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Inaccurate Death Reporting Likely Responsible for Significant Opioid Crisis Undercount

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:44 GMT

Opioids have been around for a long time. Unfortunately, so has the opioid crisis. This class of drug may be helping people mitigate their pains, however — when abused — opioids can also kill people. Recently, it’s been found that the opioid crisis is far worse than initially perceived. The number of deaths from the opioid crisis seems to have been miscalculated — by a huge margin.The Opioid Crisis Is Killing Far Too Many AmericansThe University of Rochester Medical Center researchers conducted a study to learn the more accurate number of deaths caused by the ongoing opioid crisis in the country. They found out that deaths from opioid-related deaths are 28% higher than what was initially reported.Researchers also learned that in some states, opioid-caused fatalities are possibly two times higher than what was originally broadcasted — the states Alabama, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Pennsylvania possibly have way more residents who died from an opioid overdose. The researcher...

East Bay man accused of killing Cash App founder Bob Lee faces arraignment

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:44 GMT

Nima Momeni, the man accused of killing Cash App founder Bob Lee in San Francisco shortly after an encounter, will be arraigned Tuesday on a murder charge.Lee, who cofounded the mobile payment service provider Cash App, was stabbed to death in the Rincon Hill neighborhood early on April 4.Authorities have said Momeni, 38, of Emeryville, California, and Lee knew each other and they were in a vehicle shortly before the stabbing.California Secretary of State records indicate that Momeni has been the owner of an IT business. He has been held without bail since his arrest nearly two weeks ago.The district attorney’s office has indicated that the alleged homicide may have been premeditated.“This is a person who was in his vehicle with a kitchen knife,” San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said earlier this month. “That’s not something most of us carry around at all times with us.”Momeni’s attorney Paula Canny told station KNTV nearly two weeks ago that there is a “much greater b...

Infamous San Jose statue of Thomas Fallon is taken down

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:44 GMT

In the wee hours of the night on Monday and with roughly a dozen onlookers, construction crews donned their hard hats and reflective vests to remove the controversial Thomas Fallon statue in downtown San Jose.After years of efforts to remove the Fallon artwork — seen as a symbol of American imperialism by the South Bay’s Mexican and Indigenous communities — a crane plucked the 16-foot-tall, 12,000-pound bronze statue off its concrete base and placed it into a storage crate. The city will hold on to the statue for now. There are currently no plans to fill the now-empty spot at the traffic median on St. James Street, though some in the Indigenous community have called for there to be a statue that is more inclusive for the city.According to city officials, the artwork is worth approximately $6,000 and cost the city nearly half a million dollars to remove.The statue, which depicts the former San Jose mayor and captain in the Mexican-American War on horseback raising a...

Cesar Chavez’s legacy lives on in Joe Biden’s new campaign chair

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:44 GMT

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Associated PressWASHINGTON — When President Barack Obama flew to California to dedicate a national monument to Latino labor leader Cesar Chavez, a group of the activist’s relatives were invited to pose for photos with the president.Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Chavez’s granddaughter, hung back. As a member of Obama’s staff, she had traveled with the official party to the event, but she did not want to call attention to herself.Only when Obama’s senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett, insisted did Rodriguez reluctantly step forward, barely making it into the frame.“I said, ‘Julie, you have to be up there with your family,’” said Jarrett, who was Rodriguez’s boss in the White House Office of Public Engagement. “And she said, ‘No, I’m staff today.’”White House staffers are often of a type, hard-charging strivers who crave their own sliver of the limelight or even trade on a famous name. Rodriguez has been a clear exception. In her second tour serving a Democratic president,...

‘We thank him for his service’: Tucker Carlson out at Fox News

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:44 GMT

Fox News and Tucker Carlson, the right-wing extremist who used his prime time perch at the talk network to exert a firm grip over the Republican Party, have severed ties, the network said in a stunning announcement that rocked the media and political worlds Monday.“We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,” Fox News said in a short statement that did not offer an explanation for his ouster, adding only that his last show was on Friday, April 21.Carlson, the highest-rated single host at Fox News, did not respond to multiple requests for comment. The decision to part ways with Carlson was made Friday evening by Fox Corporation chief executive Lachlan Murdoch and Fox News chief executive Suzanne Scott, a person familiar with the matter said.Carlson was informed of the decision on Monday morning, a second person familiar with the matter said.The announcement came one week after Fox News settled a monster defamation lawsuit with Dominion Vo...

