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'Huge win for the public health community': Advocates hail ruling allowing over-the-counter NarcanMar 29, 2023 8:12 PM - Suburban advocates are hailing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's decision Wednesday to allow over-the-counter sales of Narcan, a nasal spray that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
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FDA approves over-the-counter Narcan. Here's what it means.
Mar 29, 2023 5:06 PM - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved selling the leading version of naloxone without a prescription, setting the overdose-reversing drug on course to become the first opioid treatment drug to be sold over the counter.
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Paris trash strike ends, pension protest numbers shrink
Mar 29, 2023 5:05 PM - Striking sanitation workers in Paris are set to return to work Wednesday -- potentially ending one of the most enduring symbols of resistance to French President Emmanuel Marcon's controversial pension bill, as nationwide protests also appeared to be winding down.
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Capitol Riot: FBI informant testifies for Proud Boys defense
Mar 29, 2023 5:03 PM - An FBI informant who marched to the U.S. Capitol with fellow Proud Boys members on Jan. 6 testified on Wednesday that he didn't know of any plans for the far-right extremist group to invade the building and didn't think they inspired the violence that day.
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Biden: World 'turning the tide' after backslide on democracy
Mar 29, 2023 5:02 PM - President Joe Biden is opening his second Summit for Democracy with a pledge for the U.S. to spend $690 million bolstering democracy programs around the globe.
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Israeli PM, Biden exchange frosty words over legal overhaul
Mar 29, 2023 5:01 PM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday rebuffed President Joe Biden's suggestion that the premier "walks away" from a contentious plan to overhaul the legal system, saying the country makes its own decisions.
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First lady, Sheryl Crow expected at Nashville shooting vigil
Mar 29, 2023 2:17 PM - First lady Jill Biden and Sheryl Crow were among those expected to attend a candlelight vigil Wednesday in memory of the three children and three adults killed in a shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville.
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King Charles III makes world debut as tour starts in Germany
Mar 29, 2023 12:33 PM - King Charles III arrived in Berlin on Wednesday for his first foreign trip as Britain's monarch, hoping to improve the U.K.'s relations with the European Union and show he can win hearts and minds abroad, just as his mother did for seven decades.
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Pamela Smart, serving life, waits for chance to be heard
Mar 29, 2023 12:32 PM - Vanessa Santiago first met Pamela Smart in 2003 as a fellow prison inmate in New York, working with her as a teacher's aide and participating with her in an arts rehabilitation program.
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Philippine police seize large stash of drugs in tea bags
Mar 29, 2023 12:32 PM - Philippine police seized more than 500 kilograms (more than half a ton) of suspected methamphetamine concealed in tea bags Wednesday and arrested a suspected Chinese drug dealer in a northern mountain resort city, police officials said.
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