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Enlarge (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) Purdue Pharma LP, the maker of opioid painkiller OxyContin, said that it will stop aggressively promoting opioid painkillers directly to doctors—a practice many blamed for helping to create the epidemic of opioid addiction and overdose that has recently been killing an average of 115 Americans each day. According to Bloomberg, […]
Thomson Reuters President Donald Trump blasted the Democrats on Twitter on Monday morning for supporting universal healthcare, which he characterized as “really bad.” The UK has seen large demonstrations urging the government to better fund the NHS, its healthcare system. Despite the flaws in the NHS, UK citizens are more satisfied with it than US […]
The US has zero intelligence to claim a chemical attack took place in a rebel-held area in Syria, nor does it have access, former CIA officer and counter-terrorism specialist Philip Giraldi says. Giraldi joined RT America’s ‘News with Ed’ to discuss Washington’s condemnation of Russia’s policy in Syria, which amounts to “pushing all the buttons […]
A false alarm was broadcast to Hawaii on Saturday warning of an inbound ballistic missile, causing widespread panic. Officials quickly confirmed afterward that the alert was a false alarm and had been sent out by mistake. Hawaii Gov. David Ige said the alert was caused by an employee pushing the wrong button by accident. Hawaii […]
German Benitez has started two small businesses, both of them restaurants in the city of Gaithersburg, Maryland. His main restaurant, Jazmin Cuisine, employs nine people. He seems like one of the last people any politician interested in job creation would want to kick out of the country. And yet, on Monday, he learned that the […]
Win McNamee/Getty Images Ivanka Trump regularly advertises her fashion brand’s clothes and accessories by wearing them while conducting official government business. The Wall Street Journal found that the first daughter wore her brand’s products in 68% of her social media posts documenting official government business during her first seven months as an official White House […]
Enlarge / NASA’s version of what a deep space gateway might look like. (credit: NASA) Russia is assembling a new group of engineers who will be responsible for crafting the nation’s lunar exploration strategy. It’s another sign that a highly ambitious human space program is gaining steam in Moscow. The new department was created inside […]
It’s not completely commonplace yet, but there is a growing push from some establishments to offer more interesting and complex alcohol-free drink options. CBC | Health News
When filmmaker Salomé Lamas calls her creations “hybrid,” she isn’t talking Toyotas. Whether she’s shooting desperate fortune-seekers heading into La Rinconada, the world’s highest-altitude mine, in Eldorado XXI (2016), a documentary that feels at once primitive and postapocalyptic, or hovering between reality and fictionalized memory in No Man’s Land (2013), a profile of a bloodthirsty […]
Thomson Reuters Tesla is buying Perbix, an automated-manufacturing company. The deal is the second Tesla has done to automate its systems. The goal, as CEO Elon Musk has said, is to improve the machine that builds the machine. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a big idea, and the company’s latest acquisition of a Minnesota-based automated […]
