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A man is facing murder charges after a social worker he allegedly attacked and stabbed repeatedly in a ward at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center died from her injuries, Dec. 6, 2025, according to police. (Bloomberg via Getty Images) (LOS ANGELES) — A social worker, described by colleagues as “remarkable” and “compassionate,” […]
Stock image of a social security card alongside US dollars. (Tetra Images/STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Social security benefits will rise 2.8% starting in January, amounting to an additional $56 per month for 75 million recipients, the Social Security Administration (SSA) said on Friday. The cost-of-living adjustment for 2026, known as COLA, came in […]
Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images (SALT LAKE CITY) — Minutes after publicly identifying the suspect in the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox condemned social media. “Social media is a cancer on our society right now,” Cox told reporters during a press conference two days after Kirk was shot and killed […]
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Creating a surgeon general’s warning for social media is a necessary step to respond to the “defining public health challenge of our time,” U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy told ABC News’ Elizabeth Schulze in an interview on Monday. “We are living in the middle of a youth mental health […]
Linh Nguyen is the executive director of nonpartisan nonprofit Run AAPI. — ABC News (NEW YORK) — As the largest growing group of eligible voters in the United States, the Asian American Pacific Islanders vote will be crucial in the upcoming election. In an effort to harness that vote, several organizations are launching campaigns with […]
ABC News (MOUNTAIN CITY, Tenn.) — When police found Billy Payne and his fiancée Billie Jean Hayworth shot execution-style in a rural Tennessee home with their 7-month-old son Tyler alive in Hayworth’s arms in 2012, it sparked an investigation that would lead them to discover a complex murder concocted by a woman who was in […]
Westend61/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The City of New York on Wednesday sued the companies behind SnapChat, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, accusing them of fomenting a “nationwide youth mental health crisis” by exposing children “to a nonstop stream of harmful content.” The lawsuit, filed in California Superior Court, alleged the companies intentionally designed their platforms […]
Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The chief executives of the nation’s top social media companies will testify before Congress on Wednesday in a hearing intended to drum up support for federal legislation to safeguard children from the online world. The Senate Judiciary Committee will hear from Linda Yaccarino, the chief of X, formerly known as […]
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