The Opioid Files
An epidemic unmasked: 76 billion pain pills saturated the country
Use the slider to see the change from 2006 to 2012. Darker colors represent more pills per person.
Newly released federal data provides an unprecedented look at the surge of legal pain pills that fueled the prescription opioid epidemic, which resulted in more than 100,000 deaths in a seven-year span.
Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, the notorious drug lord, receives life sentence in U.S. federal court
As head of the Sinaloa Cartel, Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera presided over a violent and vast criminal enterprise that, over two decades, moved billions of dollars’ worth of drugs from Mexico to the United States.
Campaign 2020‘Win where we won’: Trump campaign mounts an all-out effort to protect states key to his 2016 victory
As the president's campaign boasts of efforts to expand the electoral map, efforts so far appear squarely aimed at solidifying his base.
House votes to condemn Trump’s racist remarks
All but a handful of GOP lawmakers dismissed the rebuke while many Democrats pressed for harsher punishment of the president.
Trump’s remarks can be used against him in court
His latest comments about four congresswomen of color will add to a record that has affected immigration and other cases.
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A Washington Post-Reforma poll shows most Mexicans favor deporting Central American migrants to their home countries.
The heat poses a public health threat as temperatures reach or exceed 95 degrees across much of the Lower 48 states.
One country and one strategy at a time, the region has pushed back against sugary beverages and ultra-processed foods.
An unidentified Iraqi citizen was also killed in the attack on a restaurant, according to Iraq’s Foreign Ministry.
John Paul Stevens
1920–2019 John Paul Stevens had one of the longest tenures on the court, evolving from a moderate Republican to a savvy pacesetter on the bench’s liberal wing.
Transportation officials and executives expressed worries that the company’s expedited timeline could result in crashes, lawsuits and confusion.
The June 20, 1969, landing stopped a Yankees-Senators game in the middle of an at-bat. In Chicago, there were fireworks. In Montreal, they played the audio of the landing over the public address system.
(Reuters)
50 years after Apollo, conspiracy theorists are still howling at the ‘moon hoax’
The idea that NASA faked the landing proves as durable as the lunar rocks.
(For The Washington Post)
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By The Way's travel expert makes the etiquette call on mid-air scenarios when those precious, controversial inches are at stake.
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The “Star Trek” icon has a new graphic novel about his experience in a Japanese American internment camp: “I have to tell this story before there’s no one left to tell it."
