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Astroworld Festival: Police confirm victims may have been injected with drugs, launch criminal probe

houston-and-galveston” target=”_blank”>Houston<‘s Astroworld Festival, which saw at least eight people killed and numerous others injured while the rapper was onstage Friday night. At a news conference Saturday afternoon, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner confirmed that while the age of one fatality remained unknown, other victims were 14, 16, 21, 21, 23, …

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Oil tanker explodes in Sierra Leone, killing at least 98

An oil tanker truck disasters” target=”_blank”>exploded<capital, killing at least 98 people and severely injuring dozens of others after large crowds gathered to collect leaking fuel, officials and witnesses said Saturday. The explosion happened late Friday when the tanker collided with another truck as it was pulling into a gas station …

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This is the ‘most anxious’ major city in the US

Of the 15 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S., Seattle is apparently the most mental-health” target=”_blank”>stressed out< According to the newspaper, the data comes from a survey conducted by the bureau’s Household Pulse Survey from Sept. 29 to Oct. 11.  The survey — which is conducted approximately every two weeks …

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NIH to study long-term COVID-19 impact on pregnant women, children

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced this week that it will study the long-term impact of infectious-disease on reproductive-health.  The agency said last week that it would support a four-year follow-up study regarding the potential effects on 1,500 women who had been infected with wild-nature during pregnancy.  The research …

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