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Alabama state senator chides male colleagues for letting parental leave bill die

May. 04, 2024 14:49 PM EDT

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Senate this week approved, and then killed, a bill that would give public school teachers eight weeks of paid parental leave. Senators on Thursday voted 26-2 for the measure but then refused to grant the unanimous consent required to send the...

'I will not feed a demon': YouTuber Ruby Franke's child abuse case rooted in religious extremism

Mar. 22, 2024 23:55 PM EDT

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The malnourished and badly bruised son of a parenting advice YouTuber politely asks a neighbor to take him to the nearest police station in newly released video from the day his mother and her business partner were arrested on child abuse charges in southern Utah. ...

YouTube mom Ruby Franke apologizes at sentencing in child abuse case

Feb. 20, 2024 19:22 PM EST

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Ruby Franke, a Utah mother of six who gave parenting advice to millions via a once-popular a YouTube channel, shared a tearful apology to her children for physically and emotionally abusing them before a judge delivered a sentence that could put her in prison for years, if...