The majority of US states face a shortage of psychiatrists, while the need for specialists is growing. Health care providers and policymakers are working on ways to attract new talent, but many medical students are reluctant to take up the call.

According to a recent study by the Association of American Medical Colleges, 59 percent of psychiatrists are 55 or older, the Associated Press reported, making them the fourth oldest group of doctors practicing in 41 medical specialties. Consequently, it is very likely that many will soon retire or accept fewer patients.

In the 18 years between 1995 and 2013, the total number of adult and child psychiatrists in the US rose by just 12 percent, from 43,640 to 49,079, while the number of physicians grew by 45 percent. During that time, however, the US population increased by about 37 percent, the Association's statistics show. In addition, millions of Americans have become eligible for mental health coverage under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

"I'm not aware of any part of the country where it is easy for our members to find psychiatrists," Charles Ingoglia, a vice president of the National Council for Behavioral Health, told AP. The council coordinates a network of 2,300 not-for-profit clinics nationwide that provide psychiatric help.

Colorado has brought in more than $150 million in marijuana tax revenue, according to official state data.

That doesn't make it a budgetary panacea, warn lawmakers.

"The big lesson we tell other states is you probably shouldn't legalize marijuana if you want to make money - that's not why you do it," said J. Skyler McKinley, deputy director of the governor's Office of Marijuana Coordination, to the Huffington Post. "You do it because you think that a regulated marketplace might be safer than an unregulated marketplace, or you believe that the war on drugs didn't work."

The industrial revolution made the modern world. Before it took off in the late eighteenth century, most people in Europe and elsewhere lived sustainably on renewable resources in traditional societies. Such limited energy as was available came from wind (sailboats, windmills), hydropower (waterwheels), wood (heating and cooking fireplaces and stoves), and muscle power (human and animal labor). There was no electricity, little or no heavy machinery, no modern medicine, virtually no appliances or other labor saving devices, and no telecommunication. Travel was laborious and slow. Almost everything had to be made by hand with simple technology. Death and birth rates were high, mostly because of infant mortality.

Imagine a world without fossil fuels or electricity and you begin to come close to what it was like. Life was simpler, to be sure, more natural, anchored in traditional wisdom and reliant on herbal remedies—since widely disparaged—and certainly without the stresses associated with modern life. Ritual and community were strong; most people were embedded in an intense network of social relations.

The gap between then and now is enormous. Our world today would be a total and unimaginable fantasy—or nightmare—to anyone living 250 years ago.

The question is: How did we get from there to here?

A Frenchman went on trial Tuesday accused of killing his three-year-old son by locking him in a washing machine in a grisly case in which his ex-wife is charged with collusion.

The father, Christophe Champenois, 37, denied any memory of the crime in which he allegedly stuffed his son Bastien into the machine and switched it on as punishment for his bad behaviour at school.

"At the moment I don't remember anything," Champenois told the court, his alleged amnesia the latest in a long line of explanations for what unfolded in the home of the troubled family on November 25, 2011.

It was Champenois himself who called emergency services in the town of Germigny-l'Eveque, east of Paris, saying he had a "small problem" as his son had fallen down the stairs.

Italy's top criminal court has scathingly faulted prosecutors for presenting a flawed and hastily constructed case against Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend, saying Monday it threw out their convictions for the 2007 murder of her British roommate in part because there was no proof they were in the bedroom where the woman was fatally stabbed.

The Court of Cassation issued its formal written explanation, as required by Italian law, for its March ruling — vindicating the pair once and for all in the murder of Meredith Kercher in the apartment the two women shared while students in Perugia, Italy.

It wrote there was an "absolute lack of biological traces" of Knox, an American, or of co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito in the room or on the victim's body. It slammed the quality of the prosecution's case from the start.

The path of the case took was "objectively wavering, whose oscillations are ... the result also of stunning weakness or investigative bouts of amnesia and of blameworthy omissions of investigative activity," the court wrote. Had the investigation not been so shaky, "in all probability" the defendants' guilt or innocence could have been determined from the earliest stages, the panel said.

Media clamor was also a factor in what was ultimately a flawed case, the high court concluded.

"The international spotlight on the case in fact resulted in the investigation undergoing a sudden acceleration," the judges wrote.

In March, the high court declared that Knox, now 28, and Sollecito, now 31, didn't murder 21-year-old Kercher, a stronger exoneration than merely finding there was insufficient evidence to convict.

Had the Cassation Court upheld 2014 appeals court convictions of the pair, Knox would have faced 28½ years in an Italian prison, assuming she would have been extradited from the United States, while Sollecito had been facing 25 years.

