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Has the stress of elections taken its toll? In this Special Feature, we provide some coping strategies to help you take care of your mental health.

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07/11/2020

High-stakes elections, such as the presidential election that just took place in the United States, can take a toll on the mental health of voters. We spoke to an expert to get tips on how to cope in the aftermath. A recent study that we covered on Medical News Today found that, following the 2016 U.S. presidential election, people who had backed the losing candidate experienced more days of poor mental health over the next month than in the month before the election. Based on those findings, the researchers cautioned that this years presidential election might also take a toll on voters mental health, particularly given that it took place during a pandemic another factor that has been affecting peoples well-being. Healthcare providers could potentially help patients in the 2020 electio...

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Kojima Productions’ P.T. is not playable on PlayStation 5. The Silent Hills playable teaser for PS4 is not supported on Sony’s next-gen console, but the story is complicated.

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07/11/2020

Kojima Productions playable teaser for its canceled Silent Hill reboot, horror game P.T., is a precious commodity to many PlayStation 4 owners. After Hideo Kojimas departure from Konami and Silent Hills cancellation, P.T. was removed from Sonys PlayStation Store. If you didnt already have it, you were (pretty much) out of luck. The bad news for prospective PlayStation 5 owners is that your existing download of P.T. cannot be transferred over to Sonys new console, nor is the game playable through backward compatibility. Heres the strange thing, though: At one point over the past two weeks, it was both transferable and playable on PS5. I played P.T. on my PS5 in late October, the day after I received my review unit. But it appears that when the PlayStation 5 launches on Nov. 12, it wont p...

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06/11/2020

While Americans' attention is centered on the outcome of the presidential election, the country quietly hit a grim milestone, marking a record-breaking 102,831 new COVID-19 infections in a single day on Wednesday. The bleak benchmark was expected. In June, with daily cases hovering around 40,000, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned members of the Senate that the country was on track to hit 100,000 daily cases if the nation did not work harder to stop the virus's spread. He was right. "I think its important to tell you and the American public that Im very concerned, because it could get very bad," Fauci told senators more than four months ago. "We cant keep pretending this virus is getting better," he said. Compared to countries like Japan and China, which each have approximately 100,000 COVID-19 ...

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After the votes are counted and the court cases are settled, Joe Biden is likely to become the next U.S. president. But even without Donald Trump, the GOP’s gift for disguising self-interested hypocrisy as matters of principle remains a profound threat to the…

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06/11/2020

President Donald Trump gestures while addressing a campaign rally at the Wilkes-Barre Scranton International Airport in Avoca, Pa, on Nov. 2, 2020. Gene J. Puskar/The Associated Press Omar El Akkad is the author of American War. He lives in Portland, Ore. In the early hours of Wednesday, the President of the United States stepped before a podium at the White House and called the countrys democratic elections a fraud on the American people. His supporters cheered him on. There was no fraud, however; there never has been. Every serious study of voter fraud in America has concluded the phenomenon is statistically minuscule. Nonetheless, within minutes of Donald Trump delivering one of the most dangerous and anti-democratic statements in recent political history, a gaggle of Republican op...

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Warnock-Loeffler race already headed for runoff, while tight Perdue-Ossoff contest could be as well

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06/11/2020

The fight for control of the U.S. Senate now is centered on Georgia, where the states close election has pushed at least one, and possibly two, of its Senate races to Jan. 5 runoffs. The outcome of those two races could shift the balance of power in the Senate, as Democrat Jon Ossoff tries to unseat Republican Sen. David Perdue, and Democrat Raphael Warnock faces off against Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler. Messrs. Ossoff and Warnock have been sharply critical of Mr. Trump, while Mr. Perdue and Ms. Loeffler have closely allied...

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“Russian aggression” has destabilized the region, Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist warned last month, adding with eye-popping candor: “An armed attack on Sweden cannot be ruled out.”

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06/11/2020

VISBY, Sweden — Sheep, churches and small-town amenities abound on Sweden’s largest island. A sense of geopolitical tension? Not so much. But if Sweden’s political and military leaders are to be believed, Gotland today marks the first line of defense against a foe whose powerful Baltic fleet anchors just 200 miles across the sea. “Russian aggression” has destabilized the region, Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist warned last month, adding with eye-popping candor: “An armed attack on Sweden cannot be ruled out.” For skeptics of the rising concern felt across central Europe about the threat posed from Russia, Sweden is putting its money where its mouth is. Mr. Hultqvist made the comments as the center-left government announced the highest surge in Swedish defense spending since the 1950s: a...

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06/11/2020

O'FALLON, Mo. -- A suburban St. Louis election official who worked at a polling place on Election Day despite a positive test for the coronavirus has now died, raising concerns for the nearly 2,000 people who voted there. St. Charles County, Missouri, spokeswoman Mary Enger said in a news release Thursday that the person, whose cause of death is not yet known, was an election judge supervisor Tuesday at the Blanchette Park Memorial Hall polling site in St. Charles, about 25 miles northwest of St. Louis. Enger said the countys health department and election authority recently learned that the poll worker tested positive Oct. 30 for COVID-19 and was advised to quarantine for 14 days. The election judge nevertheless failed to follow the advice and worked throughout the day on Tuesday, Enger...

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The Pistons are open to moving up in the NBA draft and want to speak to top prospect LaMelo Ball.

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06/11/2020

Currently holding the No. 7 pick in the upcoming 2020 NBA draft, Detroit Pistons general manager Troy Weaver says that "moving up is definitely an option." One possible target has been training in the team's backyard throughout the pandemic: top prospect LaMelo Ball -- whose mentor and manager, Jermaine Jackson Sr., is a former Piston and Motown native. In October, Ball hosted a free basketball camp at Oakland Fieldhouse in Rochester Hills, Michigan, for kids ages 8 to 13. Weaver says the Pistons plan on scheduling an interview with Ball soon to get to know him. "I'm always happy to hear players embrace our organization, our city. That never goes unnoticed. I know people around him. His trainer is a Detroit native, so I'm sure he's been here for a while working out," Weaver said during ...

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05/11/2020

Holy Angel University (HAU) stands out in the Philippines and Southeast Asia, not just for academic excellence but also for its accessible education brand. HAU believes in fostering faithful Catholic education that transforms students into persons of conscience, competence and compassion. HAU's alumni are socially responsible citizens that live and work locally and all over the world. Founded in 1933, HAU is recognized as one of the country's top universities. With its Autonomous Status renewed by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), HAU has also earned specialized accreditation from the International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE) and the Accreditation Commission for Programs in Hospitality Administration (ACPHA) the first school in Southeast Asia to have done...

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Trump has threatened to cut funding from Democratic-led cities that he calls “crazy violent.”

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05/11/2020

New York City, Portland and Seattle sued the Trump administration on Thursday over its threat to withdraw federal funding after the Justice Department designated the cities as "anarchist jurisdictions" for their handling of protests in the wake of George Floyd's killing. Why it matters: In an effort to help his re-election bid, President Trump has tried to paint himself as a "president of law and order," arguing that Democratic-led cities have seen "crazy violence" since the start of nationwide demonstrations this summer. The big picture: The lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington challenges a memo Trump issued last month threatening to pull federal funding from jurisdictions that "permitted violence and the destruction of property to persist and have r...