About two-thirds of Americans believe drug companies are to blame for the opioid crisis, although nearly as many hold drug users themselves responsible, a new poll finds. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll showed many people also fault doctors who prescribed opioid pain pills and government officials who haven’t done enough to […]
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Image copyright Getty Images “The most scary, intimidating time,” that’s how Mollie King remembers having to stand up and read out loud in school. “I would always try and make an excuse to leave the classroom,” the BBC Radio 1 presenter tells Newsbeat. Thanks to her teacher spotting there was a problem she was tested
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Image copyright Getty Images The UK is advising against all but essential travel to Sri Lanka. The advice from the Foreign Office comes after the Easter Sunday bombings in which more than 350 people died. “Terrorists are very likely to try to carry out attacks in Sri Lanka,” it said in its advice. “Attacks could
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After severe weather in 2016 a large penguin colony at the Brunt ice shelf in Antarctica never recovered. The emperor penguins in the Halley Bay colony have either moved away or stopped breeding after thousands of chicks died when the ice collapsed during bad weather three years ago. Emperor penguins need the fast ice that
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Thousands of tourists could soon have to pay as much as $10 to drive down world-famous Lombard Street in San Francisco. City and state officials on Monday announced a bill that would give San Francisco the authority to establish a toll and reservation system for the street that winds down a steep hill, in an
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Not a single Facebook user reported the New Zealand mosque shooting while watching a livestream of the attack, the company said late Monday. The real-time broadcast of the violence was seen fewer than 200 times, Facebook deputy general counsel Chris Sonderby said in a statement. But it had begun gaining traction by the time the first
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American figure skater Mariah Bell is accused of intentionally cutting her South Korean rival Lim Eun-soo with the blade of her ice skate at the World Figure Skating Championships in Japan on Wednesday. The 22-year-old allegedly came up behind Lim during a practice session and kicked her left calf with her skate. The 16-year-old received
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Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who opened his third run for the presidency on Thursday, holds political views that can look and sound similar to the priorities of many liberals, but differ on some key details. Mr. Biden, who has a longer record in politics than any other Democrat in the sprawling 2020
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Moore, you see, has made a career of advancing various right-wing political priorities by dressing up as an economist and saying things about money and numbers in print and on TV. Unfortunately, almost nothing he says is true. Moore is so bad that an editor at the Kansas City Star once refused to run literally
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Image copyright Reuters Image caption R. Kelly outside court after a hearing in his criminal case on 22 March Singer R. Kelly has lost a civil court case by default after failing to respond to a legal case brought by a woman who accused him of sexual abuse. He failed to turn up at a
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