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After an earthquake on Friday, a car is trapped in a crumbled section of off-ramp from Minnesota Drive, a major road in Anchorage, Alaska.
(Nathaniel Herz/Alaska Public)
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Community

Magnitude 7.0 earthquake shakes Alaska, damaging roads

A tsunami warning was temporarily issued for coastal regions of Cook Inlet and the Southern Kenai Peninsula, but it has since been canceled.

7 years ago

Syringes of fentanyl, an opioid painkiller, sit in an inpatient facility in Salt Lake City. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, opioid-related overdoses have contributed to the life expectancy drop in the U.S. (Rick Bowmer/AP)
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Health

U.S. life expectancy drops amid ‘disturbing’ rise in overdoses and suicides

More than 70,000 people died of drug overdoses last year alone, according to the CDC. That number marks a nearly 10 percent increase from 2016.

7 years ago

Law enforcement and protesters clash near the site of the Dakota Access pipeline in Cannon Ball, N.D., in November 2016.
(Morton County Sheriff's Department/AP)
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Community

2 years after Standing Rock protests, tensions remain but oil business booms

North Dakota's oil production is growing so fast the state likely will run out of pipeline capacity next year.

7 years ago

Michael Cohen walks out of federal court, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018, in New York. (Julie Jacobson/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Michael Cohen pleads guilty, admits lies about Russian real estate deal

President Donald Trump's former lawyer, has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about work he did on a Trump real estate project in Russia.

7 years ago

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on whether a state has to adhere to the Eighth Amendment's excessive fines clause. That could have consequences for civil forfeiture in crimes. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

Supreme Court appears ready to make it harder for states to confiscate property

It's a process legally known as civil asset forfeiture.

7 years ago

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California has been chosen by her party to be speaker of the House come January. The final vote on speakership is on Jan. 3. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Dems pick Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker, despite earlier internal opposition

If approved by the full House, Pelosi would again wield the gavel in January — a dozen years after she became the first female speaker in 2007.

7 years ago

Hockey pucks on ice at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio (Adam Lacy/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
NPR
Education

For defense against active shooters, university hands out hockey pucks

Hockey pucks: They're small and heavy and — one Michigan college thinks — may be the perfect weapon against an active shooter on campus.

7 years ago

In this Nov. 1, 2018 photo, Polly Varnado looks at her daughter's Medtronic insulin pump in Destin, Fla. Medical device manufacturers and experts say insulin pumps are safe. But an AP investigation found that insulin pumps and their components are responsible for the highest number of malfunction, injury and death reports in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s medical device database.  (Holbrook Mohr/AP Photo)
Health

Insulin pumps have most reported problems in FDA database

Insulin pumps and their components are responsible for the highest overall number of malfunction, injury and death reports.

7 years ago

Shoes and a teddy bear, brought by a group of U.S. mayors, are piled up outside a holding facility for immigrant children in Tornillo, Texas, near the Mexican border, Thursday, June 21, 2018.  Mayors from more than a dozen U.S. cities including New York and Los Angeles gathered near the holding facility to call for the immediate reunification of immigrant children with their families (Andres Leighton/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Desert detention camp for migrant kids still growing

The facility has expanded into a detention camp holding thousands of teenagers — and it shows every sign of becoming more permanent.

7 years ago

In this June 22, 2016 photo made available by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, the FDA's Director of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, speaks at FDA's Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Medical Device Amendments. Under Shuren, new device approvals have more than tripled, while warnings to device manufacturers about product safety and quality have fallen roughly 80 percent, an Associated Press investigation found. (Michael J. Ermarth/FDA via AP)
Science

U.S. goal to be ‘first’ on devices worries former regulators

Dr. Jeffrey Shuren was adamant: The United States would never cut corners to fast-track the approval of medical devices.

7 years ago

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his business partner Rick Gates are facing more charges from Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
Politics & Policy

Report: Manafort met with Julian Assange ahead of 2016 leaks

Paul Manafort allegedly secretly met WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London within days or weeks of being brought aboard Donald Trump's campaign.

7 years ago

Harvey Milk, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, was the first openly gay elected official in California. Nov. 27, 2018 marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone (AP Photo)
NPR
Politics & Policy

40 years after the assassination of Harvey Milk, LGBTQ candidates find success

Voters across the country sent a record number of LGBT candidates to Congress 40 years after the assassination of Harvey Milk.

7 years ago

Romaine lettuce is seen on sale at a supermarket in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 20.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning against all romaine lettuce just two days before Thanksgiving. Now the CDC has narrowed the source of the outbreak to California's central coast (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Some romaine is fine to eat, but beware California, CDC says

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has traced an ongoing E. coli outbreak to romaine lettuce grown in the Central Coastal region of California.

7 years ago

Volunteers search a mobile home park in Paradise, Calif. Government scientists predict wildfires like the one that struck this community will contribute to billions in losses for the U.S. economy (Kathleen Ronayne/AP)
NPR
Science

New U.S. climate assessment forecasts dire effects on economy, health

7 years ago

Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman, is facing more federal criminal charges along with a new Russian co-defendant. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)
Courts & Law

Mueller: Ex-Trump campaign chair lied, broke plea agreement

The move signals a return to the acrimonious relationship Manafort has had with the special counsel's office since his indictment last year.

7 years ago

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