The Mamdani administration has taken encouraging steps, including offering free naloxone by mail through its Just in Case campaign and investing $12 million to train and employ 500 additional peer specialists.
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Joel Teron,
New York Daily News,
31 Aug. 2026
For Maryland nurses, aides, teachers and service workers, that can mean the difference between investing a small amount from each paycheck and staying locked out of wealth-building opportunities entirely.
Meta was facing the prospect of truly massive damages in the California case with some speculating that the ultimate number could have gone as high as $200 billion.
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Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
26 Aug. 2026
Frank Sierawski didn't set out to discover a multibillion-dollar market for speculating on when people with life insurance policies will die.
But that kind of reconstruction project would take more time, and more money – something the national government could not even consider with the war monopolizing resources.
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Howard LaFranchi,
Christian Science Monitor,
11 Aug. 2026
However, such an improvement might get hampered by a number of challenges, such as the rise of space debris in orbit or a single company monopolizing commercial space launch, researchers added.
Ronaïmou’s feature debut, a critique of diya, still widely extended in Chad, in a film praised for its moral complexity, engrossing tension and sense of place.
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John Hopewell,
Variety,
5 Aug. 2026
Hope for an attacking, engrossing meeting between two of the most compelling names in the men’s game.
Five men pleaded guilty in federal court this month to smuggling millions of dollars worth of cocaine from the Dominican Republic to South Florida hidden in compartments on sport fishing boats.
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David Goodhue
August 26,
Miami Herald,
26 Aug. 2026
At night, Axira leads a secret operation, smuggling the ruler’s Heartfillers — until one mistake results in her execution date, per the book’s synopsis.
When the Followers began, healthcare on the Western frontier was primitive, unsanitary and riddled with con artists peddling fake cures.
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Audrey Dutton,
ProPublica,
25 Aug. 2026
Their lawsuit against Jones and the 2022 verdict marked the first time he was held financially liable for peddling lies about the massacre, claiming it was faked by the government to tighten gun laws.
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