4 h. ago John Oliver skewers ‘toddler’ Trump’s tariffs fiasco and JD Vance’s role in administration

Comedian rebukes president for ‘total chaos’ of economic policy and warns: ‘The monkey still has a gun!’

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4 d. ago Foster mum 'traded child for a monkey' as police make shock discovery at her home

Brenda Ruth Deutsch, 70, who has fostered more than 200 children over the last 20 years at her Missouri home is accused of orchestrating a swap of one of the youngsters for a monkey

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4 d. ago Woman 'traded a child for a monkey to boost her exotic animal collection'

"As crazy as it sounds, we’ve had a few human trafficking cases in the past, so we’re treating it seriously.. There’s at least two witnesses who are coming forward saying that that was the case."

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4 d. ago Foster mum 'traded a child for a monkey to boost her exotic animal collection'

It is said Brenda Deutsch, reportedly a collector of exotic animals, traded an adopted daughter to someone in Texas, US, for a monkey and mistreated other children in her care

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1 week ago All hope was lost until farmers discovered giant 'HELP' sign written on road

A man has lived to tell his miraculous tale of survival after becoming stranded in the Austrailian outback - hopes were fading fast until some local farmers made a shock discovery

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1 week ago Yankees legend Brett Gardner's son's cause of death revealed after police make shock discovery

Miller, 14, died suddenly while on a vacation with the former outfielder and the rest of the Gardner family at the Arenas Del Mar Beachfront & Rainforest Resort in Costa Rica on March 21.

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2 w. ago Raw Content by Naomi Booth review – those difficult newborn days

This emotionally astute novel describes a woman’s descent into psychological distress, but some of its ideas remain embryonicNine months is not long enough to grow a physiologically robust human being. Newborns enter the world vulnerable in ways that might be avoided if the gestation period were longer. Scientists long held the belief that this foreshortening was due to an evolutionary trade-off between the brain size of the child and hip-width of the mother. More recently, research has suggested that the explanation lies in energy, not geometry. When the energy demands of a foetus reach roughly double those expended by a mother at rest, a threshold is passed and the upper limit of a pregnancy is reached. As a result, we humans meet our children ahead of time, their bodies assailable and exposed, ours exhausted and hypervigilant.Raw Content, the latest novel by author and academic Naomi Booth, exists in the psychological and social hinterlands of new motherhood; heart ablaze, nerves...

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3 w. ago Foster mum of brain damaged boy 'will never hear him say I love you' after horror attack

A court in Northern Ireland heard how a young boy was attacked so violently that his injuries were consistent with a high speed car crash - his foster mum issued a heartbreaking victim impact statement

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3 w. ago Escape To The Country's Jules Hudson floored to discover mysterious door hidden in his 500

The TV presenter, 55, has been keeping fans posted as he renovates his own home in the country, near Hereford, after buying the pile for £610,000 in 2012. He made a shock discovery in January.

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