The drugmaker Pfizer, facing an aging population and shifting risks from the loss of patents, is reshaping its structure into three businesses. The divisions, announced Wednesday, include Innovative Medicines, which will focus on biological science and a new hospital-medicines business. ...
Read More »US wholesale prices shoot up 3.4 percent in the past year
U.S. wholesale prices rose 0.3 percent in June, a slight slowing from May. The 12-month gain, however, was the fastest in more than six years, adding to evidence that inflation is beginning to rise after years of weak price gains. ...
Read More »Navajo Nation urges expansion of radiation-exposure law
From the end of World War II to the mid-1980s, about 30 million tons of uranium ore were extracted from lands belonging to the nation’s largest American Indian reservation. Today, across the Navajo Nation, sit dozens of abandoned uranium mines ...
Read More »Commission: Diversion program had no role in school massacre
A commission investigating a Florida high school massacre has concluded that the suspect’s connection to a student-diversion program played no role in the attack, and commission members pushed aside suggestions that the program prevented police from stopping suspect Nikolas Cruz ...
Read More »AP sources: Kavanaugh was Trump’s early favorite for court
In calls from the Oval Office, from Air Force One, and from his New Jersey golf club, President Donald Trump returned again and again to the same question as he mulled his next Supreme Court nomination: “Who’s the best here?” ...
Read More »Government falls short of deadline to reunite kids, parents
Some immigrant toddlers are back in the arms of their parents, although others remained in holding facilities away from relatives as federal officials fell short of meeting a court-ordered deadline to reunite dozens of youngsters forcibly separated from their families ...
Read More »Complaint accuses Greitens groups of concealing donors
An ethics complaint filed Tuesday alleges two groups connected to former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens were used to conceal donor identities. The complaint, filed with the Missouri Ethics Commission by Republican Rep. Jay Barnes, accused Greitens’ gubernatorial campaign and a ...
Read More »Former NBA player Washington sentenced for charity fraud
Former NBA player Kermit Washington has been sentenced in Kansas City to six years in federal prison for spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in charity donations on vacations, shopping sprees and plastic surgery for his girlfriend. The U.S. Attorney’s ...
Read More »A look at Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh’s notable opinions
Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, has sat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 2006. Here are summaries of some of his notable opinions: HELLER v. DISTRICT OF ...
Read More »American workers’ willingness to quit hits 17-year high
The proportion of American workers that quit their jobs in May reached the highest level in 17 years, a sign that more people are confident they can find a new job, likely at higher pay. Businesses also advertised fewer jobs ...
Read More »First trial in Roundup weed-killer cancer claims under way
Lawyers for a school groundskeeper dying of cancer asked a San Francisco jury on Monday to find that agribusiness giant Monsanto’s widely used weed killer Roundup likely caused his disease. Dewayne Johnson’s lawsuit is the first case to go to ...
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