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Washington (AFP) - With its extremely high levels of caffeine, a hip new soft drink is raising fears in the United States that it might be dangerous for children, who have been snapping up the beverage since it was launched by famous YouTube personalities. Prime was created in 2022 by American Logan Paul and Briton KSI, two influential YouTubers whose wacky -- and sometimes controversial -- videos are devoured by child-heavy audiences. A first drink, Prime Hydration, did not contain caffeine. But this year, a second line was launched: Prime Energy. A single can contains 200 milligrams of caf...
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Nashville (AFP) - When Elizabeth Barese picked up her 11-year-old son from school on Monday, she knew she had to tell him that a shooting had happened the same day at the school neighboring their family home in Nashville. "We're right next door and there was a police presence," the 47-year-old told AFP. "I had to address it right away with him." Standing in front of the crosses erected outside the entrance to The Covenant School bearing the names of the six victims, three of them young children, Barese said: "It's not a conversation you want to have with your kids." "It's a delicate balance of...
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Washington (AFP) - It's the latest battlefield in America's rolling "culture wars" over gender and education: conservatives around the country are training their sights on drag shows -- assailing them as a threat to public decency and family values. The fight is playing out on a loop on conservative TV chat shows, on the legislative front with several states taking up Republican bills seeking to curb drag events -- and in sometimes violent protests. At the heart of the debate are children's events known as "Drag Queen Story Hour," which have spread around the country since being launched in Sa...
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Washington (AFP) - The number of American children accidentally ingesting cannabis edibles has jumped nearly 15 times in recent years as more states have legalized the recreational use of marijuana, according to a scientific study published Tuesday. In 2017, just over 200 children aged five or younger consumed a food product infused with cannabis, according to a tally kept by health officials, compared to over 3,050 cases in 2021, said the study in the medical journal Pediatrics. Often sold in the form of candy, chocolate or cookies, edibles look appealing to children, but can cause serious ha...
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Houston (AFP) - A 29-year-old Texas woman has been sentenced to death for killing a pregnant acquaintance in October 2020 to extract and steal the fetus inside her womb. Taylor Parker's sentencing was handed down Wednesday in Texas, following several weeks of trial that began in September, according to court documents. Over months Parker had told her boyfriend and her relatives that she was pregnant. She posted about it on social media and bought a fake silicone belly. It was all a lie. The truth was that she had had a hysterectomy and could not have a child. On October 9, 2020, Parker went to...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in a case challenging a decades-old law on Native American adoptions, but which touches on broader questions of Indigenous rights in the United States. Like in Canada, Native American children in the United States were for decades removed from their biological parents and placed in boarding schools or with non-Indigenous families as part of a policy of forced assimilation. Congress in 1978 sought to bring a final end to the practice with the passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), which set strict standards for removi...
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Lillers (France) (AFP) - A 12-year-old girl whose murder shocked France and sparked political controversy was laid to rest on Monday, while a mentally disturbed Algerian woman already targeted by an expulsion order was charged with the killing. The brutal assault and murder of the girl known as Lola was branded as "evil" by President Emmanuel Macron after her body was found earlier this month in a trunk in Paris. The killing prompted conservative and far-right critics to accuse his government of not doing enough to prevent illegal migration, while ministers shot back that such rebukes were in...
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Vero Beach (United States) (AFP) - A conservative group known as "Moms for Liberty" is triggering a minor earthquake in Florida school board elections, hoping the tremors will ripple across the entire United States. The group demands that often-sleepy school boards wake up and yank "problematic" books from schools, and empower parents to have more say in public education. "I am on the right side of history," said Jacqueline Rosario, who is seeking re-election to a school board in Indian River County on Florida's east coast. Rosario warmly welcomed guests to a lounge in this charming seaside...
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Houston (AFP) - Students from a Texas school that was hit by one of the worst mass shootings in US history returned to class Tuesday under tight security, American media reported. The May massacre at Robb Elementary in Uvalde -- in which an 18-year-old shot and killed 19 students and two teachers as police waited more than an hour to confront him -- sent shockwaves throughout the country. Classes did not resume after the attack, and the start of the new school year was delayed by a month to allow still-traumatized students more time to prepare. The children will not be returning to the origi...
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Houston (AFP) - A four-year-old in Texas brought a loaded handgun to school, officials said, as the end of summer vacation in America reignites fears of school shootings. The scare on Wednesday in Corpus Christi came two days after a similar incident in Arizona, that time involving a child aged seven. In the Texas case, an off-duty police officer working at the school "called in for assistance advising that a four-year-old student was in possession of a loaded handgun on campus," police said in a statement. The officer took possession of the weapon. The parents of the child were identified as...
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