About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., a wrenching milestone that suggests suicides are more common in the U.S. than at any time since the dawn of World War II.
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About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., the highest number ever. That's according to new government data posted Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not yet calculated a suicide rate for the year. But available data suggests suicides are more common in the U.S. than at any time since the dawn of World War II. Experts caution that suicide is complicated, and that recent increases might be driven by higher rates of depression or limited availability of mental health services. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention says a main driver is the growing availability of guns.
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Prosecutors have begun making their case for a life sentence for a Michigan teenager who killed four students at his high school in 2021. They introduced dark journal entries written by Ethan Crumbley, chilling video and testimony from a wounded staff member. Molly Darnell was one of seven people wounded that day. Darnell says she “locked eyes” with a boy in baggy clothes raising a gun toward her. After she was shot, she scrambled to lock her office door. Crumbley's attorneys acknowledge that he's in line for a long prison sentence, but they want him to be eligible for parole. The hearing resumes Friday.
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North Carolina's Republican House speaker says a sweeping education proposal that would take away power from superintendents and the State Board of Education is unlikely to advance this session. The 26-page bill would require parental permission for children to access libraries, extracurricular activities and mental health services. House Speaker Tim Moore said he does not expect it to move this session. There has been “some pushback within the caucus about some provisions concerning librarians or books," he said Thursday. But a provision requiring teachers to alert parents if their child self-identifies as a gender different from their sex assigned at birth could still become law this year.