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Veterinarians Are Killing Themselves. An Online Group Is There To Listen And Help : NPR
Dr. Carrie Jurney is on the board of an online organization that works to prevent suicides. It’s called Not One More Vet. This isn’t a mental health support group for veterans — it’s for veterinarians. Veterinarians are killing themselves in alarming numbers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found male vets are 2.1 times as likely and…
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Hurricane Dorian floods island as it swipes North Carolina then heads north – Reuters
KITTY HAWK, N.C. (Reuters) – Hurricane Dorian briefly made landfall on the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Friday, hitting the beach-fringed barrier islands with powerful winds and battering waves days after reducing parts of the Bahamas to rubble. Source: Hurricane Dorian floods island as it swipes North Carolina then heads north – Reuters
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Biden campaign says he doesn’t have to win Iowa | TheHill
Former Vice President Joe Biden doesn’t have to win the Iowa caucuses to capture the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, a senior adviser to his campaign said Tuesday. “Do I think we have to win Iowa? No,” the senior adviser told reporters in a briefing, according to Politico. “We think we’re going to win,” the adviser added. “We…
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Biden fundraises from lobbyists despite pledge | PBS NewsHour
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden entered the Democratic primary promising “from day one” to reject campaign cash from lobbyists. “I work for you — not any industry,” he tweeted. Yet hours after his April campaign kickoff, the former vice president went to a fundraiser at the home of a lobbying executive. And in the months…
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VA deaths: Authorities investigating string of 10 patient deaths
WASHINGTON – Authorities are investigating a string of about 10 suspicious deaths of patients, including one ruled a homicide, at a Veterans Affairs hospital in West Virginia out of concern they were targeted, according to three people familiar with the probe. In October, the body of Felix Kirk McDermott, an 82-year-old Army veteran who died…
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NYT newsroom faces evidence of bedbug infiltration | TheHill
Bedbugs can get anywhere – and they are hard to irradiate. I would assume no reporters where harmed in what the Times called a ‘professional cleaning.’ How exactly would you differentiate between an Op/Ed diatribe and a bedbug? Secret handshake? Source: NYT newsroom faces evidence of bedbug infiltration | TheHill