Purdue Pharma to Pay $270 Million Settlement for Its Role in the Opioid Crisis
(OKLAHOMA CITY) — The maker of OxyContin and the company's controlling family agreed to pay $270 million to Oklahoma on Tuesday to settle allegations they helped set off the nation's deadly opioid crisis with their aggressive marketing of the powerful painkiller.
6m Mar 27, 2019
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The Number of Marijuana User ER Visits Rises at Denver Hospitals, Study Reports
Five years after Colorado first legalized marijuana, a new study shows pot's bad effects are sending more people to the emergency room. Inhaled marijuana caused the most severe problems at one large Denver area hospital. Marijuana-infused foods and candies, called edibles, also led to trouble. Patients came to the ER with symptoms such as repeated vomiting, racing heart...
4m Mar 27, 2019
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Elizabeth Warren Is Officially Running to Get This Train
The 2020 presidential election isn't the only race that Elizabeth Warren is eager to run in — it appears that she's got the commuter hustle on her mind too. The Massachusetts senator and Democratic hopeful was spotted racing into New York City's Penn Station, an iced coffee in hand, to catch a train, leading a TMZ cameraman down flights of stairs and through the station...
2m Mar 27, 2019
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NASA Nixes the Upcoming All-Women Spacewalk
Astronauts Christina Koch and Anne McClain were set to exit the International Space Station and make history together on March 29 with the first all-female spacewalk. But NASA has had to reshuffle the personnel partially because of a lack of correctly sized spacesuits, the agency said Tuesday. "Mission managers decided to adjust the assignments, due in part to spacesuit...
1m Mar 26, 2019
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Fighting Between Israel and Hamas Quiets After a Night of Heavy Fire
(JERUSALEM) — The Gaza border region was quiet but tense on Tuesday morning after a night of heavy fire as Israeli aircraft bombed targets across the Gaza Strip and Gaza militants fired rockets into Israel in what threatened to escalate into a major conflict, just two weeks before the Israeli election.
5m Mar 26, 2019
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Here Are All the TV Shows Coming to Apple’s Streaming Service
On Monday, Apple previewed the first shows that will be coming to its streaming service, Apple TV+, launching this fall. In a bid to compete with the likes of Hulu and Netflix, Apple will start producing its own content. The tech juggernaut has signed major talent, including Oprah Winfrey, J.J. Abrams, Reese Witherspoon and Steven Spielberg, to make television shows and fi...
10m Mar 26, 2019
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How Trump and Republicans in Congress Are Already Capitalizing on the Mueller Report
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's nearly two-year probe into Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential election wasn't just a cloud over the White House, but the entire Republican Party. And when it started to lift, GOP lawmakers wasted no time taking a victory lap. One of the first lawmakers to receive Attorney General William Barr's summary of the Mueller report was S...
3m Mar 26, 2019
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The 4 Biggest Things Apple Just Announced, From TV to a Credit Card
Apple on Monday announced a trio of new subscription services — offering TV and movies, video games and news and magazines — as well as a new credit card. The move comes as the company, helmed by CEO Tim Cook, is trying to focus attention on — and grow — its services business amid a slowdown in iPhone growth, long the company's main cash cow. As iPhone growth slows, App...
7m Mar 26, 2019
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Two Parkland Suicides Highlight the Lasting Impact of Trauma. Here’s How Parents and Teachers Can Help Teens Who Are Struggling
A pair of recent suicide deaths in Parkland, Fla., serve as a stark reminder of the lingering effects of trauma — and underscore the importance of providing long-term support to those who are living with its consequences. Just days after 19-year-old Sydney Aiello, who survived the mass shooting at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last year, died by suicid...
8m Mar 26, 2019
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Paul Rudd Reveals the Secret Behind Being an Ageless Baby-Faced Adult Man
Paul Rudd may be a 49-year-old actor, but the fact that you might not be able to tell the difference between the Avengers: Endgame actor now and the younger man has long been a popular joke on the internet.
