#Young people

#Young people

Firearms were the leading cause of death for children in 2021, surpassing COVID deaths.An AR-15 style weapon, a magazine with bullets and different style of bullets are displayed on a table on September 23, 2022, in Aurora, Colorado.Joshua Lott / The Washington Post via Getty Images New research based on the latest publicly available data from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention finds that 2021 was a record year for gun deaths in the U.S., with deaths hitting a record high for the second year in a row.

June is Pride Month, a time to celebrate the LGBTQIA community, and today we look at those represented by the "I" which stands for "intersex."In a broadcast exclusive, we are joined by the filmmaker and three stars of a new documentary, Every Body, which follows their work as intersex activists who share childhoods marked by shame, secrecy and nonconsensual surgeries.

S adiq Khan has announced funding to enable an unprecedented 100,000 young Londoners will have a mentor by the end of 2024, as part of a drive to reduce youth violence in the city.The Mayor says that a 10 million funding boost will allow a further 50,000 young people in the capital access to mentoring support.

A new report has revealed the shocking levels of exploitation and abuse suffered by migrant workers in the capital.Mayor Sadiq Khan, who commissioned the research, said its findings were consistent with modern slavery.The report found that migrant Londoners often work unpaid overtime, or are sometimes left waiting for months to receive wages for work they've done.

Trees burned by the 2017 Sprague Creek Fire stand along the steep Mount Brown Lookout Trail on September 17, 2019 in Glacier National Park, Montana.Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images In a case that could have far-reaching implications for the struggle against the climate crisis, the trial in a lawsuit brought by a group of youth plaintiffs will begin in Montana on June 12.

Abortion rights activists protest in front of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver, Colorado, on June 27, 2022, four days after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the right to abortion.Jason Connolly / AFP via Getty Images
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In the weeks after four University of Idaho students were found slaughtered in a house near campus last November, a growing roster of investigators desperately searching for answers had yet to identify a suspect or even find the murder weapon.Publicly, the authorities were assuring worried residents in the small college town that they were making progress.

Protesters stand outside of the Senate chamber at the Indiana Statehouse on Feb. 22, 2023, in Indianapolis.Darron Cummings/AP INDIANAPOLIS A federal judge issued an order Friday stopping an Indiana ban on puberty blockers and hormones for transgender minors from taking effect as scheduled July 1.The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana sought the temporary injunction in its legal challenge of the Republican-backed law, which was enacted this spring amid a national push by GOP-led legislatures to curb LGBTQ+ rights.

Adam Kay says his life has been absolutely transformed for the better after welcoming two children via surrogate with his husband.The former doctor-turned-comedian and writer, said he hoped his son and daughter would forgive him for the mistakes I make on the way.Kay shared the news for the first time while speaking to Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.

For real people, the plot points of our lives are seldom explained before the credits roll.And the Indiana Jones saga has always known this.Back in 1981, Raiders of the Lost Ark presented a perfect metaphor for this kind of intellectual untidiness: At the very end, the ark itself is placed in a massive warehouse, in a sealed box, among countless other sealed boxes.

For more than 60 years, David Austin Roses has bred the world's most prestigious blooms.They are the Air Jordans, the Birkin bags, the Steinway pianos of roses, and have become what we know, smell and delight in as the modern English rose.And every year for more than 60 years, David Austin Roses has named one or two new varieties after historical British figures, including Queen Elizabeth II, Emily Bronte, Roald Dahl and Charles Darwin.

A resident walks on Sunday in a flooded street after the Kakhovka Dam burst and unleashed floodwaters, in Kherson, Ukraine.Narciso Contreras/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Here's a look ahead and a roundup of key developments from the past week.What to watch Ukraine's counteroffensive to recapture territory from Russian forces is being closely watched.

The public image of President Biden's Union Joe persona rests largely on his longtime affiliations with labor unions representing police officers, firefighters and building-trade workers.But the modern labor movement that is gathering Saturday in Philadelphia to endorse Mr. Biden's 2024 re-election campaign is younger, more diverse and has far more women than the union stereotype Mr. Biden has embraced during the decades he was building his political identity.

Four major environmental groups endorsed President Joe Biden's 2024 reelection for president on Wednesday night, ahead of his speech at a League of Conservation Voters dinner in the nation's capital.LCV Action Fund, NextGen PAC, the Sierra Club, and the NRDC Action Fund endorsed Biden together at the dinner, which is honoring former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Traditional wire braces were once an adolescent rite of passage.(The colorful rubber bands!The poking wires!The ill-fated flirtations with popcorn, apples, and chewing gum!)These days, kids have another option: clear aligners, removable plastic "trays" fitted to the teeth and swapped out every one to two weeks to advance treatment.

