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＜更新日時＞ 06月26日（月） 09:39
Vladimir 's top allies in Russia are mocking America over the recent prisoner swap that saw the US release convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout in exchange for WNBA star , claiming that Russia got the better end of the deal.
Maria Butina, the pro-Putin MP elected to Russia's Duma after serving a US prison sentence for acting as an unregistered foreign agent, led the charge in taunting the US over Thursday's exchange.
'The fact that Russia pushed through the exchange of Bout, whom America fundamentally did not want to give away for many years, right now means that, like in The Godfather, we "made them an offer that cannot be refused,"' Butina boasted in Russian on her Telegram channel.
'This is a position of strength, comrades,' added Butina, who was deported back to Russia in 2019 after serving an 18-month sentence in the US.
On Thursday, the US and Russia announced that Griner, who was sentenced to nine years of hard prison time on cannabis-related charges, had been exchanged for Bout.
Maria Butina (left), the pro-Putin MP in Russia's Duma, led the charge in taunting the US for releasing Viktor Bout (right on Thursday) in exchange for evDen EVE naKliYAt WBNA star Brittney Griner
Butina, who was deported back to Russia in 2019 after serving an 18-month sentence in the US, boasted on her Telegram channel about the trade
The controversial swap took place in Abu Dhabi, and Russian TV showed Bout in a private jet on the flight to Russia, getting his blood pressure checked, speaking with his family by phone and saying, 'I love you very much.'
Bout's mother, Raisa, thanked President Vladimir Putin and the Foreign Ministry for freeing her son, Tass reported.It added that he would be invited to speak to lawmakers on the Duma's International Affairs committee.
On Channel One Russia, the state-run news outlet widely watched in Russia, an announcer hailed Bout as a 'legendary figure' who had suffered 'persecution' and 'illegal extradition to the United States'.
Online comments from Russian-speakers also tended to celebrate Bout's release, EvdEN Eve NaKliYaT with some hailing him as a 'hero'.
'Finally. He's been sitting in jail for years. Freedom,' wrote one commenter on YouTube.
'Finally the family will be reunited.Congratulations for the return of Viktor. I wrote him a letter in America with words of support. I'm very glad this part of history is over,' another wrote.
Griner is seen on her way to being swapped in the prisoner trade in Abu Dhabi
'Finally.He's been sitting in jail for years. Freedom,' wrote one commenter on YouTube
'This is such a big win for America, but at the same time a huge fail.Trading a figure like Bout for a basketball player…' read a comment on a sports news site
'Finally the family will be reunited.Congratulations for the return of Viktor. I wrote him a letter in America with words of support. I'm very glad this part of history is over.'
'He is a Russian hero' one comment read.
'This is such a big win for America, but at the same time a huge fail.Trading a figure like Bout for a basketball player…' read a comment on a sports news site.
Other Russian-language comments were skeptical of the deal, and slammed Russia for imprisoning Griner.
'What shame and embarrassment!They took an innocent person hostage, blamed her for something, the devils, just to trade in for a criminal!' one read on YouTube.
'Happy for Griner. But this creates an unpleasant precedent in the sense that it is already dangerous for any US citizen to visit Russia.They can make up any nonsense to keep them there,' another person wrote.
Bout is widely known abroad as the 'Merchant of Death' international arms dealer who fueled some of the world's worst conflicts.
The 2005 Nicolas Cage movie 'Lord of War' was loosely based on Bout, a former Soviet air force officer who gained fame supposedly by supplying weapons for civil wars in South America, the Middle East and Africa.
His clients were said to include Liberia's Charles Taylor, longtime Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and both sides in Angola's civil war.
In Russia, Bout is seen as a swashbuckling businessman who was unjustly imprisoned after an overly aggressive US sting operation
Russian TV showed Bout in a private jet on the flight to Russia, getting his blood pressure checked, speaking with his family by phone and saying, 'I love you very much.'
'What shame and embarrassment!They took an innocent person hostage, blamed her for something, the devils, just to trade in for a criminal!' one read on YouTube
'Happy for Griner.But this creates an unpleasant precedent in the sense that it is already dangerous for any US citizen to visit Russia. They can make up any nonsense to keep them there,' another person wrote
In Russia, however, he's seen as a swashbuckling businessman who was unjustly imprisoned after an overly aggressive US sting operation.
Russia had pressed for Bout´s release for years and as speculation grew about such a deal, the upper house of parliament opened a display of paintings he made in prison - whose subjects ranged from Soviet dictator Josef Stalin to a kitten.
The show of his art underlined Bout's complexities.Though in a bloody business, the 55-year-old was a vegetarian and classical music fan who is said to speak six languages.
Even the former federal judge who sentenced him in 2011 thought his 11 years behind bars was adequate punishment.
'He´s done enough time for EVDEn EvE NAKliyaT what he did in this case,' Shira A.Scheindlin told The Associated Press in July as prospects for his release appeared to rise.
Griner, who was arrested at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport in February after vape canisters containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage, was sentenced in August to nine years in prison.
Washington protested her sentence as disproportionate, and some observers suggested that trading an arms merchant for Evden EVE NakliyAt someone jailed for a small amount of drugs would be a poor deal.
Bout was convicted in 2011 on terrorism charges.Prosecutors said he was ready to sell up to $20 million in weapons, including surface-to-air missiles to shoot down U.S. helicopters. When they made the claim at his 2012 sentencing, Bout shouted: 'It's a lie!'
Alleged Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout looks out from inside the detention center while waiting for a hearing on extradition at criminal court on May 19, 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand
Bout has steadfastly proclaimed his innocence, describing himself as a legitimate businessman who didn´t sell weapons.
Bout's case fit well into Moscow's narrative that Washington sought to trap and oppress innocent Russians on flimsy grounds.
'From the resonant Bout case, a real `hunt´ by Americans for Russian citizens around the world has unfolded,' the government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta wrote last year.
Increasingly, Russia cited his case as a human rights issue.His wife and lawyer claimed his health deteriorated in the harsh prison environment where foreigners are not always eligible for breaks that Americans might receive.
Bout had not been scheduled to be released until 2029. He was held in a medium-security facility in Marion, Illinois.
'He got a hard deal,' said Scheindlin, the retired judge, noting the U.S.sting operatives 'put words in his mouth' so he'd say he was aware Americans could die from weapons he sold in order to require a terrorism enhancement that would force a long prison sentence, if not a life term.
Scheindlin gave Bout the mandatory minimum 25-year sentence but said she did so only because it was required.
Viktor Bout is escorted by members of a special police unit after a hearing at a criminal court in Bangkok October 5, 2010
At the time, his defense lawyer claimed the U.S.targeted Bout vindictively because it was embarrassed that his companies helped deliver goods to American military contractors involved in the war in Iraq.
The deliveries occurred despite United Nations sanctions imposed against Bout since 2001 because of his reputation as a notorious illegal arms dealer.
Prosecutors had urged Scheindlin to impose a life sentence, saying that if Bout was right to call himself nothing more than a businessman, 'he was a businessman of the most dangerous order.'
