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Public art in Altoona, Penn., one of many cities hit hard by the opioid epidemic.Marianne Sinisi organized the installation after her son died of an overdose.State and local governments have received about $3 billion so far out of $50 billion total in settlements from national lawsuits.Nancy Andrews/KFF Health News Thousands of local governments nationwide are receiving settlement money from companies that made, distributed, or sold opioid painkillers, like Johnson & Johnson, AmerisourceBergen, and Walmart.

More than half of U.S. states saw a decline in licensed foster homes from 2021 to 2022.In Nevada, the decline was nearly 18%.In South Carolina, it was a 61% decline, the largest of any state.Getty Images ELKO, Nev.Brandy Holbrook spent April driving hundreds of miles across four counties in northeastern Nevada to deliver a plea to local leaders about a smoldering crisis in the regional foster care system.

The data suggests there were tens of thousands of people forced to carry a pregnancy due to a lack of abortion access.Thousands march and rally in support of legal abortion access in St. Paul, Minnesota, on July 17, 2022.Michael Siluk / UCG / Universal Images Group via Getty Images New data shows that the number of legal abortions plummeted by the thousands in states that banned abortion after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade last year, demonstrating the vast chilling effect that bans have had on people's ability to access the procedure.

Any day now the Supreme Court will decide two cases that will determine the future of affirmative action one involving race-conscious admissions at the University of North Carolina and a companion case involving Harvard.Although debates around affirmative action have typically focused on people of color, the policy has also applied to gender, and women have been among affirmative action's greatest beneficiaries.

It may also leave other Republicans on defense in states they control across the South, though it's not clear whether that litigation will be complete in time for the 2024 elections in states other than Alabama.New maps could help deliver the House back to Democrats, particularly if the party also performs strongly in the 2024 elections from the presidential race and down the ballot.

When the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Alabama's congressional map had diluted the power of Black voters, it was a long-sought victory for voting rights activists, who had grown increasingly alarmed at the court's previous decisions that have hollowed out the Voting Rights Act.The decision also is likely to reverberate across the South, and could force multiple states with pending Voting Rights Act challenges to redraw their own maps.

When the possibility of a NASCAR Cup Series car competing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race was first discussed two years ago, there was some surprise.I talked to a few people, traditional sports-car folks and traditional racing folks, and when I told them about the project, they were scratching their head like, You're going to do what?' John Doonan, president of the International Motor Sports Association, said in an interview.

Recently, a surprising name popped up in a Washingtonian editor's inbox.It was none other than America's biggest pop star, Taylor Swift.Even more unexpectedly, the email concerned working conditions for staffers on Capitol Hill.Obviously, we were curious to hear the singer's thoughts on this, so we decided to call her up.

Joaquín Van Thienen and Luis Trenard live in a two-story condo in LeDroit Park, with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, and 1,100 square feet.The couple-they're engaged to be married, and both are 31 and work in international development-purchased the loft-style home a few months into the pandemic when they were looking for more living space.

"To foster and expand a 'vibrant and inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem supported by intellectual property across the United States,' the USPTO is asking stakeholders to weigh in on 16 total questions in its RFC."The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) yesterday republished its Request for Comments (RFC) on the establishment of an additional USPTO Regional Office in the southeast region and four new community outreach offices.

Skies have been stained a sickly brown in the U.S. Northeast this week.Smoke from numerous wildfires in Canada has circulated hundreds of miles down the East Coast, as far south as South Carolina.The dense plumes triggered unhealthy air quality alerts in 18 states as of 6 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time on Wednesday.

A group of hard-line Republicans hijacked the House floor on Tuesday, grinding legislative business to a halt for several hours in a striking display of ire at Speaker Kevin McCarthy for making a deal with President Biden to suspend the debt limit and banding together with Democrats to muscle it to passage.

Julien Laurens, CorrespondentJun 14, 2023, 05:18 PM ET


Former Crystal Palace manager and Arsenal legend Patrick Vieira is interested in the vacant United States men's head coaching job, sources have told ESPN.Sources added that the United States Soccer Federation has already made contact with the Frenchman, but talks haven't progressed following the initial approach.

Trump's indictments don't "necessarily disqualify him ... but the Constitution's 14th Amendment does," CREW said.Former President Donald Trump delivers remarks on June 10, 2023, in Greensboro, North Carolina.Win McNamee / Getty Images On Monday morning, a nonprofit government watchdog organization called out former President Donald Trump, implying that his actions in the final weeks of his presidency should disqualify him from serving in any office again.

Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a rally at the ILA Hall in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 3, 2023.Screenshot: Union of Southern Service Workers via Twitter As President Joe Biden signed into law an agreement Saturday that would shield wealthy tax cheats from stronger IRS enforcement while at the same time enacting cuts to key anti-poverty programs, Senator Bernie Sanders and other progressive allies were busy denouncing the immoral, low-wage economic system in the United States in which just a small handful of mega-billionaires have accumulated more wealth than tens of millions of hard-working but low-paid workers and their families.

Seven months after the gunman in the Parkland, Fla., school shooting was sentenced to life in prison for murdering 14 students and three staff members, prosecutors on Wednesday will begin trying to convince a jury that a former sheriff's deputy should also be held criminally responsible for his actions on the day of the massacre.

On a recent morning in a Turkish cafe in north London, Deborah Levy unknotted the silk scarf around her neck in preparation.The sharing breakfast has arrived, the writer announced as plates of fruit, cheese and fried eggs were placed in front of her.In Levy's new novel August Blue, a blue-haired piano virtuoso named Elsa M. Anderson repeatedly encounters a woman who she is convinced is her double.

Jeff Carlisle, U.S. soccer correspondentJun 13, 2023, 07:28 PM ET

CloseJeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC.Former United States coach Gregg Berhalter is in the running for the vacant managerial posts at Eredivisie side Sparta Rotterdam and Liga MX giants Club América, sources have confirmed to ESPN.

The new novel from New York Times bestselling and Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author S. A. Cosby, "one of the most muscular, distinctive, grab-you-by-both-ears voices in American crime fiction."-Washington Post."On the basis of four novels, each better than the last (and All the Sinners Bleed the best of them all), it's fairly easy to say that American crime fiction has found its future and his name is S.A. Cosby."

Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones is a co-founder of The Ida B. Wells Society.She's pictured above in New York in December 2021.Robert Bumsted/AP Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, best known for founding The 1619 Project, said in an interview with a not-for-profit news organization that administrative delays have made it impossible to carry on with several academic projects intended to foster the careers of young Black investigative journalists.

Installation view, No Justice Without Love (April 4 - June 30, 2023).Sebastian Bach/Ford Foundation Gallery When Sherrill Roland talks about his art, he's sure to mention steel, resin and Kool-Aid.These materials, easily accessible during his time in prison, still figure prominently in the art he creates now that he's free.

With a sense of relief that the conservative Supreme Court did not use a major Alabama redistricting case to further gut the Voting Rights Act, civil rights advocates and election attorneys are preparing for a new flood of redistricting litigation lawsuits challenging political maps especially in the South they say discriminate against minorities.

People in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions will again face smoke from Canada's wildfires on Friday, capping a chaotic workweek that brought hazy conditions and poor air quality to millions of people as far south as North Carolina.However, based on a New York Times analysis of the forecast models, there will be far less dense concentrations of wildfire smoke for most people on Friday.

More than a half century's worth of toxic coal ash will be excavated from the flood plain of Illinois' only national scenic river as part of a deal announced Thursday that could establish a precedent for other hazardous waste dumps throughout the state.Under a legal settlement brokered by environmental lawyers and Attorney General Kwame Raoul's office, Texas-based Vistra will drain pits of water-soaked coal ash along the Middle Fork of the Vermilion River, about 120 miles south of Chicago.

A year ago, Democrats were taken to task by New York's highest court for attempting to gerrymander the state's congressional districts, and saw their tilted map replaced by more neutral lines that helped Republicans flip four House seats.Now, with a 2024 rematch approaching, Democratic leaders in Washington and Albany are reviving a legal battle to reopen the mapmaking process and potentially pull the lines back in their direction.

Sorry, night owls, but the world is designed for morning people, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it.You're reminded of this annoying fact nearly every morning when your 6 a.m.alarm - or a co-sleeping kid - forces you awake before you're ready.Yet in order to be a responsible coworker and a present parent, you suck it up and get out of bed.

The older pastor, wearing a long purple robe, ascended the steps to the pulpit.God has always had a plan and a purpose for each of our lives, the Rev. William H. Greason said in a slow, gentle voice.From the pews came affirmations of Amen! and All right!For more than 50 years at Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., Greason has been a constant presence in his congregants' lives.