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Homeless vets booted to make room for migrants

Nearly two dozen struggling homeless veterans have been booted from upstate hotels to make room for migrants.

Don Denkinger, umpire whose stellar career was overshadowed by blown call, dead at 86

NEW YORK (AP) — Don Denkinger, a major league umpire for three decades whose blown call in the 1985 World Series overshadowed a career of excellence, died Friday. He was 86. Denkinger died at Cedar Valley Hospice in Waterloo, Iowa, Denise Hanson, one of his three daughters, said. Denkinger joined the American League staff in 1969. He worked four World Series over three decades in the big leagues but was remembered most for a call he...

Woke Lawfare: Fat New Yorkers Can Now Sue for Discrimination

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) New York City now allows fat individuals to sue over what they dubbed to be weight-based discrimination. The New York City Council green-lighted, in an overwhelmingly 44-to-5 vote, legislation that would effectively protect obese individuals from alleged discrimination based on their overweight heft. Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, is expected to sign the law next month, reported the Daily Mail. The bill was sponsored by Councilman Shaun Abreu, a Democrat, who was...

New menopause drug for hot flashes gets FDA approval

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators on Friday approved a new type of drug for women dealing with uncomfortable hot flashes caused by menopause. The Food and Drug Administration approved the once-a-day pill from Astellas Pharma to treat moderate-to-severe symptoms, which can include sweating, flushing and chills. Astellas' drug, Veozah, uses a new approach, targeting brain connections that help control body temperature. The FDA said the medication will provide "an additional safe and effective treatment option for...

Sleep FAQs

What Happens When You Sleep? As you sleep, your brain works to physically repair your body. In the process, your brain also flushes out waste that accumulates during your waking hours that may contribute to neurodegenerative diseases. As this activity happens, your brain cycles through four stages of sleep multiple times a night. The first three stages of sleep are considered non-rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, and the fourth is REM sleep. Each stage of sleep...

I’m a 102-year-old doctor. Here’s the No. 1 thing the healthiest and happiest people I know never do

CNBC.COM – I turned 102 years old this year, and my decades of experience in holistic medicine has taught me a lot about how to live a long, happy and purposeful life. Too many people feed into unnecessary stress. But the happiest and healthiest people I know are able to let go of things or experiences that no longer serve them. Life is too short to ruminate and consider same thought over and over again....

McDonald’s Found Liable for Hot Chicken McNugget that Fell from Happy Meal and Burned Girl

(AP) McDonald’s and a franchise holder are at fault after a hot Chicken McNugget from a Happy Meal fell on a little girl’s leg and caused second-degree burns, a jury in South Florida has found. A second jury will determine how much McDonald’s USA and its franchise owner, Upchurch Foods, will pay the child and her mother, the South Florida SunSentinel reported. Thursday’s decision was split, with jurors finding the franchise holder liable for negligence and...

The Patient Case Against Requiring Medical Chaperones

medpagetoday.com – A third person is just a third wheel in a trusting doctor-patient relationship. Yale-New Haven Hospital and affiliated clinics have a rule that a chaperone must be present for any examination of so-called "sensitive" areas, including breasts, genitalia, and perianal area. Having a chaperone present is mandatory, and in visits to my gynecologist at Yale, I have been told that I am unable to refuse one. What proper chaperoning looks like is not clearly defined. During...

Gay & Bisexual Men Now Eligible to Donate Blood Under New FDA Policies

ADVOCATE.COM – No matter their gender or sexual orientation, all potential donors will be asked the same questions in a move that ends the previous screening based on sexual orientation, which many considered discriminatory. Men in monogamous relationships are no longer required to abstain from sex to donate. Several years ago, an FDA reexamination led to the lifting of a lifetime ban on blood donations for gay and bisexual men. A more recent policy recommended a...

College Prof. Placed on Leave, Investigated for Sharing Daily Wire’s Gendered Chocolate Bars

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A tenured history professor at Madera Community College is under investigation for handing out chocolate bars with real gender pronouns on the wrappers. The candy in question, created and sold by the Daily Wire, comes in two styles: the “He/Him” chocolate bars have nuts; the “She/Her” chocolate bars are “nutless.” Professor David Richardson purchased a case of the candy bars to protest the Hershey’s Chocolate advertising campaign for International Women’s Day, which...

‘Notorious’ orangutan is star attraction … but animal groups say he is being ‘exploited’

The ape called Nhong has picked up a habit of touching women's breasts.

Man, 30, dies with ping pong ball up his bum after being electrocuted while pleasuring himself

The man was electrocuted by an electric massage device. Medics also found an object around 9cm in length lodged in his rectum

On the Night Shift With a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner

MISSOULA, Mont. — Jacqueline Towarnicki got a text as she finished her day shift at a local clinic. She had a new case, a patient covered in bruises who couldn’t remember how the injuries got there. Towarnicki’s breath caught, a familiar feeling after four years of working night shifts as a sexual assault nurse examiner in this northwestern Montana city. “You almost want to curse,” Towarnicki, 38, said. “You’re like, ‘Oh, no, it’s happening.’” These nights on...

Border Patrol to Release Hordes of Illegals into Communities as Title 42 Ends

(By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) – Instead of U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehending, detaining and deporting people who’ve illegally entered the U.S., they will be implementing a plan decided on last year to release them en masse into local border communities. The public health authority Title 42, which has given Border Patrol agents an additional tool to deport certain individuals, was slated to end last May. On May 20, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Western District...
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