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There's a global shortage of natural gas because of the war. That has consequences for the U.S., the world's largest exporter of liquefied natural gas or LNG.
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The Iran war created a global natural gas shortage — a windfall for U.S. companies
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With Qatar's liquefied natural gas still offline, U.S. companies see an opening and are bringing in new investments.
A forensic chemist with the Drug Enforcement Administration holds vials of fentanyl pills at a DEA research laboratory in this file photo. Fentanyl deaths are plunging in the U.S, but the recovery is threatened by a new "synthetic soup" of toxic street drugs.
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Historic decline in U.S. overdose deaths threatened by changing street drug supply
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