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Emergency Rooms Often Don't Do Enough for People Who Survive an Overdose

Only a small percentage of people who survived an opioid overdose in West Virginia received some form of addiction treatment in the next year, according to a new analysis. Experts say the findings underscore a national disconnect.

Rachel Bluth, Kaiser Health News In Health

Vape Pods Taste Minty Thanks to Extremely High Levels of a Chemical Banned in Food

The FDA regulates the chemical, called pulegone, in food, but not in e-cigs—so it's unclear which brands contain it.

Hannah Smothers In Health

Trump's Asylum Policies Sent Him Back to Mexico. He Was Kidnapped Five Hours Later By a Cartel.

David's story is not unique.

Emily Green In News

'Joker' Is a Terrifyingly Realistic Window Into White Terrorism

We need to reckon with how closely Todd Phillips's villain mirrors real-life mass shooters, and the poisonous ideologies they subscribe to.

Noel Ransome In Entertainment

Inside the Surging Rage at Trump in Midwest Factory Towns

Conservative areas like Miami County, Indiana, are sick of seeing profitable companies ship jobs offshore despite the president's promises.

Michael Sainato In Money

1 in 16 Women Report Their First 'Sexual' Experiences Were Rape or Assault

Extrapolated to the whole U.S. population, this would mean 3.3 million women have experienced "forced sexual initiation."

Jesse Hicks In Sex

Emergency Rooms Often Don't Do Enough for People Who Survive an Overdose

Only a small percentage of people who survived an opioid overdose in West Virginia received some form of addiction treatment in the next year, according to a new analysis. Experts say the findings underscore a national disconnect.

Rachel Bluth, Kaiser Health News In Health

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Vape Pods Taste Minty Thanks to Extremely High Levels of a Chemical Banned in Food

The FDA regulates the chemical, called pulegone, in food, but not in e-cigs—so it's unclear which brands contain it.

Hannah Smothers In Health

Trump's Asylum Policies Sent Him Back to Mexico. He Was Kidnapped Five Hours Later By a Cartel.

David's story is not unique.

Emily Green In News

Why Purdue Pharma's Bankruptcy Won't Save the Sacklers, the Billionaire Family Behind OxyContin

Several states have already sued — or vowed to sue — the family directly.

Emma Ockerman In News

Tens of Thousands of GM Auto Workers Are on Strike Today. This Is Why.

Alex Lubben In News

This City's First Ever Pride March Ended With Far-Right Mobs Hunting Down Queer Kids

Tim Hume In News

Democrats Want to Give Trump a Win on Gun Control. Here's What They're Offering.

Matt Laslo In News

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Librarian Finds Returned Book with Entire Soft Taco Used as Bookmark

Before all the brands started dumping food in books for #content, a public librarian said that someone actually did this in real life.

Jelisa Castrodale In Food

The Hidden Psychological Crisis That Hurricanes Leave in Their Wake

Some local Hurricane Dorian relief efforts in the Bahamas are hoping to address the PTSD that results from our increasingly frequent weather disasters.

Harron Walker In Health

This Startup Says It's Making Odorless Weed

A Canadian company says it's trying to make weed less dank.

Troy Farah In Tech

Carpool Karaoke Scoring an Emmy Win Over Beyoncé's 'Homecoming' Doc Is a Cursed Travesty

Her Coachella documentary was shut out of six awards, but her most surprising loss was to James Corden and Paul McCartney trying to be funny in a car.

Taylor Hosking In Entertainment

writers for migrant justice brought poetry and protest together

The growing collective hosted events in 45 cities to raise money for migrants detained at the border.

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Mark Ruffalo to Boris Johnson: Keep the Hulk's Name Out of Your Mouth

After the Prime Minister compared his Brexit strategy to the Hulk, Ruffalo dunked on him on Twitter.

Drew Schwartz In Entertainment

Watch Paul Rudd and Paul Rudd Star in a Netflix Show About Two Paul Rudds

'Living with Yourself' answers that age-old question: How much Rudd is too much Rudd?

River Donaghey In Entertainment

NBC Just Made a 'Good Place' Spinoff Miniseries About the Bad Place

It's basically a workplace comedy about demons.

River Donaghey In Entertainment

More People Are Falling Through the Arctic's Melting Ice Never to Be Seen Again

Five people in Alaska alone have slipped through the ice this year, spurring hunters to ditch snowmobiles for dog sleds.

Terri Hansen In Tech

'Americanah' Will Be an HBO Series Starring Lupita Nyong'o

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 2013 book is finally getting the TV adaptation it deserves.

Kristin Corry In Entertainment

Scientists Discovered the Most Massive Neutron Star Ever

The extremely swole collapsed star is so big that it defies what we know about how big neutron stars can get.

Becky Ferreira In Tech

Everest Is Melting, Revealing Tons of Garbage and Human Bodies

Due to decades of commercial mountaineering and climate change, the worlds tallest mountain is becoming “the world’s highest garbage dump.”

Omkar Khandekar

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Climate Change Will Create 1.5 Billion Migrants by 2050 and We Have No Idea Where They'll Go

The climate crisis has already created millions of invisible refugees and could create up to 1.5 billion more in the next 30 years. But under international law no country is obliged to take them in.

Izzie Ramirez

M83's Anthony Gonzalez Wants People to Forget About 'Midnight City'

With Gonzalez's forthcoming release 'DSVII,' he seeks to cleanse himself of both the success of 'Hurry Up, We're Dreaming' and the failure of 'Junk,' and to figure out what's next for M83.

Will Schube

Fine, KFC, You Win: We Will Have Sex With Colonel Sanders

The chicken chain's thirsty marketing has finally worn us down. We agree to smash the 11 herbs and spices out of the colonel's buttered biscuits.

Alex Zaragoza

How American Evangelicals Helped Stop Same-Sex Marriage in Cuba

The Evangelical church has gained a huge amount of political power in Cuba, and LGBTQ people are dealing with the consequences.

Rebecca Bodenheimer

The Latinx Artists Using Instagram to Fight Erasure in a Gentrifying Los Angeles

In the face of rapid displacement, Latinx artists are using social media to archive the lives and legacies of the people who made LA the cultural starburst that it is.

Rosa Boshier

It’s Hard to Hate Your Body When You’re Diving 100 Feet Without Oxygen

Learning to dive without SCUBA equipment reduces your existence to the next breath you're taking.

Chantae Reden

Synthetic Drugs Will Change the Global Drug Trade Forever

Drug traffickers thrive on their ability to penetrate national borders, but a new era of toxic, man-made highs could dissolve those boundaries and transform the global drug trade.

Max Daly

The Small But Important Change 'Celeste' Made to Its Celebrated Assist Mode

When someone pointed out the game's description "felt othering," the developer not only listened, but made them part of the creative process.

Patrick Klepek

What Happens to Polyamorous Relationships When One Partner Has Kids

When a member of a polycule gets pregnant, everyone faces new choices about how to adjust their relationships.

Sofia Barrett-Ibarria

How Gen-Z Is Dealing With a Looming Climate Apocalypse

Growing up in the midst of a climate crisis is pretty overwhelming.

Rachel Chen

This Mexican Town Celebrates Its Namesake Saint with Exploding Hammers

Despite several attempts to ban the practice and the handful of injuries it regularly causes, the tradition has carried on for 300 years.

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Obama's New Documentary Is Great. It Also Reveals Why He's Out of Touch

'American Factory' on Netflix is a solid film, but Obama's message of finding common ground in an uneven labor dispute ignores working people's realities.

Zeeshan Aleem