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The batch of secret government files related to President Kennedy’s assassination — 13,173 documents — were posted by the National Archives, five years after the documents were originally required by law to be publicly disclosed.
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An Atlantic storm slammed into the Iberian Peninsula on Tuesday, dumping heavy rain on Portugal and Spain and drawing a line under the severe drought that gripped the two countries for most of the year.
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Analysis: Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors is expected to miss at least two weeks with a left shoulder subluxation, robbing the champions of their leading scorer as they slog through what Coach Steve Kerr has called a “championship hangover.”
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Semafor hired Bill Spindle to write its climate newsletter, but dismissed him three months later. Spindle blanched when he saw Chevron, the second-largest oil company in the U.S., sponsoring his newsletter, which he cited as an example of “greenwashing.”
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They stack various steroids and other muscle-building drugs, then add in compounds intended to burn fat, blunt appetite or sap water from below the skin. The result can be outlandish physiques that appear indestructible but are often quite fragile.
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“Arnold Schwarzenegger would not win today.” Increasingly, people familiar with the culture of professional bodybuilding say winning at the highest level cannot be done without illicit drugs and a willingness to push a body to — or past — its limits.
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Three men who aided a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) received prison sentences of at least seven years on Thursday, capping legal proceedings that highlighted the growing reach of right-wing extremism and political violence.
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This is the story of the five lives that were taken in Apt. 307, the investigation into what was then the nation’s largest-known mass fentanyl poisoning, and how the addictive opioid has unleashed the most lethal narcotics crisis in U.S. history.
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Law enforcement officials think many more mass poisonings have not been counted. But the U.S. government does not track mass-overdose events — not the DEA, the CDC or the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
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A Post analysis of CDC data found that in 2021, fentanyl was involved in 74% of heroin deaths, 71% of cocaine deaths and 54% of meth deaths. Yearly cocaine fatalities over the past decade have quintupled, and 90% of that rise can be explained by fentanyl.
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Mason learned that dealers have been taking advantage of fentanyl powder’s abundance and supreme potency to “spike” their cocaine, heroin and meth. But in some cases, street dealers do not even know that fentanyl is in the cocaine they are selling.
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Deaths caused by fentanyl are officially recorded as overdoses. But to Colorado District Attorney Brian Mason, it was a poisoning that hit Apt. 307. On Presidents’ Day weekend, what was then the nation’s largest known mass fentanyl poisoning hit his district.
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Four horses fell in a frozen pond. Neighbors raced to save them. “People just started showing up,” ranch manager Alexis Langlois said. “Neighbors were pouring in. People came with ropes, chain saws, shovels and pickaxes.”
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