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Sudan is the world’s gravest humanitarian disaster – but almost nobody cares | Jonathan Freedland The war is killing tens of thousands, but not getting the attention it deserves. The reasons why are as complex as the conflict itself, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Sudan is the world’s gravest humanitarian disaster – but almost nobody cares flip.it/G.YM5c half a million children died of starvation at 700k are in grave danger.

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As more and more Epstein details are revealed, it is important to keep in mind that they were children, not women

Decisive Liberty (@decisiveliberty) Dance like no one is watching…

You’re welcome

The visceral rage elicited by RFK's hearing The party of "pro life" will put children in caskets

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Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates

These people are going to kill kids, and they held a press conference to announce it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

This is not true. Please don’t spread misinformation. Thank you.

Call for Papers 2026 ChLA’s Global Committee seeks paper proposals that explore what it means to be a neighbor—helpful, harmful or otherwise—or to create, maintain, inhabit, or leave a neighborhood, particularly in a glob...

The Global Committee invites you to submit proposals to our guaranteed panel for the 2026 ChLA Conference. Due by September 30, 2025, 11:59 p.m. EST.
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It's simple: "The good-enough mother ... starts off with an almost complete adaptation to her infant’s needs, and as time proceeds she adapts less and less completely, gradually, according to the infant’s growing ability to deal with her failure." DW Winnicott.

Trump administration plans to remove nearly 700 unaccompanied migrant children, senator says The Trump administration plans to remove nearly 700 Guatemalan children who crossed into the U.S. without their parents. That’s according to a letter that Sen.

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Right. Hamas really should stop stealing 90% of the aid and selling it back to these starving people.

Analysis | ‘Sammy’s Law’ would help parents monitor kids online. It’s gaining steam. The parents of a teen fentanyl poisoning victim are finding allies in Congress for a bill intended to save others from the same fate.

"If we want to protect children, we should be fighting for privacy laws, protecting encryption, and learning from Bluesky's model, where they allow third party algorithmic feeds and moderation tools."

Under a new Florida law, HB 1105…students with disabilities will no longer be able to get a certificate of completion …starting this year. Students with severe disabilities who can’t earn a standard high school diploma, will leave school without any formal recognition upon graduation.

Presenting BMCC CYS Scholar Samantha Kelly, 2025 recipient of the Honors award for Academic Excellence in Children and Youth Studies at BMCC! lnkd.in/eWgRYyJe

Playing Video Games Has an Unexpected Effect on Kids' IQ, Study Discovers Researchers have linked spending more time playing video games with a boost in intelligence in children, which goes some way to contradicting the narrative that gaming is bad for young minds.

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There is a special place in hell for these child abusers

Vans full of handcuffed kids. Just arrived.
Los Angeles, Ca
Federal Building
Tonight, 7/12

You misspelled “Hamas”

Presenting CYS Scholar Samantha Kelly, 2025 recipient of the Honors award for Academic Excellence in Children and Youth Studies at BMCC! www.linkedin.com/in/samantha-...

How can generative AI better serve children’s rights? Looking to the general principles of the convention on the rights of the child

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The Immigrant Families Jailed in Texas Children have long been put in migrant detention if they were apprehended at the border. Today, lawyers have found, families are being removed from stable lives in the United States.

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Trump change for kids with disabilities violates law, critics say President Trump said he would move oversight of services for students with disabilities to Health and Human Services. Advocates worry the agency doesn’t have the staff or expertise to handle the chang...

RED ALERT
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Kuwait raises marriage age to 18 KUWAIT CITY, Feb 13: In a crucial legislative step aimed at ensuring family stability and protection of children’s rights, Minister of Justice Nasser Al-Sumait...

A WIN!

Faith underpins efforts to rescue child soldiers in Congo Régine Mbuyi, Executive Secretary of the Bureau National Catholique de l’Enfance, told Crux that chronic war in the eastern DRC has led to the recruitment of children as combatants.

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Should children vote?