Researchers at UCLA found that women who were living with a high density of household objects had high levels of the stress hormone cortisol.
They walked for miles, each of them weighed down with backpacks and plastic sacks filled with clothes and other belongings. At the edge of Gaza City, they found a pickup truck to take them the rest of the way.They arrived after sunset, too late to set up their tents. A family in an intact apartment building was kind enough to take them in for the night, Ne’man said.
Ne’man’s brothers joined with their families. It took them three days to clear a lot of rubble and wreckage, smooth down the earth, pound tent pegs into the ground and erect seven tents for all of them. Majida and her daughters lay mattresses on the ground inside and arranged their things around them.The men dug a pit by the edge of the lot for all the families to use as a toilet.Then they sat for their meal of the day. Majida made a broth of boiled water, some tomato sauce and a little bit of bulghur wheat, then she mashed shreds of stale bread into it.
Now they face an unknown future.His daughters are depressed and see little hope, he said. Wherever they move, there is still Israeli bombardment. All they can do is try to flee death, over and over, Ne’man said.
“We want the torrents of blood to stop,” he said. “But this is our nation, our land. Even if it is soaked in our blood, we won’t leave it.”
Keath reported from Cairo.Hilson, who had yet to drop her introductory album, “In A Perfect World,” which debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard Top 200 and No. 1 on Top R&B albums, claimed that she was forced to sing the lines, “She can sing / But she need to move it to the left, left,” assumed to reference Beyoncé’s “Irreplaceable.” She says she was threatened her album might not be released if she refused.
Keri Hilson poses for a portrait on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Gary Gerard Hamilton)Keri Hilson poses for a portrait on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Gary Gerard Hamilton)
Last week, Hilson trended on social media following an interview with iHeartMedia’s “The Breakfast Club” after recalling the incident. While she has talked about it several times in the past, during that interview, the singer publicly named those involved, including producer Polow Da Don who she was signed to. She did not name singer-songwriter Ester Dean. However, after social media users tagged Dean in posts, she later identified herself.The ending of a decadelong relationship, a lack of control over her career and the intense, never-ending backlash from the BeyHive triggered depression and led to her retreat from music.