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Jaimee Seitz said her daughter was convinced to take her own life by members of the online True Crime Community, or TCC, who ...

China said Monday that the United States shouldn't use other countries as a “pretext” to pursue its interests in Greenland ...

In a post on U.K.-based community site Mumsnet, a frustrated wife and mother vented about her husband’s irrational complaints ...