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Have the holiday blues? Psychiatrist gives tips on how to keep your head up

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:37:48 GMT

Have you heard of the holiday blues? True to its name, it’s a term often used to refer to feelings of sadness that last throughout the holiday season, especially during November and December.Dr. Petros Levounis, president of the American Psychiatric Association, said keeping your body healthy is a big part of keeping the holiday blues away and getting back to a better place.“Big part of having as good mental health as possible is to take care of our physical health,” he said. “Exercise, diet, sleep, rest, are all very, very high up on our priorities when we talk about mental health.”Another important tip? Levounis said to cut yourself some slack and remember you don’t have to be perfect.“Somehow the holidays have a very annoying way of getting us to a space where we think we have to be perfect,” he said. “We have to prepare the perfect meal, we have to get people the perfect gifts, we have to be the perfect hosts, we have to be t...

Simons, Reath lead the Trail Blazers past the Kings, 130-113

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:37:48 GMT

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Anfernee Simons scored 29 points to lead the Portland Trail Blazers to a 130-113 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday night.Duop Reath added a career-high 25 points and grabbed nine rebounds off the bench for the Blazers, who were without starting center Deandre Ayton (right knee tendinitis) and shooting guard Shaedon Sharpe (right adductor strain). Malcolm Brogdon scored 19 points, while Scoot Henderson and Jabari Walker each had 17 off the bench.Henderson added 11 assists and had only one turnover in one of his strongest games of his pro career.De’Aaron Fox scored 43 points and Domantas Sabonis had 34 points, but no other Sacramento players scored in double figures.UP NEXTTrail Blazers: Back-to-back matchups against San Antonio at home on Thursday and Friday.Kings: Visit Atlanta on Friday.___AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/nbaSource

Flag! Kansas and UNLV seeing yellow as penalties pile up at Guaranteed Rate Bowl

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:37:48 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — Fans are seeing yellow at the Guaranteed Rate Bowl.The bowl game at Chase Field has been stop and start all night Tuesday as officials called 22 penalties for 240 yards — through three quarters.Kansas, one of the nation’s least-penalized teams with 55 during the regular season, has gotten the worst of it, flagged 17 times for 195 yards. The Jayhawks have four personal fouls, two unsportsmanlike conducts, two 15-yard facemasks and two pass interference calls.UNLV has been hit with one unsportsmanlike conduct penalty and been flagged five times for 45 yards.___AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-footballSource

WTOP’s Book Report: Don’t-miss books of 2023

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:37:48 GMT

This story was written as part of the WTOP Book Report series authored by Terik King. Read more of that coverage. In 2023, WTOP’s Book Report series took us many places. We’ve conversed with a law professor about the complicated history of police lawsuits, chatted with a journalist about the power of cancel culture, heard from a cryptologic linguist who spent years translating the Taliban’s conversations, and even talked to twin sisters about their co-authored mystery novel.As the year draws to a close, a few favorites emerge as the cream of the crop across various genres, highlighted here as a collection of “don’t miss” books to bring into 2024.MYSTERY/SUSPENSE FICTION“Everyone Here Is Lying” by Shari LaPena(Cover art courtesy Pamela Dorman Books / Viking)One of the most interesting fiction books of the year, this nail-biting suspense thriller grabs you from the first page. After family man William Wooler has an affair that ends horribly, he retu...

Hallan muerto al actor de ‘Parasite’ Lee Sun-kyun, dice la policía

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:37:48 GMT

(CNN) — El actor surcoreano Lee Sun-kyun, conocido por su papel en la película ganadora del Premio de la Academia “Parasite”, murió, según la policía de Seúl. Tenía 48 años.La policía dijo en un comunicado que habían recibido un informe de persona desaparecida del gerente de Lee en su línea directa. Lee fue encontrado en su auto el miércoles por la mañana.Lee recibió elogios por su papel de Park Dong-ik, el padre de la adinerada familia Park, en “Parasite”.También obtuvo elogios por sus papeles en la serie de televisión de 2007 “Behind the White Tower”, la serie de 2010 “Pasta” y la serie de suspenso y ciencia ficción “Dr. Brain”, por la que fue nominado a un premio Emmy internacional.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Source

Former Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif will seek fourth term in office, his party says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:37:48 GMT

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will seek a fourth term in office, his party said Wednesday, noting he would be its consensus candidate in the upcoming parliamentary elections and the office of the prime minister.Sharif, who has served as prime minister three times, returned to Pakistan in October after four years of self-exile in London to avoid serving prison sentences on corruption charges. However, his conviction and sentences were overturned on appeal after his return, making him eligible to run for a seat in the parliament, which will elect the new prime minister after the Feb. 8 vote. “There is no doubt about it. Nawaz Sharif is our candidate for the office of the prime minister,” said Rana Sanaullah Khan, a senior leader in Sharif’s party. Sharif stepped down as prime minister in 2017 over the corruption charges. In July 2018, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison over purchases of luxury apartments in London. In December that year...

