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Convicted child sex offender back in court after being charged with possession of AI-generated child pornography

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut published a press release on Monday related to a man being charged with child exploitation offenses related to artificial intelligence-generated child pornography. Travis Tilley, 40, originally from Naugatuck, appeared in New Haven federal court on Monday after he was charged with the receipt of possession of child pornography. It appears that this is not the first time Tilley has had a run-in with authorities related to child exploitation crimes.

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Nigeria: herdsmen kill 28 Christians in three days

“Some groups of Muslim Fulanis have attacked three Christian villages in Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue state”, said area resident Florence Aaka, who said 28 Christians were killed. According to Henry Agba, chairman of the Gwer West Local Government Council, armed herdsmen killed the Christians in Mbabwande village, Gyaluwa village and a community along Naka/Adoka Road.

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Relationships matter: Building stability in an unstable world

The survey also revealed that for young people, it’s not the quantity of relationships that matter, but the quality. We learned that “young adults with fewer but deeper relationships” felt more secure than those with many superficial relationships. I think this truth applies to us all — from young kids to senior adults. Each of us longs to be authentically known by at least one other individual, but that takes intentionality, vulnerability and investment.

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Rise in parents engaging in sex-selection during IVF has the fertility biz booming

Sex selection has long been practiced, albeit not using IVF; instead, parents sometimes found out the sex of their baby during an ultrasound, and if it was the “wrong” sex, they sought an abortion. Though this has typically been a way to bolster a cultural preference for boys, Slate pointed out that in the United States, it’s become the opposite: the market is skewed toward girls.

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