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A sign calling attention to drug overdoses is posted to the door of a gas station on the White Earth reservation in Ogema, Minn., Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. The drug crisis has diversified; it is no longer an opioid epidemic but one in which people are dying from deadly cocktails of many drugs. Deaths involving methamphetamine have nearly tripled in recent years, with Native Americans now 12 times more likely to die from it.

OSU study finds young people lost more than 1.25 million years of life due to drug overdoses

For the first time, researchers at OSU’s Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine have added up the deaths of young people in terms of years of life lost. The study’s findings were published online in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.

Kami Rita Sherpa climbed Mount Everest for the 26th time Saturday, setting a new world record for most times summitting the world's tallest peak.

A climber scaled Everest for the 26th time. He broke his own world record — again

Kami Rita Sherpa has set and broke his own world record for the most successful Mount Everest ascents multiple times in recent years. He's now summited Everest for the 26th time.

Justice Pat Fischer, NFIB-Ohio's Roger Geiger, the Ohio Business Roundtable's Pat Tiberi, the Ohio Chamber of Commerce's Steve Stivers, Justice Sharon Kennedy, Justice Pat DeWine, and Canal Winchester farmer and Ohio Farm Bureau Federation trustee Katherine Harrison appear at a press conference on June 21, 2022. Tiberi and Stivers are both Republican former members of Congress. Fischer, Kennedy and DeWine are all Republicans.

Five key business groups endorse Republicans over Democrats for Ohio Supreme Court

The groups say "predictability and stability" are important with business-related cases that are coming before the court.

Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters work to take away debris at a shopping center burned after a rocket attack in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 28, 2022.

Over 20 people were killed in Russia's missile attack on a crowded Ukrainian mall

Russia has been escalating bombardments of Ukrainian cities this week — attacks Moscow says are aimed at military installations but often hit civilian targets instead.

Cassidy Hutchinson, a top former aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, is seen in a video of her interview with the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol on June 23.

Who is Cassidy Hutchinson, the surprise witness at Tuesday's Jan. 6 panel hearing?

NPR has confirmed that Cassidy Hutchinson is expected to be the witness for today's Jan. 6 hearing.

President Biden signs into law the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act gun safety bill, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Saturday as first lady Jill Biden looks on.

Biden signs gun safety bill into law

The president's signing comes just over a month after the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killed 19 children and two adults.

A child receives the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Fairfax County Government Center in Annandale, Va., in November 2021. A committee of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration recommended Wednesday that the agency expand authorization of COVID-19 vaccines to children as young as 6-months-old.

Advisers to the FDA back COVID vaccines for the youngest children

A committee of experts voted unanimously to recommend that the Food and Drug Administration authorize COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech for children as young as 6-months-old.

People gather at the scene of an overnight bar shooting in Soweto, South Africa, on Sunday. At least 15 people were killed.

A group of people opened fire at a bar in South Africa, killing 15

A mass shooting at a tavern in Johannesburg's Soweto township has killed at least 15 people and left others in critical condition.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison addresses the DNC Winter Meeting at the Washington Hilton Hotel on March 10 in Washington, D.C.

New Jersey Democrats may want to knock Iowa off the top of the presidential calendar

As Democrats consider selecting new states to go first in the presidential primary calendar, New Jersey pitches itself as a sensible choice.

Slava Ukraini wheat ale from Forest City Brewery in Cleveland's Duck Island neighborhood.

Ohio breweries brew up funds to support Ukrainian relief

Proceeds from "Slava Ukraini" sales at Forest City Brewery and Catawba Island Brewing Company will go to Ukrainian relief efforts.

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