Minnesota Officer Who Killed Daunte Wright Will Be Charged With Manslaughter

Kimberly A. Potter, who resigned from the Brooklyn Center Police Department on Wednesday, will be charged with second-degree manslaughter, a prosecutor said.

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Drug Overdose Deaths Have Surged During the Pandemic, C.D.C. Says

The latest numbers surpass even the yearly tolls during the height of the opioid epidemic and mark a reversal of progress against addiction in recent years.

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Decades After His Death, Richard Wright Has a New Book Out

“The Man Who Lived Underground,” a novel publishers rejected in the 1940s, is about an innocent Black man forced to confess to the murder of a white couple.

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How Small Market Investors Are Being Wooed by Companies

Small investors are becoming a force in the stock market, and company executives are beginning to take notice.

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How Exercise May Help Protect Against Severe Covid-19

People who tended to be sedentary were far more likely to be hospitalized, and to die, from Covid than those who exercised regularly.

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Live Updates: U.S. and Its Allies Look to Coordinated Withdrawal From Afghanistan

President Biden plans to announce this afternoon the country’s full withdrawal from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, and NATO is expected to stay true to the coalition’s mantra of “in together and out together.” Top intelligence officials, speaking to a congressional panel, are outlining growing global threats from China, Russia and climate change.

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Colton Underwood, ‘Bachelor’ Star, Comes Out as Gay

The 29-year-old former football player had written about questioning his sexuality in a memoir, published in 2020.

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In India, a Second Wave of Covid-19 Prompts a New Exodus

Low-paid workers are starting to flee the cities en masse, just like a year ago. But their hometowns, often in far-flung places, may once again be ill prepared to test arrivals and treat the sick.

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With George Floyd, a Raging Debate Over Bias in the Science of Death

Critics say the profession of forensic pathology has been slow to acknowledge how big a role bias may play in decisions such as whether to classify a death in police custody as a homicide.

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Here's What $2 Million Buys You in Illinois, Hawaii and Texas

A 1910 Tudor Revival house in Evanston, a home near the beach on Maui and a steel-and-glass showplace in Dallas.

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