Joe Ward
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Researchers are finding CTE in ever-younger brains. The parents of some of these contact-sport athletes bravely and openly shared their stories with us. Their conversations with us were raw, honest and emotional. Here is a free link:
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They started playing football as kids, began to suffer mentally and died before 30. Researchers found they had C.T.E., the brain disease linked to hits to the head. If their families could go back,...
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Spoke to @mikiebarb for The Daily about research connecting CTE and young athletes, even teens. It features grieving families we got to know through our reporting. https://t.co/Nh7Hxk4GDq
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A new study suggests that a disease many believed was reserved for professional athletes is also afflicting young amateurs.
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So they returned home, but days later, bombs began crashing into their own neighborhood. They ran out before their own home collapsed. After seeking help at a hospital, they were forced south again. “There is no safe place,” Ms. Badawi said. https://t.co/ItCXy4vkb7
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Sondos Badawi and her family heeded the order to flee, leaving their home in Gaza City to stay with friends south of the evacuated area. But airstrikes followed them, pounding the neighborhood they were staying in. https://t.co/ItCXy4vkb7
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In the weeks after Israel ordered civilians to evacuate to the south, it continued to strike there too. https://t.co/ItCXy4vkb7
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Entire neighborhoods are unrecognizable. Israel says civilian casualties are inevitable because Hamas embeds within Gaza’s population. The war began after Hamas rampaged across southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 people, by Israeli estimates. https://t.co/ItCXy4vkb7
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More than 16,000 people have been killed in the Hamas-run territory, according to the health ministry. Half the buildings in the north have been damaged or destroyed. https://t.co/ItCXy4vkb7
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In the Gaza Strip, where more than two million people are trapped, death can feel imminent. This is life there: constant Israeli airstrikes, which have resumed after a truce; food and water are scarce. Nowhere feels safe. This is 60 days in Gaza. https://t.co/ItCXy4vkb7
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The father of Josh and George Atkinson and the parents of Wyatt Bramwell, Hunter Foraker and Meiko Locksley relived the worst moments of their lives in the hope of shedding light on CTE, mental health and suicide. We thank them for their trust. https://t.co/jmVnKxUPLx
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All CTE stories hurt, but the videos in this one are devastating. Be prepared.
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They started playing football as kids, began to suffer mentally and died before 30. Researchers found they had C.T.E., the brain disease linked to hits to the head. If their families could go back,...
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I strongly recommend you take the time for this interactive report about youth football and brain damage. Absolutely stellar work by @KassieBracken @JohnBranchNYT @benjaminlaffin @the_log_lady @wardnyt
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They started playing football as kids, began to suffer mentally and died before 30. Researchers found they had C.T.E., the brain disease linked to hits to the head. If their families could go back,...
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Grieving families struggle with the dilemma: Should we have let our child play? An honor to help tell these stories. Join the conversation with this gift article. They Started Playing Football as Young as 6. They Died in Their Teens and Twenties With CTE https://t.co/Xbg9tL6hs1
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They started playing football as kids, began to suffer mentally and died before 30. Researchers found they had C.T.E., the brain disease linked to hits to the head. If their families could go back,...
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On Saturday, a “ring of fire” solar eclipse will sweep across the Western Hemisphere. Viewers in the darkest part of the moon’s shadow, below, will see a ring of light around the moon. Others will see the crescent sun of a partial solar eclipse. https://t.co/Gcmh7M5FCG
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The #NewsEmmys Award for Interactive Media goes to How We Went Inside the Apocalyptic Worldview of ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ (@nytimes).
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This incredible family has gracefully and bravely shared its journey throughout so that others might learn and feel. I had the honor of spending time with the Snows in Calgary last year. I hope they feel the love from all corners.
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Only 44 people are said to have reached the summit of all 14 of the world’s highest mountains. Now, researchers are questioning whether any of them have really done it.
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The insatiable search for oil and gas has become the latest threat to the endangered aquifers in the U.S., a reminder that to strike oil in America, you need plenty of water.
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A Times analysis shows that increasingly complex oil and gas wells now require astonishing volumes of water to fracture the bedrock and release fossil fuels, threatening America’s fragile aquifers.
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In shuttering @NYTSports, per @barrysvrluga, we lose “the idea that deep reporting & elegant writing can elevate the understanding of sports…that [it] can enhance the experience of watching a competition, not just reproduce what everyone saw.”
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The New York Times sports section will soon go away. Here’s why it will be missed.
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As @nytsports goes to bed for the last time tonight, a note of love and thanks to all the readers, colleagues and sources who have made these the best 18 years I could have never imagined.
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Today, Boston University released a study of 152 brains of athletes under 30. Among them was Meiko Locksley, a former football player whose brain had Stage 1 C.T.E. His father is Michael Locksley, the head coach at the University of Maryland. https://t.co/5NYNhgLhpH
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Over more than a century, hundreds of thousands of Native American children were sent to boarding school — many forcibly removed from their families. They endured abuse, malnourishment and manual labor. At least hundreds died.
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New research reveals the vast scope of the Native American boarding school system, which for more than a century removed Native children from their homes and families in an effort to assimilate them....
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