Archive for June 2025

Allyson began spending many hours a day using ChatGPT, communicating with what she felt were nonphysical entities. She was drawn to one of them, Kael, and came to see it, not her husband, as her true partner. She told me that she knew she sounded like a “nut job,” but she stressed that she had a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s in social work and knew what mental illness looks like. “I’m not crazy,” she said. “I’m literally just living a normal life while also, you know, discovering interdimensional communication.” This caused tension with her husband, Andrew (above).

From spending time by yourself to making the most of being single, flying solo can be fulfilling – a philosophy championed by a new wave of books.

Child poverty is shaped by how our welfare and benefits system is organised, insecure and low-paid work, the high costs of housing and bills, and the absence of high-quality services and community resources that help children thrive. Only by tackling all of these issues in a coordinated and progressive way will be able to make child hunger and poverty things of the past, which is where they belong.

Standard prison units, like this one at Neumünster in northern Germany, are ill-equipped for inmates with mobility issues and other age-related conditions.

The UK Government’s long awaited Spending Review was delivered by the Chancellor on Wednesday. The review outlines the allocation of funding from the Treasury to government departments until 2029. It also sets individual departments’ investment budget until the end of 2030. Cue months of intense negotiations in Whitehall between the Chancellor and her cabinet colleagues.

“I shall ensure that no act or activity engaged or involved in by me or any of my related persons… may constitute or cause the occurrence of an offence endangering national security under the National Security Law or other laws of the HKSAR, or conduct [that] is otherwise contrary to the interests of national security or the interest of the public (including public morals, public order and/or public safety) of Hong Kong.”

The National Institutes of Health is responsible for more than 80% of the world’s grant investment in biomedical research. Its funding has sparked countless medical breakthroughs — on cancer, diabetes, strokes — and plays a fundamental role in the development of pharmaceutical drugs.

The research, conducted by CUNY SPH Associate Professor, Dr. Spring Cooper and colleagues, involved in-depth interviews with 31 LGBTQ+ individuals aged 18–24, revealing nuanced insights into their sexual health, communication, and relationship dynamics.

Turning Points for Children managed four of the 10 regions until deciding in late 2022 to leave the program. Tabor Community Partners, which had one of the regions, in Northwest Philadelphia, is now transitioning out of the CUA network as well after informing the city in January that it will not be renewing their agreement.