1m Mar 26, 2019
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Here’s How the Mueller Report Is Playing in Russia
In Russia, the reaction to the results of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into links between Moscow and President Donald Trump's presidential campaign can be summed up in one phrase: "We knew it all along." "[It] proved what was known in Russia from the very beginning,” said Konstantin Kosachev, a senator in Russia’s upper house of the legislature, in a F...
4m Mar 26, 2019
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What the End of a Promising Alzheimer’s Drug Trial Means for a Patient in the Study
After he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2016, Peter Wooding says he and his wife JoAnn decided they wanted to be "part of the solution" in finding the first effective treatment for the neurodegenerative disease. He volunteered to be part of a trial for a promising new drug called aducanumab. While there is still no effective treatment for Alzheimer's, in early s...
11m Mar 26, 2019
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Genealogy Database Helps Solve 45-Year-Old Double Murder
(BILLINGS, Mont.) — Investigators solved a double slaying that occurred more than 45 years ago after using a genealogy database to match DNA from the crime scene with the genetic profile of the now-deceased suspect, a Montana sheriff said Monday. Linda and Clifford Bernhardt, both 24, were found dead in their Billings-area home in November 1973 in a case that would stym...
3m Mar 26, 2019
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How John Lennon and Yoko Ono Came Up With the Idea of Their Bed-In for Peace
A honeymoon is usually a vacation taken by a couple after marrying, a time to do something fun just the two of them. But after John Lennon of The Beatles and the Japanese artist Yoko Ono wed in Gibraltar on March 20, 1969, they did something different, using their honeymoon to raise awareness of an issue much bigger than themselves: world peace. Both performance artists...
3m Mar 26, 2019
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People Can’t Stop Laughing at James Comey’s Introspective Responses to the Mueller Report
James Comey's learning what happens when you get introspective on Twitter the hard way. Attorney General William Barr told Congress that the Robert Mueller's lengthy investigation did not conclude that President Donald Trump or anyone associated with the Trump campaign conspired with Russia to interfere with the 2016 election. But as for whether the President obstruc...
2m Mar 26, 2019
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Why White Supremacist Attacks Are on the Rise, Even in Surprising Places
While President Trump answered a query about whether he thinks white nationalism is a growing global threat, in a press conference following the Islamophobic terrorist attacks that targeted two New Zealand mosques and killed 50 people on March 15, he was dismissive: "I don't, really,” Trump said. “I think it's a small group of people that have very, very serious problems.”...
8m Mar 25, 2019
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‘Jilted Battlegrounds.’ Could Former Swing States End the Electoral College?
Like other political operatives, John Koza keeps tabs on the Electoral College map. But he's not looking at big swing states like Florida and Pennsylvania. Instead, the head of the National Popular Vote advocacy group is keenly interested in the states that presidential campaigns recently stopped caring as much about. It's those states — places like Colorado and Neva...
7m Mar 25, 2019
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China Welcomes Italy Into Its Sphere Of Influence, Unnerving the E.U. and U.S.
Thirteen European countries have already declared themselves open for Chinese business, but the 14th has both Brussels and Washington on edge. Chinese President Xi Jinping is traveling to Rome in late March to officially welcome Italy into his ambitious Belt and Road Initiative, a Chinese-backed plan to unite East and West with railways, ports, tunnels and other infrast...
4m Mar 25, 2019
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Another Parkland Student Has Died by Apparent Suicide
Another student of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., has died by apparent suicide, police have confirmed. The death comes a week after Sydney Aiello, 19, a survivor of last year's mass shooting, took her own life.
2m Mar 25, 2019
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Be More Chill Is a Candy-Colored Musical for the Internet Age
At first, it seemed as if the current Broadway phenomenon Be More Chill was going to be condemned to regional-theater status. "We only had a four-week limited engagement in New Jersey," says music and lyrics writer Joe Iconis of the show's initial run in 2015. "For us to go beyond that, we'd need a good review from the New York Times." Instead, the Times panned the product...
