OAKLAND - The woman accused of driving a U-Haul truck into live gunfire at Alameda's Coast Guard Island during immigration protests in October is out on bail, according to multiple media reports. Bella Thompson, 26, charged by federal prosecutors with one count of assault on a federal officer, stepped out of Santa Rita Jail Friday morning, NBC Bay Area reported. Also known as Bella Castillo, she first appeared in an Oakland courtroom earlier this month.
Since I was little, I would repeatedly snooze my alarm clock each morning until I had to get up. The evidence on whether this makes you feel more tired is mixed, but I would get stuck in a state of sleep inertia, prolonging the period of confusion and sleepiness when you first wake up. It left me feeling anxious, and I would struggle to focus all day.
According to police reports, Thompson tried to escape Alameda police officers at Highland Hospital after asking to use the restroom. Officers wrote that they tackled her to the ground and handcuffed her to a gurney. That night, Thompson was transferred to John George Psychiatric Hospital and underwent a mental health evaluation. She was later placed on a 72-hour involuntary psychiatric hold before being booked into Santa Rita Jail in Dublin.
"But you can hire an interpreter," Pathomrit told them. "She is ready. Do you know how hard it is to get someone who's ready to quit?" Despite Southern California having the world's largest Thai population outside Thailand, Thai Angelenos face stigma, language barriers and limited resources when accessing mental healthcare. Thai Town's temples and resource centers aim to support the community, but few Thai-speaking mental healthcare workers lead to long waits for substance abuse treatment centers, housing support and social work resources.
This week, it launched a Time and Well-Being space within users' account settings, replacing the existing screen- time management page. New features in the space include an affirmation journal with more than 120 positive prompts that let users set an intention for the day ahead. (Naturally, they are shareable on social media.) There's also a sound generator that can play calming sounds like rain or ocean waves. TikTok cites survey data that those who use the platform are 14% more likely than nonusers to listen to music to help them sleep or relax.
She's in practically every frame as Linda, a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown as she juggles, with increasing desperation and resentment, her responsibilities as a parent, a spouse, and a professional therapist. Her husband is constantly travelling for work, leaving Linda to deal with their young, never-named daughter, who suffers from a mysterious eating disorder that requires her to be attached to a feeding tube.
That Friday night until the Tuesday morning when I finally was let out to speak to the Listeners [trusted prisoners who support new inmates] were the three most difficult nights of my life. You can't sleep because all of it is true. In jail people do kill themselves, people do harm themselves and people do go crazy. It's the harsh reality when you have never been to prison and that's what your lawyers don't tell you before maybe not to scare you.
The 37-year-old, whose real name is Jessica Cornish, later revealed she was due to undergo a second operation and had to postpone her autumn tour. Jessie J said: Mum to mum, who has just recently gone through cancer, I just wanted to give her a hug. We acknowledged that it's something that is not easy to go through, especially in the public eye.
For many challenged by struggles and mental health issues, days may feel oddly distant from any sense of well-being, as languishing, depression, sadness, or falling back into unhealthy addictive propensities begin to emerge. These thoughts may even encourage maladaptive behaviors or the temptation to roll back into unhealthy habits, relinquishing control to "feeling processes" that have hijacked logic. People may express these moments in terms of feeling "off" or "not fully present."
Alameda County DA Ursula Jones Dickson announced Monday that her office charged Irving with murder and an enhancement for the use of a firearm. If convicted, Irving could face fifty years to life in prison. Questions about Irving's mental health were raised Monday after the East Bay Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and other media reported that Irving told police he suspected Beam of performing "witchcraft" on him.
Edward Bernays unleashed a powerful force on the world when he unlocked the secrets of modern marketing. As far back as the 1920s, marketing professionals have been capitalizing on emotions, and these tactics have created a hustle-focused marketing culture capable of whipping the world into a frenzy. How? With more. Modern PR tactics are perpetually training people to want more, and marketers are trained to do more to satiate that rising demand.
I'm pretty sure I must be half human, half plant how else to explain why I need the light to thrive? During the brighter seasons I feel fine, but when winter comes and the light begins to fade, I start drooping. I have struggled with seasonal affective disorder (Sad) since I was a teenager. The symptoms of Sad are similar to regular depression, with low moods and lethargy, and can be equally debilitating.
It shows up in songs, films, ads, social-media posts-but it says more about Americans' idealization of youth than it does about what it actually feels like to be young today. The 2024 World Happiness Report found that when American adults were asked to rate the extent to which they were living their "best possible life," those over 60 answered the most positively, followed by 45-to-59-year-olds. People younger than 30 trailed behind.
As the season of gratitude approaches, most of us begin to think about the people, opportunities, and experiences that enrich our lives. These matter deeply. But in my work exploring the rewilding of the human mind, I've found that one of the greatest sources of support in our lives is something we rarely acknowledge-because it's all around us, all the time.
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.
We are listening to more than music. In addition to music, SiriusXM, a satellite radio company, provides sports talk, news, talk shows, and podcasts. As of 2024, SiriusXM boasted 150 million listeners. As of 2025, 4,509,765 podcasts have been registered around the world, with Apple alone hosting 2,800,138. In the United States, over 200 million people have listened to a podcast at least once, and 158 million consume podcasts on a monthly basis.
"Over the last few weeks, it's just starting to get a bit better, so I'm back on the grass, which is great for me," Wyke told BBC Radio Cumbria. "It's nice to be outside. "I'm at the point now, or I was a few weeks ago, where if I played one more game, that would be enough. "There's still a long way to go with the extent of the injury and how bad it was. But I'm a bit more positive than I was last week, so things are looking up."
His parents filed a lawsuit against the jail staff who had been responsible for his care. His father is working to pass Theris' Law, legislation that would empower people to put family members into emergency treatment. And Coats' father and uncle in recent months created a nonprofit, Brothers Against Drug Deaths, to advocate for mental health and addiction support particularly within Black and other underserved communities.