Police were called on Ayanna Harris-Rashid while she was sitting up in bed with her newborn son, wanted on a felony charge of child neglect, according to CBS News. This was due to a flawed drug test at the hospital, where both she and the baby tested positive for marijuana after she used legal CBD gummies and a topical hemp-based ointment throughout her pregnancy. This incident is one example of tens of thousands of mothers who were flagged to police over similar issues, CBS News reported.
The incident occurred in March of 2021, when Harris-Rashid had just given birth to her third child. The hospital filed a report with the South Carolina Department of Social Services, which forwarded the information to police, records show, according to CBS News. An officer demanded Harris-Rashid turn herself in. She said goodbye to her children and husband, whispering to her newborn son, "I'm so sorry."
In other news, a massive brawl broke out between the Charlotte Hornets and Detroit Pistons on Monday night, leading to four ejections in a wild third-quarter scene, Fox News reported. Hornets players Moussa Diabate and Miles Bridges, as well as Pistons Jalen Duren and Isaiah Stewart, were all ejected from the game. The incident began when Duren was backing down Diabate in the paint, and the latter fouled the former with around seven minutes to play in the third quarter.
Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said his country would not negotiate on its ballistic missile program, rejecting a core U.S. demand and further dimming prospects for a breakthrough deal, according to Fox News. He warned in an interview with Al Jazeera that Tehran, Iran, would target U.S. bases in the Middle East if provoked, calling Iran's missile program "never negotiable." The warnings came as U.S. and Iranian negotiators met in early February in Oman, even as Washington continued to build up military presence in the region.
In the realm of nuclear arms, the United States is actively weighing the deployment of more nuclear weapons and is also likely to conduct a nuclear test of some kind, according to the NY Times. These steps would reverse nearly 40 years of stricter nuclear control by the United States. President Trump would be the first president since Ronald Reagan to increase them again, if he chose to do so. The last time the United States conducted a nuclear test was 1992.
Finally, the world's largest social media companies have been accused of creating "addiction machines" as a landmark trial began in California examining the mental health effects of Instagram and YouTube, according to BBC Technology. In his opening argument before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl and a jury, Mark Lanier argued that his client, plaintiff "K.G.M.," suffered from mental health issues as a result of her social media addiction. "These companies built machines designed to addict the brains of children, and they did it on purpose," Lanier said. Lawyers for Meta and YouTube told the jury that K.G.M.'s addiction stemmed from other issues in her life.
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