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The opioid crisis remains a significant public health challenge in the United States. In 2022, over 2.5 million American adults had an opioid use disorder, and opioids accounted for nearly 76% of overdose deaths.

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In late October, more than 80% of Botswana’s electorate went to the polls and voted out the incumbent government. The unexpected result was accepted by all parties, and the outgoing president immediately announced his...Read more

More than 40 years since the first American servicewomen were allowed to serve in combat, Idaho U.S. Sen. Jim Risch thinks the “jury’s still out” on how the U.S. military should manage women’s involvement in a war ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A bid by the co-captain of San Jose State University’s women’s volleyball team to get a purportedly transgender teammate banned from the Mountain West Conference Championship has failed.

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DETROIT — The Renaissance Center would shrink to three towers with residential, office and hotel tenancy to create space for a six-acre riverfront park in a more than $1.6 billion redevelopment plan dependent on $250 ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Standing behind a table bristling with guns and drugs at Baltimore Police Headquarters, officials on Monday touted the takedown of four criminal organizations comprised of at least 39 people as evidence of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The union that represents animators has reached a new contract deal with the major Hollywood studios after more than three months of bargaining, securing pay increases and artificial intelligence ...Read more

OAKLAND, California — PG&E is seeking a fresh increase in monthly bills — yet again — for its residential customers, this time to help the utility titan meet demand for new housing, commercial real estate and ...Read more

Quikrete, the privately held Georgia concrete and cement company, will buy Denver-based Summit Materials in a deal worth more than $11 billion, including assumed debt.

Quikrete is the top producer of packaged concrete and...Read more

WASHINGTON — Environmental groups and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, still under the control of President Joe Biden, are bracing to protect California’s central role in regulating vehicle emissions against ...Read more

DENVER — Mayor Mike Johnston’s pointed comments last week about Denverites resisting a federal mass-deportation effort — including a suggestion that he would mobilize the Denver police department to face off with ...Read more

DENVER — One month before the 28th anniversary of JonBenét Ramsey’s murder, Netflix will premiere a three-part “Cold Case” documentary about the Boulder crime, which captivated the world and remains unsolved.

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California is prepared to offer state tax rebates for electric vehicle purchases if the incoming Trump administration scuttles the federal EV tax credit, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

“We will intervene if the Trump ...Read more

MIAMI — President-elect Donald Trump won Miami-Dade County in a landslide, but will that be enough to get a street named after him?

Hialeah wants Miami-Dade to recognize the city’s creation of President Donald J. ...Read more

Alec Baldwin said his fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of “Rust” and the aftermath left his wife, Hilaria, “traumatized” and made him unwilling to see the film’s final cut.

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Zach Bryan leads the list of nominees for the Billboard Music Awards.

The 28-year-old singer is up for 18 awards and has received 21 nominations in total, including nods in the Top Artist and Top Male Artist categories.

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CHICAGO — If the life and times of Chicago Alderman Daniel Solis a decade ago were pitched as the plot of a daytime soap opera, it might be rejected as too fantastical.

Sexual trysts at massage parlors, procuring ...Read more

In keeping with a long-standing Thanksgiving tradition, President Joe Biden recently pardoned a pair of turkeys. During a ceremony at the White House, the birds — named Peach and Blossom — were spared from the dinner ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As Dillion and Ben, two Clydesdales, pulled an 18-and-a-half-foot Christmas tree in a green wagon up the driveway to the North Portico of the White House Monday afternoon, it was already clear something ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Hawaii woman’s father who flew to Los Angeles looking for her after she was reported missing has been found dead near Los Angeles International Airport.

The body of Ryan Kobayashi, 58, was found in a ...Read more