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Rachael Ray made a rare public appearance as fan concern grows due to her recent odd behavior. The chef wore a brown leather bomber jacket matched with a colorful vest and brown corduroy pants as she arrived for a taping of “The Drew Barrymore Show” on Wednesday. She accessorized with a pair of eyeglasses with transparent frames, and carried a blue crocodile print handbag. The TV personality, 57, styled her long, brown hair straight around her shoulders and appeared subdued while entering the show’s CBS studio in New York City. Ray finished the look with a pair of black and…

Opioids relieve pain but are dangerous and highly addictive. In a recent 12-month period, there were 109,600 USA drug-overdose deaths, with 70% linked to opioids. In 2023, 5.7 million people in the U.S. 12 years and older had an opioid use disorder (OUD). Despite high numbers of opioid abusers needing treatment, most don’t receive it. Some can’t find it, others delay treatment, and others refuse it. In 2022, only about 25% of U.S. adults with OUDs received medication-assisted treatment (MAT) like methadone or buprenorphine. Some people with OUD receive methadone at one of the 1,500 methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) clinics…

Diane Keaton’s cause of death has been revealed. The “First Wives Club” actress died of pneumonia at age 79 on Saturday, Oct. 11, her family told People on Wednesday. “The Keaton family are very grateful for the extraordinary messages of love and support they have received these past few days on behalf of their beloved Diane, who passed away from pneumonia on October 11,” Keaton’s loved ones shared. Diane Keaton attends the 10th Annual LACMA ART+FILM GALA in Los Angeles in Nov. 2021. Getty Images for LACMA Diane Keaton attends the Loreal Legends Gala in Nov. 2006. Roger Wong/INFGoff.com “She…

WASHINGTON — The US is working with Israel to create a safe zone to shelter Gazans afraid for their lives under Hamas rule as the terror group carries out brutal, public executions of Palestinians it accuses of working with the Jewish state, senior officials said Wednesday. The safe zone would be behind the Israel Defense Forces’ “yellow line” of withdrawal inside Gaza upon enactment of a cease-fire last week, affording “people feeling threatened” a place to avoid Hamas without entering Israel, one US official said. “This is really in response to what the reports we’ve been seeing of Hamas, you…

After introducing readers to a breakfast to die for in his monstrously fun comic book Cereal, writer Mark Russell is now inviting readers to take a seat at the dinner table for a morbid holiday meal with a divided family, a deadly secret, and a very questionable added ingredient to the pudding in the new one-shot Thanksgiving. Delivering hearty helpings of horror, humor, and heartbreak, as well as introducing a chilling new serial killer known as the Turkeyneck Killer, Thanksgiving is a must-read look at how fractured family dynamics and all-too-real prejudices can worm their way into the menus of…

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s plane suffered a cracked windshield mid-flight Wednesday, forcing it to make an “unscheduled landing” in the United Kingdom, the Pentagon revealed. Hegseth was returning to the US from Brussels after attending NATO’s Defense Minister’s meeting when his Boeing C-32 made the emergency pit stop and left him grounded overseas, according to Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell. “On the way back to the United States from NATO’s Defense Ministers meeting, Secretary of War Hegseth’s plane made an unscheduled landing in the United Kingdom due to a crack in the aircraft windshield,” Parnell said in an X post…

The US military’s top commander in the Middle East ordered Hamas on Wednesday to end its violent crackdown on civilians following graphic videos of public executions in the middle of Gaza City. CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper called on the killings to stop as the terror group deployed thousands of armed men to reassert its control over the Gaza Strip during the cease-fire with Israel. “We strongly urge Hamas to immediately suspend violence and shooting at innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza – in both Hamas-held parts of Gaza and those secured by the IDF behind the Yellow Line,” Cooper said in…

Jets coach Aaron Glenn dismissed the idea that the team is planning on trading running back Breece Hall on Wednesday.  There has been chatter about Hall being traded dating back to April. That chatter has reemerged with the team at 0-6 and the Nov. 4 trading deadline approaching. Glenn said this summer that the team did not want to trade Hall. He was asked about the latest round of trade rumors. “They’re rumors,” Glenn said. “Still feel the same way.” Hall added fuel to the fire with a social media post this week. It read: “They want me to lay…

Some of the Hamas terrorists who guarded the hostages in Gaza were teachers, university professors and even doctors who had been radicalized, a former Israeli captive said. In the wake of this week’s hostage release, Tal Shoham — who was among the hostages freed in February — relived his 500 days of captivity under Hamas, forcing him to contend with just how deep-rooted the hatred for the Jewish state had grown in Gaza over the two years of war. Shoham claimed that Hamas’ influence had grown to the point where many of the men working for the group were “not…

Microplastics have become an unavoidable part of our daily life, embedded in packaging and clothing, and found in our oceans, in the air we breathe, and in the water we drink. But in recent years, scientists and clinicians started exploring a new question: Could these invisible fragments also be making their way into our brains, and if so, what might that mean for our mental health? To explore what we know and what we still don’t, I spoke with Dr. Elizabeth Ryznar, a psychiatrist and a planetary health expert focusing on microplastics’ impact on our mental health. In our conversation,…