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They thought she was making it all up. It cost a little boy his life. From cops and social workers to lawyers and judges, Long Island mom Justyna Zubko-Valva claims no one took her warnings about her NYPD cop husband, Michael Valva, seriously. Alleging sex abuse, starvation, brainwashing, beatings and possible child porn, the mom had insisted their three sons were suffering at Valva’s hands. But instead of getting help, Zubko-Valva became lost in a legal labyrinth where she was the one on trial, painted as a scorned woman with a “vendetta,” court papers show. One Suffolk County Family Court prosecutor...

So at AOC’s town hall, a woman was selected to ask a question and she told AOC her new campaign slogan needs to be “eat the babies!” because there’s “too much CO2” and we need to save the planet from climate change.

From the same people who declared that milk was a symbol of white supremacy comes this blisteringly-hot take: cheese is the most sexist food there is, cows are regularly raped on farms, and the act of eating cheese is failing to combat sexism. "Contrary to popular belief," explains PETA, cows only produce milk when they're pregnant or have just given birth. In order to keep producing milk, PETA describes how cows are "raped" to become pregnant again and again and how their calves are treated immediately after birth.

NEW YORK -- A young man who told his family that he was distraught over the result of the presidential election was found dead Saturday, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, inside the gated pit where the World Trade Center once stood, authorities said. He was identified as Andrew Veal, 25, of Athens, Ga. Veal had worked for the University of Georgia's Survey Research Center, where the center's director, James Bason, said: "He was a great worker. And he got along well with everyone. Again, we are all at a loss at to why something like this would happen."

BY ROCCO PARASCANDOLA, DEBORAH MORRIS AND SEAN GARDINER Staff Writers November 6, 2004, 7:11 PM EST Distraught over the re-election of President George W. Bush, a Georgia man traveled to New York City, went to Ground Zero and killed himself with a shotgun blast, police said yesterday. The suicide victim, Andrew Veal, 25, was discovered just before 8 a.m. yesterday when a worker for the Millennium Hotel looking at Ground Zero from an upper floor saw a man lying atop the concrete structure through which the 1 and 9 subway lines run.

<p>I would like to express my gratitude and appreciation to Mr. Hagan (Aug. 8, Letters to the Editor) for his letter about veal, especially as he makes his case elegantly, without resorting to the kind of tedious animal-rights boilerplate in which such messages are often clad.</p>

Afghan men fight to hold a headless calf in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 29, 2002, during a buzkashi game between the teams of Panjshir and Parwan provinces. Buzkashi is a sport in which horseriders try to carry the beheaded body of an animal around a flag and into a circle. The game was banned during Taliban rule in Afghanistan, but has come back since the new interim government took office in December 2001. On Monday, Defense Minister Qasim Fahim presided over this game marking the 10th anniversaryof the end of communist rule. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)