Gap to cut hundreds of corporate jobs, according to WSJ

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:44 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- San Francisco-based retail chain Gap Inc. is preparing to eliminate hundreds of corporate jobs from its global workforce, according to Wall Street Journal report citing people "familiar with the situation." The job cuts are part of a restructuring aimed at making the company more nimble and "less bureaucratic," the Journal reports. Family Guy skit pokes fun at Oakland A’s The last time that Gap made significant cuts to its workforce was back in September when it cut 500 corporate jobs in an effort to reduce expenses amid languishing sales. September's cuts were primarily at its headquarters in San Francisco and in New York. The current round of cuts will be larger, according to the WSJ. Layoff notifications began going out on April 18, the Journal said. Employees at the SF headquarters are expected to start being notified this week, the report also said.Gap Inc. is the parent company to a number of brands including Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic and Athleta.

Lawyer for Proud Boys leader: Blame Trump for Jan. 6 riot

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:44 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A defense attorney argued Tuesday at the close of a landmark trial over the Jan. 6, 2021, riot that the Justice Department is making Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio a scapegoat for Donald Trump after the former president’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Tarrio and four lieutenants are charged with seditious conspiracy for what prosecutors say was a plot to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to stop the transfer of presidential power from Trump to President Joe Biden after the 2020 election. In his closing argument, attorney Nayib Hassan noted Tarrio wasn’t in Washington on Jan. 6, having been banned from the capital after being arrested on allegations that he defaced a Black Lives Matter banner. Trump, Hassan argued, was the one to blame for extorting a crowd outside the White House to “ fight like hell.”“It was Donald Trump’s words. It was his motivation. It was his anger that caused what occurred on January 6th in your beautiful and amazing ci...

Rahm back to defend in Mexico, LIV Golf off to Singapore

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:44 GMT

PGA TOURMEXICO CHAMPIONSHIP AT VIDANTASite: Vallarta, Mexico.Course: Vidanta Vallarta. Yardage: 7,456. Par: 71.Prize money: $7.7 million. Winner’s share: $1,386,000.Television: Thursday-Friday, 3:30-6:30 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 1-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m. (CBS).Defending champion: Jon Rahm.FedEx Cup leader: Jon Rahm.Last week: Davis Riley and Nick Hardy won the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.Notes: Jon Rahm is back to defend his title. He is playing for the second time in the three weeks since the Spaniard won the Masters. … The Mexico Open was the only PGA Tour event Rahm won last year. He also won twice on the European tour. This year he already has four PGA Tour titles, including his second major. … The field has only two other players from the top 50 in the world, Tony Finau and Alex Noren. … Finau closed with a 63 last year and tied for second with Kurt Kitayama and Brandon Wu. … Gary Woodland is among those in the field, along w...

Gladbach leading scorer Marcus Thuram out with groin injury

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:44 GMT

MOENCHENGLADBACH, Germany (AP) — France forward Marcus Thuram may have played his last game for Borussia Moenchengladbach.The Bundesliga club said Tuesday that Thuram tore a muscle fiber in his groin during the team’s 1-0 loss at home to Union Berlin on Sunday and that he is “ out for the foreseeable future.”The club does not say how long Thuram will miss, but an injury of this sort usually means a forced six- to eight-week break. Only five matches are left in the Bundesliga and Thuram is set to leave Gladbach at the end of the season after they failed to reach agreement on a contract extension.Thuram was Gladbach’s leading scorer in the league this season with 13 goals in 28 appearances.The 25-year-old Thuram — the son of former France defender Lilian Thuram — has 34 Bundesliga goals altogether in 109 games for Gladbach, which he joined in 2019 from French club Guingamp after a previous spell at Sochaux.Thuram has played 10 times for France.___More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub...

Potential threat under investigation at Smoky Hill High School

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:44 GMT

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) -- The Aurora Police Department says a threat that does not appear to be credible, is under investigation at Smoky Hill High School.APD said that investigators are working to identify the person who made the threat, which circulated on social media and in the community. Crash kills driver, sends child to hospital in Aurora There will be an increased presence of police and school resource officers at Smoky Hill, APD said.The Cherry Creek School District shared the following message on Tuesday morning:"This is an important message for the Smoky Hill High School community. We are aware of a potential threat against Smoky Hill High School that is circulating on social media and in the community. Law enforcement and district security are investigating the threat. Out of an abundance of caution, district security and the Aurora Police Department will have an increased presence at the school today. As always the safety of our students and staff is our highest pr...