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For the massage, Saini chose dhanwantram oil for me, to help balance the vata and pitta doshas. It promises antioxidant effects with its cocktail of roots, flowers, herbs, oils, and spices, as well as cow’s milk. My therapist, Constance Nicolas, used confident, medium-to-firm strokes to work the oil in and then pressed the oiled elakizhi bundles into my back. My elakhizi contained a cooked mixture of fresh Moringa and fenugreek leaves, lemon slices, turmeric, rock salt, and grated coconut and were ingeniously nestled in a Crock-Pot, where they lay warming in dhanwantram oil. The aromatic vibe was more Indian restaurant…

The family of a double amputee who was gunned down by police in Southern California took initial action Thursday to sue the city that employs the officers.Christian Contreras, an attorney representing the family of Anthony Lowe, said the city must release all footage they have of the deadly encounter and name the officers involved.”Let’s call it what it is. It’s a straight murder,” Contreras told reporters. “A disabled man, double amputee, murdered by the police department officers, and we’re here making demands. We’re not making requests. We’re making demands.” Anthony Lowe.Courtesy Ebonique SimonLowe, a Black man who lost his legs…

El Salvador has doubled its prison capacity after opening a 40,000-person facility this week in an effort to further crack down on the country’s gang violence problem. “All those home boys, those terrorists in the organization that made our beloved Salvadoran people suffer, will be housed and subjected to a severe regimen,” El Salvador’s Prisons Director Osiris Luna said on state television. El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said the country’s “Terrorism Confinement Center” mega-prison, now one of Latin America’s largest, will have 37 guard towers and eight cellblocks that will be “impossible to escape,” The Times of England reported. Roughly 600 troops and…

Washington CNN  —  A bipartisan group of senators urged President Joe Biden to delay the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey until Turkey agrees to allow Sweden and Finland to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The letter comes at a time when Sweden and Finland are waiting for Turkey to approve their admission to NATO, of which Turkey is a member. Congressional sources previously told CNN that the Biden administration was preparing to ask lawmakers to approve the sale of F-16s to Turkey, which would be among the largest arms sales in years. The group of 27…

Still not over Peacock’s The Traitors? Us either — and Arie Luyendyk Jr. is breaking down his relationships with his costars and the game’s twists and turns exclusively with Us Weekly. “It’s so authentic — how the game is played and that is what I think makes it so amazing because even when you’re doing the interviews and you’re talking about, let’s say other castmates or the missions, you’re never led by the producers doing the interviews,” the former Bachelor, 41, explained on Us Weekly’s “Here for the Right Reasons” podcast on Thursday, February 2. “It’s completely organic and I…

The U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) has raised the campaign contribution limits from individuals and non-multicandidate Political Action Committees (PACs) for the 2023-2024 elections, due to inflation.The FEC announced a $400 increase in the individual contribution limit – from $2,900 to $3,300 – in a statement Thursday, and also raised the amount married couples can jointly contribute to $6,600 per federal candidate, and $13,200 per election cycle.The FEC releases its new limits in odd-numbered years, with the last being a $100 increase to $2,900 for individuals in 2021.BIDEN ECONOMIC ADVISER BRIAN DEESE TO STEP DOWN THIS MONTH New limits were…

The Lang Rink in Lang, Sask., built in 1927, is one of the province’s oldest rinks and is full of character and memories. “These old rinks like this, each one of them is special,” said Milestone Selects hockey coach Beau Bechard. “The smell, the food – they all have different characteristics to make them special, and I’ve noticed the kids love coming to the old rinks.”He said he coaches his daughter, and he loves watching her and her teammates play on the same ice he played on 30 years ago.“Thinking back to all the memories I had growing up and…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A shooting at a Tennessee library on Thursday left one person dead and a police officer “critically” wounded, authorities said.Officers were called to the Poplar-White Station Library around 12:30 p.m., the Memphis Police Department tweeted. Both the person and the officer were shot, police said. The person was pronounced dead at the library and the officer was taken to a hospital and “remains in extremely critical condition,” police said.Emergency personnel at the Poplar-White Station Library in Memphis, Tenn. following shooting on Feb. 2, 2023.NBC NewsOther details about the shooting and the initial call were not immediately released.…

Thousands of frustrated Texans shivered in their homes Thursday after more than a day without power, including many in the state capital, as an icy winter storm that has been blamed for at least 10 traffic deaths lingered across much of the southern U.S.A warming trend was expected to bring some relief later Thursday — just in time for an Arctic front to drop from Canada and threaten northern states, and in particular those in New England, with the coldest weather in decades. Wind chills could dive lower than minus 50.Across Texas, 430,000 customers lacked power Thursday, according to PowerOutage.us.…

Rio de Janeiro’s brutal summer heat has reached 122 degrees Fahrenheit on some recent days, sending locals to cool off in the ocean. There weren’t many options for residents of the city’s zoo, however, until a team of experts started offering them exotic frozen treats.The flavors of ice given to the zoo’s carnivores aren’t found at your average summer hotspot: Chicken, minced meat and bovine blood. But 14-year-old lion Simba and the 3-year-old black jaguar Poty lap it up.”This is a part of our well-being program. We have lots of activities to include something different in their routine,” said Marina…