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Cost of canceling student debt: $400 billion, agency says

The Biden administration’s plan to cancel up to $20,000 in federal student loan debt for millions of Americans will cost the U.S. about $400 billion over 30 years, according to the nonpartisan agency that conducts economic analyses of government policies.  The extension of the pause on debt repayments will cost …

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Overdose deaths surge as fentanyl floods Colorado

Golden, Colorado — There is little time to waste when someone is experiencing a fentanyl overdose.  In Arapahoe County, Colorado, last December, officers used Narcan to seemingly bring a woman back to life after she took an illegal drug laced with fentanyl.  “It did kill me,” the woman, who requested …

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Sterigenics lawsuit: Jury awards $363 million to cancer survivor Susan Kamuda

Medical device sterilization company Sterigenics must pay $363 million to cancer survivor Susan Kamuda, who had claimed that its Illinois plant’s emissions caused her illness, a jury in Cook County ruled. “Just such a relief. What came after that really didn’t matter,” Kamuda said in reference to the jury’s ruling, according to …

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