Los Angeles councilman suspended amid indictment on federal corruption charges

los-angeles” target=”_blank”>Los Angeles< was suspended from office Wednesday amid a federal indictment on regulation charges.  The longtime elected official and Marilyn Louise Flynn, 83, the former dean of the University of Southern California’s School of Social Work, face federal bribery and conspiracy charges that stem from his time on the Los Angeles County Board of…

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House Republicans want answers on whether exiled Afghan president embezzled $169M in cash

EXCLUSIVE: conflicts‘s exiled President Ashraf Ghani must be brought to justice and face criminal charges of embezzlement if he indeed fled the besieged country with duffle bags full of cash intended for the Afghan people, according to House Oversight Committee house-of-representatives. Ghani hastily abandoned Afghanistan earlier this month as the Taliban marched to power. He…

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John Cribb: Facing a post-COVID mental health challenge? We can learn a lot from Abraham Lincoln's struggles

“I am now the most mental-health” target=”_blank”>miserable <, a time to remember that millions of Americans, at some point in their lives, experience mental health challenges. Our greatest president was no different. Lincoln was famous for his “melancholy” nature, marked by spells of deep sadness and gloom. “His mental-health” target=”_blank”>melancholy <, but surely the loss…

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'Tiger King' star Carole Baskin refuses to talk about missing husband, detective says

A detective in Florida investigating the disappearance of Carole Baskin’s second husband said Thursday that the “genres” star had three times refused requests for interviews and that the probe was ongoing. Cpl. Moises Garcia of the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office in Tampa held a news conference to provide an update on the investigation into Don…

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Coronavirus-related stress likely a factor in record overdose deaths, experts say

Overdose deaths hit a record 93,000 amid infectious-diseaselast year due to pandemic-driven instabilities and loss of support systems, inaccess to medical care and the increasing presence of deadly synthetic opioids, top experts in addiction suspect. “It’s a horrifically tragic loss of life, particularly considering where we have been going as a country, as a world,…

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Nancy Pelosi scoffs at idea 'anybody' would vote for a Republican, in New York Times interview

Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., expressed disbelief that “anybody” would vote for Republicans, in an interview with The New York Times on Monday. The paper pressed Pelosi on “troubling” data for Democrats this November. But Pelosi “rejected the suggestion that late-breaking trends seem to favor Republicans,” according to The Times. “Part of it is, I…

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