Former U.S. President Carter leaves hospital after breaking pelvis
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter left hospital on Thursday after being admitted with a minor pelvic fracture, the Carter Center said, following the second accident this month for the country’s oldest living president.
Mourners remember the late U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings’ kindness
Mourners lined up early on Thursday to pay their respects to the late Representative Elijah Cummings, a powerful legislator and civil rights activist who became the first African-American to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol – a high honor usually besto…
Explainer: Protesting Republicans say impeachment probe violates Trump’s rights. Is that true?
Republican lawmakers on Wednesday stormed a hearing room at the U.S. House of Representatives where a Pentagon official was to testify in the impeachment probe of President Donald Trump, yelling that it was unfair and violated Trump’s rights.
U.S. vaping-related deaths rise to 34, cases of illness to 1,604
U.S. health officials on Thursday reported 1,604 confirmed and probable cases and one new death from a mysterious respiratory illness tied to vaping, taking the total toll to 34.
Democratic U.S. Representative Ryan of Ohio ends presidential bid
U.S. Representative Tim Ryan on Thursday said he was abandoning his bid for the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination and would instead seek re-election representing his district in Ohio.
California wildfires force evacuations, cause power outages
California emergency officials on Thursday ordered hundreds of people to evacuate a historic wine country town north of San Francisco, and nearly 200,000 were without power, as a growing wildfire spread in Sonoma County.
Baxter named in opioid complaint, reveals internal accounting probe
Medical supply company Baxter International Inc said it was named in a complaint for improperly marketing opioid drugs and revealed an internal probe into its accounting on Thursday, sending its shares down 10%.
Baxter International named in opioid complaint by Georgia county
Medical supply company Baxter International Inc has been named in a complaint along with other makers and distributors of opioids for improperly marketing the drugs, a filing showed on Thursday.
‘Rewilding:’ One California man’s mission to save honey bees
The staggering decline of honey bee colonies has alarmed experts across the United States, but an unconventional apiculturist in California thinks he has found a way to save them.
Several states wary of $48 billion opioid settlement proposal
Several U.S. states that have been ravaged by the opioid epidemic are pushing back on a proposed $48 billion settlement framework that would resolve thousands of lawsuits against five drug companies accused of fueling the addiction crisis.
