#How schools can help combat the rise in teen overdose deaths

#How schools can help combat the rise in teen overdose deaths

Schools are introducing new measures and drug prevention organizations are adding to their curricula to combat a disturbing rise in teen overdose deaths. Drug use among high school students is in a historic decline, but the particular substances teenagers are consuming are becoming more dangerous, including some laced with fentanyl. Fatal overdoses among teens have…

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#These prominent figures have remained silent on Trump indictment

#These prominent figures have remained silent on Trump indictment

After news broke on Thursday of former President Trump’s indictment over a 2016 hush money payment, Republicans and Democrats alike rushed to offer their two cents on the history-making decision to charge a former president. While Democrats largely celebrated the indictment as a win for justice, most Republicans denounced the charges as an “unprecedented abuse…

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#Stormy Daniels: Trump indictment ‘poetic’ but ‘bittersweet’

#Stormy Daniels: Trump indictment ‘poetic’ but ‘bittersweet’

The woman whose hush money payment sparked the Manhattan District Attorney’s investigation into former President Donald Trump called his indictment “poetic” but “bittersweet” in her first comments since the district attorney’s office announced the decision Thursday. Stormy Daniels, an adult film actress, alleges she had an affair with Trump in 2006. While Trump denies the…

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#Dems react to Trump indictment with glee — and anxiety

#Dems react to Trump indictment with glee — and anxiety

House Democrats reacted with mixed emotions this week to the historic indictment of former President Trump, with some cheering the move with bald jubilation and others approaching much more cautiously ahead of Trump’s expected arraignment on Tuesday.  While both camps are united behind the central premise that no one in America is above the law,…

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#Five things to know about the Texas ObamaCare ruling

#Five things to know about the Texas ObamaCare ruling

An ObamaCare requirement that health insurance must cover preventive services for free is at risk of ending, after a federal judge in Texas — who previously held that the entire Affordable Care Act was unconstitutional —  invalidated it.  The ruling from U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor wasn’t entirely unexpected, but his decision to impose a…

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#Trump, allies are confident after unprecedented indictment

#Trump, allies are confident after unprecedented indictment

Former President Donald Trump and his team are projecting confidence in the wake of his indictment by a Manhattan grand jury as his third White House campaign enters uncharted territory. Trump allies were reassured as members of Congress, potential 2024 presidential rivals and prominent Fox News hosts uniformly went on the attack against Manhattan District…

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