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High cost of opioid crisis ‘unbearable’

ATLANTA (TNS) — The emotional cost was grueling. And eventually, the financial cost became unbearable.

 

HIV crime laws: Historical relics or public safety measures?

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Robert Suttle clearly remembers telling his boyfriend that he was HIV-positive the night they met. But after they split, three quarrel-filled months later, that became a point of contention: His “ex” pressed charges against him.

 

Trump’s decision leaves ‘Dreamers’ unable to travel

MEXICO CITY (TNS) — Last month, California college student Miriam Juan stepped off a plane in Guadalajara, Mexico, and hugged her grandparents for the first time in 17 years. She had no words at first, just smiles and tears.

 

Move to end DACA leaves some young immigrants fearing for their health

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — For 26-year-old Paulina Ruiz, having legal immigration status is about more than going to school or holding a job. It’s about staying healthy.

 

House races moving ... left

WASHINGTON (TNS) — With 14 months to go before Election Day, the House battleground continues to take shape. Even though there is some uncertainty about what the political climate will look like next fall and whether normal historical midterm trends…

 

‘Scam PACs’ strike again in Utah, Wisconsin races

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Mysterious and misleading political action committees are nothing new, but two recent examples demonstrate just how brazen some PACs are becoming in their money-grabbing email pitches.

 

PSA screening for prostate cancer saves lives after all, study says

After years of growing doubt about the value of screening men for prostate cancer, a new analysis of existing clinical trial evidence has found that when men between 55 and 70 get the prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, test, the result…

 

Dark rituals? Orgies? See the reality of a hippie commune deep in Missouri’s Bible Belt

TECUMSEH, Mo. (TNS) — Nestled amid several dozen hilly acres in Ozark County, in what would later become Trump’s America, 16 people once banded together to help spread socialism.

 

Inside Trump’s vise grip on a fearful Republican Party

NASHVILLE (TNS) — Paul Ryan was once seen as the intellectual leader of the GOP. Ted Cruz was its conservative purist. Mitch McConnell was the party’s brilliant strategist, and Rand Paul, its inconvenient but consistent libertarian, pushing to broaden Republican…

 

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