-- NY Times
Rochester Drug Cooperative was charged on Tuesday for defrauding the government and conspiring to distribute drugs. Stemming from a two-year federal Drug Enforcement Administration investigation, this case is related to the national addiction to prescription painkillers epidemic.!-->!-->!-->…
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-- CNN
Chunks of ice from Greenland are melting off, largely contributing to the sea level rise. The rate of ice loss, according to researchers, has increased six times in the past 46 years. Greenland’s ice sheet is the main contributing water source of water that is added to the ocean each year!-->!-->!-->…
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-- CNN
On Tuesday, April 9, New York City Mayor, Bill de Blasio, declared a public health emergency because of the measles outbreak and has issued an order for mandatory vaccinations in certain neighborhoods. According to the CDC, 465 cases of measles have been reported this year and New York!-->!-->!-->…
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-- NPR
Within the span of 24 hours, the National Weather Service predicts weather near Denver, Colorado to go from 80 degrees to blizzard conditions. Called a “bomb cyclone,” this massive storm leading to vast drops in pressure would be the second in less than a month. Blizzard warnings have!-->!-->!-->…
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-- CNN
A second wave of severe flu infections is coming over many states. There have been approximately 26.3 million flu illnesses between October 1 and March 2 as shown by the weekly flu report released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC reported about 37!-->!-->!-->…
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-- NBC News
One of the largest power outages in years hit Venezuela causing 22 out of 23 states to lose electricity. Though blackouts have become more frequent due to a collapsing economy, President Nicolas Maduro’s government blames the United States for sabotaging the hydroelectric Guri Dam as!-->!-->!-->…
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-- CNN
This past weekend, flooding in Tennessee killed one person because of intense rainfall this month. This month was Nashville’s wettest February in the past 100 years. On Saturday, Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) declared a state of emergency.
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-- USA Today
Amazon Prime Cargo plane crashed outside of Houston and 3 have been confirmed dead. The Boeing 767 operated by Atlas Air dove into Trinity Bay. Some meteorologists suspect that the weather was possibly to blame.
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-- CNN
Since last year, almost 100 children have died from the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the number of cases spiking from 20 a week to over 40 in January. The current outbreak in the Congo has affected nearly 806 people since August and is the second deadliest!-->!-->!-->…
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-- NBC News
News Information from NASA and NOAA proves that 2015 - 2018 have been the four hottest years on record since 1880 with average global surface temperatures rising about 2 degrees Fahrenheit. These heat trends are most prevalent in the polar regions with the melting of ice sheets and!-->!-->!-->…
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--CNN
A team at NASA recently discovered a gigantic hole, about two-thirds the size of Manhattan and 1,000 feet tall, growing in Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. The size and growth rate of this cavity shocked researchers who hope to learn the speed at which sea levels will rise with climate!-->!-->!-->…
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-- NBC LA
Typhus, also known as typhus fever, continues to spread in Los Angeles primarily among the city’s homeless population. Mayor Garcetti has allocated money to clean up Skid Row, known for being a “typhus zone” filled with trash and waste. This past year, a record 124 cases of typhus!-->!-->!-->…
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-- ABC News
During Sunday mass in a Roman Catholic cathedral in the provincial capital of Jolo, Philippines, at least 20 people, 15 civilians and 5 soldiers, were killed and 111 wounded. The bombings are thought of to be an attack by Muslim militants who are active on the island though no group!-->!-->!-->…
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A dam owned by the Brazilian mining company Vale holding back mining waste in Brumadinho, Brazil collapsed resulting in the burial of the nearby community in waste, the death of at least 40 people, and almost 300 still missing. Most of those affected by the collapse were workers of the company.!-->…
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