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Provisional overdose data for 2018 show a note of hope in an overall bleak picture. But in some states, the numbers actually got worse. What explains the disparities?

Some of the people struggling the most to pay back their debt are the millions of students who took out student loans but never finished a degree.

The orange-fronted parakeet, known locally as the kākāriki karaka, is in the midst of a prolonged mating season due to a beech seed boon. So far, more than 150 chicks have been born in the baby boom.

Researchers are testing exercise in people at high risk for Alzheimer’s. The goal of a federally funded study is to learn whether aerobic physical activity can protect the brain.

President Trump says that after the drone closed to within approximately 1,000 yards of the U.S. warship and ignored calls to stand down, it was “immediately destroyed.”

In addition to ordering Shkreli to stay in prison, a federal appeals court also affirmed that he must forfeit more than $7.3 million and pay restitution of $388,336.

Official records describe Trump’s direct involvement with negotiations that led to a $130,000 payment to an adult film star to buy her silence about her alleged extramarital affair with Trump.

U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman ordered the 66-year-old multimillionaire to remain in jail until trial. Federal prosecutors had called Epstein a flight risk.

Disney’s Lion King is so realistic-looking that, paradoxically, you can’t believe a moment of it. The computer-generated blockbuster feels like the world’s most expensive safari-themed karaoke video.

Earth, Wind & Fire, Sally Field, Linda Ronstadt, Sesame Street and Michael Tilson Thomas will be recognized for their lifetime contributions to the performing arts at a gala in December.

Hashem Abedi has denied involvement in the 2017 bombing at the end of an Ariana Grande concert that killed 22 people in Manchester, England. He was charged with murdering all of them.

Iran alleges that the small tanker was smuggling some 264,000 gallons of fuel. The vessel reportedly was seized south of Larak Island, less than 20 miles off the Iranian mainland

Miranda Lambert shares a cute-as-hell country bop and a total barnburner. “It All Comes Out In The Wash” and “Locomotive” are Lambert’s first solo offerings in three years.

In the early 1960s, NASA was considering three different ideas for landing a man on the lunar surface. Houbolt’s plan ultimately won out despite concerns within NASA that it was too risky.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the apparently deliberate act in Kyoto is “too appalling for words.” A suspect has been taken into custody.

Reservoirs are dry in India’s sixth biggest city. Municipal taps work only a few hours a day. Trains are delivering emergency water supplies.

By the turn of the 20th century, America’s love affair with diamondback terrapin soup — a subsistence food turned gourmet fare — had left the turtle’s population teetering. Booze ban to the rescue.

Colson Whitehead’s harrowing new novel is based on a true story about a brutally abusive reform school in Florida where the grounds were pocked with the unmarked graves of the boys who died there.

Doctors have warned of health risks from tons of garbage rotting in the Italian capital’s streets during the summer’s hot spells.

Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan is appearing before the House Oversight and Reform Committee amid a heated debate between the GOP and Democrats about the administration’s immigration policies.

As the U.S. has struggled to build support among its traditional allies in Europe to combat what it calls Iran’s aggression, it has been forced to look elsewhere for support, such as Latin America.

Some of Puerto Rico’s biggest stars attended, and tensions ratcheted up later when protesters burst through a barricade at the governor’s mansion and security forces fired tear gas at the crowd.

FaceApp’s surge in popularity has driven Sen. Chuck Schumer to call for a federal investigation into the St. Petersburg-developed app over potential “national security and privacy risks” to Americans.

The financier’s lawyers want him on house arrest at his mansion. Prosecutors say he should stay in a Manhattan jail. Epstein faces sex trafficking charges and 45 years in prison if convicted.

President Trump piled on four freshmen congresswomen of color after tweeting this weekend that they should “go back” to the countries they came from, even though three were born in the U.S.

There is considerable disagreement over terms of the deal, which will be detailed in a second agreement yet to be signed.

Democrats have demanded documents related to the origins of Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The effort to add the question was ultimately halted.

Rivals embracing or attacking “Medicare for All” prompted Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to lay out his vision for eliminating private health insurance on Wednesday.

The former head of Iowa’s Department of Human Services says that, ideally, his dismissal will lead to “having open discussions about race and what we have in common, instead of what separates us.”

Research presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Convention found that LGBTQ Americans are three times more likely to experience cognitive decline than their non-LGBTQ counterparts.

Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe said in court documents filed Wednesday that he was abandoning the case “due to the unavailability of the complaining witness.”