Bout was estimated to be worth about $6 billion in March 2008 when he was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
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He was taken into custody at a Bangkok luxury hotel after conversations with the Drug Enforcement Administration sting operation´s informants who posed as officials of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, also known as the FARC.The group had been classified by Washington as a narco-terrorist group.
He was brought to the U.S. in November 2010.
The 'Merchant of Death' moniker was attached to Bout by a high-ranking minister of Britain´s Foreign Office.The nickname was included in the U.S. government´s indictment of Bout.
＜更新日時＞ 06月26日（月） 03:59
By Ana Mano
SAO PAULO, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Truckers and other demonstrators protesting the electoral defeat of President Jair Bolsonaro are hampering the transport of corn in Mato Grasso state, evdEn EvE NAKLiYAT the heart of Brazil's farm country, two farmers said on Monday.
Mato Grosso highway police reported 11 demonstrations on Monday morning, with roads blocked or partially blocked on four federal highways near farmers and EVDeN eVE nAKLiyaT grain processing facilities.
Brazil's top public prosecutor authorized the governor of Mato Grosso to mobilize police to clear highways of protesters.
The protests have hampered transport of some corn from farmers to ports and eVDEN eve NaKliYaT storage facilities, but the quantities could not be determined.The slowdown could have knock-on effects as warehouses need to be emptied ahead of a January soy harvest.
"It's actually a race against time. Clean the corn warehouses so you can start reaping soybeans," Mato Grasso farmer Evandro Lermen told Reuters.
The blockades are also delaying deliveries of farm inputs needed for planting of Brazil's second corn crop early next year, he added.
While farmer Cayron Giacomelli supports the protesters' cause, he said the blockades have prevented him from moving his corn, and he will not receive payment until he delivers it.
"We give full support to protesters, but we are being harmed," Giacomelli said.
Demonstrations by truckers and other Bolsonaro supporters started after leftist President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won the Oct.If you have any concerns about where by and how to use EvDeN EvE nakLiyAT, you can speak to us at our own web page. 30 election. He takes office on Jan. 1.
Brazil's farmers have been a key constituency for Bolsonaro, but not all back continued demonstrations.
Global companies like Cargill, Bunge and Cofco operate in Mato Grosso.
At the southern port of Paranagua in Parana state, a blockade on an access road that backed up trucks on Sunday night was lifted on Monday, according to a port agent and an association representing firms that operate at Paranagua.
They said the there was little disruption to the flow of goods.Authorities are also trying to curtail demonstrations in the states of Santa Catarina, Para and Rondonia.
Farmer Endrigo Dalcin said there was little corn and soybeans left to move in Mato Grosso but said storage of the next soy crop may be complicated if protests continue.(Reporting by Ana Mano in São Paulo; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
＜更新日時＞ 06月26日（月） 03:59
The call came on a Saturday morning last month.I always knew it would. It had been lurking in the background as I tried to carry on, make plans. I knew that it would all end, swiftly. Not with a whimper but with a bang.
I'd been told there was a viewing planned at the cottage I've rented since 2018.It's been up for sale since April. I learned it was going to be put on the market in February, when the landlady turned up with little warning, an estate agent in tow.
The agent started taking photographs of every room and my courtyard garden. Without asking first.Or even talking to me. Because who am I, other than a lowly private renter, unworthy of even a kindly 'Good morning'.
The viewing was scheduled for 11.30 am (there had been a few). I walked my dogs early, then raced up a steep hill to make sure I was back in time to tidy.
At 11.45, my mobile rang.It was the landlady. 'The viewing is cancelled but there is another one at half past one.'
I dared to express my dismay, evden EVe nAkLiyAt my upset at the constant intrusions. Yet another no-show; another day when I was unable to do as I pleased.
Liz Jones, 64, (pictured) opens up about being given two months' notice to leave her rented cottage
'Right! If you liked this post and you would certainly like to obtain even more information relating to EVDEN eVE NakliyAt kindly visit our web-page. ' the landlady snapped.'I'm serving you with a Section 21. You have two months' notice to move out as of Monday.' I crumpled. Yet again, evdEN eve nAkLiYAt my life — that I had tried so desperately to rebuild — was in tatters.
No-fault evictions, known as Section 21 notices, enable landlords to evict tenants without giving a reason or establishing 'fault' on the part of the tenant.
No matter how long you've lived there (for me, four years) or how much you've spent on the place (in my case £59,000 — I cashed in my pension and got a loan to pay for everything from a new kitchen to underfloor heating, new bathroom and white goods) you can be summarily dismissed.
How is this allowed?We are protected at work if we are sick or lose our jobs, but when we rent a home — and surely a home is integral to our health, productivity and sense of belonging — we can be thrown to the sharks.
Surely, there is more to being a landlord than having me pay your mortgage when I have paid the rent on time and looked after your property?
A lifeline was dangled in front of our poor, cold noses last month when Michael Gove — since appointed Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities under Rishi Sunak — voiced his support for Boris Johnson's commitment to ending no-fault evictions.
Mr Gove knows as well as anyone that it isn't the workshy who end up renting.After all, divorce is a common factor. The Government won't get growth from a workforce that wonders if getting out of bed is worth the bother.
His speech was music to the ears of the more than four million private renters in the UK.
The misery, the uncertainty.Goodness only knows how families with school-age children cope with the disruption, the endless reading of meters and changing of suppliers, the redirection of post, the changing of council tax and on and on and on … It's all so unbelievably stressful.
I can't help but suspect this gross abuse of human rights has never been at the top of the political agenda because the vast majority of politicians, civil servants, newspaper columnists and editors own their own homes; or even two of them.
The writer (pictured) says renters can be 'thrown to the sharks' and swiftly dismissed.Liz says she has rented nine properties in her adult life, and has been evicted four times
The problem doesn't enter their brains and, if it does, they assume people who rent are either feckless or the very young, who will soon claw their way on to the property ladder.These are the sort of people who write pieces along the lines of 'What's with the annual DFS adverts on TV? Why do people buy a new sofa every Christmas? I inherited mine!' (That was an actual column.)
I have rented nine properties in my adult life and been evicted four times — and the older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.
Times are bad for Generation Rent — the poor 20 and 30-somethings who are unable to scrape together a deposit, or afford a mortgage.But to be in your 60s and to be renting, as I am, after a lifetime of hard work, is infinitely worse.
Why? Because, at 64, I am perilously close to retirement.
I did manage to get a mortgage offer before the current crisis but, even then, the rate I was offered was nearly 5 per cent and the maximum term I was allowed was 12 years.There is no hope of a partner on the horizon to split bills with.
I have sympathy for homeowners whose rates have just gone up, but renters aren't immune, as there are no caps on what we pay. Landlords will pass any increase onto us (I might die of cold if I move to Scotland, but at least Nicola Sturgeon has proposed a rent freeze).
Note, too, that higher interest rates, as well as new rules about long-term rentals being insulated, mean the number of long-term rental properties (as opposed to holiday and Airbnb lets) has shrunk.
This led to a report last month of a rise in London of 'blind bidding' — people leasing rental properties without first viewing them.There are 49 per cent fewer new listings than in 2019, reports Hamptons estate agency, and the average rent in a newly-let home in Britain is up 6.9 per cent on September last year.
