Opioid Addiction Among Pregnant Women Has Quadrupled
ozgurdonmaz/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In Vermont, 1 in every 20 pregnant women is addicted to opioids when she gives birth. That’s one of several striking stats from a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that finds that opioid addiction among new moms across the…
Read Justice Sotomayor’s Powerful Dissent in the Latest Battle Over the Death Penalty
Jay Mallin/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Billy Ray Irick, a 59-year-old Tennessee death row inmate, is scheduled to die Thursday night for the 1985 rape and murder of seven-year-old Paula Dyer. In February, Irick and dozens of other Tennessee death row inmates filed a lawsuit against the state arguing that…
Puerto Rico Finally Admits It Wildly Underestimated Hurricane Maria Death Toll
Efrain Diaz Figueroa, right, walks by the remains of the house of his sister destroyed by Hurricane Maria in San Juan, Puerto.Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This morning, the Puerto Rican government finally admitted that its official death toll for Hurricane Maria was a wild underestimate. A…
Judge Slams Administration for Trying to Deport Family While Case Is in Court
Attorney General Jeff Sessions could be held in contempt of court if the government does not cease these deportations.Alex Brandon/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge slammed the Trump administration on Thursday for trying to deport a mother and daughter to El Salvador while their case is still…
A Long-Shot Democrat Now Has a Chance at Congress After Trump’s Buddy Got Indicted
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Nate McMurray, the long-shot Democratic candidate in New York’s ruby-red 27th District, went out for a jog on an 88-degree Wednesday morning, he had just four campaign volunteers and a hair’s breadth of a chance to unseat Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY). Then, everything changed. …
It’s Cheatin’ Time For OPEC
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Remember the good old days when OPEC members would all agree to lower production but then all of them would cheat because they needed more revenue? Apparently those days are back: The world’s largest oil exporter has told OPEC it cut output in July, according…