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Council issues statement as boy, 3, hurt after being ‘thrown into crocodile enclosure’ | UK | News

Council issues statement as boy, 3, hurt after being ‘thrown into crocodile enclosure’ | UK | News

Published by Sam Flores

A probe has been launched into the care of a man who was arrested after a three-year-old boy was seriously hurt after ending up in a crocodile enclosure at a zoo in Huntingdon. The incident happened last month, and prompted the temporary closure of the Tropical House at zoo and farm shop Johnsons of Old Hurst in Cambridgeshire, which includes the crocodile area, “out of respect to the family”, the venue previously said. The zoo, which has since fully reopened, spoke about the incident in a social media post last week, saying that they were “alerted to reports that a child had allegedly been thrown into one of our crocodile enclosures” on June 18. Tracey Johnson, the zoo’s co-owner, reportedly jumped into the enclosure to save the child. In a separate statement, the parents of the boy who was hurt in the incident said they have been “living at the hospital” and that their son has undergone five surgeries after being attacked by at least one of the reptiles. He remains in Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, …

Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves

Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves

Published by Jenni Sidey

There is a moment early in this book when Death kneels inside an overturned car, cradles a dying stranger, and tells him it is okay now. No scythe. No hood. Just a young man in a grey jumper with holes in his socks, whispering the things a person only learns at the very end. That is the register Ben Reeves works in, and it is the reason Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves announces itself, from its first pages, as a debut with unusual nerve. Death Wears Jeans and Lives Across the Hall The narrator calls himself Travis. He is Death, walking a small, drab English town that once mistook itself for a city. He offers comfort in people’s final hours, and he never judges, never bargains, never changes a single fate. Between the heart attacks and the car crashes, he restores old photographs at a folding table, buffing faded faces back to the day they were developed. Then a cat wanders through his window, and a hunt for cat food leads …

9 Phrases Unintelligent People Use When Someone Hurts Them

9 Phrases Unintelligent People Use When Someone Hurts Them

Published by Jenni Sidey

Being hurt by someone you care about is so damaging that it can cause you to feel both emotional and physical pain. It’s not something you can just easily move on from, even if others say that you should. It would be totally understandable for anyone to react strongly in this situation. People who aren’t quite as smart tend to overreact to others hurting them in a way that actually reveals their lack of intelligence, though. You can tell they aren’t the brightest when they let some of these phrases slip without thinking. People who say these 9 phrases when someone hurts them automatically reveal how unintelligent they are: 1. Obviously, you’re jealous Nyszczuk Emanuel | Shutterstock It’s not completely impossible that the person who caused the hurt was jealous, but it’s pretty unlikely. This is the kind of false accusation someone throws out when they really don’t have anything else to say. There’s a good chance that nothing the other person said or did actually expressed any kind of jealousy, but it’s the best …

Contributor: The rise of Democrats’ left wing will hurt democracy

Contributor: The rise of Democrats’ left wing will hurt democracy

Published by Sam Flores

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani emerged as something of a kingmaker this past week, as the Democratic primary candidates he endorsed swept their races in the Empire State. The problem for Democrats is that what sounds electrifying in Brooklyn coffee shops sounds wildly out of touch to the rest of the country. Republicans have now been gifted a fresh crop of candidates they can plaster across campaign ads from Bangor to Bakersfield, turning what might otherwise be local urban politics into a national cautionary tale — just in time for the midterms. Leading the renegade parade is Darializa Avila Chevalier, the 32-year-old daughter of Dominican immigrants who is now the Democratic nominee in New York’s 13th Congressional District. Her résumé includes her help in leading pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University and participating in a radical campus environment that later produced calls for “Death to America” — which, as campaign slogans go, lacks a certain broad appeal. Chevalier’s greatest hits — compiled from now-deleted social media messages — include criticizing minority men for relationships with …

Little Disasters ending explained | Who hurt Betsy?

Little Disasters ending explained | Who hurt Betsy?