I owned my own home from 1983 until 2016. I've never not had a good job and I've never taken a day off sick.But in 2016 I lost my home — a Georgian mini mansion, with floor-to-ceiling windows and a lawn that swept down to a river.
I put in stone floors, salvaged from a derelict church, railings … I can't go on, it's too upsetting.
When I was made bankrupt in 2015, I was forced to put it on the market for £400,000 less than I paid for it.(A long story: there's a memoir, if you're interested.) Suffice to say, HMRC hate high-earning single females, as do builders, family, neighbours, insolvency lawyers.
As a bankrupt, my rental choices were limited. I found a small house nearby, just outside the market town of Richmond in North Yorkshire, for £1,700 a month.The search was made extra hard given the fact I (then) had four cats and three dogs. Most rental properties, even those in rural areas with ghastly swirly carpets, EvDeN EVE NAkliyAt stipulate: 'Sorry, no pets.'
In 2020, a white paper was drawn up to allow renters to keep dogs and cats, given that they are, after all, family members, and less likely than toddlers to scribble on walls, but it's not yet on the statute books.
The wonderful charity Dogs On The Streets (DOTS), which helps the pets of the homeless, reveals the number of pets given up due to being banned from rentals has rocketed: 'We get 20 to 30 calls a day from tenants unable to keep their pets.'
So I went with this house, but was told: 'Sorry, it comes furnished.' I had a lot of furniture.Conran sofas. A 1920s desk. An Eero Saarinen marble table. I was your typical used-to-live-in-Islington high-end cliché. So I begged and said: 'Well, can't you put your stuff in storage?' I was also mindful of my muddy dogs, scratchy cats, but it was no.
The landlady turned up with little warning and an estate agent in tow - my home was up for sale
So I put all my furniture in storage and gave my brand-new appliances — a Smeg range cooker, Miele dishwasher, washing machine and tumble dryer — to a friend.But storage proved so expensive that, one by one, I had to sell everything on eBay.
Imagine my shock when the landlord, a year or so later, said they'd bought a holiday home in Devon and were coming for their furniture. (This is why people buy DFS sofas.)
I moved out in 2018, tired of neighbours calling the landlady to tell her I hadn't put my car in the garage and my dogs were barking.
That same year, I rented a one-bedroom flat in North London at more than £3,000 a month — to save on hotel bills for work.
Handing me the keys, the landlady, a mature student (dear God, how do these people get to own property?), evdEN eVe NaKliYaT pointed out that I would 'need to buy expensive saucepans' as the hob was induction, instructed me not 'to let water pour on the floorboards' in the kitchen and not to let the front door slam.
Or wear jeans on the sofa as 'they wear it out'.
When I later complained about the filth of the communal areas, which only I vacuumed, she said: 'Oh, that's a surprise, eVDEn Eve NAKLiYaT as apart from you, every flat is owner-occupied.'
She kept emailing me — never, ever rent via OpenRent, where you deal with the landlord direct — saying: 'I've read you have collies.They are not in the flat, are they? No pets allowed.' I kept assuring her they were safely in Yorkshire. She enlisted an upstairs neighbour to spy on me.
I was again evicted, for no reason, in 2019, having spent a fortune moving books, magazines, clothes and my desk 250 miles.(I know the names of the nice men at Watson Removals; I even know the birthdays of a couple of them.)
She said the flat was being sold but, a few weeks later, I saw it up for rent again on Rightmove at an escalated price.
She wanted to withhold some of my deposit as the cheap-looking fairy lights were no longer on the balcony.They broke!
The writer (pictured) says renters close to retirement are 'infinitely worse' off than those in their 20s or 30s
Then there was the place in Clerkenwell.I had to give notice when I lost my job but the two male landlords, who lived in Hong Kong, made me stick to a six-month notice period, when they could have said: 'OK, if we can rent it faster you can leave'.
And they told me to vacuum my radiators as they were making a 'mark' on the walls.(Mad!)
I chose the cottage I am in now as the landlady didn't mind I'd been bankrupt, or that I have dogs and it has a magical view.
When I moved in, it had no heating, laminate flooring and a fuse box that was 26 years old.The washing machine broke and there was no tumble dryer, though the lease bans putting up a washing line. The roof and eVDen EvE NakLiyAt windows still leak. Exiting the front door on a rainy day is like braving Niagara Falls (I have videos).
I know it was idiotic to spend tens of thousands of pounds of my own money on it, but I work from home and needed heating.The bathroom was mouldy and having a hot bath is my one luxury.
In all, I spent £59,000. I updated the heating with a new boiler and radiators upstairs and replaced the fusebox. I put in flagstones, I had the chimney swept, installed new blinds and shelving and I spent more than £12,000 on a beautiful Neptune kitchen.
I know.People warned me not to do it up, as I have no legal redress. But my home is so important to me: I get depressed in a dump.
And so here I am, terrified of being homeless, again. I went to look at another rental the other week. The woman opened the door and a huge Labrador emerged, when her ad had stipulated 'only one small dog considered for an escalated rent'.
'How many dogs do you have?' she asked me, craning to look at the two (out of now four) who had come along for the ride.Me: 'Um.'
She showed me round and it was lovely. 'It will come unfurnished.' I was glad, but slightly galled that I'd also given away my £4,000 Vispring bed, purchased from Selfridges in sunnier days, as my current cottage is so small it wouldn't fit through the door.
I couldn't work out the layout of the house.'Ah,' she said, EVDen Eve NAkLiyat unlocking the door to the loveliest room, dual aspect, with views of a river. 'We will be locking our furniture in here. This is our forever home. We'll be back in two years. Which is when you'll have to move out.'
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＜更新日時＞ 06月26日（月） 03:50
The husband evDEN evE NAKLiYaT of mom Ana Walshe appeared in court via Zoom today for a brief status hearing ahead of his murder trial.
Brian Walshe is to death, dismembering her body and disposing of it in a dumpster in January.
Police have not been able to recover her remains - they say they were taken from the dumpster by trash services and before they could catch up to them.
Walshe, 47, denies murder, and claims he doesn't know what happened to his wife, who has not been seen alive since the early hours of January 1.
Today, his attorneys complained that they are yet to receive any discovery from the state that would help them prepare a defense.
Brian Walshe is accused of beating Ana to death, dismembering her body and disposing of it in a dumpster in January.
Ana went missing in the early hours of January 1.Prosecutors say her remains were 'shredded and incinerated'
'We've received very little discovery.If you cherished this article and also you would like to collect more info concerning EvDEn eVE nakliyAt i implore you to visit the web-page. We've received basically nothing. We haven't even received the search warrants - the basic stuff we should have had immediately,' Walshe's lawyer Tracy Miner said.
The judge ordered the state to 'cooperate' and turn over their evidence.
The case has been continued until March 1st, when Walshe will return to court via Zoom again for a second status hearing.
After that, the next step is a probable cause hearing, where it will be determined whether there is enough evidence against him to proceed to a murder trial.
Prosecutors previously said Brian and Ana were headed for a divorce, but that Brian chose instead to kill her.
They pointed to a mountain of evidence including grim Google searches carried out on their son's iPad that included research for disposing of a body and how long it takes for corpses to decompose.
