After talking to nearly 1,100 teens about social media and making a terrifying self-harm discovery, 17-year-old deleted TikTok, Instagram
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The kids are not alright — and they know it.
It seems like Americans can’t agree on anything today, but if there’s one thing Gen Z is in lockstep about, it’s this: Social media has robbed them of their time, their happiness and their wellbeing.
Hallie Zilberman, a junior at Aspen High School in Aspen, Colorado, feels it. And she knew she couldn’t be the only one.
So the 17-year-old surveyed 1,084 other teenage girls from around the US, asking about their mental health, to confirm her suspicion that growing up online has devastated her generation.
About 6 in 10 agreed that they feel overwhelmed every day, have daily anxiety and feel pressure to be perfect.
She also found that about half — 48.6% — of the surveyed girls have thought about self-harm in the past six months.
Bombshell rape accusations against revered labor leader Cesar Chavez were revealed on Wednesday, a day after celebrations in his name were canceled across California. A report from the New York Times detailed accounts from multiple women, two of whom said they were children when Chavez began sexually abusing them.
Let us all pity Mayor Zohran Mamdani: Yes, he gets to run America’s greatest city, live in a mansion courtesy of the taxpayers and bathe in world fame and the love of most media — but the poor guy feels “loneliness” and “isolation” … because of all the Islamophobia he faces.
The Trump administration aims to “rebalance” the media by encouraging television broadcasters to “stand up” for their communities and air more patriotic programming, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr said in the latest episode of “Pod Force One.”
An off-duty NYPD cop shot and gravely wounded a man suspected of stealing his wife’s car in the Bronx late Monday, law enforcement sources said.
As the saying goes, when you’re a hammer, the whole world looks like nail.
Landlords of rent-stabilized apartments are urging Mayor Zohran Mamdani to lobby to fix a state law they claim is keeping thousands of vacant rent-stabilized units off the market — even as the city grapples with homelessness and an affordable housing problem.
President Trump allowed the deadline for candidates to drop out to pass Tuesday without making an endorsement in the hotly contested Republican Texas Senate primary runoff race.
The reason why we have the Fifth Fleet, one of the most awesome naval forces ever assembled in the history of mankind, is to protect the sea lanes in the Middle East.
New York City is already one of the most expensive places in the world to drive.
It’s the pluck of the Irish.
A Brooklyn woman attacked her sister with a meat cleaver in what she called a “death sentence” — slicing off several fingers and leaving her in a pool of blood, officials said.