Published by Daniella Wilson

*Warning: This article contains full spoilers for the final episode of Little Disasters.* Juicy psychological thriller Little Disasters is coming to 5 tonight (14 June) and is set to be the perfect weekend binge-watch. The series centres around a group of friends who are torn apart when Jess (Diane Kruger) is thrown into the middle of a major crisis. When Jess, who is seen to be the perfect mother, brings her daughter Betsy to A&E with an unexplainable head injury, Liz (Jo Joyner) – the on-duty doctor – must make a painful decision between her longtime friend and notifying social services. This leads to Jess having supervised visits with her sons. But when it came to Betsy, Jess couldn’t get rid of the thought of her being unsafe in hospital, and attempted to abduct her. Now on trial for abduction and child cruelty, the central mystery remains – how did Betsy get injured? Going into the finale of the series, we know that Jess left her son Frankie alone at home with Betsy for a …

How to become emotionally mature – at any age: ‘We often don’t realise the hurt we’re causing’ | Life and style

How to become emotionally mature – at any age: ‘We often don’t realise the hurt we’re causing’ | Life and style

Published by Sam Flores

Around the time of the pandemic, a self-help book with a somewhat unglamorous but functional title – Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents – took off on social media. It had been published five years earlier, but in 2020, when more people had time to reflect on life, it was rediscovered, its success fuelled by readers who recognised their own childhood in its pages and their experience with parents who had uncontrolled emotional outbursts, or were self-absorbed, unavailable or lacking empathy. In the view of its author, Lindsay C Gibson, these were parents whose own emotional developmental stage was closer to that of, say, a four- or five-year-old. Their own children had overtaken them, and were now recognising it. Gibson’s latest book, How to Raise an Emotionally Mature Child, is a guide for those of us who don’t want our children to experience the same kind of childhood we did. Perhaps you’ve realised – the self-awareness is key – that you’re lacking enough maturity of your own, and feel clueless about what you should be …

Trump’s Latest Gaffes Could Hurt the GOP

Trump’s Latest Gaffes Could Hurt the GOP

Published by José Betancourt

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Donald Trump deserves plenty of criticism for his serial dishonesty, but on the rare occasions when he speaks frankly, that causes problems too. This week, a reporter asked the president whether the deteriorating economic situation has created any urgency for him to reach a peace deal with Iran. “Not even a little bit,” he replied. “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody.” Who can doubt that he was being sincere? Trump has conducted the war as though he is both uninterested in and unaware of the economic effects that it is having. He has reportedly mused about simply withdrawing from the field of battle and leaving the Strait of Hormuz closed, despite the disruption that has caused for global trade. He’s previously called talk about affordability a “hoax.” And with his own bank accounts …

Maine might boot Susan Collins. It could hurt state’s wallet for years

Maine might boot Susan Collins. It could hurt state’s wallet for years

Published by Sam Flores

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, holds a blanket as she walks off the Senate floor after the Senate stayed in session throughout the night at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, July 1, 2025. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images News | Getty Images Maine might send Sen. Susan Collins packing after this year’s midterm elections. That decision could come back to bite the Pine Tree state’s balance sheet for years to come. Collins, New England’s lone federally elected Republican, is in the fight of her political life against the Democratic progressive upstart candidate Graham Platner. Platner, an oyster farmer and military veteran, has seized on anger directed at President Donald Trump and anti-establishment animus to rocket to the Democratic nomination — forcing Democratic Gov. Janet Mills to abandon her own Senate campaign within a matter of months. His yard signs dot the state’s backroads and neighborhoods, and he leads in almost every head-to-head poll against Collins.  The race, like most midterm contests, is shaping up to be a referendum on the president, who is underwater nationally …

Trump pardons, DOJ moves hurt fight against public corruption : NPR

Trump pardons, DOJ moves hurt fight against public corruption : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

President Donald Trump reacts to a question from a reporter after signing a series of executive orders, including, a pardon for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, in the Oval Office at the White House in February 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Stay up to date with our Politics newsletter, sent weekly. In 2024, a federal jury needed just two hours to return a guilty verdict for former Las Vegas councilwoman Michele Fiore for pocketing some $70,000 in donations to build a memorial for police officers killed in the line of duty — and spending it instead on herself, including rent and her daughter’s wedding. Then, weeks before Fiore was scheduled to be sentenced in May 2025, President Trump granted her a full, unconditional pardon. Fiore is one of at least 15 former elected officials and their co-conspirators who were either charged with or convicted of corruption offenses — and then pardoned by Trump after he returned to office last year. Legal experts say the pardons are but one way …