Blood traces were found on items of Ana's clothing that were discovered in a different dumpster, along with Brian's DNA.
Ana, who was a real estate agent, had built a $2million property portfolio before she died.
She lived in Massachusetts with her husband and their kids, but traveled frequently to Washington DC for work.
Her colleagues asked for a welfare check after she failed to show up to her job in January, three days after she was last seen alive.
Brian had also researched whether a person could inherit money from a missing person.
He has pleaded not guilty to murder and disposing of a body, but is yet to submit a formal defense.
Ana's mother in Serbia is incredulous that her once-loving son-in-law might be capable of such violence.
She wants 'official information' from the authorities that will explain their suspicion of Brian.
THE EVIDENCE AGAINST BRIAN WALSHE
On December 27th, days before she vanished, evDen EVE naKLiyAT prosecutors say he Googled: 'What's the best state to divorce for a man?'
Ana was last seen alive at 1.30am on January 1st by friends who had been in their home for a New Year's EvdeN evE nAkliyaT party.
Shortly before 5am on January 1st, using his son's iPad, he searched;
- 4:55AM - How long before a body starts to smell?
- 4:58AM - How to keep a body from decomposing?
- 5:20AM - How to bound (bind) a body?
- 5:47AM - 10 ways to dispose of a body if you really need to
- 6:25AM - How long for someone to be missing to inherit?
- 6:34AM - Can you throw away body parts?
- 9:29AM - What does formaldehyde do?
- 9:34AM - How long does DNA last?
- 9:59AM - Can identification be made on partial remains?
- 11:34AM - Dismemberment and the best way to dispose of a body
- 11:44AM - How to clean blood from a wooden floor?
- 11:56AM - Luminal to detect blood
- 1:08PM - What happens when you put body parts in ammonia?
- 1:21PM - Is it better to throw crime scene clothes away or wash them?
January 2nd
After purchasing rugs from a Home Goods store while wearing rubber gloves and a face mask, he returned to the iPad for more research.
He also spent $450 on cleaning supplies from a Home Depot including mops, buckets, tarps, drop cloths and various kinds of tape.
This time, prosecutors say he searched;
- 12:45PM - Hacksaw best tool to dismember
- 1:10PM - Can you be charged with murder without a body?
- 1:14PM - Can you identify a body with broken teeth?
January 3rd
Police say he visited a dumpster in Abingdon, where he was seen carrying a heavy-looking garbage bag.
'He had to heft it into the dumpster,' according to police.
Prosecutors tried to track down those trash bags, but by the time they got to them they had been destroyed in an incinerator at a trash transfer center.
Walshe did more research, allegedly searching;
- 1:02PM - What happens to hair on a dead body?
- 1:13PM - What is the rate of decomposition of a body found in a plastic bag compared to on a surface in the woods
- 1:20PM - Can baking soda make a body smell good?
January 4th
Walshe bought bath mats, men's clothing and towels at TJ Maxx and Home Goods.He then visited Loewes.
That same day, a colleague of Ana's in Washington DC called police in Cohasset to report her missing and request a welfare check at her home.
Police visited the family house, where they noticed the seats in Brian's Volvo were down, and a large, plastic liner was in the backseat.
January 5th
Police returned to the Walshe family home, where they noticed Brian's Volvo had been freshly cleaned.
When questioned, he said he'd thrown out the plastic liner they saw the previous day.
That same day, he visited the dumpster near his mother's home.
January 8th
Walshe is arrested for misleading police.A search warrant for the house is obtained, and police discover blood stains in the basement. They also found a knife with traces of blood on it.
Police then searched the dumpster near his mother's home and found 10 trash bag that were stained with blood.Inside, eVden eVe NAkLiYat they discovered;
- Slippers with both Ana and Brian's DNA on it
- Rags, tape, a medical suit with Brian and Evden eVE naKliYAt Ana's DNA on it
- Ana's Hunter boots
- Ana's Prada handbag
- Ana's COVID-19 vaccine card, with her name on it
- A hacksaw
- Hatchet
- Cutting shears
＜更新日時＞ 06月26日（月） 03:24
might have made the move to too early, new Holland boss has claimed.
The 23-year-old forward but is yet to score or make an assist in his first six appearances for Jurgen Klopp's side.
His new national team coach said it was good to have young Dutch players moving to bigger leagues.
However, Koeman added that it could also be difficult for them and said the Dutchman is currently struggling to find his feet.
Koeman said the fact that Liverpool, who snatched the Dutch forward from under the noses of Manchester United, were underperforming did not benefit Gakpo's game.
Cody Gakpo has struggled since making a £44million switch from PSV to Liverpool in January
Ronald Koeman said it was good to have young Dutch players moving to bigger leagues
'You can see that, that he has ended up in a team that is not doing well.Then it becomes more difficult for him, EVden evE nakLiyaT as a new signing. You are tested right away,' he said.
'And if you don't score or you're not important and you don't win any matches, it's very difficult, especially for a young player.
'If that's was someone aged 28 with experience, it would be different.
'The level in England is higher than in the Netherlands, but they are also young boys, aren't they? If you have any inquiries relating to exactly where and how to use eVden eVe nAkliyAT, you can get hold of us at our web page. Like (Ryan) Gravenberch going to Bayern (Munich) and not playing.Then that is difficult,' he said on a YouTube show hosted by former footballer Andy van der Meyde.
Before joining Liverpool, Gakpo had scored nine goals and made 12 assists in 14 matches for PSV in the Eredivisie this season.
He also scored three goals for his national side during their World Cup campaign in Qatar.
Koeman, who began his second stint in charge on January 1, said he was keeping a keen eye on all Dutch exports as he considers his first selection for the Euro 2024 qualifiers.
The Netherlands take on France and Gibraltar in March.
Before joining Liverpool, Gakpo had scored nine goals and made 12 assists in 14 matches for PSV in the Eredivisie this season
He also scored three goals for his national side during their World Cup campaign in Qatar
After signing, Gakpo told the 'I feel really good, I'm really excited to be here.I'm looking forward to start training and start playing for this amazing club.
'I think this is a great club for me to come in and try to show what I can [do] and try to help the team to achieve more beautiful moments that they already did in the past years.
'I think for me personally it's also good to develop here and there's a lot of great players here [who] I can learn a lot of things from.'
He added: EvDeN EvE nAkLiyAt 'I'm really looking forward to [playing at Anfield].I heard a lot of great stories about the stadium, about the atmosphere. I cannot wait.
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'I'm really thankful that everybody is giving me such a warm welcome and I'm really looking forward to seeing everybody in the stadium and around the city.'
＜更新日時＞ 06月25日（日） 22:27
By Sara Rossi and Valentina Consiglio
ROME, Feb 10 (Reuters) - The Italian Treasury is moving quickly this year to issue retail bonds, hoping to plug a gap soon to be left by the European Central Bank and anticipating strong appetite from savers whose deposits are being eroded by inflation.
The economy ministry said on Monday it would issue a new "BTP Italia" inflation-linked bond for retail investors from March 6-9, earlier than the traditional April-May period chosen over the last decade.
