A new national mental health hotline will launch in July. The idea behind it is to connect people in a mental health crisis to experts trained in how to respond. But many agencies at the state and local level don't feel prepared for it.
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Symptoms of depression and anxiety for children and adolescents have doubled during the COVID pandemic, but accessing mental health treatment is difficult for many. reports.
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In the days since the historic ruling on Roe v. Wade, pressure from Democrats in Congress and outside advocates is mounting on President Biden to take executive action on the issue, as some states move to restrict and ban the procedure.
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Cassidy Hutchinson painted an incriminating picture of former President Trump’s actions around Jan. 6.
"I think her testimony was one series of elements of crime after another," says former Watergate prosecutor .
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NATO's leaders officially invited Finland and Sweden to become members, and released a new strategic vision that called Russia the alliance's most significant threat. reports.
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Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani, was sentenced to a year and eight months in prison for fraud and campaign finance crimes by a judge who said fraud had become “a way of life” for Parnas.
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A team searching a Mississippi courthouse for evidence about the lynching of Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his kidnapping, and relatives of the victim want authorities to finally arrest her nearly 70 years later.
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A Mexican migrant in the Texas tragedy that has left at least 53 people dead had hoped to reach family in Ohio
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At summer festivals, farmers markets, parks and rallies, volunteers with clipboards across Michigan are making a final push to collect signatures to put reproductive freedom on the November ballot. Communities correspondent reports.
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Staff at a abortion clinic in Nashville were flooded with calls from patients trying to understand the new legal landscape, after a federal court on Tuesday allowed the state’s ban on abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy to take effect.
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Research published last year in showed that Himalayan glaciers shrunk 10 times faster in the past 40 years than during the previous seven centuries.
reports on a project aimed at mitigating the environmental impact for some. to.pbs.org/3MzB3rB
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A new national mental health hotline will launch next month, and like 9-1-1, the hotline will be reachable by dialing 9-8-8.
reports on some experts’ concerns about if the hotline is ready for primetime. to.pbs.org/3MzB3rB
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Last December the U.S. Surgeon General issued a public advisory warning of a “devastating” mental health crisis among American teens.
Special correspondent reports on why accessing mental health treatment is so difficult for so many. to.pbs.org/3MzB3rB
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Yesterday’s testimony raises more questions about possible criminal charges and consequences for the former president and his inner circle.
To help us better understand talks with former Watergate prosecutor . to.pbs.org/3MzB3rB
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NATO’s 30 leaders officially invited Sweden and Finland to become members today and released a strategic vision that calls Russia the alliance’s most significant threat.
reports from Madrid. to.pbs.org/3MzB3rB
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R&B star R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for using his superstardom to subject young fans — some just children — to systematic sexual abuse.
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The Supreme Court today allowed a former state trooper to sue Texas over his claim that he was forced out of his job when he returned from Army service in Iraq.
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WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a media briefing that decades of scientific data prove that access to safe and legal abortion saves lives.
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As the U.S. marks July 4th, we want to know: What does being American mean to you?
Please fill out our questionnaire: forms.gle/D5ipVdzgXLBT1m
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A magnitude 6 earthquake that hit Afghanistan on June 22 has killed more than 1,000 people and left more than 1,500 injured, according to United Nations numbers.
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said there’s “no guarantee” the central bank can tame runaway inflation without hurting the job market.
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A few years ago Sri Lanka’s economy was growing strongly enough to provide jobs and financial security for most. It’s now in a state of collapse, dependent on aid from India and other countries.
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R&B star R. Kelly faces the possibility of a quarter century or more in prison when he is sentenced Wednesday in a federal sex trafficking case in New York.
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PBS Classroom Daily News Lesson:
Congress extends school lunch program at last minute
Ask students: Do you think public schools should provide no-cost lunch to schoolchildren in the U.S.?
#sschat #teachersofinstagram #edchat #civics
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The Michigan Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out charges against former Gov. Rick Snyder and others in the Flint water scandal, saying a judge sitting as a one-person grand jury had no power to issue indictments under rarely used state laws.
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A 5-4 decision cut back on the Supreme Court’s ruling from 2020 that said a large chunk of eastern Oklahoma remains an American Indian reservation.
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More than a dozen alleged abuse victims have been interviewed this year as part of the inquiry that’s exploring, among other charges, whether predator priests can be prosecuted under a law that prohibits taking anyone across state lines for illicit sex.
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Few identities of the victims have been made public, illustrating the challenges authorities face in tracing people who cross borders clandestinely.
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The alcohol and drug overdose death rate increased fivefold in prisons from 2009 through 2019, according to a recent Pew Research Center study.
It's a surge that outpaced the national drug overdose rate, which tripled in the same period. (via )
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy chided NATO for not embracing his embattled country more fully and asked for more weapons to defeat Moscow’s forces.
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President Joe Biden said the U.S. will significantly increase its military presence in Europe for the long haul, including by establishing its first permanent presence in Poland, to bolster regional security after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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On China:
“We face systemic competition from those, including the People’s Republic of China, who challenge our interests, security and values and seek to undermine the rules-based international order.”
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. Madrid Summit Declaration is out.
Some highlights:
“The Russian Federation is the most significant and direct threat to Allies’ security and to peace and stability in the Euro-Atlantic area.” #NATOSummit
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Here is an overview of abortion legislation and the expected impact of the Supreme Court’s decision in every state.
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Hutchinson, an aide to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, offered new details during June 28 testimony before the House Jan. 6 committee about what former President Donald Trump and Meadows knew in the days before the attack.
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Ghislaine Maxwell, the jet-setting socialite who once consorted with royals, presidents and billionaires, was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday for helping the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls.
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Scotland’s leader told lawmakers in Edinburgh Tuesday that she plans to hold a fresh referendum on Scotland’s independence on Oct. 19, 2023 — even though U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson maintains it wasn’t the right time for such a vote.
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Upon hearing that his security detail could not authorize a trip to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 after his speech, Trump lunged at the Secret Service agent in charge of his security that day, according to testimony on June 28 from a former senior aide.
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President Joe Biden rarely mentions his predecessor by name. But as he spoke to a nation processing a seismic shift in the rights of women, he couldn’t ignore Donald Trump’s legacy.
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