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The opioid epidemic continued to surge in 2022, killing record numbers of Americans, but help may be on the way in the form of more aid to communities and major reforms in opioid addiction treatment.

Workers are demanding higher wages and more staffing to ease their workload. The union says that cuts to staffing and guest services that many hotels made during the COVID-19 pandemic were never restored.

A man who climbed an enormous tree in downtown Seattle on Tuesday morning and stayed there overnight repeatedly rebuffed police negotiators before climbing down safely on Wednesday.

The screening procedure will include passengers having their temperature taken with non-contact thermometers and answering questions to determine their potential exposure.

Associate Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam was found dead on Wednesday in the Hudson River. She was the first African-American woman to be appointed to New York's Court of Appeals.

The Biden administration scrambles to respond as new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show overdose deaths surged to more than 100,000 fatalities.

A top aide to Japan's prime minister made discriminatory remarks about sexual minorities, leading to a wave of public outrage, but also to some hopes for reform.

When a video game store closed in 1998, hundreds of unsealed Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis cartridges were stored and forgotten. Now, a collection of the top-graded items has been appraised.

The directors of supervision and enforcement at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stepped down, citing the stop work orders issued by Russell Vought, the agency's new acting director.

After a firehose of a first six weeks back in the White House, President Trump delivered a boastful and partisan address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night. Here are six takeaways from the speech.