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ADVERTISEMENT Although heartbreaking, family estrangement is quite a common occurrence. Research shows that 27% of Americans have a family member they have no contact with. And it’s not necessarily parents and children. Rifts between siblings happen, too. After years of not talking, people find it hard to reconnect: “What if the other person hates me? What if they (or I) can’t forgive?” The author of this story found himself in a similar situation. The Redditor u/Longest-Journey had a son who wanted to reconnect. But…

Texas is no stranger to scorching summer heat, but even Texans are growing weary of a major “heat dome” that has parked itself over the region and will keep temperatures soaring to potentially deadly extremes in the state for the third week in a row. Many areas in Texas have experienced days of triple-digit temperatures. On Sunday the National Weather Service (NWS) office for Austin and San Antonio said in a tweet that the city of Del Rio, Tex., on the border with Mexico, had seen eight straight days with daily record…

Inspired by Elon Musk's massive layoffs, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has refused to budge against widespread protests over the application programming interface (API) changes on its platform, saying plans to pursue changes and "don't have problems with protests."In an interview with NBC News, Huffman said that "my takeaway from Twitter and Elon at Twitter is reaffirming that we can build a really good business in this space at our scale.""You can run a company with that many users in the ads business and break even with a…