5m Mar 25, 2019
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Everything to Expect From Apple’s Big Video and News Event On Monday
When Apple boss Tim Cook takes the stage at the Steve Jobs Theater in Silicon Valley on Monday, he will usher in a new era for the world’s largest technology company. The chief executive officer is expected to unveil streaming video and news subscriptions, key parts of Apple’s push to transform itself into a leading digital services provider. The company may even discus...
8m Mar 25, 2019
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Here Are the Other Investigations President Trump Still Faces
A summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's confidential report to the Justice Department released Sunday said the 22-month investigation concluded without finding evidence of Trump campaign collusion with the Russian government during the 2016 presidential election, nor did it conclude that President Donald Trump committed the crime of obstruction of justice. Mueller...
14m Mar 25, 2019
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A Handy Guide to the Many Cultural References in Jordan Peele’s Us
Jordan Peele works with exacting precision: He once said that “every frame has to be beautiful.” Us, his terrifying follow-up to Get Out, is filled with blink-and-you-miss-it allusions that span from religion to film to music. Here is a guide to the most central references in Us (spoilers ahead).
7m Mar 25, 2019
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How Mueller Gave Trump a Rare Political Win
For 22 months, Donald Trump called him a rogue prosecutor, surrounded by a team of angry partisans with conflicts of interest, leading an investigation into a hoax. But on Sunday, it was Robert Mueller who Trump owed for a rare bright spot in his administration.
5m Mar 25, 2019
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The True Story Behind Netflix’s Mötley Crüe Movie The Dirt
Even in the sex and drugs-crazed world of rock and roll, the stories about Mötley Crüe’s Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars and Tommy Lee were legendary. There were girls, girls, girls, alcohol-fueled riots, fist fights, car crashes, cocaine, heroin, mud wrestling and stadiums filled with screaming fans who wanted more of everything.
10m Mar 25, 2019
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Stop Debating Whether Too Much Smartphone Time Can Hurt Teens, and Start Protecting Them
When I talk to parents about my research on teens and technology, their questions often boil down to this: Is it bad for my teen to be spending so much time on electronic devices? Recently, several analyses have said that the research on this front is a mess or that there is no connection to mental health. Don't believe them. In fact, four large studies of teens from th...
5m Mar 25, 2019
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What to Know About the Origins of Fascism’s Brutal Ideology
When Benito Mussolini debuted the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, the precursor to his fascist party, on Mar. 23, 1919, in Milan, he wasn't inventing the idea of violent authoritarianism. But he put a name on a new and terrible breed of it.
8m Mar 24, 2019
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A New Posthumous Album Reveals Marvin Gaye at a Crossroads
In 1972, Marvin Gaye seemed to be at the peak of his career. A year earlier he had released his album What's Going On, a subversive, era-defining masterpiece. A year later he would release his next album, Let's Get It On, the future gold standard for slow jams. But in between those creative pinnacles, Gaye, 32, fell apart. His marriage had crumbled, he was feuding with Mot...
4m Mar 24, 2019
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Why So Many People Are Fascinated by My Blended Family
A neighbor once spent an entire neighborhood night out trying to figure out our family. Question by question, he attempted to piece together the six of us in a way he could understand. Finally he just came out and said it: “So, which one are yours and which ones are your husband’s?” I flinched visibly. They’re all ours, of course. But I knew why he was asking. My hou...
5m Mar 24, 2019
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The Fight Over the Mueller Report Is Just Beginning. Here’s What Comes Next
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian collusion in the 2016 election has crossed the finish line after more than two years. But for Congress, the fight is just beginning. Attorney General William Barr wrote a letter which was hand-delivered to the top officials on the judiciary committees in Congress Friday announcing that Mueller had submitted his report....