It has said it is also considering other instruments dedicated to domestic savers, evDEn evE NAkliYaT as part of a strategy to put more of its huge public debt - proportionally the second highest in the euro zone - in Italian hands.
"We want to reduce our dependence on foreign creditors by increasing the number of Italians and Italian residents that hold our public debt," Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Thursday.
Retail investors held about 9% of Italian public debt at the end of last year, according to Bank of Italy data.
Analysts say Rome is probably also capitalising on favourable market conditions as three similar BTP Italia bonds mature in April, May, and November for a total of nearly 25 billion euros ($26.87 billion).
The yield on Italy's benchmark 10-year BTP bond stood at around 4.20% on Friday, compared with 4.70% at the end of December.
The Treasury has not issued three BTP Italia retail bonds in a year since the instrument was introduced in 2012 at the height of the euro zone debt crisis.
The importance of retail investors in purchasing BTPs will grow as the ECB withdraws its support.
The central bank last year ended its "quantitative easing" and emergency pandemic bond purchasing programme.It is continuing to reinvest part of the bonds it bought as they mature, while reducing its balance sheet.
INFLATION MENACE
Italian households' bank deposits are larger than their euro zone peers, according to calculation by the Scope Ratings agency for the third quarter of 2022, based on ECB data.
Italians' deposits amount to 86% of national output, Evden eVE NaKliYAT the data shows, compared with 74% for France and 81% for Germany and Spain.
"Italian households' liquidity potentially offers the Treasury a growing investor base in the near future," said Scope analyst Alvise Lennkh-Yunus.
However, these deposits are being rapidly eroded by inflation, and they declined last year for the first time since 2017 by almost 20 billion euros.
While consumer price growth in the 20-nation euro zone eased to 9.5% in January, in Italy it was still running at 10.9%.If you have any kind of concerns regarding where and EvdEN eve naKLiYaT how you can utilize evDEn Eve nakLiYat, you could contact us at the web-page. The ECB targets inflation at 2%.
"Italians' savings are no longer safe because of the continuous surges in energy prices and inflation in general," banking union Fabi said in a report this month.
The inflation-adjusted value of bank deposits has fallen far more steeply in Italy than in Spain, according to calculations by Spanish bank BBVA based on Bank of Italy and EvDen eve NaKliYAT Bank of Spain data.
A trend that has seen Italian deposit rates lagging far behind lending rates is likely to continue in coming months, Fabi said, increasing the incentive for savers to invest in government debt.
"The 0.3% rise in mortgage rates and business loans in the year to September 2022 compares with an increase in deposit rates of just 0.05%," the union said.($1 = 0.9303 euros)
(Editing by Gavin Jones and Christina Fincher)
＜更新日時＞ 06月25日（日） 18:00
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It's been a difficult time for the sport lately, but it has given me so much in my life.It's given me an identity and it's given me a purpose. So I've had enough of the doom and gloom around the game. Nothing is perfect, but I want to send a message out that there are a lot of good things in rugby and a lot of great people.
You don't meet many people in rugby who you don't like and the sport has so many positives as well as these negative things that there has been a lot of coverage about.
France will go back to basics in their defence of the Six Nations title this year
Now the Six Nations is back and it excites me as much as ever.What a competition, it's fabulous.
After Christmas, everyone's a bit miserable in January, so the Six Nations is something to really look forward to at this time of year.I used to think that even back when I was playing rugby league. It's a fantastic, national event where every game is more or less a derby. And it's the competition I've always judged myself on because teams get exactly the same preparation time.
This year, it looks wide open. The teams are well-matched and all of world rugby is like that at the moment, with very, very close scores.It's marvellous for the international game.
With France, we're trying to defend the title and we have to think like we're back to square one. We have to go back to the basics of our game and make sure they are right, all over again.
The Six Nations looks wide open this year and there will be no easy matches
You've got to remember that some of our guys will have played eight or nine matches for their club since we last played together against Japan in November.They have come back in after months of all playing in different systems, for different coaches. It takes time to gel again, so it's important to go back to the basics of your scrum, lineout, kick-offs and all those key parts of the game.
We have some injuries but I'm confident we will cope.
Fabien Galthie put down a challenge to the backs last week in training. He said: ‘OK, who's going to replace Jonathan Danty? Who's going to replace Gabin Villiere?' Those two guys aren't just important to our attack, but amazing defensive players, too. It was good to see the way the players reacted in the session after Fabien had challenged them.
They tried to play with the same sort of intensity as those fantastic players who are missing with injury.
Of course, EvDEn eVe NaKLiyat as the defending champions we have a target on our heads now, but that's something we have to get used to if we want to be at the top.I think this is the first time in history that the teams ranked No 1 and No 2 in the world have been in the Six Nations. That's fantastic.
Ireland are No 1 at the moment and we are No 2. How much you pay attention to the rankings is your decision but it's great for the fans.I've been lucky enough to be ranked No 1 for a week with Wales and for two weeks with France, EvDen EvE nAKliyat but we all know South Africa are the world champions and that's what really matters.
France will be wary of England as a lot of players have never won a Test at Twickeham
We've got Italy first up in Rome.
They won in Cardiff at the end of the last Six Nations, then beat Australia in the autumn which was a famous win for them. In their next game against South Africa, for 50 minutes they were in a tight contest with the world champions, so we have to take Italy very seriously.
It looks like they will be competitive and dangerous.
Next, we're playing the team ranked No 1 in the world on their own patch in Dublin. Everyone knows that Andy Farrell, Mike Catt and the other coaches there have transformed Ireland into one of the best teams to watch, and their performance stats are off the charts.
They are an incredible attacking force and their defence is absolutely fantastic, too.I think they conceded the fewest points on average in the world last year. So they have great defence aligned with a fantastic attacking game, and they've also got steel. Ireland are not the biggest team, but they're very fit, incredibly mobile and play for the full 80 minutes.
We also have to go to Twickenham and that will be a huge challenge for this French team.I rate Steve Borthwick highly as a coach and England are always very competitive. In all the time I've been involved in international rugby, there's never been an easy match against England.
Coach Andy Farrell has transformed Ireland into one of the best teams to watch
That will continue and a lot of our players have never won a Test at Twickenham.That'll be my message to them that day.
My old boss, Warren Gatland, is back in charge of Wales and they start at home against Ireland, which is going to be a rip-roaring game. Whoever wins is going to get momentum. Gats would always say: ‘If we get early momentum in the competition, we can win it.' And the whole of Wales would get behind them.
I tell the French guys: ‘Forget the Wales you see on the summer tour and in the autumn. The Six Nations is what the emphasis is on in Wales and the whole country comes alive for EVDEN eVE NaKLiYat it.So you have to be ready for a war against them.'
They're going to be our last match, it's in Paris, and I know that's going to be some game.
Stats must support change
In the build-up to this Six Nations, there's been a lot of talk about lowering the legal tackle height.For me, it's all about having the data to support what they are doing, like there was for the scrum changes.
We all think scrums go on too long, but there aren't so many guys having neck or back surgery after they retire, EvDeN EVe NAKliyAT like in the old days.There are statistics to say that what they've done has made a huge improvement to the health of the players involved in scrums. If we can have statistics to show that the lower tackle will have a similar impact in making the game safer, then obviously we'll all get behind it.
