Eighteen years ago, Danielle’s mum, Lisa, started having aggressive outbursts, stumbling a lot and feeling anxious. She’s now in the late stages of Huntington’s disease and requires full-time care. Huntington’s disease is caused by a faulty gene that causes parts of the brain to become damaged over time. Because her mum has the disease, Danielle […]
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When the monstrous hurricanes Irma and Maria tore through the Caribbean in 2017, the damage was devastating. Some islands are still recovering. Others, like Puerto Rico, are reeling again from recent disasters. The 2017 storms forced hoteliers to regroup and rebuild — which has, according to leading travel advisers, ushered in a new age of
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LOS ANGELES ― When John-Lancaster Finley learned of Kobe Bryant’s death on Sunday, he was left to mourn a man who was a major part of his childhood. As a Black kid growing up in Southern California, Finley looked up to Bryant. When he and his friends played ball, they pretended to be the NBA
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CENTERVILLE, Iowa — Jill Biden was torn. Three months into Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s 2020 White House bid, he was struggling with the intense scrutiny that comes with being the front-runner, and she was increasingly needed on the campaign trail as a top surrogate for her husband. But Dr. Biden was reluctant to pull back
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The owner of an award-winning organic dairy in Pennsylvania that abruptly closed its doors last fall is accused of milking investors to the tune of nearly $60 million By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press January 31, 2020, 9:08 PM 4 min read READING, Pa. — The owner of an award-winning organic dairy in Pennsylvania that abruptly
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WASHINGTON — The first treatment for peanut allergies is about to hit the market, a big step toward better care for all kinds of food allergies — but still a long way from a cure. Friday’s approval by the Food and Drug Administration promises to bring some relief to families who’ve lived in fear of
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LOS ANGELES — LeBron James has only been a part of the Los Angeles Lakers for 19 months. The West Coast is a late stop on an NBA odyssey that already yielded rings, trophies and innumerable indelible moments in Cleveland and Miami. Yet when this venerated franchise needed a leader to honor a legend during
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The Trump administration’s expansion of the nation’s contentious travel ban on Friday to include Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, and several other countries deeply rattled immigrants, leaving some Nigerians in New York worried that it would break family ties and have a negative effect on both countries. “Africans have very strong family ties,” said Henry
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe BBC’s online health editor on what we know about the virus The US has declared a public health emergency over the spread of the coronavirus and said it would deny entry to any foreign nationals who have visited China in the past two weeks. US citizens
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Ms Clark sold over 100 million books in the US alone Bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark has died aged 92, her publisher confirmed. Known by her fans as the “Queen of Suspense”, Ms Clark sold more than 100 million books in the US alone. In a career spanning decades,
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