April 2022

Men are dying from a lack of attention

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Recently, a friend showed me a sobering graphic depicting the gender disparity in suicide rates between men and women. While females tend to attempt suicide more often than men (and experience suicidal thoughts more frequently,) males are more “successful” in completing the act.

TODAY IN HISTORY

1652 - Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa

Federal lawsuit seeks to block end to sweeping asylum limits

PHOENIX (AP) — Conservative-led governments in Arizona, Louisiana and Missouri have sued President Joe Biden’s administration to prevent federal officials from ending a public health rule that allows many asylum seekers to be turned away at the southern U.S. border.

Board ponders future of Gulf Coast passenger trains

A federal board began hearing testimony Monday on whether to let Amtrak resume passenger train service linking New Orleans and Alabama’s main port city over the objections of freight companies.

NATIONAL BRIEFS

Louisiana sheriff’s deputy shoots man, 20, following crash

Execution suit tossed because Louisiana can’t get drugs

BATON ROUGE (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a nearly decadeold lawsuit against executions in Louisiana, saying there’s nothing to challenge because the state can only get the required drugs as medicines.

Dems, GOP Senate bargainers reach $10B COVID agreement

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate bargainers reached agreement Monday on a slimmed-down $10 billion package for countering COVID-19 with treatments, vaccines and other steps, the top Democratic and Republican negotiators said, but the measure dropped all funding to help nations abroad combat the pandemic.

Arrest made in Sacramento mass shooting case

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Sacramento police arrested a man Monday connected to the shooting that killed six people and wounded a dozen others in the heart of California’s capital as at least two shooters fired more than 100 rapidfire rounds and people ran for their lives.

Suddenly, Twitter’s biggest shareholder is Tesla’s Elon Musk

(AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk has acquired a 9 percent stake in Twitter to become its largest shareholder while joining other critics in questioning the social media platform’s dedication to free speech and the First Amendment.

With students in turmoil, US teachers train in mental health

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As Benito Luna-Herrera teaches his seventh-grade social studies classes, he is on alert for signs of inner turmoil. And there is so much of it these days.