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Susannah Cahalan on the psychedelic pioneer Rosemary Woodruff Leary

September 27, 2025September 27, 2025 · Politics

Rosemary Woodruff Leary is remembered—if she’s remembered at all—as a muse, fugitive, and heavily indicted co-conspirator in Timothy Leary’s psychedelic revolution of the 1960s and ’70s. But her…

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Blinken under pressure to push China on role in lethal fentanyl trade when he visits Beijing | CNN Politics

Blinken under pressure to push China on role in lethal fentanyl trade when he visits Beijing | CNN Politics

February 2, 2023February 2, 2023 · World News

CNN  —  Members of Congress are urging Secretary of State Antony Blinken to pressure China to do more to curb the flow of fentanyl and synthetic opioids into…

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Mexican police find 660 pounds of fentanyl in coconuts

Mexican police find 660 pounds of fentanyl in coconuts

December 2, 2022December 2, 2022 · World News

MEXICO CITY — Prosecutors in Mexico say police found 660 pounds (300 kilograms) of fentanyl pills packed into coconuts. The coconuts were found in a truck traveling on…

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Review: A portrait of an artist in Venice-winning doc

Review: A portrait of an artist in Venice-winning doc

November 26, 2022November 26, 2022 · Entertainment

Nan Goldin, the subject of Laura Poitras’ Venice Film Festival-winning documentary “ All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” is a name you probably either know well or not…

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Death sentence sought for man accused of killing officer

Death sentence sought for man accused of killing officer

October 29, 2022October 29, 2022 · Breaking News

RICHMOND, Ind. — A prosecutor wants the death penalty for a man charged with killing an Indiana police officer. Wayne County Prosecutor Mike Shipman made the request Friday…

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Fentanyl pills disguised in candy bags seized at LA airport

Fentanyl pills disguised in candy bags seized at LA airport

October 19, 2022October 19, 2022 · US News

LOS ANGELES — Authorities on Wednesday seized thousands of suspected fentanyl pills hidden in candy boxes at Los Angeles International Airport. Someone tried to go through security screening…

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Fentanyl pills disguised in candy bags seized at LA airport

Fentanyl pills disguised in candy bags seized at LA airport

October 19, 2022October 20, 2022 · Breaking News

LOS ANGELES — Authorities on Wednesday seized thousands of suspected fentanyl pills hidden in candy boxes at Los Angeles International Airport. Someone tried to go through security screening…

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Ex-Angels employee gets 22 years in Skaggs overdose death

Ex-Angels employee gets 22 years in Skaggs overdose death

October 11, 2022October 11, 2022 · Sports

FORT WORTH, Texas — A former Los Angeles Angels employee was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison Tuesday for providing Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs the drugs that…

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Drug gang kills 20 in attack on city hall in southern Mexico

Drug gang kills 20 in attack on city hall in southern Mexico

October 6, 2022October 6, 2022 · World News

SAN MIGUEL TOTOLAPAN, Mexico — A drug gang shot to death 20 people, including a mayor and his father, in the mountains of the southern Mexico state of…

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DEA: Fake pills containing fentanyl helping drive OD deaths

DEA: Fake pills containing fentanyl helping drive OD deaths

September 28, 2022September 29, 2022 · Politics

WASHINGTON (AP) — An increasing number of fake prescription pills that contain potentially deadly fentanyl are helping drive overdose death rates to record levels in the U.S., including…

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