An American woman who contracted uterine cancer after using chemical hair straightening products sold by L’Oreal USA sued the company on Friday. The complaint, filed in Illinois federal court, alleges that the woman’s cancer diagnosis “was directly and proximately caused by her regular and prolonged exposure to phthalates and other …
Read More »Salman Rushdie unable to see from one eye or use one hand after attack, agent says
Salman Rushdie’s agent says the author has lost sight in one eye and the use of a hand as he recovers from an attack by a man who rushed the stage at one of the author’s August literary events in western New York, according to a published report. Literary agent …
Read More »Trump’s legal troubles come to a head in New York
When Donald Trump campaigned for president back in 2016, he defended his lifelong hometown with the kind of vigor one might expect from a blunt-talking New Yorker, telling then-rival Sen. Ted Cruz, “When you want to knock New York, you’ve got to go through me.” But lately, New York has …
Read More »Digital license plates are now legal in California
New technology is hitting the streets in California that lets motorists use high-tech digital license plates on their vehicles instead of the old-fashioned metal variety. The Motor Vehicle Digital Number Plates Bill (AB 984), passed earlier this month, allows California vehicle owners to use the digital plates, made exclusively by …
Read More »Raleigh shooting: At least 5 dead in North Carolina; 15
Five people, including an off-duty police officer, were killed, and two more wounded in a shooting Thursday evening in a residential neighborhood in Raleigh, North Carolina. A suspect, described as a 15-year-old White male, has been taken into custody and was in critical condition Friday morning, the city’s police chief …
Read More »Employers add 263,000 jobs in September as jobless rate falls to 50
Employers added 263,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said on Friday. It was the slowest month of hiring in 18 months, showing the red-hot job market is cooling slightly as the Federal Reserve hits the brakes on the economy. The unemployment rate fell to a 50-year low of 3.5% in September …
Read More »Remains identified as those of 14
Remains found a decade ago have been identified as those of a teenager girl who went missing in northeastern Pennsylvania more than a half-century ago. State police in Wilkes-Barre said Tuesday that the remains were identified as those of 14-year-old Joan Marie Dymond of Wilkes-Barre, who vanished from the Andover Street …
Read More »Transcript: H.R. McMaster on “Face the Nation,” Oct. 2, 2022
The following is a transcript of an interview with retired Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, former national security adviser in the Trump White House and a CBS News contributor, that aired on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022. MARGARET BRENNAN: The Trump administration national security adviser in 2017, retired Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, …
Read More »Turned away from urgent care — and toward a big ER bill
Frankie Cook remembers last year’s car crash only in flashes. She was driving a friend home from high school on a winding road outside Rome, Georgia. She saw standing water from a recent rain. She tried to slow down but lost control of her car on a big curve. “The …
Read More »Senate advances bill to prevent government shutdown
Washington — The Senate on Wednesday advanced a stopgap measure to keep federal agencies operating ahead of Friday’s deadline to avert a partial government shutdown, after Sen. Joe Manchin on Tuesday announced he asked Democratic leaders to drop a permitting reform measure that initially complicated its passage. The Senate voted …
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