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Mental health minister says 'safer supply' drug concerns rooted in 'stigma and fear'

Mental health minister says 'safer supply' drug concerns rooted in 'stigma and fear'

OTTAWA — Canada's mental health and addictions minister believes fear and stigma are driving criticism of the government's decision to support prescribing pharmaceuticals to drug users to combat the country's overdose crisis.
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Woman, 68, dies and driver airlifted to hospital in rural Nova Scotia car collision

Woman, 68, dies and driver airlifted to hospital in rural Nova Scotia car collision

HALIFAX — A 68-year-old woman has died and a 68-year-old man has been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after a car collision in Nova Scotia.
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Biden admin providing $1.5 billion to GlobalFoundries to make computer chips in New York and Vermont

Biden admin providing $1.5 billion to GlobalFoundries to make computer chips in New York and Vermont

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Monday that the government intends to provide $1.5 billion to the computer chip company GlobalFoundries to expand its domestic production in New York and Vermont.
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Israel strikes across Gaza as US says it will block another cease-fire resolution at UN RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes across Gaza killed at least 18 people overnight and into Sunday, according to medics and witnesses, as the United States
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Trump rails against New York fraud ruling as he faces fines that could exceed half-a-billion dollars WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich.
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Trump rails against New York fraud ruling as he faces fines that could exceed half-a-billion dollars

Trump rails against New York fraud ruling as he faces fines that could exceed half-a-billion dollars

WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich.
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Auto workers threaten to strike again at Ford's huge Kentucky truck plant in local contract dispute

Auto workers threaten to strike again at Ford's huge Kentucky truck plant in local contract dispute

DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union is threatening to go on strike next week at Ford Motor Co.'s largest and most profitable factory in a dispute over local contract language.
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Driver who injured 9 in a California sidewalk crash guilty of hit-and-run but not DUI

FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) — A driver who plowed into a crowd on a Southern California sidewalk in 2019, injuring nine people, was convicted Thursday of hit-and-run crimes, but jurors deadlocked on a charge of driving under the influence of drugs.
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Man charged with beheading father carried photos of federal buildings, bomb plans, DA says

Man charged with beheading father carried photos of federal buildings, bomb plans, DA says

The suburban Philadelphia man charged with decapitating his father and posting a video online in which he held up the severed head had a device with photos of federal buildings and apparent instructions for making explosives when he was arrested, aut
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Japan slips into a recession and loses its spot as the world's third-largest economy

Japan slips into a recession and loses its spot as the world's third-largest economy

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s economy is now the world’s fourth-largest after it contracted in the last quarter of 2023 and fell behind Germany. The government reported the economy shrank at an annual rate of 0.
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