Gaby Levesque
Gaby Levesque is a Producer for Yahoo News, who constantly strives to share her creativity through video and film. With a background in news, reality television and documentary work she loves working out on the road, meeting new people and getting the opportunity to share their stories.
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'Trading Spaces' alum Genevieve Gorder says home improvements can affect mental health: 'Let the light in'
The interior designer and television personality is sharing her 4 tips for a better home and improved mental health.
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Hilaria Baldwin talks life in quarantine with husband Alec and 4 kids: 'I've gotten really good at plunging toilets'
Expectant mom Hilaria Baldwin talks life in quarantine with husband Alec, their four little kids and three dogs.
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Flight attendants see a very different future for airplane travel in the age of coronavirus
“Recognize that there are going to be social distancing practices at the airport. So there’s no running to the gate at the last minute,” said Sara Nelson, the international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA in an interview with Yahoo News.
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Isolated and afraid? Addicts in recovery have it especially hard — but online programs help them through coronavirus lockdown
With the coronavirus spreading throughout the country quickly, mandates have been made in 42 states to shelter in place and stay at home. This requires a lot of people to isolate themselves from the outside world, which can be rather difficult for those in recovery from substance abuse.
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Virtual grieving in the age of coronavirus
While this is certainly a trying time for those seeking physical connection from fellow grieving relatives, the ability to stream funeral and church services to the masses seems to be a feature that some churches might hold onto for some time, even when life resumes back to whatever normal we settle back into.
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Cheers! Distillers do their part to fight coronavirus by bottling hand sanitizer, not gin
Distilleries of all shapes and sizes are now joining the fight against COVID-19.
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"I hope to be roaming outside freely and without a face mask very soon," says an American quarantined in Beijing
Patrick, who is an American citizen, returned back to his current home in Beijing recently and per law is being quarantined in his apartment for 14 days since his arrival back to China. “Right now, [I’m] keeping my spirits up and enjoying it. I hope to be roaming outside freely and without a face mask very soon.”
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Waiting for test results on coronavirus can be hard too — although not as hard as having it
“The reason they told me five days is probably because they're overwhelmed with more testing,” said Dr. Bassem Khalil, an internist at Georgetown Hospital in Washington, D.C.?He started experiencing symptoms that matched the warning signs of COVID-19 last Saturday.
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When coronavirus struck one small Kentucky town, residents didn't let 'social distance' stop them from helping each other
When coronavirus struck Cynthiana, Ky., residents pulled together to help out the local newspaper — and take care of their neighbors.
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What is CHS? Marijuana advocates warn of a little-known condition affecting heavy users
Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, or CHS, causes severe abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting among some heavy marijuana users — symptoms that, strangely, can be eased by taking very hot showers.
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Gillum sets sights on denying Trump victory in Florida in 2020
Andrew Gillum says he knows why President Trump left his lifelong home of New York to take up residence in Florida and doubts his “antics” for reelection will work.?
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Rep. Justin Amash turned on Trump. Will his Michigan district follow him — or turn on him?
If you want to understand how impeachment is being seen by actual Americans, there may be no better place to go than Grand Rapids, Mich. In part that’s because the area around Grand Rapids, comprising Michigan’s Third Congressional District, is one of only about two dozen districts in the nation to vote for Barack Obama and for Donald Trump.
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What my journey into homelessness taught me
At 58, a former music professor and composer became homeless. This is the story of what he has learned from the experience.
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'It's happening': Alien enthusiasts descend on Area 51 for a UFO party
An event that began as a Facebook joke is expected to attract several thousand people to a remote area of the Nevada desert over the next three days.
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How Sen. Mazie Hirono became Trump's toughest Democratic critic
Unapologetic disdain for the president has made Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, a hero to the left and, predictably enough, a villain to the right.
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Alabama students speak out on abortion ban: 'I'm not planning on living here after I graduate'
The near-total abortion ban passed by the Alabama Legislature and signed into law this week was a major topic of conversation among students at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. A nonscientific sampling of students found that not only had all of them heard about the ban, but most worried about the new law — fearing its effects on classmates, women statewide and their school.
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2018 was the deadliest fire season in California's history; these firefighters are on the front lines
With fire season already underway, these wild-land firefighters were doing work to avert the catastrophic fires that ran through California in 2018. That year, 2018, marked the deadliest fire season in California’s history, during which more than 100 people were killed.
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‘Beale Street’ talks: Baldwin knew then what we know now
The film adaptation of “If Beale Street Could Talk” won an Oscar this week, with Regina King earning the Best Supporting Actress award. The film, directed by Barry Jenkins, brought to life a novel by the acclaimed author and social critic James Baldwin, who memorialized love and injustice in 1970s New York. It’s a love story about Tish and Fonny, a young couple from Harlem, who forge an unbreakable bond in the face of an unforgiving and racially biased world.
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For the love of the brain: One mother's fight for CTE awareness
Karen Kinzle Zegel spends her days working on the Patrick Risha CTE Awareness Foundation website, fielding questions and giving out information on a disease she barely knew existed five years ago – until it took the life of her son, for whom the foundation is named. Karen remembers, “We were a football family, his dad was a coach, I would cheer and yell and you know, do all the things the football mom does. At the time, she was unaware of CTE – chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease caused by repeated blows to the head – and the role it was playing in Patrick’s life.