TimesBodies Pulled From Parched Lake Mead Stir Wise-Guy Ghosts of Las Vegas
It's the mob guy who went missing after skimming from the Stardust casino. Ever since the bodies started turning up this month in Lake Mead — the first in a barrel, the next half-buried in sand, both exposed by plunging water levels — theories in Las Vegas are flourishing about who they are, how they wound up in the country's largest man-made reservoir, and what might surface next. Lynette Melvin found the second body with her sister while paddleboarding.
WorldReutersStruggling in Ukraine, Russia paves way to sign up over-40s for army
LONDON (Reuters) -In a sign of Russia's urgent need to bolster its war effort in Ukraine, parliament said on Friday it would consider a bill to allow Russians over 40 and foreigners over 30 to sign up for the military. The website of the State Duma, parliament's lower house, said the move would enable the military to utilise the skills of older professionals. Russia has suffered huge setbacks and heavy losses of men and equipment in the 86-day-old war, in which Ukraine has mobilised practically its entire adult male population.
HealthMiami HeraldIf your blood sugar, blood pressure is out of control, you may be missing this key mineral
Today's topic is magnesium, the fourth most abundant mineral in the body. Magnesium is involved in 700-800 metabolic processes. It is vital for protein synthesis, nerve and muscle function, blood sugar control, inflammation, stress reduction, sleep and blood pressure regulation.
WorldThe AdvocateGay Couple Attacked & Beaten for Cuddling Are Now Afraid to Leave Home
A gay couple cuddling against the cold in the U.K. was attacked by three young men yelling homophobic slurs earlier this month, and now the pair are afraid to leave their own home because one of their alleged attackers lives nearby. Greg Miedzwiecki, 30, and Lee Cameron Trussler, 28, of Southhampton were attacked early on the morning of May 2 as they waited for a taxi with a third friend after visiting the Edge nightclub. Miedzwiecki told the Daily Echo he and Trussler were holding hands and cuddling against the cold when a group of young men approached from across the street yelling homophobic slurs.
U.S.ReutersA prison cell, blood and 'zombies': Trevor Reed describes detention in Russia
Former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed described his experience in a Russian psychiatric facility in an interview broadcast on Friday, detailing squalid conditions amid severely mentally ill inmates. Reed, detained in Russia in 2019, was freed on April 28 in a prisoner swap that took place amid the most tense bilateral relations in decades over the war in Ukraine. In excerpts from an interview with CNN, Reed said he was held with seven other prisoners in a cell at a psychiatric treatment facility.
WorldBusiness InsiderA 1-year-old boy died after being raped by 2 Russian soldiers, Ukraine says
Ukraine's human rights ombudsman said a one-year-old boy was raped by Russian soldiers then died. A one-year-old boy died after being raped by two Russian soldiers, the Ukrainian Parliament's Commissioner for Human Rights said on Thursday. The accusation is one of the most horrific from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but is not unique.
U.S.INSIDERA Maine town reportedly shut down after its only clerk quit when her vacation request was denied
A small Maine town shut down after its clerk resigned, the Bangor Daily News reported. Christen Bouchard quit after her vacation request was denied, per the outlet. A tiny town in Maine effectively shut down after its clerk resigned from her job after her vacation request was rejected, a local outlet reported this week.
BusinessAssociated PressJudge dismisses lawsuit against Musk, Tesla and Twitter fan
A federal judge in California has dismissed a securities fraud and defamation lawsuit filed by a Tesla investor against CEO Elon Musk, one of Musk's supporters and Tesla. In an order filed Thursday, Judge James Donato threw out the lawsuit by the investor, Aaron Greenspan, who runs a legal document website. Donato wrote that the lawsuit had failed to make plausible legal claims.
ScienceThe TelegraphUS experiments ‘may have contributed to emergence of Covid’
US experiments may have contributed to the emergence of Covid-19, leading economist Prof Jeffrey Sachs has warned, as he called for an independent inquiry into whether the virus leaked from a lab. Prof Sachs, who has twice been named in Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world, called for universities and research institutions to open up their databases for scrutiny, amid fears labs were genetically modifying viruses. Covid-19 first began spreading from a wet market in Wuhan, about eight miles from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
HealthMiami HeraldPopular peanut butter is recalled nationwide. It’s been linked to a salmonella outbreak
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, along with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and others have been investigating a multistate outbreak of salmonella senftenberg infections and they are linked to a product so many of us enjoy daily. In this case, the salmonella outbreaks are linked to certain Jif peanut butter products produced at the J.M. Smucker Company facility in Lexington, Kentucky, and distributed nationally, according to a recall alert posted by the FDA on May 20. The CDC's review of epidemiological information indicated that five people who were infected said they had eaten peanut butter and four of the five specifically reported that they ate different varieties of Jif brand peanut butter before they got sick, the CDC said.
WorldReutersBerlin to deliver first 15 Gepard tanks to Ukraine in July -defmin
Germany will deliver the first 15 Gepard tanks to Ukraine in July, a defence ministry spokesperson in Berlin said on Friday, confirming a media report. German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht had agreed this in a conversation with her Ukrainian counterpart, Oleksii Reznikov, via video link, he added. At the end of April, Germany announced that it would for the first time supply Kyiv with heavy weapons, namely Gepard air-defence tanks, after critics accused Berlin of dragging its heels on heavy weapons deliveries to Kyiv.
“It could give millions a chance to finally buy a house or start their business or help their kids get an education, too.”
“You signed a contract…If you don’t want to deal with the financial pressure of debt, don’t take out the loan.”
“Without action from Biden, Black student debt will hinder his agenda with respect to eliminating racial inequities.”
“Blanket relief could end up routing too much relief to those who do not need it and too little to those who do.”
“Unlike a number of other policy issues, student debt relief doesn’t need to be pushed through a narrowly controlled Congress.”