Children
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World
Epic Games to Pay $520 Million Over Children’s Privacy and Trickery Charges
The creator of popular games like Fortnite and Rocket League violated children’s privacy and duped millions of users into unwanted purchases, federal regulators said.
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World
Which Virus Is It This Time? New Yorkers Are Sick of Being Sick.
New Yorkers are contending with a bewildering and miserable mix of symptoms as Covid, flu, R.S.V. and various mystery illnesses circulate.
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Health
Opposition to School Vaccine Mandates Has Grown Significantly, Study Finds
A third of parents now feel they should be the ones to decide whether to get their children immunized against measles, mumps and other childhood diseases.
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Sports
Want To Encourage Young Runners? Here Is What to Do (And What to Avoid)
As youth running options expand, pro runners offer tips on how to encourage children and teens in ways that make them more likely to love the sport.
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World
Transgender Americans Feel Under Siege as Political Vitriol Rises
Language about pedophiles and “grooming” of young children has intensified a movement, reminiscent of campaigns dating to the 1970s, that seeks to turn transgender people into a political wedge.
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World
F.D.A. Authorizes Updated Covid Shots for Children as Young as 6 Months
The move broadens access to the reformulated shots, but only a small fraction of the country’s youngest children are likely to get one of the new doses in the near future.
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World
Fears of Violence Rise on New Front in Gender Debate: Drag Shows
Protesters, conservative commentators and Republican politicians have accused the performers of targeting children, raising the stakes and the threats.
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World
Free to Be You and Me. Or Not.
If you grew up in any remotely liberal enclave of America in the 1970s or 1980s, you grew up believing a few things. You believed that you lived in a land where the children were free, where it didn’t matter whether you were a boy or a girl because ...
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Health
Who Will Care for ‘Kinless’ Seniors?
Lynne Ingersoll and her cat, Jesse, spent a quiet Thanksgiving Day together in her small bungalow in Blue Island, Ill. A retired librarian, Ms. Ingersoll never married or had children. At 77, she has outlived her parents, three partners, her two ...
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World
Mother Held After Toddler and Baby Are Fatally Stabbed in the Bronx
Two small children died in a Bronx family shelter on Saturday night after being stabbed several times each in the neck and torso, and their ...