A Brooklyn resident has been apprehended for allegedly yanking the emergency brakes on the subway at least 40 times, delaying as many as 700 trains over months.
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A loophole in federal law could block at least one new opioid-addiction drug from coming to market for years. Buprenorphine is an opiate, but it blocks the cravings associated with addiction without giving people the same high.
https://n.pr/2HS3wIJ

Kenya's High Court has chosen to uphold colonial-era laws that criminalize gay sex, dealing a sharp blow to advocates for LGBTQ rights.
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President Trump has authorized AG William Barr to "declassify, downgrade, or direct the declassification or downgrading of information or intelligence" related to the origins of the investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 campaign.
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U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May has announced her resignation as leader of Britain's Conservative Party.

"It is and will always remain a matter of deep regret to me that I have not been able to deliver Brexit," she said.
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Civil rights advocate Theresa Burroughs, who proudly called herself a foot soldier for the right to vote, has died at age 89.

In 2016 she told NPR she never missed a chance to exercise what she considered a sacred right. "Every time there's a vote, I go."
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The chief of the San Francisco Police Department has issued an apology after officers raided the home of a freelance journalist who refused to name a source who leaked a police report.
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Here's @nprmusic's shortlist of the best albums out this week — including Billy Ray Cyrus, and rapper YG with a powerful remembrance of Nipsey Hussle.
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Hear Ed Sheeran and Chance the Rapper's new track, "Cross Me" — the second single from Sheeran's newly announced project.
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A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring $1 billion in Defense Department funds — intended for anti-drug activities — to begin building additional border fencing.
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@NPR The judge granted a preliminary injunction blocking the administration from moving $1 billion in Defense Department funds intended for anti-drug activities.
https://n.pr/2HX1QxP

Colorado has become the first state to cap co-payments of insulin for insured patients, regardless of the supply they require.

The law also directs the state's attorney general to launch an investigation into how prescription insulin prices are set.
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New York's "subway brake bandit" has apparently been apprehended. Police say he confessed to the "thrill" of pulling emergency brakes and bringing trains to a screeching halt.
https://n.pr/2HUnp1N

JUST IN: A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring funds from military accounts to begin building additional border fencing.

An anaconda named Anna gave birth to 18 babies at Boston's New England Aquarium — without ever being in contact with a male. (@wgbh)
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RT @MorningEdition: Wine Country, based on an actual girls' trip Amy Poehler took with her friends to California wine country, is the first…

RT @nprpolitics: While Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders illustrate two different sides of the Democratic Party, at the end of the day, Democrat…

RT @npratc: Olivia Wilde says her directorial debut is a "love letter" to the '80s and '90s movies that defined her adolescence. She hopes…

Populist parties that rail against immigration, globalist elites and the E.U. itself are expected to gain seats in the European Parliament elections — as rising nationalism threatens to unravel European unity.
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Celebrity chef Mario Batali pleaded not guilty today in a Boston courtroom, where he is standing trial over allegedly kissing and groping a woman against her will in 2017.
https://n.pr/2HSCaSV