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Reuters wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Reuters today was awarded a 2025 Pulitzer Prize in the Investigative Reporting category for "Fentanyl Express," a series of stories that penetrated the international trade in the chemicals used to make fentanyl, the drug at the heart of a crisis that has killed some 450,000 Americans and counting.
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