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Drug Overdose Deaths Plummeted in 2024, C.D.C. Reports

Overdose deaths in the United States fell by nearly 30,000 last year, the government reported on Wednesday, the strongest sign yet that the country is making progress against one of its deadliest, most intractable public health crises. The data, released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is the latest in a series of […]

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Memorial Day weekend crowds expected to slam Zion National Park

Utah’s Zion National Park boasts over 100 miles of hiking trails and towering rock formations that can reach 3,000 feet in height. FOX Weather’s Robert Ray takes us on a tour as we celebrate National Parks Week. SPRINGDALE, Utah—The warm weather is finally upon us, and with it comes the opportunity to enjoy the great […]

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Minnesota’s Rosales banned 3 games for discriminatory language

May 14, 2025, 05:45 PM ET Minnesota United midfielder Joseph Rosales received a three-game ban from Major League Soccer after being found to have violated the MLS-MLSPA Joint Non-Discrimination Policy during the match against the Vancouver Whitecaps FC on April 27. During the meeting between the two teams, Rosales confronted Whitecaps forward Emmanuel Sabbi, with […]

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Peru’s PM quits ahead of no-confidence vote

The prime minister of Peru, Gustavo Adrianzén, has resigned hours before he was due to face a no-confidence vote in Congress. Members of Peru’s Congress had called for the no-confidence vote after the recent kidnap and killing of 13 mine workers, which shocked the country. Adrianzén’s resignation is another blow to the embattled president, Dina […]

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The latest roadblock for House Republicans’ ‘big beautiful bill’: Senate Republicans : NPR

Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson called the House budget plan a “sad joke.” He and other Senate Republicans are already raising questions about the legislation, even before the House finalizes their work. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images/AFP hide caption toggle caption ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images/AFP As House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., feverishly works to […]

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Exceptionally low river levels forecast in parts of the UK

Malcolm Prior, Georgina Rannard, Jenny Kumah BBC Rural Affairs and Climate and Science teams Getty Images Many of the UK’s rivers have hit exceptionally low levels and that could worsen in the next three months, according to the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), raising questions over supplies to households, farmers and businesses. The warning […]

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U.S. Tells Court It Plans to Deport Scientist to Russia

Government lawyers told a federal judge on Wednesday that the Trump administration intends to deport a Harvard scientist back to Russia, a country she fled in 2022, despite her fear that she will be arrested there over her protest of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Kseniia Petrova, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, has been held […]

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RFK Jr. Defends HHS Overhaul as Democrats Denounce ‘War on Science’

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered a defiant defense on Wednesday of his drastic overhaul of federal health agencies as House Democrats accused him of violating the law by shuttering whole divisions and cutting funding appropriated by Congress for medical research. “We are not withholding money for lifesaving research!” Mr. Kennedy thundered at Representative […]

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