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Egg prices are on the rise due to an ongoing avian flu outbreak limiting supply, and while they are still safe to eat, many people are seeking alternatives to keep costs down, as experts say it may take months for prices to fully normalize.
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“We all are in the same battle to try to give resources and equip the community with a high level of health literacy.” Dr. Abdullah Pratt from @UChicagoMed says there’s an upside to @UMedicsChi teaching bystanders how to help gunshot victims before paramedics are on the scene.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa and her online news company were cleared Wednesday of tax evasion charges she said were among a slew of legal cases used by former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to try to muzzle critical reporting.
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Sister André, a French nun and the world’s oldest known person, died at 118. She lived through two world wars, 18 French presidents, 10 popes, the 1918 influenza pandemic and a Covid infection.
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“Some people did have to pivot and yes, because certain things that mattered before pre-pandemic, it changed.” , life coach and author, on how the pandemic has shifted what people set as their New Year’s resolutions, and how to stick with your own in 2023.
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“If you have a dream and a vision for yourself that you want to manifest, it's okay to rest...But when you're checking in on it, you remember to pick it back up.” Soledad O’Brien spoke with , an author with a blueprint for sticking to New Year’s resolutions.
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A community group, , trains its neighbors to help gunshot victims in Chicago. Correspondent Laura Chavez explains how high schoolers learn to mend wounds and interact with police. This in areas where residents say emergency response times have been too slow.
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People on Chicago’s South Side say emergency response times to shootings have been too slow. We look at a community group teaching neighbors to help the wounded. Plus, an author shares her blueprint on how you can stick to your New Year’s resolutions.
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Montecito, California and surrounding canyons were ordered to evacuate amid a deluge of rain that flooded roads and inundated waterways. The evacuation order affecting about 10,000 people came on the fifth anniversary of a mudslide that killed 23 people.
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Doctors say Bills safety Damar Hamlin is back in Buffalo, an uplifting sign of the remarkable progress he has made a week after going into cardiac arrest and having to be resuscitated on the field during a game in Cincinnati.
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Nurse on staffing shortages: 'It's not only physically toxic, it's mentally toxic' New York State Nurses Association President Nancy Hagans explains why more than 7,000 nurses at two major New York City hospitals walked off the job Monday. Watch:
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