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The US Mint wants you to help choose the pioneering women that will appear on its new quarters

Following coins that put the spotlight on Duke Ellington, the Tuskegee Airmen and Samoan fruit bats, a new run of quarters will call attention to pioneering American women. It’s part of the US Mint’s “American Women Quarters Program,” which will stamp circulating quarters with the faces of women who have made “significant contributions to the

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‘The Crime of the Century’ lays bare who cashed in from the opioid epidemic

The title “The Crime of the Century” serves multiple purposes in director Alex Gibney’s HBO documentary, highlighting the criminality associated with an opioid epidemic that has dragged on throughout this century. While the focus is on Purdue Pharma and the family behind it, the four-hour project spreads the blame, building on existing reporting with “secret

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50 years after Marvin Gaye asked, ‘What’s Going On?’ America still searching for an answer

As a child, musician Devon Gilfillian remembers his father, a professional wedding singer, harmonizing with Marvin Gaye’s iconic “What’s Going On” album in their living room. While the groove of the music was palpable, the lyrics were lost on a young Gilfillian. The haunting questions of the song resurfaced to Gilfillian, now 31, following the

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