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The water levels of Lakes Powell and Mead are at record lows. What does that mean for the millions of people who rely on the country's two biggest reservoirs and the Colorado River that feeds them?
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Hurricane Lala is headed toward Hawaii's Big Island. If it makes landfall there, it'd be the first hurricane to do so since 1871.
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An NIH grant will fund an unconventional strategy at UNC Asheville against drug-resistant bacteria and it's undergraduates, not graduate students, are doing the lab work. -
The news comes after the House Ethics Committee recommended Edwards be censured for inappropriate conduct toward two female staffers.
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New data shows that trauma, loss of housing, and interruption to opioid treatment services all have lasting tragic impacts. -
The congressman sent the staffers “lavish” gifts, invited them to “intimate dinners and vacations” and sent them notes about his “effusive affection” for them, according to the panel. -
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“HCA threw every argument against the wall to try to get this case thrown out, but they didn’t stick,” North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson said in a statement.