Soho House, a luxury, members-only club offering amenities like private pools, restaurants, and spas with locations worldwide is coming to Charleston in 2024, the company confirmed on Wednesday, June 14.It will take over 161 East Bay Street in downtown Charleston, a space formerly home to craft beer brewery Lagunitas.

Swedish ultrarunner Ida Nilsson has been a household name in ultra-trail running since her tour de force season of 2016, which saw her win the Transvulcania Ultramarathon, the Mont-Blanc Marathon, the Run the Rut 50k, and The North Face 50 Mile Championships - to name but a few.A lifelong athlete, at that point in her career she had already won two NCAA Division I titles in American collegiate athletics, competed in the European Athletics Championships and the World Athletics Championships in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, and competed at ski mountaineering.

Just before the official start to Pride Month, The North Face announced it had teamed up with drag performer Pattie Gonia for its second annual Summer of Pride tour."Hi, it's me, Pattie Gonia, a real-life homosexual," the performer introduced herself in a video promoting the outdoor clothing and gear company's campaign.

In the seconds after a car cruised by a Friday night party in front of Mission Skateboards and sprayed the scene with a round of gunfire, the community kicked in.Some of the uninjured ripped off their shirts to make tourniquets for the injured, others held and comforted the wounded as they waited for paramedics to arrive.

Ontario's police watchdog says three Toronto police officers did not commit any wrongdoing after a 16-year-old boy suffered a broken wrist "in and around" the time of his arrest in Etobicoke in February.In a report released on Wednesday, Joseph Martino, director of Ontario's Special Investigations Unit, said he found no evidence to support charges against the officers in connection with the arrest on Feb. 13 in the area of Long Branch Avenue and Lake Promenade.

Tattoos have become more mainstream, but Pierce Goldman admits the memorial Holocaust tattoo he chose to have inked on his left arm has received some scowls from a older Jewish people who don't understand why he did it."They don't really know how to react," said Goldman, a Toronto resident.

NASCAR's first-ever street race will come to Chicago during the first days of July, bringing with it questions and apprehension from community members and city leaders about a deal made by former Mayor Lori Lightfoot.Concerns about traffic and public safety - and skepticism of the street race's economic benefit to the city - were among the issues aldermen raised Wednesday at the City Council's Pedestrian and Traffic Safety Committee, where they questioned Chicago street race President Julie Giese, staff from the emergency management office and other city leaders.

At the tender age of 15, Adam Siska and his pop-punk bandmates in The Academy Is were on the cusp of making the big time.The group received an offer from then-independent record label Fueled by Ramen.While a future as rock stars interested the teens, they didn't sign their contract at a Michelin-starred restaurant.

Nottingham is preparing for another vigil after the heartbroken families of the two students killed in the knife and van attack in the city were joined by thousands of people in their grief at the university's main campus.Relatives of medical student Grace O'Malley-Kumar and history student Barnaby Webber could be seen embracing at the vigil on Wednesday.

Residencies from the likes of HE.SHE.THEY, Paradise, Metamorfosi, elrow, Pyramid & more are all taking place at Amnesia this Summer
The world's most renowned club has completed its weekly residencies for what is set to be the most forward-thinking and diverse summer season yet.There is a mix of retiring icons, Ibiza mainstays and brand new parties all covering the freshest house, deepest techno and everything in between.

This essay is part of a series called The Big Ideas, in which writers respond to a single question: Who do you think you are?You can read more by visiting The Big Ideas series page.I'm not who you think I am.I'm from New Orleans that you probably already knew.But how did I get here?It's maybe assumed that I'm just some privileged guy, blessed with God-given musical gifts that I didn't have to work at; that as soon as I sat down at the piano as a young person and started to play, every door just opened for me and it was a water slide to success.

Brexit has resulted in a sharp drop in the number of UK workers in EU holiday jobs, new figures show.Only 3,700 people from the UK are being employed in the bloc to do roles such as chalet hosts, holiday reps and tour guides, travel trade organisations said.That is a 69% drop from 11,970 in 2017.Employing UK workers in popular EU destinations such as Spain, France, Greece, Italy and Austria has traditionally been a vital part of UK holiday companies' overseas operations.

The stench of sewage remained in a children's cancer ward even after its multimillion-pound makeover, an inquiry has heard.Emma Somerville, a senior charge nurse at the Schiehallion unit's ward 2a at Glasgow's Royal Hospital for Children, was giving evidence to the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry on Wednesday, which is looking into a series of contamination issues at what was billed as a state-of-the-art facility.

