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People gather outside the Savage Sisters' community outreach storefront in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. The area is being hit hard by Medetomidine and Xylazine, powerful sedatives most often used by veterinarians that are moving through the illicit drug supply triggering "mass overdose" events and causing gruesome skin wounds.

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  • Health

Gangs mix another potent sedative into U.S. street drugs causing 'mass overdoses'

Medetomidine, a chemical long used by veterinarians and doctors, is now turning up in the street drug supply and triggering a new wave of overdoses.

May 30, 2024
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  • Brian Mann
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  • National

What is Manhattenhenge? Here's when and where you can see the phenomenon

May 29, 2024
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  • Iman Maani
Zepbound is one of several new drugs that people are using successfully to lose weight. But shortages have people strategizing how to maintain their weight loss when they can't get the drug.

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  • Health

The new obesity drugs work, but it's a dilemma when people have to stop taking them

There are lots of reasons people have to stop taking the new weight loss drugs: cost, shortages, side effects and life events. And the weight usually comes back, doctors say.

May 28, 2024
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  • Yuki Noguchi
The Banksy Museum in New York City features replicas of 160 original Banksys. This one is called "Good Doctor," and was originally stenciled in New York in 2010.

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  • Art & Design

A new Banksy Museum has opened in NYC … minus Banksy

The new museum is not authorized by the artist — who has explicitly denounced any use of his art for profit.

May 28, 2024
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Lizz Wright got her start as a church music director. Now her jazz vocals wow audiences worldwide. She performs Monday, May 27 at 9 p.m. in Atlanta's Piedmont Park as part of the free Atlanta Jazz Festival

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  • Music

'Delighted to be home': Singer Lizz Wright returns to headline Atlanta Jazz Festival

The Georgia singer performed in a Billie Holiday tribute and landed on former President Barack Obama's music playlists. Now she returns to Atlanta for a headlining performance at the 47th annual Atlanta Jazz Festival.

May 24, 2024
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  • Pamela Kirkland
Author Jenny Erpenbeck's novel <em>Kairos</em> was named this year's winner of the International Booker Prize.

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  • Book News & Features

A German novel about a tortured love affair wins 2024 International Booker Prize

Jenny Erpenbeck's novel, translated by Michael Hofmann, follows a couple in 1980s East Berlin and their tumultuous relationship, while Germany undergoes its own political transformation.

May 22, 2024
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  • Andrew Limbong
A sea otter in Monterey Bay with a rock anvil on its belly and a scallop in its forepaws.

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  • Animals

When sea otters lose their favorite foods, they can use tools to go after new ones

Some otters rely on tools to bust open hard-shelled prey items like snails, and a new study suggests this tool use is helping them to survive as their favorite, easier-to-eat foods disappear.

May 22, 2024
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Located less than an hour outside Madison, Wis., Columbia County has both city commuters and people in more rural, small towns. Portage, with a population of around 10,000, is the largest town in the county.

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  • Politics

One voted Biden. One picked Trump. It's a tale of two counties in pivotal Wisconsin

Wisconsin is one of a handful of pivotal states in the 2024 presidential election. Within the swing state, there are swing counties that could decide the election — even as people remain divided.

May 22, 2024
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  • Elena Moore and
  • Jeongyoon Han
A new album by pianist Inna Faliks features world premiere recordings of works by five composers.

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  • Music News

Pianist Inna Faliks traces musical odyssey from Soviet Ukraine via Faustian fantasy

Faliks draws from her Ukrainian-Jewish heritage and Mikhail Bulgakov's anti-censorship novel The Master and Margarita for a new album.

May 20, 2024
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  • Olivia Hampton
A large new study shows people who bike have less knee pain and arthritis than those who do not.

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  • News

Like to bike? Your knees will thank you and you may live longer, too

New research shows lifelong bikers have healthier knees, less pain and a longer lifespan, compared to people who've never biked. This adds to the evidence that cycling promotes healthy aging.

May 20, 2024
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  • Allison Aubrey
Billie Eilish's third album, created as always alongside her brother and collaborator Finneas, is titled <em>Hit Me Hard and Soft.</em>

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  • Music

Billie Eilish finally remembers who she is

Speaking alongside brother/collaborator Finneas, Eilish says she discovered a new self-awareness on Hit Me Hard and Soft, after years of seeing herself through others' eyes.

May 17, 2024
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  • Leila Fadel and
  • Phil Harrell
Poder Latinx canvasser Humberto Orjuela helps Andres Navarro register to vote in a Presidente Supermarket parking lot in Orlando on April 20. New restrictions in Florida have made voter registration work more difficult for Poder Latinx and other third-party groups.

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  • Elections

Groups that register voters are feeling besieged by new state laws

New Republican-backed laws in several states add large fines or criminal penalties for minor mistakes in voter registration work. As groups pull back, they're reaching fewer voters.

May 16, 2024
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  • Aaron Mendelson and
  • Ashley Lopez

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  • Education

Why children with disabilities are missing school and losing skills

A special education staffing crisis is raging through many U.S. school districts. It's taking a toll on students and families.

May 16, 2024
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  • Cory Turner
An Israeli army soldier walks past a main battle tank stationed at a position near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on April 30.

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  • World

How Israel's military investigates itself in cases of possible wrongdoing

Since last October, complaints have included Israeli soldiers firing on unarmed Palestinian refugees and the killing of World Central Kitchen aid workers when Israeli drones fired on their convoy.

May 16, 2024
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  • Rob Schmitz
The U.S. Justice Department says Boeing broke a deferred prosecution deal with the government following a pair of fatal 737 Max crashes more than five years ago.

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  • Business

DOJ says Boeing broke deal that avoided prosecution after 2 fatal 737 Max crashes

Boeing has violated the terms of a deal to avoid prosecution after the fatal crashes of two 737 Max planes more than five years ago, the Department of Justice told a federal judge on Tuesday.

May 16, 2024
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  • Joel Rose
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