4m Mar 24, 2019
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Column: After Christchurch, Here's How We Can End Hate Speech and Islamophobia
Racists and bigots believe that diverse societies don’t work. Frustrated that their howling at the moon wasn’t enough, they’re now picking up weapons in an attempt to prove themselves right. We can’t keep expressing shock and then moving on until the next outrage. We watched in astonished horror last year when a white supremacist entered a synagogue in Pittsburgh and sh...
5m Mar 23, 2019
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The True Story Behind the Movie Hotel Mumbai
On November 26, 2008, 10 young men in an inflatable dinghy came ashore in Mumbai, India, and slipped into the city undetected. They had been sent by Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani-based terrorist group. Armed with assault rifles, grenades and improvised explosive devices, they quickly fanned out across the city. Over the course of the next three days, the terrorists wreaked ...
6m Mar 23, 2019
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Review: Nintendo Just Gave Itself the Perfect Opportunity To Remake the Best Pokémon Game Ever
Nintendo is making its first big push into modern virtual reality with Thursday's announcement of the Nintendo Labo: VR Kit, a set of build-your-own cardboard controllers that enable new VR games and other experiences on the Nintendo Switch console. Among the controller offerings are a NERF-style blaster (for an alien-shooting game), a duck (for a flying game), and an e...
2m Mar 23, 2019
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The Quick Read on Thailand's First Election in 8 Years
What Happened This Week: The Thai people head to the polls this Sunday for the first time since the country’s military seized power in a 2014 coup. It's the first general election since 2011. Why It Matters: For years now, the country’s real political power has lain in the hands of the military, backed by the country’s monarchy.
5m Mar 23, 2019
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New Zealand Banned All Assault Weapons. Could That Work in America?
Less than a week after a gunman allegedly murdered 50 worshippers inside two New Zealand mosques, the nation’s prime minister announced a sweeping, nation-wide ban on assault weapons. The measure was met with swift praise in the U.S. among gun reform advocates, who have long been pleading for similar restrictions. On Thursday, they renewed their calls for change and urged ...
7m Mar 23, 2019
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Here Are All of the Indictments, Guilty Pleas and Convictions From Robert Mueller's Investigation
Since his appointment in May of 2017, Special Counsel Robert Mueller racked up a lengthy record of court wins, but none of them answered some of the central questions the public had about his investigation. Along with a team of experienced prosecutors and attorneys, the former FBI director has indicted, convicted or gotten guilty pleas from 34 people and three companies...
11m Mar 23, 2019
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William Barr Is Now the Sole Keeper of the Mueller Report. How He’ll Wield That Power Is a Mystery
Special counsel Robert Mueller has officially concluded his investigation after more than two years and turned his final report in to the Justice Department. What happens next depends on one man: the attorney general, William Barr. Justice Department rules now make Barr the sole keeper of the Mueller report. He alone decides what to do with it, including how much to ...
6m Mar 23, 2019
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New Zealand Observes Muslim Call to Prayer 1 Week After Deadly Mosque Attacks
(CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand) — New Zealanders observed the Muslim call to prayer Friday in reflecting on the moment one week ago when 50 worshippers at two Christchurch mosques were slain — an act an imam told the crowd of thousands that had left the country broken-hearted but not broken.
5m Mar 22, 2019
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Where We Go Wrong in Comparing White Supremacy With ISIS
Throughout my career as an academic and author in international relations, I have been instinctively averse to discuss my personal identity in my analysis. Today is an exception, because it's an unusual time to be both a white Englishman, whose family’s roots in England stretch back for more generations than I can count, and to be an Arab of Egyptian, Sudanese and Moroccan...
6m Mar 22, 2019
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The True Story Behind Hulu’s The Act
The Act, a new Hulu series, presents a fictionalized version of the story of Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard and her daughter, Gypsy Rose, whose strange case gained national publicity following a viral 2016 BuzzFeed story by Michelle Dean and a 2017 HBO documentary, Mommy Dead and Dearest.
