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Venezuelan Leidy Navarro (left) walks with her daughter Valentina Caceres back to their home in Ureña, Venezuela, after picking her up at school in Cúcuta, Colombia, in March.

Venezuela's Teachers And Students Skip School For Survival

Amid Venezuela's catastrophic economic meltdown, education experts say that it's getting much harder for children to get a good grasp of history, geography and their ABCs.

Authorities intercepted a woman using this drug kit in preparation for shooting up a mix of heroin and fentanyl inside a Walmart bathroom last month in Manchester, N.H. Fentanyl offers a particularly potent high but also can shut down breathing in under a minute.

Fentanyl-Linked Deaths: The U.S. Opioid Epidemic's Third Wave Begins

Overdose deaths involving fentanyl are rising — up 113 percent on average each year from 2013 to 2016. Dealers are adding cheap fentanyl to the illicit drug supply, and some users get it accidentally.

Nipsey Hussle is part of a mural painted by Moses Ball featuring other local notable people on the wall of a bank in the rapper's Hyde Park neighborhood. In the wake of Hussle's March 2019 death, many murals of the beloved Los Angeles musician were painted in the Hyde Park neighborhood near his Marathon Clothing store.

Caught In The System

When rapper Nipsey Hussle was killed in 2019, he was known as an advocate for the people in the neighborhood where he grew up and made his name. But the LAPD couldn't let his gang affiliation go.

Fentanyl-Linked Deaths: The U.S. Opioid Epidemic's Third Wave

Overdose deaths involving fentanyl are rising — up 113 percent on average each year from 2013 to 2016. Dealers are adding cheap fentanyl to the illicit drug supply, and some users get it accidentally.

Roy Moore, seen here watching election returns in his Senate race, had callied on Alabama officials to not certify the results of the special election that he lost to Democrat Doug Jones. An Alabama judge has rejected the request.

Roy Moore's Defeat In Senate Race Is Certified, Despite Attempt At A Delay

The Alabama Republican claims election fraud was "sufficient to overturn the outcome." But Secretary of State John Merrill said his office found several fraud claims that were circulated were "lies."

Supporters of LGBTQ rights took to the street in a demonstration in front of the U.S. Supreme Court last October.

'Whiplash' Of LGBTQ Protections And Rights, From Obama To Trump

The Obama and Trump administrations have used their power to shape legal interpretations of "sex discrimination" in very different ways. Here's a rundown on what's changed for LGBTQ rights in the U.S.

Detained immigrant children line up in the cafeteria at a temporary home for immigrant women and children detained at the border, in Karnes City, Texas.

ACLU Report: Detained Immigrant Children Subjected To Widespread Abuse By Officials

Government documents released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal a pattern of abuse, says the ACLU. The government says its investigations found no evidence of misconduct.

An undated artist rendering of the coronavirus.

2020 Coronavirus Blog Archive

This is an archive of breaking news about the coronavirus pandemic.

Comic Michelle Wolf; Rev. Rob Schenck; former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright

In Case You Missed 'Em: The 10 Most Popular 'Fresh Air' Interviews Of 2018

In a year of big headlines, Fresh Air dove deep on topics ranging from the magnificent to the microscopic. Listen back to our conversations with scientists, comedians, authors, journalists and more.

A sign at the entrance of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., says the museum will reopen Tuesday. The shutdown reduced federal spending by $18 billion, although most of that will be recouped now that the government has reopened, according to a new report.

Government Shutdown Cut Into Economic Growth, CBO Says

A report says the shutdown reduced federal spending by $18 billion, although most of that will be recouped now that the government has reopened.

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