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News Articles: children

Rescue workers evacuate villagers through a boat from a flooded area of Pakpattan district of Pakistan's Punjab province, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023.

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  • Asia

Millions of children need aid a year after Pakistan's devastating floods, UNICEF says

Dozens of countries and institutions pledged more than $9 billion to help Pakistan rebuild from last summer's floods. But most of the pledges are for project loans still in the planning stages.

August 25, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Poor Kids: asset-mezzanine-16x9

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  • News

Snared in red tape, more than 63,000 Georgia kids lost Medicaid access to doctor last month

Children accounted for about two-thirds of the nearly 96,000 Georgians who lost their Medicaid coverage last month as part of the nationwide unwinding of a pandemic-era federal policy.

July 31, 2023
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By:
  • Jill Nolin
Doctors are alarmed at the numbers of children seen in emergency rooms with gun-related injuries.

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  • News

More children are going to the ER with gun injuries. Georgia doctors want lawmakers to do something

Read the letter emergency room pediatricians wrote to Georgia lawmakers about the gun crisis.

July 27, 2023
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By:
  • Donna Lowry
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  • Children's Health

'Every community needs a park': Late leader's vision continues to revitalize Macon's Southside

Neighbors, family and local officials cut the ribbon Tuesday on the new Frankie E. Lewis Park. 

June 07, 2023
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas and
  • Eliza Moore
Maria Caprigno and her son, Harry, at Disney World.

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  • Children's Health

13 years after bariatric surgery, a 27-year-old says it changed her life

Maria Caprigno was one of the youngest people in the U.S. to get the surgery. As parents and doctors grapple with the obesity treatment for teens, Caprigno cites the long-term benefits.

April 18, 2023
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By:
  • Yuki Noguchi
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2 abducted Missouri children are found in Florida after being missing nearly a year

Two abducted children who had been missing from Missouri for almost a year were found in a Florida grocery store with their non-custodial mother, who was taken into police custody, authorities said.

February 06, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Fifth-graders wearing face masks sit at proper social distancing during a music class at the Milton Elementary School in Rye, N.Y., May 18, 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic that shuttered classrooms set back learning in some U.S. school systems by more than a year, with children in high-poverty areas affected the most, according to data shared with The Associated Press.

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  • Children's Health

COVID-19 is a leading cause of death among children, but is still rare

Children ages 19 and under died from COVID-19 at a rate at 1 per 100,000, making it rare, but still a leading cause of death among that age group.

January 31, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Hospital staff take care of orphaned children at the children's regional hospital maternity ward in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. Throughout the war in Ukraine, Russian authorities have been accused of deporting Ukrainian children to Russia or Russian-held territories to raise them as their own.

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  • Europe

Ukrainians say they hid orphaned children from Russian deportation

The staff at the children's regional hospital in Kherson city, Ukraine, say they began fabricating orphans' medical records to make it appear like they were too ill to move.

December 05, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Sesame Street Executive Producer Sal Perez and Grover

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  • Television

'Sesame Street' celebrates diversity with a history-making executive producer

The beloved children's TV show Sesame Street is back with an all-new season of shows devoted to diversity and inclusion. All of it is happening under the direction of a history-making new executive producer.

November 14, 2022
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  • Leah Fleming
Jefferson County School District Food Service Department staff arrange some of the hundreds of free lunches that was given to students on March 3, 2021 in Fayette, Miss. As one of the most food insecure counties in the United States, many families and their children come to depend on the free meals as their only means of daily sustenance.

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  • Family

Food access increased for children in 2021, but decreased for adults living alone

Children had more access to food in 2021 compared to the previous year. But for other groups such as the elderly and women living alone, food insecurity was on the rise, according to the U.S.

September 08, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Law enforcement work the scene on Tuesday after a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

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  • National

All of the Uvalde school shooting victims were in the same 4th grade classroom

The 19 students and two teachers killed in the Uvalde, Texas, shooting were all in the same classroom, Lt. Christopher Olivarez of the Texas Department of Public Safety told CNN on Wednesday.

May 25, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
The cover of Mothercoin next to the author.

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  • Race

In 'Mothercoin', the labor of love transcends borders

Mothercoin, by Elizabeth Cummins Muñoz, takes an intimate look at the lives of immigrant nannies in Houston, and how their work in private homes affects their relationship with their own children.

May 08, 2022
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By:
  • Diba Mohtasham
Unidentified child with their head down

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  • News

Child abuse cases on the rise after COVID lows

Officials in Atlanta’s Fulton County have signed a multi-agency document outlining how child abuse cases — which are  rising in number — should be investigated.

May 02, 2022
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  • Orlando Montoya
LeVar Burton has won 12 Daytime Emmys and a Peabody Award for his work as the host and executive producer of the longtime PBS children's program <em>Reading Rainbow. </em>

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  • Arts & Life

LeVar Burton will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the new children's Emmys

Reading Rainbow, a program dedicated to children's literacy, aired on PBS for 23 years. LeVar Burton has won 12 Daytime Emmys and a Peabody Award for his work on the show.

April 28, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
A Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is prepared during a pop-up vaccine clinic at Cristo Rey Church in East Austin on July 24, 2021.

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  • Health

Moderna wants the FDA to authorize its COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 6

No deaths were reported in tests, and there were no signs of myocarditis, or heart inflammation, as a side effect.

March 23, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
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