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Karoline Leavitt, the current White House press secretary under President Donald Trump, jokingly suggested her role was giving her post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on Monday, while also bemoaning several vacations that have been disrupted by her job.

The youngest person to ever hold the job at only 28 years old, Leavitt has distinguished herself as press secretary for her persistent loyalty to Trump and her frequent clashes with reporters over unflattering questions about him. In recent weeks, for example, she deflected questions about Trump's Truth Social post calling for Democratic lawmakers to face the death penalty and suggested that reporters ought to feel grateful for his honesty after he called a female journalist "piggy" when she pressed him about the release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein.

In an interview with the Daily Mail published Monday, Leavitt suggested, jokingly, that she was developing PTSD due to the job. As opposed to any of the unpleasant clashes with reporters causing this, she instead claimed that it was because of her grueling schedule preventing her from making and keeping plans....

Donald Trump's recent interview cancellations and no-shows might be hinting at more than just fatigue, according to Alexi McCammond, who serves as an opinion editor focusing on the 2024 election for the Washington Post.

McCammond appeared on MSNBC Saturday alongside Eugene Daniels, MSNBC political contributor and Politico White House correspondent, who recently reported that Trump's team said he was too "exhausted" to go forward with a planned interview on a podcast on which Vice President Kamala Harris did appear.

For his part, Daniels told the show's host, Alex Witt, that the report "pricked up some ears" from voters who wondered if Trump is still fit for office....

CHICAGO — A recreation director in Highland Park, Ill., who says he suffered psychological trauma following a mass shooting at the suburban city’s 2022 Fourth of July parade, has been fired, according to interviews and government records reviewed by Raw Story.

On Dec. 27, Highland Park officials terminated Chris Maliszewski, 41, who says he is actively being treated for depression, anxiety, insomnia and post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from the massacre, during which seven people died and at least 48 were injured. Maliszewski is in the midst of a workers’ compensation case initiated while he was on leave from his job through the Family and Medical Leave Act.

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JERUSALEM — Marijuana administered in a timely fashion could block the development of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in rats, a new study conducted at Haifa University has found.