7 h. ago Parents and child killed when tree falls on car amid heavy rain, flooding in Tennessee

An official in Tennessee says a mother, father and child were killed when a tree fell on their car amid heavy rain and flooding

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3 d. ago Emory shooting confirmed as ‘a targeted attack on CDC related to Covid’ as new details emerge on gunman’s mental state: Latest

Patrick Joseph White’s father said his son was fixated on the Covid-19 vaccine

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4 d. ago Emory University shooting updates: Gunman identified after father

Police are reportedly working on the theory that the CDC was the suspect’s target, who ‘blamed his illness on the Covid-19 vaccine,’ according to an unconfirmed report

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4 d. ago ‘I’m carrying survivor’s guilt’: Raymond Antrobus on growing up deaf

The poet reflects on his heritage, his new life as a father in Margate – and why his memoir is a call to armsWhen Raymond Antrobus was a child, he writes in his new book, The Quiet Ear, his father would call him “white” when he was drunk, and “black” when he was sober. “White” was meant as an insult, the author explains over tea in his flat in Margate, where a pile of toys indicate the recent presence of his own young son. In his cruellest moments, it was a way for Antrobus’s black father, who died in 2014, to say “I don’t understand you. I don’t love you. You don’t understand my pain.”Antrobus, 38, is calm and reflective when he talks about this. As a deaf person who relies on hearing aids and lip-reading to communicate, he says he has long had to “make sense of myself for other people”. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago University shooting sees cop with pregnant wife shot dead in horror standoff

A shooting at Atlanta's Emory University left one police officer - with a wife and children at home - dead, with the local force confirming one of their own had fallen

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4 d. ago Emory University shooting updates: Cop killed by CDC gunman identified as father with third child on the way

Police are reportedly working on the theory that the CDC was the suspect’s target, who ‘blamed his illness on the Covid-19 vaccine,’ according to an unconfirmed report

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4 d. ago Suspect in Emory University shooting dead after opening fire at CDC building, killing one police officer

Students were told to ‘run, hide, fight’ as police swarmed the area Friday afternoon

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4 d. ago Emory University shooting updates: Suspect dead and cop killed, police reuniting 92 stranded children after CDC attack

Police are reportedly working on the theory that the CDC was the suspect’s target, who ‘blamed his illness on the Covid-19 vaccine,’ according to an unconfirmed report

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4 d. ago Emory University shooting updates: Suspect dead and cop reported killed as possible ‘Covid vaccine’ motive emerges

Police are reportedly working on the theory that the CDC was the suspect’s target, who ‘blamed his illness on the Covid-19 vaccine,’ according to an unconfirmed report

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4 d. ago Suspect in campus shooting dead after opening fire at Emory University, wounding at least one police officer

Students were told to ‘run, hide, fight’ as police swarmed the area

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4 d. ago Emory University shooting updates: Suspect dead after ‘active shooter’ leaves at least one cop injured near CDC

There is no ongoing threat to the Emory campus or the surrounding area, police said

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4 d. ago Emory University shooting updates: People told ‘RUN HIDE FIGHT’ as active shooter reported

Police have swooped on the scene and urged people to avoid the area

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4 d. ago ‘Active shooter’ reported near Emory University as Atlanta police rush to the scene

Emory University warned people in the area to ‘RUN, HIDE, FIGHT’

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4 d. ago Emory University active shooter LIVE updates as hero cop among two shot and FBI on scene

Emory College in Atlanta, Georgia, has warned its students of an active shooter on campus - with one police officer among the casualties shot so far

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4 d. ago Active shooter reported at Emory University in Atlanta, authorities say

Emory University has alerted students and staff Friday to an active shooter on their Atlanta campus

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6 d. ago Water park horror leaves boy, six, with ruptured liver when woman flies off slide and crashes into him after child's father ignored warnings

CCTV footage shows the child's father ignoring warnings from staff and swimming directly into the slide's path with his son in his arms at a water park in Russia.

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3 w. ago ‘What about me?’ The confusing jealousy of being spared the abuse my father committed against my sister

Writing about child sexual abuse is hard. Writing about the unfathomable, yet surprisingly common jealousy as the sibling of an abused child is even harderA winter’s day. My father in the dark room of my memory developing photographs. The door is shut. My sister stands with him. He aims to teach her the essentials of photography. How to turn a black and white negative rolled from the interior of his camera, unspooled in the dark, then bathed in trays of chemicals, to bring the past back to life in black and white.My sister’s special treatment as the only one of nine siblings to learn this skill does not go unnoticed, by me at least. I am 10 years old and long to learn, even as I want only to be an insect in the corner watching unseen. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Horror video shows boy, 7, being kidnapped at gunpoint as dad flees

Terrifying video footage from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, shows the moment a car pulled out to a house and a boy was taken - the child's father appeared to run to safety

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4 w. ago Mum catches out DNA lab worker who tried to help her child's father get out of £94k in maintenance payments

Lab worker Robert Patel provided a saliva sample, forged a doctor's signature and used an official stamp after being asked to skew the test results.

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