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Ellen Barry

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Covering mental health for the New York Times, former Boston, Delhi, Moscow bureau chief. At home in New England. Retweet ≠ endorsement. [email protected].

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RT @peterbakernyt: A company founded by RFK Jr.'s right hand helps supply people with letters attesting to their medical need for products….
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The start-up, called Truemed, helps people buy meat and mattresses with money that isn’t subject to federal income tax. But does the tax break apply?
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RT @saraecook: EXCLUSIVE: Despite vow to remove the worst offenders, ICE data shows less than 1% of deportees had murder convictions. Of th….
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A majority of the people deported by ICE this year were convicted of traffic or immigration offenses, not violent crimes, according to data obtained by CBS News.
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RT @JonLemire: The Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people abroad who need it. Nearly 5….
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Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
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RT @DKThomp: Two weeks ago, Marco Rubio said USAID “has little to show since the end of the Cold War.”. Days earlier, a Lancet study estima….
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Brilliant @antontroian dispatch from Dubai, which has replaced London and Palm Beach as redoubt for the Russian elite. Manages to show how, and why, powerful Russians have stuck with Putin as he led their country into fratricidal war. (Read to the end.).
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It’s a key refuge for Moscow’s wealthy, including the record producer Iosif Prigozhin. He insists he still loves President Vladimir V. Putin, no matter what you’ve heard.
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RT @Jenna_DC: NEW: President Trump loves ICE. But a “mission impossible” deportation campaign has left many employees burned out, morally c….
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A “mission impossible” deportation campaign has left many employees burned out and morally conflicted.
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RT @peterbakernyt: Even now, he opposes illegal immigrants. "They're parasites," he says. But his wife is an illegal immigrant. "I'm a walk….
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Chris Allred’s views were shaped by economic changes. Now, facing an immigration crackdown, where do he and his wife go from here?
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Comments are open on this piece on antidepressant withdrawal and a new analysis suggesting that withdrawal symptoms are, on balance, mild and transient.
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Warnings about withdrawal from antidepressants have rippled through society in recent years. A new study claims they are overblown.
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A new study published today in JAMA Psychiatry finds withdrawal from antidepressants is mostly mild and transient, a finding its authors hope will reassure patients. However, the new analysis is unlikely to resolve debate about antidepressant withdrawal, which is hampered by a.
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RT @ByMikeBaker: I wanted to finish this night on one positive note:. This is Scott Ruskan, a Coast Guard rescue swimmer. He is credited wi….
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RT @lrozen: 🧵 “2 US contractors…said they were coming forward because they were disturbed by what they considered dangerous & irresponsible….
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RT @BostonGlobe: Zohran Mamdani, who claimed a shocking victory in New York’s Democratic mayoral primary, has repeatedly cited Boston Mayor….
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Zohran Mamdani has repeatedly cited Michelle Wu as a sitting mayor whose time in office inspires him.
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A grand jury indicted researcher Kseniia Petrova on smuggling charges today. The case arose Feb 16, when she flew into Logan Airport carrying samples of frog embryos for use in a lab at Harvard Medical School.
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Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard researcher, was detained in February after failing to declare scientific samples she was carrying into the country.
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Stunning multimedia road trip through Syria from @NYTBen & @dguttenfelder takes you through one shattered place after another, stopping for scenes of bitterness & grace.
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After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the length of the country to explore its hopes and its challenges.
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RT @nytimes: In @nytopinion . “The rapid rise in autism cases is not because of vaccines or environmental toxins, but rather is the result….
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The addition of Asperger’s syndrome to the D.S.M. had enormous unintended consequences.
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RT @anneapplebaum: The disaster is just beginning.
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RT @GregTSargent: Amazing. NYT has more confirmation that Trump's decision to bomb Iran was motivated in large part by the way the Israeli….
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A large, longitudinal study of children's use of screens found that higher screen time did not predict suicidal behavior four years later. The children at highest risk, the researchers found, were the ones who said they were "addicted" to their devices.
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Researchers found children with highly addictive use of phones, video games or social media were two to three times as likely to have thoughts of suicide or to harm themselves.
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