The decline in U.S. drug overdose deaths appears to have continued this year, giving experts hope the nation is seeing sustained improvement in the persistent epidemic. “This is a pretty stunning and rapid reversal of drug overdose mortality numbers,” said Brandon Marshall, a Brown University researcher who studies overdose trends. Provisional data had indicated a slight decline for 2023, and the tally released Wednesday showed that the downward trend has kept going.
The process of vetting candidates for some of the European Union’s most important jobs bogged down in acrimony on Wednesday as the biggest political faction in the bloc’s parliament was accused of collaborating with the hard right. Since Nov. 4, senior lawmakers have been questioning the 26 new members of the EU’s increasingly powerful executive branch, the European Commission, to see whether they’re suitable to lead the bloc for the next five years on policies like trade, agriculture or foreign policy. The hearings wound up on Tuesday when the six most senior members of the commission -– to be led again by President Ursula von der Leyen –- were questioned for three hours.
As lawmakers prepare to hear testimony about UFOs, since rebranded as UAP, here's everything that's happened since the last hearing in July 2023.
Price growth ticked higher in October as voters began casting ballots in a presidential election in which economic concerns played a big role.
Faulty transmission control valve can fail and cause rear wheels to lock up, increasing risk of crash, according to General Motors.
Sources said that Musk’s near-constant presence at Mar-a-Lago in the week since Election Day had begun to wear on people who’ve been in Trump’s inner circle
The United States is concerned by Russia's growing relationship with North Korea and by what technology the two countries may be exchanging, the top U.S. arms control official said on Wednesday. Speaking to Reuters in Bucharest at a forum on preventing nuclear and radiological terrorism, Under Secretary of State Bonnie Jenkins said the U.S. was working with Japan and South Korea to address those countries' concerns about North Korea. She echoed remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken who said in Brussels on Wednesday that Moscow's relationship with Pyongyang was a two-way street, and that there was deep concern about what Russia was or may be doing to strengthen "North Korea's capacity", including its nuclear capacity.
Spain evacuated thousands of residents and closed schools on Wednesday as torrential rains lashed the country two weeks after its worst floods in a generation killed more than 220 people.- 'Prevention better than cure' - The rain meant schools and universities closed across large parts of Valencia, Andalusia and Catalonia.
J.D. Power released its 2024 mortgage lender customer satisfaction survey — and the results are surprising. Here are the major changes in lender satisfaction.
Donald Trump will make a triumphant return to the White House to meet President Joe Biden on Wednesday, in the Republican's first visit since departing under a torrent of scandal nearly four years ago.Then-president Barack Obama had welcomed Trump to the White House when the tycoon won the 2016 election.
Rhetoric about Democratic shortcomings discounts Trump voters' agency and their desire for him to be President
Philadelphia's mass transit system has proposed an across-the-board 21.5% fare increase that would start New Year’s Day as well as severe service cuts that would take effect next summer. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority announced its plans on Tuesday and scheduled a Dec. 13 public hearing on them. If approved by SEPTA's board, riders would pay the increase on top of a proposed separate interim average fare increase of 7.5% that the panel is due to consider later this month.
Chemung County Executive Christopher Moss confirmed that the rabies results for Peanut and Fred came back negative.
Congress is likely to adopt legislation governing cryptocurrencies during President-elect Donald Trump's administration, Jay Clayton, a former top Wall Street regulator and potential political appointee, said on Wednesday. "I think we will see crypto legislation," Clayton told a gathering of securities lawyers in New York. "I think it becomes much easier to have crypto legislation if you're tackling some of these problems that can be tackled at the executive and the administrative level."
The elevation of Elizabeth Warren as the top Democrat on a key Senate banking panel could mean some headaches for Wall Street financial giants in 2025
Two more monkeys that escaped a South Carolina research facility last week have been trapped and returned, the facility's CEO said.
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security and its disaster agency said people aren’t driving temperature increases.
Theodore Olson, a conservative American lawyer who helped Republican George W. Bush secure the presidency in the legal battle over the 2000 U.S. election and went on to argue successfully on behalf of same-sex marriage, died on Wednesday at age 84, his law firm said. A constitutional lawyer who served as U.S. solicitor general under Bush and in the U.S. Justice Department under President Ronald Reagan, Olson argued 65 cases at the U.S. Supreme Court, his firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher said.
Five years ago, Norway received an unexpected visitor. Beginning in April 2019, residents on the islands of Ingøya and Rolvsøya reported encountering a seemingly tame and friendly male beluga whale that enjoyed playing fetch, receiving scratches, and eating treats. If that wasn’t strange enough, the animal also arrived in Norwegian waters with a travel accessory—a […]
Legislators from Mexico’s ruling party reelected the head of the National Human Rights Commission on Wednesday despite widespread opposition and her failure to call out the government for abuses. The reelection of Rosario Piedra in a party-line congressional vote appeared to be another example of the ruling Morena party’s attempts to weaken independent oversight bodies. Mexico's civic and nonprofit rights groups have been almost unanimous in their criticism of Piedra's reelection.
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