As a defence coach, one thing I will say is that it's very difficult to practise lower tackling without players being injured — either the carrier who falls on to his ankles, or the tackler who might get a whack on his head from a knee.
So we have to think long and hard about how we can safely practise lower tackles, if that's the way the game is going.
＜更新日時＞ 06月25日（日） 17:07
Feb 8 (Reuters) - CVS Health Corp is moving deeper into primary care with its planned $9.5 billion deal for Oak Street Health announced on Wednesday, giving it a bigger role in healthcare services in line with many of its rival.
Here is a list of some big companies that are also providing medical services or have announced similar deals:
UnitedHealth Group Inc
UnitedHealth's Optum Health business provides services that range from primary care to specialty care such as cardiology and oncology.
Optum Health served more than 100 million people in the first nine months of 2022, according to a quarterly regulatory filing.
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Walgreens Boots Alliance
Pharmacy chain Walgreens in 2021 took a majority stake in primary care provider VillageMD, which has nearly 400 clinics in the United States including 200 co-located with Walgreens retails stores, as of the end of 2022.
VillageMD completed the acquisition of urgent care provider Summit Health in a deal valued at $9 billion. Together, VillageMD and Summit Health will operate at more than 680 locations.
Cigna Corp
Health insurer Cigna Corp invested $2.5 billion in VillageMD to become a minority shareholder.
Amazon.com Inc
Amazon.com Inc agreed to buy primary care provider One Medical for $3.49 billion in July to expand its virtual healthcare and add brick-and-mortar doctors' offices.
One Medical has around 815,000 members in total and 214 medical offices in 26 markets, according to its latest quarterly filing.
Walmart Inc
Walmart and eVDeN Eve nakLiYAt UnitedHealth Group in September signed a 10-year partnership to provide preventive care for people ages 65 and older, and virtual healthcare services for all age groups.
Walmart's effort with UnitedHealth will target common ailments among aging Americans such as heart disease and diabetes.
Centene Corp
Medicaid provider Centene runs medical centers through its Community Medical Group, EVDEN EVE nAKLiYaT which it acquired in 2018.It runs 16 medical centers in South Florida and EvdEN EVE nAkLiYat five centers in Central Florida, according to its website. (Reporting by Raghav Mahobe and Mariam E Sunny in Bengaluru; Editing by Bill Berkrot)
＜更新日時＞ 06月25日（日） 13:33
Two supermarket giants have held onto the trust of Australians while arguably our most iconic home-grown brand dropped almost completely from the hearts and EVdEn eVE nAkLiyAt minds of Aussies.
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Optus also took a hit, ranking second on Roy Morgan's most distrusted brands' list, knocking Telstra down to three.
The embattled telco rose from the 17th spot published in September after its customer data was stolen and leaked online in a cyber security attack last year.
Woolworths and Coles came in at number one and two respectively as a part of Roy Morgan's most trusted brand Evden evE NakliyAT poll for the December quarter
But Qantas sank below the top 10 after the airline was plagued with perceptions of bad customer service and flight delays, landing in 40th place
Qantas has fallen a whopping 34 places from its rank six months ago after it was ranked sixth in the middle of 2022.
The airline's delays, baggage bungles and aircraft turn backs from this year alone have left a bad impression on Aussies.
Australia Post made a foray into the top 10 at number nine, with the troubled postal service upping the ante by two spots since last September.
It comes in the wake of the group's profits before tax spiraling from $199.8 million to $23.6 million in the first half of the financial year to December 31.
Optus also took a hit appearing on the most distrusted brands' list surveyed by Roy Morgan at number two, knocking Telstra down to three
Hardware giant Bunnings stayed at number three.
Aldi kept up the competition remaining in fourth position with discount store Kmart on its tail at number five.
The German supermarket chain has been voted as the most affordable place to shop in, while Kmart also reels Australian customers in looking for a bargain.
Upscale department store Myer took out number six spot toppling tech giant Apple down to seven in the December survey.
But the winners who took out the top ten included hardware behemoth Bunnings staying put at number three
Coles and Woolworths remained on equal footing from last September, sitting securely in the top two spots
Aldi kept up the competition remaining in fourth position with discount store Kmart on its tail at number five
Big W and Toyota held on to their places in eighth and 10th places respectively.
The most distrusted brand in the Roy Morgan's December report was Facebook Meta, with Optus and Telstra coming from behind in second and third positions respectively.
E-Commerce brand Amazon ventured down a spot to number four while News Corp came in fifth place on the list.
Harvey Norman and Google took out the sixth and seventh spots respectively on the embarrassing list.
Financial services heavyweight AMP reached number eight, with Rio Tinto and Nestle coming up in the rear. If you liked this report and you would like to get far more data concerning eVDEn eve NAkLiYaT kindly pay a visit to the web site.
Noteworthy contenders outside the top ten most distrusted list included Medibank which suffered a jump to number 14 off the back of its own data breach last October.
Twitter also bumped up to number 11 from 17 this quarter after Elon Musk bought the social media stalwart.
BP also made an appearance on the shame list at number 16, moving up from 21 from the previous quarter.
The most distrusted brand in the Roy Morgan's December report was Facebook Meta, with Optus and Telstra coming from behind in second and third positions respectively
E-Commerce brand Amazon ventured down a spot to number four while News Corp came in fifth place on the list
＜更新日時＞ 06月25日（日） 08:58
As concern grows over social media, U.S.lawsuits stack up
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Surge in mental health problems worst among girls
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Lawyers zone in on algorithm designs, whistleblower leaks
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Others see platforms as scapegoat for society's woes
By Avi Asher-Schapiro
LOS ANGELES, Feb 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At about the time her daughter reached the age of 12, American health executive Laurie saw her once confident, happy child turning into someone she barely recognized.At first, she thought a bad case of adolescent angst was to blame.
Initially, her daughter had trouble sleeping and grappled with episodes of self-loathing and anxiety, but by the time she was 14, she had started cutting herself and was having suicidal thoughts.
Without Laurie knowing, she had been sneaking away her confiscated smartphone and spending hours online at night, eVDeN eVE NakLiyAT trawling through posts about self-harm and eating disorders on social media platforms.
"One day she said to me: 'Mom, I'm going to hurt myself badly if I don't get help,'" Laurie said as she described the mental health crises that have plagued her daughter for the last two years, disrupting her education and eVdeN EVE nAKliyat devastating the family's finances.
She asked to use only her first name in order to protect the identity of her daughter.
Paying for her daughter's care - therapists, a psychiatrist, and multiple residential treatment facilities across the country - has nearly bankrupted Laurie, who recently sold her house in California and moved to a cheaper home in another state.
In August, she filed a lawsuit on behalf of her daughter against the social media platforms she blames for the ordeal: Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok.
The case is one of dozens of similar U.S.lawsuits which argue that, when it comes to children, social media is a dangerous product - like a car with a faulty seat-belt - and that tech companies should be held to account and pay for the resulting harms.
