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SAN JOSE, Calif. — San Mateo County recently became the first county in the country to recognize loneliness as a public health emergency. The county Board of Supervisors voted unanimously last week to approve a resolution introduced by Supervisor David Canepa declaring loneliness a health emergency. In the resolution, Canepa outlined several strategies to address loneliness. These include strengthening social infrastructure, implementing pro-connection public policies, mobilizing the health sector, conducting research to deepen knowledge, reforming online environments and fostering a culture o......

Passengers traveling on an Alaska Airlines planes when its door plug flew off mid-flight, leaving a gaping hole in the side of the aircraft, were offered $1,500 to compensate for the harrowing experience, according to a report. The unlucky travelers will also receive a full refund for their tickets, according to an email reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “We recognize how extremely distressing this incident must have been and we are grateful to you and our crew for everyone’s calm and patience throughout this experience,” it said. “We will fully investigate this incident and work with the r......

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are being asked to leave their royal residence at Frogmore Cottage in England. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who moved to California in 2020 after stepping down from their duties as part of the royal family, still had the cottage as their official residence in the U.K., until now. A spokesperson for the royal couple’s Archewell Foundation, which focuses on philanthropic work that “unites and uplifts communities,” confirmed the report Wednesday to People. King Charles III plans to move his brother Prince Andrew to the Windsor residence, according to a report pub......

Things are getting ugly fast between Don and Ron. Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday shared a 21-year-old photo purportedly showing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis partying with teenage girls when he was a teacher at their school. “That’s not Ron is it?” Trump wrote sarcastically on his social media site. “He would never do such a thing.” The 45th president later shared the same photo along with a post that denounced DeSantis as “pretty gross” for “cuddling” with the teenage female students, one of whom is holding a brown bottle. “No way!” Trump wrote in mock surprise. The image apparently fir......

Renting a median priced three-bedroom home is more affordable than buying a three-bedroom single-family home in the country's largest counties, according to a report by the national real estate data company Attom. Among counties with populations of at least a million people, Philadelphia and Allegheny Counties, Pennsylvania, are two of the most affordable for renting a three-bedroom home, according to a report Attom published Thursday. In both places, renters need 26% of the average local wages to pay for housing. New rents have risen faster than home prices over the last year in almost half t......

Executions and death sentences in the United States remained near 50-year lows in 2022, but “an astonishing 35%” of execution attempts were “visibly problematic,” according to a report released Friday. The year-end report by Death Penalty Information Center, a Washington-based nonprofit focusing on capital punishment issues, found that 18 executions were carried out in the U.S. since January — the fewest in any prepandemic year since 1991. The report also noted a decline in the handing out of death sentences. To date, 20 death sentences have been issued, with two more sentencing decisions sche......