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... in Wyoming and in Alaska, where Sarah Palin is trying to mount a political comeback. Then, a Ukrainian nuclear plant is caught in the crossfire of Russia's assault, alarming nearby residents. Plus, St. Louis community leaders try to combat an opioid crisis as overdose deaths skyrocket among Black Americans.
... drug dealers and people consuming drugs in public. The city attorney’s office says San Francisco saw a nearly 500 percent increase in opioid-related overdose deaths between 2015 and 2020 and that on a typical day, roughly a quarter of visits at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Emergency ...
... rarely did personal appearances or sports talk shows. He preferred spending time with his family. In 1972, his first wife, Joan, died of an accidental overdose of medicine. He was left with three young children. Two years later, he met the woman who would become his second wife, Sandra, a ...
... Thao each made a tragic misdiagnosis in their assessment of Mr. Floyd." He added that both men genuinely thought Floyd was suffering from a drug overdose and “excited delirium” — a disputed condition in which someone is said to have extraordinary strength. The result of Magnuson's ruling means that the ...
Tuesday on the NewsHour, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo discusses the global chip shortage as Congress weighs legislation that could boost U.S. production. Then, new data reveals a dramatic spike in overdose deaths among people of color during the pandemic. Plus, doctors in red states worry that abortion ...
... to time in these ‘correctional facilities,’ when we're really just throwing them into drug dens.” The corrections department’s reports reveal at least seven overdose deaths in 2021, three of which officials classified as natural deaths. It reported 97 deaths in the first three months of this year that ...
... lost. On the record in the liner notes, I started listing people that had just been passed since from the pandemic, and then some drug overdoses and cancer and accidents and suicides. And it was 14 people and I had to stop just because we were going to run out ...
... said. More than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year, according to estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. U.S. overdose deaths have risen most years for more than two decades. The increase began in the 1990s with overdoses involving opioid painkillers, followed by waves ...
... come on the "NewsHour": tensions rise as a journalist is killed during an Israeli raid of a town in the occupied West Bank; a new report details a troubling history of forcing indigenous children to attend boarding school; overdose deaths in the U.S. hit record levels; plus much more.
... Besides the bankruptcy trustee, the only official objectors left are Canadian local governments and First Nations, and two mothers of sons who died of opioid overdoses. This week, more than 1,000 families who have lost loved ones to overdoses sent a letter asking the U.S. Justice Department to ...
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