The U.S. government on Tuesday proposed tightening rules governing the amount of prescription opioid painkillers that drugmakers can manufacture in a given year, in hopes of reining in the deadly opioid epidemic. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Drug Enforcement Administration’s proposed changes to regulations covering addictive-drug manufacturing quotas. The plan …
your ad herePost-Weinstein, Film Festivals Aim for Gender Parity
Asia Argento said he raped her during the Cannes Film Festival. Mira Sorvino said he chased her around a hotel room at the Toronto International Film Festival. Rose McGowan’s encounter happened at the Sundance Film Festival. Just as Harvey Weinstein did at the Oscars, the disgraced movie mogul lorded over …
your ad hereAirlines Agency Backs Creation of Global Drone Registry
Concerned by a rise in near misses by unmanned aircraft and commercial jets, the world’s airlines back development of a U.N.-led global registry for drones, an executive of their trade group said Tuesday. The International Air Transport Association backs efforts by the U.N. aviation agency to develop such a registry, which could also help …
your ad hereBat Key to Tequila Trade Taken Off US Endangered Species List
Wildlife managers in the American Southwest say a once-rare bat important to the pollination of plants used to produce tequila has made a comeback and is being removed from the U.S. endangered species list. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s announcement Tuesday made the lesser long-nosed bat, which ranges from …
your ad hereStarbucks Closing All Company-owned Stores for Anti-bias Training
Starbucks said Tuesday it will close all of its more than 8,000 company-owned U.S. stores on May 29 to educate employees about racial bias in an attempt to prevent more acts of discrimination. The announcement was made days after the arrest of two African American men who sat in a …
your ad hereMan With 3 Faces: Frenchman Gets 2nd Face Transplant
In a medical first, a French surgeon says he has performed a second face transplant on the same patient — who is now doing well and even spent a recent weekend in Brittany. Dr. Laurent Lantieri of the Georges Pompidou hospital in Paris first transplanted a new face onto Jerome …
your ad hereCambridge Analytica ex-CEO Refuses to Testify in UK
Cambridge Analytica’s ex-CEO, Alexander Nix, has refused to testify before the U.K. Parliament’s media committee, citing British authorities’ investigation into his former company’s alleged misuse of data from millions of Facebook accounts in political campaigns. Committee Chairman Damian Collins announced Nix’s decision a day before his scheduled appearance but flatly …
your ad hereEurope’s Venture Capitalists Embrace Virtual Currency Craze
Some of Europe’s biggest venture capital firms are buying into sales of new virtual coins or asking their investors to give them the freedom to do so, in a sign of mainstream investor backing for the booming but controversial crowd-funding tool. Germany’s HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, which has more than 1 …
your ad hereStudy: Diamond From the Sky May Have Come From ‘Lost Planet’
Fragments of a meteorite that fell to Earth about a decade ago provide compelling evidence of a lost planet that once roamed our solar system, according to a study published Tuesday. Researchers from Switzerland, France and Germany examined diamonds found inside the Almahata Sitta meteorite and concluded they were most …
your ad hereMore Than 100 Parts for NASA’s Orion Capsule to Be 3-D Printed
More than 100 parts for U.S. space agency NASA’s deep-space capsule Orion will be made by 3-D printers, using technology that experts say will eventually become key to efforts to send humans to Mars. U.S. defense contractor Lockheed Martin, 3-D printing specialist Stratasys, and engineering firm PADT have developed the …
your ad hereIMF: World Economy Expands Next 2 Years; Growth Fades After 2020
International Monetary Fund experts say the global economy will continue growing well for the next two years, but expect expansion to slow after 2020. IMF research director Maurice Obstfeld said Tuesday fading trade could hurt growth and, “The first shots in a potential trade war have now been fired.” He …
your ad hereRamaphosa Team to Seek $100B Investment for South Africa
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed a team of business and finance experts on Monday to hunt the globe for $100 billion in investment to boost the ailing economy. The team of economic envoys includes ex-finance minister Trevor Manuel as well as a former top banker. Ramaphosa became president in …
your ad hereRussia’s Drive to Replace Western Power Technology Hits Snag
Russia’s drive to build a large power-generating turbine to lessen its dependence on Western technology has suffered a major set-back after a prototype broke beyond repair, two sources familiar with the project told Reuters. In the past few years Russia has imported the large-capacity gas turbines required to run modern …