"Before (she used) social media, there was no eating disorder, there was no mental illness, there was no isolation, there was no cutting, none of that," Laurie told the Thomson Reuters Foundation about her daughter, who is identified as C.W.in the suit.
Don Grant, a psychologist who specializes in treating children with mental health issues linked to digital devices, said Laurie's predicament is increasingly common.
"It's like every night, kids all over the country sneak out of their houses and go to play in the sewers under the city with no supervision. That's what being online can be like," he said.
"You think just because your kids are sitting in your living room they're safe - but they're not."
Facebook's parent company Meta Platforms Inc, Snap Inc, which owns Snapchat, and TikTok declined to comment on individual lawsuits, but said they prioritized children's safety online.
Meta executives, under criticism over internal data showing its Instagram app damaged the mental health of teenagers, have highlighted the positive impacts of social media, and their efforts to better protect young users.
ASBESTOS, TOBACCO, SOCIAL MEDIA?
Laurie is represented by the Social Media Victims Law Center, a firm co-founded by veteran trial lawyer Matt Bergman, who won hundreds of millions of dollars suing makers of the building material asbestos for concealing its linkage with cancer in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Bergman decided to turn his attention to social media after former Facebook executive Frances Haugen leaked thousands of internal company documents in 2021 that showed the company had some knowledge of the potential harm its products could cause.
"These companies make the asbestos industry look like a bunch of Boy Scouts," Bergman said.
Facebook has said the Haugen papers have been mischaracterized and taken out of context, and that Wall Street Journal articles based on them "conferred egregiously false motives to Facebook's leadership and employees".
Bergman's firm has signed up more than 1,200 clients including Laurie over the past year, taking out television ads asking families who worry about their children's social media use to get in touch on a toll-free hotline.
In addition to more than 70 cases involving child suicide, the firm has collected over 600 cases linked to eating disorders.Dozens more accuse social media firms of failing to prevent sex trafficking on their platforms, or stem from accidental deaths after children attempted viral stunts allowed to spread online.
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Laurie's suit is part of a similar bundle of suits filed in California state courts.
HIDING BEHIND SECTION 230
None of these cases - or any of those filed by Bergman - have yet to be heard by a jury, and it is not clear if they ever will.
First, he has to get past Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a provision that provides technology companies some legal immunity for content published on their platform by third parties.
Courts routinely cite the provision when they dismiss lawsuits against social media firms, which prevents the cases from moving on to trial.
In October, for example, a court in Pennsylvania blocked a lawsuit against TikTok brought on behalf of a child who died after suffocating themselves doing a so-called blackout challenge that was widely shared on the video-sharing site.
When it was enacted in the 1990s, Section 230 was intended to shield the nascent tech industry from being crushed under waves of lawsuits, providing space for companies to experiment with platforms that encouraged user-generated content.
Laura Marquez-Garrett, a lawyer with the Social Media Victims Law Center who is taking the lead on Laurie's case, said she believed her cases could be won if a court agreed to hear them.
"The moment we get to litigate ... and move forward, it's game over," she said.
Bergman and Marquez-Garrett are part of growing cohort of lawyers who think Section 230 is no longer tenable, as political pressure builds on the issue.
President Joe Biden has voiced support for "revoking" Section 230, eVDeN EvE NAkliYaT and politicians in both parties have proposed legislation that would scrap or tweak the provision. But so far, no reform packages have gained traction, shifting the focus of reform efforts to litigation.
"We aren't talking about small companies experimenting with new technology; we're talking about huge companies who have built harmful products," Bergman said.
Bergman and his team say the harm to their clients is not primarily about harmful speech that just so happened to be posted online, but that it can directly be attributed to design decisions made by the tech companies.
His lawsuits focus on the building of algorithms that maximize the amount of time children spend online and push them towards harmful content; the way friend recommendation features can introduce children to predatory adults - as well as the lax controls for parents who want to restrict access.
"These lawsuits are about specific design decisions social media platforms have made to maximize profit over safety," Bergman said.
Asked by the Thomson Reuters Foundation to comment on the company's product designs, Meta sent an emailed statement from its global head of safety, Antigone Davis, who said the company takes children's safety seriously.
"We want teens to be safe online. We've developed more than 30 tools to support teens and families, including supervision tools that let parents limit the amount of time their teens spend on Instagram, and age verification technology that helps teens have age-appropriate experiences," the statement read.
A Snap spokesperson did not comment directly on the pending litigation, adding in a statement that "nothing is more important to us than the wellbeing of our community."
"We curate content from known creators and publishers and use human moderation to review user generated content before it can reach a large audience, which greatly reduces the spread and discovery of harmful content," the statement added.
'FOR PARENTS EVERYWHERE'
Laurie's lawsuit - which was filed in late August in the Superior Court of Los Angeles - alleges that TikTok, Meta and Snap, are "contributing to the burgeoning mental health crisis perpetrated upon the children and teenagers of the United States."
"I'm doing this for parents everywhere," she said.
A sharp increase in depression and suicide among U.S.teenagers coincided with a surge in social media use about a decade ago, though a slew of research has reached mixed conclusions about a possible link.
Bergman is not the first lawyer to try to bring a tech firm to court for building an allegedly harmful product.
Carrie Goldberg, a New York-based lawyer, helped to popularize the notion that social media software is essentially like any other consumer product - and that harms it causes in the real world should open up manufacturers to lawsuits.
In 2017, she sued the dating app Grindr on behalf of Matthew Herrick, a man who was stalked and threatened online by an ex-boyfriend, but could not get Grindr to block his harasser.
Goldberg argued that Grindr's decision to make it difficult to kick harassers off the app should open the company up to some liability as designers of the product, but the court disagreed - ruling that Grindr merely facilitated communications, and was therefore protected under Section 230.
"I couldn't get in front of a jury," Goldberg recalled, saying that if such cases were allowed to proceed to trial, they would likely succeed.
A lot has changed in the last five years, she said: the public has become less trusting of social media companies and courts have started to entertain the notion that lawyers should be able to sue tech platforms in the same way as providers of other consumer products or services.
In 2021, the 9th Circuit Court in California ruled that Snap could potentially be held liable for the deaths of two boys who died in a high-speed car accident that took place while they were using a Snapchat filter that their families say encouraged reckless driving.
In October, the U.S.Supreme Court decided to hear a case against Google that accuses its YouTube video platform of materially supporting terrorism due to the algorithmic recommendation of videos by the Islamic State militant group.
Legal experts said that case could set an important precedent for how Section 230 applies to the content recommendations that platforms' algorithms make to users - including those made to children such as Laurie's daughter.
"The pendulum has really swung," Goldberg said."People no longer trust these products are operating in the public good, and the courts are waking up."
Outside the United States, the balance has shifted still further, and is beginning to be reflected both in consumer lawsuits and regulation.
In September, eVden EVe NAkLiYat a British government inquest faulted social media exposure for the suicide of a 14-year-old girl, and lawmakers are poised to implement stringent rules for age verification for social media firms.
But aside from a recent bill in California that mandates "age appropriate design" decisions, efforts in the United States to pass new laws governing digital platforms have largely faltered.
Trial lawyers like Bergman say that leaves the issue in their hands.
