[Applause] I'm sitting at a conference table at my son's school surrounded by half a dozen professionals. The licensed school psychologist has just said the words, "Your son meets the diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder." I feel like the air has been sucked out of the room. My heart pounds, my hands tremble, and I sense a deep, deafening silence inside of me.All I can think about is my son's name, Yaser. I spent hours researching and picking out his name. Yaser means ease, comfort, and wealth.A ...

[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] My mother Doris was magic. She absolutely perfected the art of making every day, every ordinary moment a celebration. When a warm summer rain would roll through, she'd send my brother and sister and me out in our swimsuits to play in mud puddles. When I was obsessed with my cabbage fetch kid in 1983, she took it to Sears to have its baby pictures taken. She made the best Halloween costumes. Magic. My father once told me that when she was diagnosed with breast cancer at ...

My name is Kim Chile. I was Maddie Mogan's paternal grandmother. As Ben Mogan, her father, is my son. I'm here today with my sister Lori Chile, Mattiey's great aunt, and my son Ben Mogan, and my daughter-in-law, Corey Hatrock. I'd like to begin by thanking a number of people involved in bringing this case to closure. In my daughter's words, the plea deal the prosecution team reached this month is one that punishes the perpetrator of this horrendous crime, protects the public from further harm, and allows al ...

थैंक यू वेरी मच थैंक यू वेरी मच नमस्कार गुड आफ्टरनून लेडीज एंड जेंटलमैन हैंडसम्स एंड ब्यूटीफुल एनिमल्स एंड मैमल्स ट्रीज एंड बर्ड्स एंड टू माय वन एंड ओनली लव व्हेनएवर ही इट्स टू डेज एगो आई हैड जीरो क्लू अबाउट व्हाट एम आई गोइंग गोइंग टू स्पीक ऑन दिस स्टेज। आई ऑलमोस्ट एंडेड अप आस्किंग चैट जीपीटी टू राइट माय एंटायर स्पीच। बट इवन चैट जीपीटी रिप्लाई सॉरी मैम वी डोंट डू मिरेकल्स। सो यू आर स्टक विथ द ह्यूमन वर्जन सो बेयर विथ मी। लेडीज़ एंड जेंटलमैन, माय लाइफ हैज़ बीन अ नेवर एंडिंग वर्क ऑफ़ कंस्ट्रक्शन साइट। दिस बिल्डि ...

gone to a lot of hurricanes, a lot of tornadoes. I've never seen anything like this. This is a this is a bad one. We just visited with incredible families that uh I mean, look, they've been devastated. They lost their child or two children and uh just hard to believe what uh I've never seen anything like it. A little narrow river that becomes a monster. And that's what happened. But the first lady and I are here in Texas to express the love and support and the anguish of our entire nation in the aftermath o ...

Grieving the loss of a childhood friend can feel lonely. Readers share with WSJ columnist Elizabeth Bernstein how they coped with the experience. https://t.co/n9Mu2CoMC9 ...

Grieving the loss of a childhood friend can feel lonely. Readers share with WSJ columnist Elizabeth Bernstein how they coped with the experience. https://t.co/RHXH7a5nEs ...

The new year had begun. 6 days had passed. 7th Jan 20123. A devastating day. A shattering day for mom. I lost my elder son. an aspiring bank. A phone call came from my sister's place in Mumbai. My husband picked the call. She said, "Paw is not getting up. We are trying to wake him up, but he is not getting up. His body has turned blue." listening to this, my husband just collapsed. He just collapsed on the ground and he started screaming, yelling, I just came from the washroom gushing and seeing him r lying ...

[موسيقى] [تصفيق] قصتي مثل قصه اي شخص خسر حدا بحبه هيدي سيروره الحياه بس قصتي مثل قصه منها قصه خساره حياتها من عمر 30 لعمر ال 35 وقفت مرتين اول مره ما سمعت فيها صوت حسيت بموجه سخنه سكوت تام ركدت بوقت على المستشفى لطبيب بجروحي بس ما كنت عارفه انه الجرح الحقيقي ما كان بجسمي الجرح الحقيقي كان بقلبي لما قالوا لي انه سندك وزوجك راح رجعت حسيت بنفس الشعور من شهر على القد لما اعطوني ايام لاودع فيها بي قلت له قد ايه بحبه وانه هو تاج راسي انه ما يخاف على حدا بوجودي لبين ما يظهر من المستشفى مع انه كنت عارفه انه ما راح ...

I'm 15 years old, sitting on my bed. My dad walks into my room. He sits down beside me and something feels different. He's quiet. Too quiet. He looks at me and I see tears in his eyes. Tears I don't ever remember seeing before. I'm not going to tell you what to do, he says softly. But family matters, Svena. Family is the most important thing. I had asked him earlier that day if I could skip our family dinner to have dinner with my boyfriend instead. I was freshly in love. There would be more family dinners, ...