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This is your brain on heroin

9 years 11 months ago
Sanjay Gupta explains what happens to your brain on opiates, the key ingredient in heroin and other powerful narcotics.

Heroin: The poisoning of America

9 years 11 months ago
The United States is battling the biggest heroin epidemic in decades. CNN's Deborah Feyerick traveled the country to find the people and the towns fighting the war against the drug that has taken on a new, powerful form and is indiscriminately claiming the lives of thousands.

Arrests in killing of Olympian's child

9 years 11 months ago
Police arrested two more men -- a father and son -- in the shooting death of Olympic track star Tyson Gay's daughter, Trinity, who authorities say was hit by a stray bullet during a shootout in Lexington, Kentucky.

Pilot spots sharks from above to save surfers

9 years 11 months ago
When the kids are back in school and family vacations have come and gone, you will find empty beaches along Cape Cod's shoreline. On one such day in mid-September, a young man was the only person around. He sat on his surfboard about 50 yards offshore waiting for the next big wave -- completely unaware two adult great white sharks were swimming just 25 yards away.

Voting wars continue over ballot collection law

9 years 11 months ago
Arizona Democrats will ask a federal appeals court on Monday to put on hold a state law that criminalizes the practice of ballot collection, arguing that the law could disenfranchise thousands of voters -- particularly in minority communities -- that rely upon neighbors and activists to collect and hand deliver early ballots.

Days of disaster unfold under a cloudless sky

9 years 11 months ago
The weather is picture-perfect and it's days since Hurricane Matthew unleashed its winds and poured torrential rain on North Carolina's eastern flatlands -- but Princeville still is under water.
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