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Paragraph: Virtually unknown just months ago, New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez arrived in Los Angeles as a rising political star, about a month after her improbable upset of 10-term U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley in a New York City Democratic primary. On Thursday, she intentionally avoided politicians and Hollywood celebrities, instead choosing to share the stage at the low-dollar fundraiser with activists pushing for broader rent-control laws in California and a public-backed banking system in the city. In her speech, she warned of a broken economy in which luxury apartments stand vacant while homeless crowd the streets, and talked of a Democratic Party in which the working class and marginalized are ascendant. Bursts of applause followed her calls for universal health care and a cost-free education through college. She swiped repeatedly, if indirectly, at President Donald Trump. "It is not us who are crazy, not with that man in the White House," the former Bernie Sanders organizer said to cheers. Ocasio-Cortez was lauded by those who paid $27, or $10 for students, to see the candidate seen as the new face of the emerging democratic socialist movement. "She really inspires me, because she's so young and she's getting so far," said Melainey Jane Foerster, 16, a high-school student from suburban Santa Clarita. Salesman Jon Pelzer, 65, said he's "impressed by and energized by what she was able to do in New York." "We share all the same values," added Pelzer, a Democrat who ran on a similar platform in California's 30th Congressional District but didn't advance to November. The surprise victory by the political novice in a district that includes parts of the Bronx and Queens came after a low-budget campaign that she built around liberal and social causes, not the traditional Democratic Party machine. Crowley had been expected to win easily. Her platform includes expanding the Medicare program to people of all ages and abolishing Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. Her trip to California comes at a time when state and national Democrats have been contending with friction between their establishment and liberal wings. California Sen. Dianne Feinstein is being challenged in November by a fellow Democrat, state Sen. Kevin de Leon, who has positioned himself as a liberal alternative to the long-serving centrist. She warned of the influence of "coastal elites" in politics, and she recalled that her candidacy was largely dismissed. Ocasio-Cortez said she didn't receive an endorsement from any incumbent "but we won anyway." She urged the crowd to "engage in the fights that you know that are right." Claim: Rising liberal Democrat star on West Coast fundraising swing.
She visited Los Angeles' notorious Skid Row neighborhood, where the homeless crowd the streets. She met with liberal activists eager to see universal health care and expanded rent-control laws. And she was cheered by hundreds of supporters at a downtown fundraiser, where she warned of those who scheme to turn liberal-minded Americans against each other.

Paragraph: Cuomo's cautiously upbeat report at a daily briefing came as the daily death toll across the state, the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States, dropped to 540 on April 17, down from 630 a day earlier and the lowest in more than two weeks. The governor said total hospitalizations of patients being treated for COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus, came to 16,967, a drop of more than 1,300 over the past three days. Intubations and admissions to intensive care units also continued on their downward trend. "If you look at the past three days, you could argue that we are past the plateau and we're starting to descend which would be very good news," Cuomo said. He said, however, that about 2,000 infected people were newly admitted to hospitals on Friday, which he characterized as "still an overwhelming number," and reiterated that he would take a cautious approach to reopening businesses and schools. Cuomo repeated a call for the federal government to help coordinate and provide funding for the mass testing that he and other governors have said is needed to determine when it is safe for people to go back to work. Providing new details on the challenge, Cuomo said a survey of labs in his state revealed an inability to procure the chemical reagents needed to run the tests on machines supplied by private manufacturers like Roche Holding AG. "They bought the machine, they have the machine, they have the test, but they need the reagents to do a higher volume of tests," Cuomo said, adding that makers like Roche are struggling to get the reagents from China. "That's the logjam we are in." New York disclosed 7,090 new positive cases over the last 24 hours for a total of 236,732 cases, while deaths increased by 540 to 13,362, marking by far the largest number of fatalities of any state. Even with stabilizing numbers, Cuomo said the pandemic was taking a severe emotional and economic toll on people, and estimated the impact on society would prove to be the biggest challenge facing the country since World War Two. "On every level this is a terrible experience, Cuomo said. "It is as tumultuous a time as we have ever seen." Claim: New York Governor sounds optimistic note as coronavirus numbers improve.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Saturday that a recent drop in hospitalizations and other improving metrics indicated the state may be past the peak of its coronavirus crisis and on a path toward stabilizing its battered healthcare system.

Paragraph: A large study by doctors from King's College London found that rates of PTSD among British armed forces were stable at around 4 percent, but there were higher rates of common mental disorders such as anxiety and depression, and of alcohol misuse. "Our view is that alcohol misuse is actually a greater problem for the armed forces than PTSD," said Simon Wessely of the Institute of Psychiatry at King's, who led the study. The researchers noted that studies in the United States had found high levels PTSD among veterans returning from active service, and said those findings had led some to predict Britain too would suffer a "tidal wave" of mental health problems. PTSD can stem from wartime trauma such as being wounded or seeing others hurt or killed. An estimated 180,000 troops have served in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001. The British study, published in the Lancet medical journal, used data from almost 10,000 UK troops. It was funded by the Ministry of Defense, but the researchers stressed that ministers had no other involvement in the work. Around 4 percent suffered PTSD, 20 percent had symptoms of common mental disorders which would not normally need medical attention, and 13 percent were misusing alcohol, it found. But troops who had been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan were 22 percent more likely to abuse alcohol than those who had not. "We're not seeing this tidal wave of mental health problems, as was predicted, and (our findings) definitely don't reflect what's being seen in the U.S," Nicola Fear, who also worked on the study, told a London briefing. Wessely, however, warned that while rates of trauma stress were low, the sheer numbers of British troops deployed in recent years meant "more and more people with mental health problems" would be coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan. "Services that care for veterans are going to get busier and are going to get a higher workload," he told the briefing. "The numbers will increase as long as the deployment continues." "We will see more people but that does not mean a catastrophic decline in mental health." A large U.S. study in 2007 found that U.S. male military veterans were twice as likely to commit suicide than people who had never been in the military. Matthew Hotopf, also from King's, said the differences between the U.S. and the UK were "quite striking" and may be due to the fact that U.S. troops often deploy for longer periods up to 15 months, rather than the 6-month deployments usual for British forces. Fear said the team found no increased prevalence of PTSD in soldiers who had been deployed more than once, but they did find a slight rise in rates of stress disorder as the time since troops' return from deployment increased. "The longer you have been back from deployment, the more likely you are to report symptoms of PTSD," she said. But she said this was "a very small increase" with the highest prevalence of PTSD reaching 6 percent in troops that had been back for up to 4 years. Claim: Study finds alcohol abuse a problem in UK forces.
British troops in Afghanistan or Iraq are far more likely to become alcohol abusers back home than fellow troops, but levels of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are stable, psychiatrists said on Thursday.