A medical research institute has called for a complete ban on e-cigarette advertising in the UK after a study found young people are susceptible to taking up vaping.The George Institute carried out a global survey, which included some children in the UK, and found four factors influenced the likelihood they might vape exposure to advertising, past tobacco use, high incomes and having friends or family who vaped.

June 13, 2023 - Before arriving at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Michael Dillon, MPH '23, spent more than three decades managing mergers and acquisitions at PricewaterhouseCoopers.He discussed how he combined his previous work experience with his Harvard Chan School education to launch a "second act"-advancing health equity for the LGBTQ community.

On another front, Zelman & Associates, per news reports, estimates that institutional investors as of yearend 2022 had dedicated some $110 billion to acquire or build SFR homes, a sign there is still plenty of money available for dealmaking ahead.Brandon Lwowski, director of research at proptech firm HouseCanary, said the slowdown in SFR home purchases by large investors started to show up in the third quarter of last year and escalated from there into the first quarter of 2023.

We need to talk about a problem in the arts.There are not enough opportunities for creatives from diverse backgrounds.It's a problem Adobe and the V&A in London (and MoMA in New York) are aiming to solve with a 'multi-year (and multi-million dollar)' residency programme to give underrepresented, emerging creatives a platform to get noticed and support the next generation of artists.

I will never lose interest in experts, but sometimes, understandably, experts lose interest in talking to the press.I saw someone on Twitter once, describing the experience of dealing with journalists: Dear X, sorry it's taken me seven months to reply.I can't do anything with your project, unfortunately, but could I interview you about this other thing must be within the next 20 minutes?

Former Cabinet ministers Jacob Rees-Mogg and Priti Patel should not be rewarded with honours, a senior Labour politician has said.Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy said comments made by Mr Rees-Mogg in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire make him unfit for a knighthood.Mr Rees-Mogg is tipped for the title in Boris Johnson's resignation honours list alongside Ms Patel, who will receive a damehood.

They cram themselves every day by the millions onto India's overtaxed trains, chasing a shred of economic opportunity across the vastness of the world's most populous nation.Tickets costing about $5 nearly a day's wage are all they can afford.For that, they stand shoulder to shoulder over long stretches in the middle of so-called general category coaches, far removed from the air-conditioned cars that lie beyond the pantry where workers prepare the rice, roti and chai for the journey.

For five years, Greta Thunberg has spent her Fridays in front of the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm instead of in class; after 251 weeks, she is hanging up her cardboard protest sign as a student.What began as a 15-year-old with a singular message has spread into a global movement across 7,500 cities.

More young people might be tuning into the Tony Awards this weekend thanks to the work of Michael Presser, the founder of Inside Broadway, a nonprofit organization that brings Broadway musicals to New York City schools and New York City schoolchildren to Broadway musicals.What started in the early 1980s as a free ticket program for local students to see Cats now reaches 75,000 students in 90 schools every year with its own touring productions and educational programs.

Why wasn't the science followed during Covid-19 (Editorial)?For the same reason we aren't following the science to tackle the existential crises we are facing short-term economic and political considerations.We are literally destroying our home, yet industrial farming a leading driver of both climate and biodiversity crises is being ignored.

CLIMATEWIRE | A landmark trial unfolding next week in a small Montana courtroom could have outsize influence on U.S. climate policy even if the case has little immediate effect in the Treasure State.In the first U.S. youth-led climate case to go to trial, 16 young people are putting Montana's energy policies on the stand, accusing state agencies and the governor of violating their right to a stable climate by embracing fossil fuels.

Puberty blockers will not routinely be offered to children treated at new regional gender identity clinics in England, the NHS has confirmed.New centres are expected to open later this year, in place of the London-based Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) clinic.It was announced last July that the capital's Gids clinic would be shutting down.

The mother of a 15-year-old boy who died when his e-bike collided with an ambulance after he was followed by police has said he was the sweetest, kindest boy ever.Saul Cookson was riding the bike in Salford, Greater Manchester on Thursday when traffic officers began following him.He was pursued along Fitzwarren Street and Lower Seedley Road at about 2pm before the police vehicle was blocked by bollards, Greater Manchester Police said.

Artwork by Banksy set to go on public display in Margate will hopefully spark conversations among thousands of people on domestic abuse, organisers said.The street mural titled Valentine's Day Mascara was first discovered on the side of a house in the Kent seaside town, 200 metres (more than 650ft) down the road from its new home at Dreamland amusement park.