She died weeks after fleeing the Maui wildfire. Her family fought to have her listed as a victim.

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:37:48 GMT

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Sharlene Rabang and her calico cat fled the wildfire that destroyed her town on Maui and arrived at a family home on another Hawaii island after a 24-hour odyssey that included sleeping in a car.Dazed, coughing and weak, the frail but feisty 78-year-old headed straight for the bedroom. Her daughter headed for a drugstore, thinking the coughing might be asthma or the flu. It wasn’t.Rabang died with her daughter holding her hand nearly a month later. She had a history of cancer, COVID and high blood pressure, and the doctor initially neglected to attribute her death to the wildfire. It wasn’t until November that, at the urging of her family, Honolulu’s medical examiner said a contributing cause of death was the thick, black smoke that Rabang breathed as she fled.The report made Rabang the 100th victim of the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. The Aug. 8 fire devastated the onetime capital of the former kingdom of Hawaii. It wiped o...

Wild weather leaves at least 9 dead in Australian states of Queensland and Victoria, officials say

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:37:48 GMT

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Wild weather has left at least nine people dead in the eastern Australian states of Queensland and Victoria, officials said on Wednesday.Three men, aged 48, 59 and 69, were killed after a boat with 11 people on board capsized in rough weather in Moreton Bay off the south Queensland coast on Tuesday, police said.Ambulances took the eight survivors to a hospital in stable conditions.The men were aboard the 39-foot pleasure craft on an annual fishing trip, The Courier Mail newspaper reported.Queensland Police Acting Chief Superintendent Andrew Pilotto said those who were rescued were lucky to survive.“The storm was still raging when they were rescued,” Pilotto said. “It would have been very difficult to survive in those conditions anywhere.”A 59-year-old woman was killed by a falling tree in the Queensland city of Gold Coast on Monday night. The body of a 9-year-old girl was found on Tuesday in the neighboring city of Brisbane hours after she disa...

L.A. neighbors on edge after man destroys car in apparent anti-Semitic hate crime

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:37:48 GMT

Neighbors are on edge after video captured a man yelling anti-Semitic remarks outside a Pico-Robertson home before destroying a family's vehicle.The apparent hate crime incident, which happened on Dec. 23, has left residents concerned as incidents of antisemitism are on the rise in Los Angeles and across the country.The video of the hateful tirade has left neighbors shocked, disappointed and angry.“There’s no logic to it,” said one neighbor.“It was very shocking and frightening, especially so close to our home,” said Chaya Nourafchan, another neighbor.The suspect was heard screaming obscenities and anti-Semitic rhetoric outside of the Jewish family’s home before launching a brick through the back windshield of the family’s car.A suspect remains at large after smashing a family’s car window while yelling anti-Semitic remarks outside a Pico-Robertson home on Dec. 23, 2023.A suspect remains at large after smashing a family’s car window while yelling anti-Semitic remarks outside a Pico-...

Oakland: Feds charge ‘large drug trafficking group’ with possessing kilograms of fentanyl for sale

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:37:48 GMT

OAKLAND — A trio of alleged Bay Area drug traffickers have been indicted on charges of possessing fentanyl and methamphetamine for sale, including more than six pounds of fentanyl found during raid on an Oakland home, according to court records.Maria Valle-Rodriguez, Jonsan Valle-Rodriguez, and Emilson Valle-Zuniga were indicted on charges of fentanyl distribution and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl. The charges resulted from an undercover Drug Enforcement Administrative investigation, as federal and state authorities continue to try to make a dent in the open air drug markets in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood.During the investigation, Maria Valle-Rodriguez allegedly revealed to an undercover agent that her brother, “Lolo,” had been killed just nights before. Police believe she was referring to a Nov. 25 gunfight in the Tenderloin that resulted in one man being killed and another injured.Jonsan Valle-Rodriguez —...