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We need to talk about being in the ‘sandwich generation’

The first time I realized my parents were getting older was truly sobering. My dad had been battling cancer for a while, and as the 30-something only daughter of the family, I’d gotten used to calling my mom for updates on his health – not expecting I had to do

Rayful Edmond, notorious DC drug kingpin, dies in federal custody at 60

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rayful Edmond, a drug kingpin once believed to control about a third of the cocaine trade in the nation’s capital during the crack epidemic of the 1980s, has died in federal custody, the Bureau of Prisons confirmed Tuesday. Edmond, 60, was known at the height of his

Trump chooses Herschel Walker as US ambassador to Bahamas

Herschel Walker, the football legend who unsuccessfully ran for a U.S. Senate seat in Georgia, has been chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to be ambassador to the Bahamas. Trump made the announcement Tuesday in a post on Truth Social, his social media website. He described Walker as “a successful businessman, philanthropist, former

An Alabama woman is doing well after the latest experimental pig kidney transplant

NEW YORK (AP) — An Alabama woman is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that freed her from eight years of dialysis, the latest effort to save human lives with animal organs. Towana Looney is the fifth American given a gene-edited pig organ — and notably, she isn’t as sick as prior recipients who died