45 h. ago Autistic volunteer 'sacked' from Waitrose gets a PAID job offer from rival supermarket

An autistic volunteer who was 'sacked' from Waitrose has now been offered a job by a rival chain.

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62 h. ago Autistic volunteer let go from Waitrose job after family asked for him to be paid

The mother of an autistic man who volunteered at Waitrose stacking shelves has spoken out since he was let go from his position.

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2 d. ago Mother of autistic volunteer says he 'absolutely loved' stacking shelves for free at Waitrose

Tom Boyd, 27, has clocked in more than 600 hours of work over the past four years of working at the Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester, branch of the luxury supermarket.

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7 d. ago MIKEY SMITH: 9 unhinged Donald Trump moments as RFK Jr goes on wild rant about teenage boys' sperm

JFK's disappointing nephew is at it again, Zelensky is on his way to the White House and Eric Trump is glad daddy thinks he's a good boy. All this and more

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7 d. ago Mum 'who struggled to cope' smothered autistic son to death and then tried to kill herself

Claire Button has been jailed following a trial in which the judge said was 'one of the hardest I’ve heard in almost 30 years'

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7 d. ago Mother, 35, who murdered autistic son, five, moments after he took her hand and asked her to watch trains from bedroom window is jailed for life

Claire Button (pictured), 35, was today jailed for murdering five-year-old Lincoln at their home in South Ockendon, Essex, on December 15 last year.

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7 d. ago Mother jailed for murder of autistic son, five, after struggling to cope

Claire Button, 36, denied her son Lincoln’s murder last December in South Ockendon, Essex, but was found guilty by a jury.

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7 d. ago RFK Jr uses platform during Trump event to go on rant about teenager’s sperm

Health secretary again warns of declining fertility rate and claims teens less fertile than men approaching 70

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8 d. ago Mother, 35, smothered her autistic son, five, with a pillow and tried to take her own life after 'voices told her they "didn't belong in this world"'

Claire Button, 35, used a pillow to smother her autistic son Lincoln Button. She left a note at their home that said: 'He does not fit in the world.'

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1 week ago Two cabinet members 'secretly sharing concern over Trump's health'... as RFK Jr adviser breaks cover about president's noticeable symptoms

An adviser to RFK Jnr has broken cover to reveal a chilling theory about the state of Donald Trump's health.

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2 w. ago RFK Jr cites TikTok as he rants to Trump about unproven Tylenol

Kennedy also said the woman was taking Tylenol ‘with a baby in her placenta’

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2 w. ago RFK Jr cites TiktTok as he rants to Trump about unproven Tylenol

. Kennedy also said the woman was taking Tylenol ‘with a baby in her placenta’

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2 w. ago Only 4% of Americans think Trump claims about Tylenol and autism are ‘definitely true’

Americans are largely divided on partisan lines on whether they trust the Trump administration’s health claims on autism and vaccines

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2 w. ago Trump live: RFK Jr derails Cabinet meeting revelry with bizarre story about pregnant woman ‘gobbling Tylenol’

Trump said the hostages in Gaza will be released early next week

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2 w. ago Mother 'murdered' her son, five, and tried to kill herself after 'challenges of caring for him' made her depressed, court hears

Claire Button, 35, has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of her child Lincoln Brookes at their family home, but denies murdering him.

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3 w. ago Trump administration approves generic version of abortion pill after RFK Jr had FDA review drug’s safety

The drug will now be produced by Evita Solutions LLC, which describes its mission as being to ‘normalize abortion’

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3 w. ago Trump gets backlash from Republican doctors in the Senate over his autism and Tylenol claims

‘I don't want mothers to sit around and blame themselves that if they took Tylenol and they have an autistic child, that they are to blame,’ one elected GOP physician told The Independent.

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3 w. ago RFK Jr caught secretly popping 'Gen Z's favorite weight loss drug' behind Trump's back

Kennedy appeared alongside Trump to announce the launch of TrumpRx, which is a new website that will allow customers to buy prescription drugs directly.

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3 w. ago We’re autistic mothers with children on the spectrum. Trump and RFK Jr. are trying to blame Tylenol and us

Autistic moms tell Eric Garcia that they fear Trump’s outlandish and conspiratorial claims about autism and Tylenol both erase their needs and those of their children

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3 w. ago The abortion pill is safe. But why should Trump let facts get in the way of his agenda? | Moira Donegan

RFK Jr is conducting a review of mifepristone, citing a deeply flawed study. The move could be devastating for womenRobert F Kennedy Jr’s health department is conducting a new review of mifepristone, the drug used in the majority of American abortions, claiming that a new study from a conservative thinktank has raised concerns about its safety.Mifepristone, which was approved by the FDA 25 years ago this month, has repeatedly been proven safe and effective for use terminating pregnancies in both multiple medical trials and in widespread patient use over the past quarter of a century. The report cited by Kennedy, meanwhile, comes from the Ethics and Public Policy Center – a group that applies “the Jewish and Christian traditions” to modern law and pushes back “against the extreme progressive agenda while building a consensus for conservatives” – and was not peer reviewed. The study has been heavily criticized by medical experts for its methodology and lack of transparency regarding h...

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