Calls increased by 45 percent after suicide hotline number switch
Calls to the national suicide hotline increased by 45 percent during the week after it switched to 988 from a longer number. The hotline received approximately 30,000 more calls, texts and chats the week it transitioned to 988 than it had the week before, the line’s Director of Marketing and Communications Hannah Collins told The Hill. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline moved to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline last Saturday. From July 14 through Wednesday, called “transition week” by the 988 Lifeline, the hotline received over 96,000 communications,
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Former DC officer assaulted by Jan. 6 mob: Josh Hawley 'ran like a b—-'
A former Washington, D.C., police officer who was assaulted during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former president Trump expressed outrage at newly-revealed video showing Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) running through the Capitol to get away from the mob during the siege. "The first thoughts that popped into my mind was Josh Hawley is a bitch. And he ran like a bitch," Micheal Fanone, who has since retired from law enforcement and is now a CNN contributor
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