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More than 70 people overdosed in New Haven, CT, on K2, a synthetic cannabinoid that may have been laced with fentanyl. 1/21

More than 72,000 Americans died last year from drug overdoses, a 10% increase over 2016. 2/21

America has a physician shortage. One solution: let students complete school and see patients earlier. 3/21

Puerto Rico's power blackout finally ended on Tuesday. It was the longest continuous outage in the nation's history. 4/21

Just 500 farmers in one Arizona county may decide the fate of the entire Southwest. 5/21

Available for a starting bid of $8,000, your very own US Border Patrol station. 6/21

Dollar General is growing fast in rural America, though some see its arrival as proof that a town is failing. 7/21

East Palo Alto used to be America's murder capital. Now it’s poised to break $1 million in median home prices. 8/21

The Islamic State, rebounding from setbacks, still has more than 30,000 fighters in Syria and Iraq. 9/21

An argument says austerity was “the greatest mistake of economic policy analysis since 1929.” 10/21

Researchers are conflicted about why money developed in certain ancient societies and not others. 11/21

The uncle of Stephen Miller, the White House’s immigration whiz, says their family wouldn’t have survived his policies. 12/21

Hundreds of newspapers publish editorials rebuking Trump’s attacks on the press. 13/21

A newsletter we like: Bizarro Devs, a fun, weekly blend of technology news, experiments, and other diversions (some of which we've definitely linked to in previous editions of this newsletter). 14/21

A day in the woods with the San Francisco-based Forest Bathing Club. 15/21

An interview with Michael Pollan by someone who’s never tried psychedelics. 16/21

The rosé market is flush with "bulk" wine—low-quality grapes, underripe fruit, red wine by-products. 17/21

When a brewery creates an In-N-Stout beer, the In-N-Out restaurant chain—in good spirits—crafts a legal letter full of boozy puns. 18/21

“An escalator can only become stairs.” Comedians list the jokes they wish they could steal. 19/21

Baroque underwater photography by Hawaii-born Christy Lee Rogers. 20/21

The only song ever sung in a court of law—"Home! Sweet Home!"—was sung by a defense attorney in 1935. His client got life. 21/21

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