your ad hereWall Street Rises as Strong Netflix, Goldman Earnings Impress
Wall Street indexes rose on Tuesday as strong earnings from Netflix, Goldman Sachs and healthcare companies boosted optimism over what is expected to be the strongest earnings season in seven years. Netflix shares surged 6.2 percent after the video-streaming pioneer smashed analysts’ quarterly subscriber estimates, helped by a blitz of …
your ad hereUS Senator Sanders Introducing Bill Targeting Opioid Manufacturers
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders will introduce a bill on Tuesday that would fine opioid drug manufacturers for deceptive marketing and implement the harshest penalties yet on drugmakers found responsible for contributing to the drug epidemic. Sanders, an independent who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, said the bill …
your ad hereChina Confused About Trump Currency Manipulation Charges
China has responded to U.S. President Donald Trump’s charges China and Russia are manipulating the value of their currencies. Monday, Trump tweeted, “Russia and China are playing the Currency Devaluation game as the U.S. keeps raising interest rates. Not acceptable!” His charge came just days after the U.S. Treasury Department …
your ad hereSenegal Acrobats Defy Cultural Norms to Pursue Circus Passions
Senegal has a small but ambitious circus. It began as a local association offering arts and acrobatics workshops to disadvantaged kids from poor neighborhoods around the capital. The circus troupe has grown from there and now performs abroad, though some of the acrobats continue to face resistance from their families. …
your ad hereFIFA Charges World Cup Host Russia for Fan Racism
FIFA charged World Cup host Russia with fan racism Tuesday, less than two months before the tournament begins. Monkey chants were aimed at black French players, including Paul Pogba, during France’s 3-1 friendly win over Russia in St. Petersburg last month. “Disciplinary proceedings have been opened against the Russian Football …
your ad hereSupreme Court Hearing Case About Online Sales Tax Collection
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments about whether a rule it announced decades ago in a case involving a catalog retailer should still apply in the age of the internet. The case on Tuesday focuses on businesses’ collection of sales tax on online purchases. Right now, under the decades-old Supreme …
your ad hereTop EU Court: Poland Broke Law by Logging in Pristine Forest
The European Union’s top court has ruled that Poland violated environmental laws with its massive logging of trees in one of Europe’s last pristine forests. The ruling Tuesday by the European Court of Justice said that, in increasing logging in the Bialowieza Forest, Poland failed to fulfil its obligations to …
your ad hereAI Pods Developed in Dubai Bring Health Checkups to Malls and Supermarkets
Automated health care will soon be just steps away for customers in shopping malls and other public spaces. Faith Lapidus reports the new technology developed by a firm in Dubai aims to make it easier and more convenient for people to get health check-ups. …
your ad hereParental Diet Before Conception Affects Child’s Health
A child’s health can be compromised not only by a mother who smokes or drinks during pregnancy, but by the obesity and poor diet of both parents well before the act of procreation, researchers said Tuesday. What a mother and father eat, and whether they are seriously overweight, in other …
your ad hereAs Drought Keeps Men on the Road, Mauritania’s Pastoralist Women Take Charge
Every year when the pastoralist men in Fatima Demba’s Mauritanian village return from their months-long journey to find pastures and water, the women erupt in wild celebrations. “We draw henna tattoos on our bodies, we braid our hair, we wear our nicest clothes,” she said, re-adjusting her bright yellow and …
your ad hereToyota to Launch ‘Talking’ Vehicles in US in 2021
Toyota Motor Corp. plans to start selling U.S. vehicles that can talk to each other using short-range wireless technology in 2021, the Japanese automaker said on Monday, potentially preventing thousands of accidents annually. The U.S. Transportation Department must decide whether to adopt a pending proposal that would require all future …
your ad hereRocket-control Glitch Delays Launch of NASA’s Planet-hunting Satellite
An 11th-hour technical glitch prompted SpaceX to postpone its planned launch on Monday of a new NASA space telescope designed to detect worlds beyond our solar system, delaying for at least 48 hours a quest to expand astronomers’ known inventory of so-called exoplanets. SpaceX halted the countdown a little more …
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