A self-declared Israeli Sanhedrin, a religious High Court composed of 71 nutjobs "sages", has demanded that Pope Francis apologise for recognising a separate Palestinian state or face trial next month.

A member of the Palestinian Al-Fatah movement revolutionary council, Demetri Deliani, said the Jewish court has sent a letter to Pope Francis demanding he rescind or face trial on 20 September, and that he will be judged in absentia if he chooses to ignore the summons.

The Vatican officially recognised the State of Palestine in February 2013.

Editor's Comment: Not only did each of these three former Treasury Secretaries yuck it up in a public forum about the frightening growth of income inequality, each played a pivotal role in the larger criminal enterprise of the banksters. Robert Rubin, Treasury Secretary under Clinton, legalized derivatives and opened up a world of hurt. Under George W. Bush, Hank Paulson - after playing wrecking crew at Goldman Sachs - essentially threatened Congress with economic martial law if they didn't give into the bailout.

Under Obama, little Timmy Geithner, after playing ball for the megabanks at the insiders New York Fed, made sure that the aftermath of the bailout never resulted in any serious fingerpointing at the bankster culprits, and that all the cars where saddled with huge cash payouts before making their getaways. And now here they are... not even in hiding, and quite literally laughing in everyone's faces!

AOPA is trying to get to the bottom of ambiguous notam language and determine why the aviation community was given just one day's advance notice of military exercises that could make Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) and TCAS unreliable along a significant portion of the East Coast for a month.

A notam issued Sept. 1 announced that, beginning Sept. 2, both ADS-B surveillance and TCAS may be unreliable in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, as well as in airspace extending approximately 200 nautical miles off shore. The situation is expected to last through Oct. 1 as a result of military exercises in the area.

But similar military exercises in the past have caused no interference with civilian ADS-B or TCAS, and AOPA is asking the FAA to explain both why the notam was issued so late and what has changed to raise these new concerns.

"We are working to get answers for our members," said Rune Duke, AOPA director of air traffic and airspace. "This notam has caused considerable alarm and much confusion, while giving pilots little time to prepare. The long duration, ambiguous language, and short notice of this notam are all cause for serious concern. We have spoken with representatives of the FAA and the Department of Defense and will continue to pursue this until we get the answers pilots need."

The wording of the notam has led many general aviation pilots to believe that ADS-B-based traffic information might not be available to them. But the notam does not specify any interference with 978 MHz ADS-B systems, which are most commonly used by light GA aircraft. As a result pilots should continue to have access to TIS-B and FIS-B services. The greatest impact will be on aircraft using 1090 MHz ADS-B systems or TCAS, which are primarily used by larger, faster aircraft operating in the flight levels. Air traffic controllers will help ensure separation between military and civilian traffic during the exercises, and no delays or reductions in ATC services are anticipated.

The West Indian Day Parade, a rollicking, colorful celebration of Caribbean culture, music, style and food, rolled through New York City's streets Monday but, once again, was marred by predawn violence that left one man dead and an aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo in critical condition.

Cuomo identified his wounded staffer as Carey Gabay, a first deputy general counsel at the Empire State Development Corporation. Gabay was walking with his brother near the Brooklyn parade route at 3:40 a.m. when he was caught in the crossfire between two gangs, according to police officials.

The pair had been walking back from a pre-parade party celebrating West Indian Day. A bullet struck Gabay, 43, in the head.

"I'm the governor of the state of New York, and there's not a thing I can do," Cuomo told reporters after he visited Gabay's family at Kings County Hospital. "There's not a thing I can say, and there's nothing I can do. And sometimes it just hurts."

Gabay's condition remained critical on Monday night, according to a spokeswoman for the governor.

The shooting was one of several outbursts of violence in the neighborhoods surrounding the parade, which included the stabbing death of a 24-year-old man at 2 a.m. near Grand Army Plaza.

Police have not yet released the victim's name or any more information related to the stabbing.

Three small airplanes crashed this long Labor Day weekend from North Carolina to Oregon, leaving 10 people dead and pressing questions about what happened in each case, a government official said Monday.

The deadliest crash occurred late Sunday afternoon, when a Cessna 310 went down in a remote part of Colorado near Telluride, the National Transportation Safety Board tweeted.

All five people aboard that aircraft died, according to NTSB spokesman Peter Knudsen.

How and why they died remained mysterious a day later, as Colorado National Guard and a search and rescue team converged on the site.

Three people were killed around noon Monday when a Beechcraft A36 crashed near a rock quarry about 6 miles from its intended destination in Greensboro, North Carolina, Knudsen said.