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Finding a therapist can be difficult. Experts explain how to find right one for you
Luis Alvarez/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — There’s no denying therapy can be a valuable resource for guiding you through life’s ups and downs. However, it’s also important to recognize that your first meeting with a [Read More…]
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Inside Oklahoma’s surge of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations among children
Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images (OKLAHOMA CITY) — Oklahoma doctors say they are seeing a massive surge of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations among children — more than during any previous wave of the pandemic. Between Jan. [Read More…]
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CDC urges Americans to get moving, but there’s no simple solution
The Good Brigade/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — While the benefits of exercise are becoming increasingly well known, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that more than one-fifth of Americans remain [Read More…]
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Many COVID-19 vaccine side effects caused by placebo effect: Study
Jasmine Merdan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Many continue to worry about experiencing side effects from vaccines — especially the COVID-19 vaccines — but new data from a comprehensive meta-analysis suggests there is little to fear. [Read More…]
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Scoreboard roundup — 1/20/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION New Orleans 102, New York 91 Final Phoenix 109, Dallas 101 Indiana 121, Golden State 117 (OT) NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE [Read More…]
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Shaun White says his final Olympic run in Beijing has ‘last dance glow to it’
Cameron Spencer/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As Shaun White gears up to go for his fourth and final gold in Beijing, the Olympic halfpipe snowboarder said his training has become “more calculated” and that he’s [Read More…]
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Scoreboard roundup — 1/19/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Philadelphia 123, Orlando 110 Brooklyn 119, Washington 118 Charlotte 111, Boston 102 Atlanta 134, Minnesota 122 Chicago 117, Cleveland 104 [Read More…]
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Some state lawmakers focusing on abortion access amid challenge to Roe v. Wade
Cyndi Monaghan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Several state lawmakers are looking to expand abortion access this legislative session while a challenge to Roe v. Wade is before the U.S. Supreme Court. Two bills out of Maryland [Read More…]
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CIA says foreign actor may be behind some Havana syndrome cases
Al Drago/Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The CIA has assessed that the “majority” of reported cases of unexplained medical symptoms known as “Havana syndrome” can be “reasonably explained by medical conditions or environmental and technical factors,” [Read More…]
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Supreme Court deals another blow to Texas abortion providers that want new law blocked
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Thursday — over the furious objections of their liberal colleagues — dealt another blow to Texas abortion providers’ quest to challenge SB8 in federal [Read More…]
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Bipartisan senators turn to reforming Electoral Count Act now that voting rights standoff over
Michael Godek/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With voting rights reform now firmly in the rear view mirror, negotiations to reform the Electoral Count Act have ramped up, but it remains far from certain that the talks [Read More…]
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Biden nominee would be 1st Muslim woman to serve as federal judge
ACLU Illinois (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden announced the nomination of Nusrat Jahan Choudhury to the federal judiciary Wednesday, who, if confirmed by the Senate, would become the first Muslim American woman to serve as [Read More…]
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Two years after COVID first hit the US, hundreds of thousands of Americans are still falling ill
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — At the beginning of 2020, as the nation celebrated the start of a new year, many Americans were still unaware of the “mysterious pneumonia” that had sickened dozens of [Read More…]
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COVID-19 live updates: Breakthrough cases grew fourfold during omicron
PAU BARRENA/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.5 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 860,000 Americans, according to real-time data [Read More…]
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4 people, including infant, freeze to death being smuggled across US-Canada border
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (MANITOBA, Canada) — Four people, including two adults, a teen and an infant, have been found frozen to death about 40 feet from the U.S.-Canada border while being smuggled into North [Read More…]
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Jury seated in federal trial of 3 former cops accused in George Floyd’s death
Mario Tama/Getty Images (MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.) — Opening statements in the joint federal trial of three former police officers accused of civil rights violations in the death of George Floyd are expected to begin next week [Read More…]
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International flight turns around after passenger refuses to wear mask: Officials
Alicia Llop/Getty Images (MIAMI) — A first-class passenger who allegedly refused to wear a mask disrupted a London-bound American Airlines flight Wednesday night and prompted the pilot to turn back to Miami so the customer [Read More…]
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Biden, Putin might meet to resolve standoff over Ukraine, Blinken says
DENIS BALIBOUSE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin might meet in an effort to resolve the standoff over Ukraine and [Read More…]
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Massive explosion in Ghana mining region leaves dozens dead or injured
File photo – Ato Kwamena Dadzie/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — More than a dozen people were killed and many more were injured by a massive explosion that rocked southwestern Ghana on Thursday, authorities said. [Read More…]
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Massive explosion rocks town in Ghana
Sergio Amiti/Getty Images (APPIATSE, Ghana) — A town in Ghana was rocked by a huge explosion Thursday that sent several people to the hospital, the authorities said. The Ghana Police Service announced that the explosion [Read More…]