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Cavan Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The "winter blues" season is upon us. As our exposure to daylight decreases over the winter months, millions of Americans suffer each year from the effects of seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, a form of depression that for some can surface like clockwork each year. SAD is defined as a type of depression that comes and goes with the seasons, typically arriving in the late fall and early winter and going away during the spring and summer. SAD can...

Mark Felix/Bloomberg via Getty Images(GALVESTON, Texas) -- A city in Texas has lifted a shelter-in-place after a "temporary increase in sulfur dioxide emissions" earlier Sunday at the Marathon Galveston Bay Refinery. "The shelter-in-place has now been lifted. All roadways are open, and there is no longer a need to shelter in place," the city said in an updated news alert on its website. "Multiple agencies have been conducting air monitoring, and all readings in the affe...

BanksPhotos/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Southwest Airlines has been handed a record $140 million fine for its operational meltdown during the 2022 holiday travel season, the U.S. Department of Transportation said Monday. The civil penalty leveled against the airline is about 30 times larger than any previous fine against an airline, DOT officials said in a press release. The DOT said it will also require Southwest to start issuing a $75 flight credit to any passenger whose arrival is delayed mor...

In this file photo, pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai is escorted into a Correctional Services van outside the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong on Feb. 1, 2021. -- AFP via Getty Images(HONG KONG) -- After more than three years in prison, pro-democracy activist and media mogul Jimmy Lai’s long-awaited and delayed national security trial opened Monday morning under heavy security in Hong Kong. In the most high-profile case since Beijings imposition of its controversial national security law...

Matthew Perry attends the GQ Men of the Year Party 2022 at The West Hollywood EDITION on November 17, 2022 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for GQ)(NEW YORK) -- An autopsy report from the Los Angeles County coroner on Friday named acute effects of ketamine as the cause of death for Friends star Matthew Perry. According to the report, Perry reportedly was on ketamine infusion therapy and had a ketamine infusion one and a half weeks before his death. However, t...

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A large swath of residents along the Eastern Seaboard are under flood and wind alerts as the storm system that inundated the South moves north, bringing the same threats with it. Residents living along the I-95 corridor can expect a dangerous commute on Monday morning as heavy rain and strong winds continue to affect the region. The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch across more than a dozen states, affecting 60 million people. South Carolina was hit hard wi...

Santiago Felipe/Getty Images, FILEMatthew Perry died from the acute effects of ketamine, according to the autopsy report released Friday by the Los Angeles County coroner. The Friends actor died on October 28. He was 54 years old. The autopsy listed drowning, coronary artery disease and buprenorphine effects as contributing factors not related to the immediate cause of death. The manner of death was ruled an accident. In a statement the day after responding to his home, the Los Angeles Polic...

SimpleImages/Getty Images(ROME) -- The Vatican city court on Saturday sentenced Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, once touted as a possible papal contender, to 5 1/2 years in prison for mismanaging a Vatican property portfolio which included a luxury flat in London. Becciu, the former Substitute for General Affairs in the Vatican Secretariat of State, is the highest ranking Vatican official ever to face financial charges. He was convicted on two counts of embezzlement and one of aggravated fraud,...

Cavan Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The Quaker Oats Company has recalled dozens of granola products due to the risk of potential salmonella contamination. The recall impacts more than 40 granola bar and granola cereal products, according to an announcement posted on the U.S. Food and Drug Administrations website on Friday. Quaker said the listed products "have the potential to be contaminated with salmonella." No further details were provided on the potential contamination. "To...

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Heavy rain, flooding, strong wind gusts and a few tornadoes are possible along the East Coast throughout this weekend as a new storm tracks north. The storm developing over the Gulf of Mexico is already bringing a few showers to Florida Saturday morning. The rain will increase in coverage and strength over the states as the day continues, along with wind gusts over 40 mph. Saturday afternoon, Florida is expected to see thunderstorms, but some of them will bring moderate to ...