Specially trained service dogs helped ease PTSD symptoms in U.S. military veterans in a small study that the researchers hope will help expand options for service members. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs provides talk therapy and medications to veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and runs a pilot program involving service dogs. The VA can prescribe service dogs to certain …
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A new lawsuit against TikTok filed in Utah describes the social media app popular among child users as a “virtual strip club,” arguing that it puts kids at risk. The Utah Division of Consumer Protection is accusing TikTok of “profiting from deceptive design features that facilitate sexual exploitation, sex trafficking, the distribution of pornography, and other illegal acts through its …
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Closer international cooperation between naval missions in the Red Sea has reduced the number of attacks by Yemen’s Houthis over the past week, Greek Shipping Minister Christos Stylianides told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday. Greece is the home of the headquarters of the European Union’s naval operation in the Red Sea, which is dubbed “Aspides” and in Greek means …
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An 83-year-old woman has been seriously injured in Yellowstone National Park after being gored by a bison that was “defending its space,” park officials say. The tourist from Greenville, South Carolina, was targeted by the bison on June 1 near the Storm Point Trail at Yellowstone Lake in Wyoming, according to the National Park Service. “The bison, defending its space, …
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A former Georgia police officer charged with murder in the death of 16-year-old Susana Morales rejected the prosecution’s plea deal before jury selection began Monday. Miles Bryant, 23, told the court he was ready to go to trial on murder charges in connection with the girl’s death. He is accused of kidnapping and killing her as she was walking home …
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Authorities in Boston are working to crack down on three major food delivery companies over an increase in reckless scooter, moped, and motorcycle operations by delivery drivers. According to Boston 25 News, Boston’s Police Commissioner Michael Cox and the Mayor’s Chief of Streets Jascha Franklin-Hodge sent a letter to Grubhub, Uber Technologies, and DoorDash and gave each food delivery company …
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A former model and Jeffrey Epstein accuser is now alleging that prominent psychiatrist Henry Jarecki was a pal of the disgraced financier who raped her rather than treat her complaints of depression, according to a new lawsuit filed in federal court in New York. Jarecki, 91, is a longtime Yale University professor, an author, the co-founder of Moviefone and a …
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A 3-year-old boy has died in Ohio after a woman allegedly stabbed him and his mother outside a Cleveland-area Giant Eagle supermarket in what is being described by officials as a “random act of violence.” Bionca Ellis, 32, is now facing an aggravated murder charge following the incident Monday afternoon in the parking lot of the Giant Eagle at 27264 …
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Dr. Deborah Birx, a former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator under Donald Trump, told CNN on Tuesday that there was an effort to squash scientists suggesting the COVID-19 virus started in a lab in Wuhan, China. “I think early on, people did take very definitive sides, and it did divide along party lines, and we’re still suffering from that four …
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A Michigan man is being accused of breaking into his former coworker and past romantic interest’s home with a backpack full of “concerning items” including a loaded gun, knife, and other troubling items. On Monday, June 3, Levi Trahern Smith, 34, an attorney and resident of Dearborn Heights, was charged by Oakland County prosecutors with attempted home invasion and felony …
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