More than 107,000 people in the US died of a drug-related overdose last year, according to data released yesterday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The preliminary tally represents the first drop in drug-related deaths since 2018 and a 3% drop from 2022. The CDC data did not reveal the cause of the overall decline.
The biggest reduction was in opioid-related deaths—those involving fentanyl, heroin, or painkillers. However, those drugs still drove the vast majority of overdoses, involved...
The United States Justice has sentenced the far-right David DePape to 30 years in prison, the man found guilty of the hammer attack against Paul Pelosi, husband of the former president of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi.
The Prosecutor's Office had requested a sentence of 40 years in prison for a crime of terrorism against DePape, who was found guilty in November by a jury of attempted kidnapping of a federal official and assault of a direct relative...
The spokesperson for the United States Department of State, Matthew Miller, expressed this Thursday "deeply concerned" by reports about the disappearance of citizen journalist and lawyer Zhang Zhan, imprisoned in China after documenting the first days of the COVID pandemic. -19 in the city of Wuhan, and whose release from prison was scheduled for May 13.
"The United States is deeply concerned by reports that Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan has disappeared following her expected release from Shanghai Women's Prison...
The Palestinian prime minister demands the accession of the Palestinian people to their land as an instrument of defense
The Palestinians commemorate this Wednesday the 76 years of the Nakba, the Arabic term used to describe the flight in 1948 of 700,000 people after the creation of the State of Israel in the midst of a war in Gaza that has evoked the days of the "Catastrophe", taking into account the forced and constant displacement of hundreds of thousands of...
This May 14 marks 51 years since the unmanned launch, in 1973, of the Skylab space laboratory, NASA's first space station.
With a wingspan of 35 meters and a weight of 75 tons, a Saturn V rocket from the Apollo program was necessary to put it into orbit in 1973.
The station suffered severe damage during launch, losing its solar shield, part of the micrometeorite shield, and one of its main solar panels. The detached parts of the micrometeorite shield prevented...