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NEW ORLEANS — Drug overdose deaths within the U.S. went up barely final yr after two large leaps in the course of the pandemic. Officials with the C...

SAN FRANCISCO — Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has requested a federal decide to permit her to stay free by means of the Memorial Day weekend earlier than surrendering to authorities on May 30 to start her greater than 11-year jail sentence for defrauding traders in a blood-testing rip-off. ...

NEW ORLEANS — Legal arguments over girls’s entry to a drug utilized in the most typical methodology of abortion transfer to a federal appeals courtroom in New Orleans on Wednesday, in a case difficult a Food and Drug Administration determination made greater than twenty years in the past. ...

House investigators in each events faulted Democrat-led states Wednesday for issuing “must admit” insurance policies that allowed coronavirus-positive residents to return to nursing houses no matter whether or not the services had safeguards in place, as federal steerage required. ...

Record excessive numbers of adults responding to a current Gallup ballot have obtained remedy for medical despair. The polling firm’s newest survey ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Abortions could be virtually fully banned after about six weeks of being pregnant below a invoice debated early into Wednesday morning by the South Carolina House in a growth that follows months of Republicans within the chamber insisting as an alternative on a near-total ban that the state Senate not too long ago rejected. ...

Sen. Marco Rubio launched Wednesday a report providing a “mountain of circumstantial evidence” that the coronavirus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, as a substitute of spilling over from nature. The 328-page report from Mr. Rubio, Florida Republican, traces efforts to review and manipulate coronaviruses ...

The North Carolina Senate voted Tuesday to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a invoice banning most abortions after 12 weeks’ gestation, sending the hotly debated measure to the House. The Senate voted 30-20 alongside celebration traces to overturn the veto of Senate Bill 20, assembly the required three-fifths threshold with no vote to spare. The House is scheduled to take up the measure at about 8 p.m. ET. No Senate Republican flipped regardless of intense strain from pro-choice advocates and the Demo...

Jessica Tincopa might depart the images enterprise she spent 14 years constructing for one motive: to seek out protection for fertility therapy. After six miscarriages, Tincopa and her husband began saving for in vitro fertilization, which may value nicely over $20,000. But the pandemic worn out their fina...

WASHINGTON — When researchers at a nonprofit that research social media wished to grasp the connection between YouTube movies and gun violence, they arrange accounts on the platform that mimicked the habits of typical boys dwelling within the U.S. They simulated two nine-year-olds who each preferred video ...