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In this Jan. 23, 2015, photo, wild horses are seen during a BLM tour in the Pine Nut Mountains just outside of Dayton, Nev. Under the threat of another legal battle, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has quietly pulled the plug on a public-private partnership in northern Nevada aimed at shrinking the size of a wild horse herd through the use of contraceptives, according to documents The Associated Press obtained on Tuesday, May 10, 2016. (Jason Bean/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP) NO SALES; NEVADA APPEAL OUT; SOUTH RENO WEEKLY OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT (AP)

Federal moves to rein in wild horses

Dan Ross - FairWarning
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From "charmed life" to chemo

Ayse Birsel - Design The Life You Love
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A festering complaint

Fred Schulte, Elizabeth Lucas, Joe Mahr - KFF Health News
Children walk by drug users passed out along a street in a South Bronx neighborhood which has the highest rate of heroin-involved overdose deaths in the city. (Getty/Spencer Platt)

Drug exec to profit off opioid treatment

Matthew Chapman - Alternet
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Cassava helping millions of farmers

Devang Mehta
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Superbugs are getting deadlier

Bryan Gibb
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A fit CEO is an effective CEO

Pete Leibman
(Photo courtesy of Brigaid / Civil Eats)

The startup transforming school food

Lisa Held - Civil Eats
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Lavender growing in Boone County W.Va. on top of a reclaimed strip mine, as part of the Green Mining Project. (Janet Kunicki/West Virginia Public Broadcasting/100 Days in Appalachia)

Lavender hopes and realities

Roxy Todd - West Virginia Public Broadcasting
(<span about='http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelrperry/4245065922/' xmlns:cc='http://creativecommons.org/ns#'><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelrperry/with/4245065922/' rel='cc:attributionURL' target='_blank'>Michael R. Perry</a> / <a href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/' rel='license' target='_blank'>CC BY 3.0</a></span>)

How to be a better tourist

Jenny Howard
(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

States eyeing midterms for opioid tax

Jay Hancock, Shefali Luthra - KFF Health News
Malnourished children eat a meal at the Apanalaya Center in Mumbai, India, Oct. 9, 2012. (AP/Rafiq Maqbool)

Hunger: A grave warning to the world

Vijay Prashad - Independent Media Institute
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Opioid maker gets addiction drug patent

Nicole Karlis
Brett Kavanaugh (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

What Kavanaugh said about birth control

Nicole Karlis
Supporters cheer as President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Despair death rates higher in Trump land

Nicole Karlis
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Motherhood and marijuana don’t mix

Jenny Gold - KFF Health News
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Cost of settling a Medicare fraud suit?

Lance Williams
Jerry Brown; Donald trump (AP/Salon)

California looks to ban "junk insurance"

Nicole Karlis
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Suicide by opioid

Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News
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Cracking the sugar code

Emanual Maverakis, Carlito Lebrilla, Jenny Wang - The Conversation
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Republicans against paid sick leave

Bryce Covert - In These Times
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Ocean mist is full of microbes

Jennifer Tsang
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5 way to combat back-to-school marketing

Sierra Filucci - Common Sense Media
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Weed-killing robots use fewer pesticides

Amber Wang - GearBrain
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