A croupier waits for gamblers at a table inside the Marina Bay Sands casino in Singapore April 27, 2010. Reuters/Pablo Sanchez There's been an uptick in retail investors checking into gambling treatment centers. Treatment can be limited, as clinicians often don't understand the condition or the stock market. That's left some addicted traders discouraged – […]
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Support centers for victims of sexual assault are being flooded with calls in the wake of the Brett Kavanaugh hearing
Victims of sexual assault are coming forward with their stories following Christine Blasey Ford’s accusation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Support centers around the country are being flooded with calls from first-time reporters of sexual assault. The list of victims to come forward include lawmakers and the daughter of President Ronald Reagan. NEW YORK […]
Lowe’s and Home Depot have emergency command centers monitoring Florence and thousands of trucks loaded and ready to go to stores in the storm’s path (HD, LOW)
Ken Blevins/The Star-News via AP Hurricane Florence has people turning to local hardware and supply stores like Lowe’s, Home Depot, and Ace for assistance that the government can’t necessarily provide. These outlets have emergency command centers and meteorologists on duty. After 2017’s brutal hurricane season, Home Depot had revenue of more than $ 100 billion, […]
The UN is calling on China to ‘immediately release’ one million Muslim Uighurs who may be held in detention centers
Kevin Frayer/Getty The United Nations has called on China to end the detention of up to one million Uighurs in the far western Xinjiang province. The committee also called out China’s practice of racial and ethnic profiling and heavy-handed restrictions that disproportionately target the Uighur community. Xinjiang has become one of the most intrusive police states in […]
Doctors fear urgent care centers are wildly overusing antibiotics—for profit
Enlarge / Here, have some antibiotics. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) Popular urgent care centers may be the biggest—and most overlooked—culprits in the dangerous overuse of antibiotics in clinics, according to a new analysis in JAMA Internal Medicine. Based on insurance claims from patients with employee-sponsored coverage, researchers estimated that about 46 percent of patients who […]
Tesla closes solar installation centers as part of layoffs
Tesla’s recently announced layoffs may hurt its solar panel business particularly hard. Reuters sources and leaked documents have revealed that Tesla is closing roughly a dozen solar installation centers in nine states as part of the job cuts. There will still be about 60 facilities left afterward, but this would also end a Home Depot […]
Expanding ‘chokehold’ on Russia: Analysts to RT on NATO’s plan for new command centers
Building two command centers in the US and Germany, NATO is either preparing to take on Russia or executing its “suffocation” strategy against Moscow, military analysts told RT. “NATO had 33 military commands during the Cold War, but they reduced the number of those commands to seven,” Alexander Bartosh, former Russian diplomat and military expert […]
Waymo self-driving trucks are hauling gear for Google data centers
Enlarge (credit: Waymo) Waymo, Google’s self-driving car company, is moving beyond driverless taxis. The company announced on Friday that its self-driving trucks have begun hauling real cargo in the Atlanta area. A safety driver in the truck will take over if anything goes wrong. “Over the past year, we’ve been conducting road tests of Waymo’s […]
U.S. Centers for Disease Control head resigns amid controversy over tobacco stock
Brenda Fitzgerald, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has resigned over financial conflicts of interest, U.S. officials announce.
The Trump administration reportedly wants 7 words and phrases banned at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was reportedly told not to use seven specific words and phrases in its federal budget-proposal documents. Materials with the words, “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” and “diversity” were returned to the agency for “correction,” according to a senior staffer at the CDC’s Office of Financial Services. Bans on the words and […]