CONSENT AND CONTROL
Laurie's daughter got her first cellphone in the sixth grade, when she started taking the bus to school alone.When her mental health began to deteriorate soon after, her mother did not initially make a connection.
"In many ways I was a helicopter parent," Laurie said. "I did everything right - I put the phone in the cupboard at night, we spoke about the appropriate use of technology around the dinner table."
Now, Laurie knows her daughter had secretly opened multiple social media accounts in an attempt to evade her mother's vigilance, spending hours connected at night in her bedroom.
Laurie soon realized her daughter was wearing long-sleeved shirts to cover up cutting scars on her arms.
"When I asked her about it, she said, "Mom, there are videos showing you how to do it on TikTok, and Snapchat - they show you what tools to use."
TikTok and Snap said harmful content is not allowed on their platforms, and they take steps to remove it.
With her self-esteem plummeting, Laurie's daughter was introduced to older users on Snapchat and Instagram who sought to groom and sexually exploit her - including requesting sexually explicit images from her, according to her lawyers.
Although Laurie wanted to keep her daughter offline, social media platforms designed their products "to evade parental consent and control," her lawsuit alleges.
A Meta spokesperson pointed to a number of recent initiatives to give parents control over their children's online activity, including a "Family Center," introduced in 2022, which allows parents to monitor and limit time spent on Instagram.
Laurie's daughter surreptitiously opened five Instagram, six Snapchat and three TikTok accounts, according to her lawsuit, many before she turned 13 - the age when social media firms can allow minors to open accounts.
"There was no way for me to contact all these companies and say, 'don't let my daughter log in,'" Laurie said.
Though Laurie wanted to further restrict her daughter's social media access, she was concerned that - since all her classmates were communicating on the apps - her daughter would feel socially excluded without them.
ENDLESS SCROLLING
Laurie's daughter is just one data point in a trend that psychologists have been trying to make sense of over the last decade.
Between the years of 2012 and 2015, U.S. teenagers reporting symptoms of depression increased by 21% - the number was double for girls, said Jean Twenge, an American psychologist and researcher studying mental health trends.
Three times as many 12- to 14-year-old girls killed themselves in 2015 as in 2007, Twenge said.
Until about 10 years ago, cases involving depression, self-harm and anxiety had been stable for decades, said Grant, the psychologist.
"Then we see this big spike around 2012 - what happened in 2011?The advent of Snapchat and Instagram," he said.
One driver of this trend, researchers say, is social comparison - the way that products including Instagram and TikTok are engineered to push users to constantly compare themselves to their peers in a way that can torpedo self-esteem.
"She'd say "Mom, I'm ugly, I'm fat"," Laurie recalled of her daughter. "Keep in mind: she's 98 pounds (44 kg), and 5 foot 5 (165 cm)."
"So I'd ask her, 'why do you think this?' And she'd say, 'because I posted a photo and only four people liked it'."
Grant said he sees children hooked by very specific design choices that social media companies have made.
"Just think about endless scrolling - that's based on the motion of slot machines - addictive gambling," said Grant, who spent years treating adult addiction before turning his focus to children's technology use.
Still, mental health experts are divided on the interplay between children's mental health and social media use.
"Social media is often a scapegoat," said Yalda Uhls, a professor of developmental psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
"It's easier to blame (it) than the systematic issues in our society - there's inequality, racism, climate change, and there's parenting decisions too."
While some children may attribute a mental health challenge to social media, others say the opposite. Polling by Pew in November showed that less than 10% of teens said social media was having a "mostly negative" impact on their lives.
There are still big gaps in research into concepts such as social media addiction and digital harm to children, said Jennifer King, a research fellow at the Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.
"But the internal research - the Frances Haugen documents - are damning," she said. "And of course, it was shark bait for trial lawyers."
INHERENTLY DANGEROUS?
Toney Roberts was watching CNN at 2 a.m. on a winter's evening in early 2022, when he saw an advertisement he never expected to see.
A woman on screen invited parents to call a 1-800 number if they had a "child (who) suffered a mental health crisis, eating disorder, attempted or completed suicide or was sexually exploited through social media."
"I thought, wait, this is what happened to our daughter," he recalled.
It had been more than a year since he found his 14-year-old daughter Englyn hanging in her room. She eventually died from her injuries.
Roberts later discovered that his daughter had viewed a video depicting the specific suicide method on Instagram, and that in the months leading up to her death she had been sucked into an online world of self-harm content, and abuse.
He began to comb through his daughter's phone, creating a dossier of her mental health spiral, which he attributed to her use of Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.
To his distress, he found the video that may have played a part in her death was still circulating on Instagram for months after she died.
Meta declined to comment on the Roberts case, but said in an emailed statement that the company does not "allow content that promotes suicide, self-harm or eating disorders."
After Roberts called the 1-800 number, Bergman and Marquez-Garrett flew to Louisiana to meet the family, and last July, he and his wife Brandy sued the three social media companies.
"I didn't want my daughter to be a statistic," Roberts said, adding that the user who created the video he thinks inspired his daughter's suicide still has an active Instagram account.
TikTok and Snapchat also declined to comment on the case.
Bergman often compares his cases against social media platforms to the avalanche of lawsuits that targeted tobacco companies in the 1950s onwards: lawyers only began winning cases after leaked documents showed advance knowledge of cancer-causing chemicals.
In Laurie's case, for example, the lawsuit cites documents made public by Haugen showing an internal Facebook conversation about how 70% of the reported "adult/minor exploitation" on the platform could be traced back to recommendations made through the "People You May Know" feature.
Another employee suggests in the same message board that the tool should be disabled for children.
Meta did not directly respond to a request for comment on the document.
Since the so-called Facebook Papers were first published in September 2021, Meta has made a number of changes, including restricting the ability of children to message adults who Instagram flags as "suspicious."
But at the time Laurie's daughter was using social media, none of the platforms had meaningful restrictions on the ability of adults to message children, her lawyers say, a design choice they argue should open the companies up to legal liability.
Bergman said facts like this illustrate social media litigation should become the next "Big Tobacco."
Some other lawyers are not convinced by the parallel, however.
"For every person that gets harmed or hurt in real ways, I suspect there are literally millions who have no problems at all, and are having a great time on the platform," said Jason Schultz, director of New York University's Tech Law and Policy Clinic.
"Courts are going to have to ask: is this really an inherently dangerous thing?"
DESIGN DECISIONS
King, for her part, agrees that design choices made by the platforms are problematic.
"There's growing evidence that the companies made design decisions that were so skewed toward promoting engagement, that they can lead users to very harmful places," she said.
John Villasenor, the co-director of the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law, and Policy, said it could be hard to distinguish between a well-designed algorithm and one that might under some circumstances promote addictive behaviors.
"It's not unreasonable for platforms to build digital products that encourage more engagement," he said.
"And if someone is prone to addiction, and can't stop using it - is that always the platform's fault?"
In late 2022, Laurie's daughter returned home after spending a chunk of her high school years in residential treatment centers.
Each week, she sits down with her mother so they can go through everything she has posted on Instagram - the only social media platform Laurie decided to let her keep using, so she could still connect with her friends.
Today, she is doing much better, Laurie said."I feel like I have my daughter back."
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