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HUD SECRETARY, DR. BEN CARSON Nearly two weeks after testing positive for COVID-19, Dr. Ben Carson, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, believes he’s “out of the woods at this point” and is confident that “together we will be victorious” as “God is still in charge.”“I have several co-morbidities and after a brief period when I only experienced minor discomfort, the symptoms accelerated and I became desperately ill,” the 69-year-old retired pediatric neurosurgeon shared on his Facebook page Friday.Carson, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, said President Trump was following his condition and “cleared me for...

Okay, your HIGH is really screwin’ up my LAWN!!! People are IDIOTS and will ingest ANYTHING to catch a BUZZ — the latest — FLOWER SEEDS?! That’s right, people are CHEWING the seeds of: Hawaiian Baby Woodrose Sleepy Grass Blue Morning Glory Because they’re LEGAL, and apparently, mimic the high of LSD.

Researchers today announced in the journal Nature Plants the discovery of the first-ever fossil specimens of an "asterid" - a family of flowering plants that gave us everything from the potato to tomatoes, tobacco, petunias and our morning cup of coffee. But these two 20-30 million-year-old fossil flowers, found perfectly preserved in a piece of amber, came from the dark side of the asterid family - they belong to the genus Strychnos, which ultimately gave rise to some of the world's most famous poisons, including strychnine and curare. Poisons that would later find their way into blow-gun weapons, rat control,...

<p>LOS ANGELES - A 35-year-old woman was sentenced to death Monday for poisoning her husband with a combination of antifreeze and an oleander plant.</p> <p>Angelina Rodriguez, of Montebello, will become the 15th woman on California's death row unless her sentence is altered by the state Supreme Court on appeal. Death penalty cases are automatically appealed under state law.</p>

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-death13nov13,1,4759947.story Jury Calls for Poisoner's Death By Anna Gorman, Times Staff Writer A jury called Wednesday for the death of Angelina Rodriguez, a 35-year-old woman who poisoned her husband with a lethal combination of antifreeze and an oleander plant at their Montebello home. Rodriguez could become the 15th woman on California's death row, joining four others from Los Angeles County. Only four women have been executed in the state since 1893. [snip] Jurors found her guilty last month of murdering her schoolteacher husband, Frank, in September 2000 to get the $250,000 life insurance policy he had applied for two months...