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Seventy-two million lethal doses of fentanyl were seized in New York state last year — as federal and local authorities continue to sound the alarm on the deadly synthetic drug. The total haul by the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division came to 1.9 million fentanyl-laced prescription pills and 1,958 pounds of fentanyl across the state, officials said Thursday. “To put that into perspective, throughout 2022 we seized enough deadly doses of fentanyl in New York for more than three times the population of New York state,” said Frank Tarentino, who heads the DEA’s local office. The shocking year-end tally…

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In his new memoir Spare, Prince Harry recalls receiving a 13th birthday present that his mother Princess Diana had bought for him when weeks before when she was still aliveVideo LoadingVideo UnavailableThe video will auto-play soon8CancelPlay nowPrince Harry received a birthday gift from his late mother Princess Diana weeks after her tragic death. Just two weeks after Diana died following a car crash in Paris, Harry turned 13 and had returned to his boarding school Ludgrove. In his new memoir Spare, he reveals how he enjoyed a birthday cake and sorbet at the school before being presented with a gift…

Signage outside a Bed Bath & Beyond retail store in New York, Aug. 25, 2022.Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCheck out the companies making headlines in midday trading.Silvergate — Shares of the crypto-focused bank tumbled more than 42% after Silvergate disclosed massive customer withdrawals during the fourth quarter. The bank said it $3.8 billion in assets from digital asset customers at the end of December, down more than 60% from three months earlier. The company also sold off more the $5 billion of debt securities to cover the withdrawals, resulting in a loss on those sales of $718 million.Bed…

The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) has announced tentative agreements have been reached with two more hospitals – Maimonides and Richmond University Medical Center – ahead of a planned Monday strike. The tentative agreements are in addition to that reached Sunday for union nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Negotiations for more than 10,000 nurses at five other facilities are continuing through the week ahead of the planned strike, NYSNA President Nancy Hagans said at a briefing for reporters Thursday. More than 1,300 nurses at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn have reached a tentative agreement on a three-year contract, according…

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The car industry faces the threat of creeping protectionism at a time when global supply chains are more globally integrated than ever before, the head of Mercedes-Benz has warned.“Politically, there have been trends towards more protectionism over the past three, four, five years, which is something that business is going to have to deal with,” said Ola Källenius, who’s been at the helm of the German premium car brand since 2019. Shortages in semiconductors and US restrictions on the export of certain chips to China have partly driven the automotive industry to regionalise some of its sourcing, but Källenius argued…

New York CNN  —  The Dow fell nearly 400 points on Thursday as strong jobs data spooked investors. A number of reports this week show that the labor market remains resilient to the Federal Reserve’s attempts to tame inflation by raising interest rates and cooling the economy. The reports stoked investors’ fears that the central bank will continue with its painful hiking regimen well into 2023. The Dow was down 383 points, or 1.2%, in early afternoon trading, the S&P 500 also fell 1.2% and the Nasdaq Composite was 1.3% lower. Stocks dropped as the ADP private payrolls report showed…

CNN  —  The South Carolina state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the state’s six-week ban on abortion violates the state’s constitution. The 2021 law had banned abortions once ​what it called a “fetal heartbeat” is detected, which can be as early as ​four weeks, and more commonly, six weeks ​into pregnancy, with exceptions for ​fetal anomalies, risk to the life of the mother​, or in ​some cases of rape or incest. ​ In a 3-2 ruling, the court concluded that the law ran afoul of the state constitution’s privacy protections, with Justice Kaye Hearn writing in the lead opinion that…

Despite a disappointing first season in Las Vegas and the unknown of whether quarterback Derek Carr will be under center for the Raiders next season, wide receiver Davante Adams wants to remain in the silver and black. Adams was traded to the Raiders in the offseason after spending the first eight seasons of his NFL career in Green Bay, reuniting with Carr, his college quarterback at Fresno State.  And while Adams has had a more than solid year statistically, the Raiders have not met expectations, going 6-10 in Josh McDaniels’ first year as head coach. RAIDERS TO ‘EXPLORE TRADE OPTIONS’ FOR DEREK…