11m Mar 22, 2019
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Facebook Employees Had Access to ‘Hundreds of Millions’ of Users’ Passwords
Facebook on Thursday confirmed that it had improperly secured “hundreds of millions” of user's passwords, leaving them open to be viewed by company employees. The unsecured passwords were discovered amid a “routine security review in January,” after which Facebook says it fixed the improper storage issue. The company’s internal investigation claimed to find no evidence...
3m Mar 22, 2019
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John McCain’s Daughter Bridget Speaks Out for the First Time About Trump’s Attacks on Her Father
Bridget McCain, the late Sen. Jon McCain's youngest child, has publicly spoken out against President Donald Trump's repeated attacks on her father for the first time. The 27-year-old has typically kept herself out of the public eye, both before and after her father died last August, but she tweeted two messages Thursday in which she tagged the President. "Everyone do...
3m Mar 22, 2019
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Devin Nunes Is Suing for Defamation. But in 2010, He Said You Should Be Allowed to ‘Smear’ Politicians
Rep. Devin Nunes is suing multiple Twitter accounts, and the social media platform itself, for defamation. But in 2010, the California Republican said that everyone has the right to "smear" politicians they disagree with. "I think there’s people that have every right to say what they want," he said on C-SPAN, in response to racist comments against Rep. John Lewis and Re...
2m Mar 22, 2019
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Everything We Know About Big Little Lies Season 2
There are plenty of must-see shows about extremely watchable mothers, but few in recent memory have been consumed as eagerly as HBO's acclaimed murder mystery miniseries Big Little Lies, which premiered in 2017.
7m Mar 22, 2019
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This Airline Is Working With the World’s Largest ‘Vertical Farm’ for Fresher In-Flight Meals
In-flight meals that are actually enjoyable are few and far between. In part, that's because ingredients often need to be shipped hundreds or thousands of miles from farms to airports, meaning sometimes they're not exactly fresh. Singapore Airlines is aiming to change that with a "farm-to-plane" partnership announced Thursday with AeroFarms, a vertical indoor farming compa...
4m Mar 22, 2019
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Why Federal Laws Don’t Explicitly Ban Discrimination Against LGBT Americans
Polls show that most Americans oppose discrimination against LGBT people, and many believe that it's already illegal. But federal laws don't ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity the way they do regarding sex and religion. And the odds of Congress changing that in the immediate future are slim.
10m Mar 22, 2019
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As Kids Get Hooked on Vaping, Parents Are Desperate for Treatment That Doesn’t Exist
Jami Scheetz knew that her 15-year-old son, Devon, needed help. His grades were slipping and he had been caught vaping at school so many times that he was on the brink of being expelled. Last fall, at the start of his freshman year, Devon's school even sent him to the hospital for drug testing after getting in trouble once again. In the emergency room, Devon finally admitt...
10m Mar 22, 2019
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We Made 10 Million Computer-Generated March Madness Brackets. Will Any of Them Be Perfect?
There's a secret to winning your March Madness pool that Vegas doesn't want you to know: All you have to do is enter 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 brackets, and you are certain to pick perfectly. Once. There are 63 games in the NCAA tournament, not including the four play-ins. Filling out a bracket involves making an up-or-down decision for each one.
5m Mar 22, 2019
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The Path to the X-Men Joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe Just Got a Lot Clearer
In the Marvel comic books, the X-Men and Avengers are longtime allies and occasional foes. But for two-and-a-half decades the two groups of superheroes haven't been allowed to share the big screen. That's all about to change, thanks to the Disney-Fox merger. In 1993, a financially strapped Marvel sold the rights to the X-Men to 20th Century Fox. It was the first deal in...
11m Mar 21, 2019
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President Trump Makes a Tricky 2020 Pitch in the Rust Belt
Donald Trump campaigned for president on a promise to bring back American manufacturing. As he prepares to run for re-election in 2020, his new strategy seems to be highlighting individual factories to argue that he is succeeding, while blaming unions and corporate leaders for any failures. On Wednesday, that meant a trip to a tank factory in Ohio. The Lima Army Tank Pl...
5m Mar 21, 2019
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