How Trump’s Education Nominee Bent Detroit to Her Will on Charter Schools
Betsy DeVos pushed back on any regulation of Detroit’s troubled school system. Will she bring that free-market approach to America’s public schools?
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CreditIan Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist for The New York Times New Mothers Derailed by Drugs Find Support in New Hampshire Home
The center, Hope on Haven Hill, provides drug treatment and counseling in a safe environment for opioid users who are pregnant or newly postpartum.
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CreditKevin D. Liles for The New York Times No Money, No Mercy
After a Crime, the Price of a Second Chance
A program called diversion was supposed to spare low-level offenders the ruinous consequences of a criminal record. Then money got in the way.
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CreditJames Yang The Prosecutor’s Deal, the Defendant’s Dilemma
A process called pretrial diversion is intended to relieve overburdened courts and help low-risk offenders get on with their lives. You decide if it’s really that simple.
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Credit The Oakland Fire: What Happened Inside the Ghost Ship
Diagrams and photographs showing the interior of the building illustrate some of the factors that made the fire so deadly.
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CreditPhilip Scott Andrews/The New York Times One in 6 American Adults Say They Have Taken Psychiatric Drugs, Report Says
The new analysis provides the most fine-grained snapshot of prescription drug use for psychological and sleep problems to date.
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CreditJim Wilson/The New York Times California Today: Questions Persist After the Oakland Fire
Monday: A look at the interior of the Ghost Ship warehouse, Stanford’s marching band is suspended, and introducing a “Californian of the Year” contest.
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CreditAndrew Spear for The New York Times Abortion Foes, Emboldened by Trump, Promise ‘Onslaught’ of Tough Restrictions
Legalized abortion faces its greatest threat in decades, people on both sides of the issue say, and that includes the possibility that Roe v. Wade will be overturned.
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CreditGetty Images Lives and Profits in the Balance: The High Stakes of Medical Patents
Tensions inherent to drug pricing pit affordability against the need to recoup investment in research, raising questions about how much of the cost patients should have to bear.
