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Athlete mental health

‘Ted Lasso’ visits White House, promotes mental health care

Shawn Butlere Mar 21, 2023 0

WASHINGTON -- Fictional soccer coach Ted Lasso used a White House visit Monday to encourage people, even in politically divided Washington, to make it a point to check in often with friends, family and co-workers to "ask how they're doing,…

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WV Senate joins GOP effort to limit trans youth health care

James Odonell Mar 21, 2023 0

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia's Republican supermajority Senate followed a growing national trend of GOP opposition to health care for transgender youth by passing a bill that would ban certain treatments and therapies, while approving…

Bidens to host ‘Ted Lasso’ cast to promote mental health

Shawn Butlere Mar 20, 2023 0

Soccer coach Ted Lasso is coming to the White House — in the form of Emmy-winning actor Jason SudeikisByZEKE MILLER and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated PressWILMINGTON, Del. -- President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will host the cast…

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Mental evaluation ordered for man accused in flight attack

James Odonell Mar 19, 2023 0

BOSTON -- A man charged with attacking a flight attendant and attempting to open an airliner’s emergency door on a cross-country flight over the weekend remained in custody Thursday after a federal court ordered him to undergo a mental…

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Flight attack raises questions about security, mental health

James Odonell Mar 17, 2023 0

LEOMINSTER, Mass. -- The music was blaring on a February afternoon when Francisco Torres stopped by a Massachusetts barbershop, proclaiming he was half-angel, half-devil.He wanted a dozen people to come outside the shop and shoot him with…