U.S. Alzheimer’s deaths jump 54 percent; many increasingly dying at home
CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. deaths from Alzheimer’s disease rose by more than 50 percent from 1999 to 2014, and rates are expected to continue to rise, reflecting the nation’s aging population and increasing life expectancy, American researchers said on T…
U.S. weather forecasters predict above-normal hurricane season
(Reuters) – U.S. weather forecasters on Thursday predicted more tropical storms in 2017 than normal for the Atlantic hurricane season, which last year brought one of the deadliest recorded storm systems that killed several hundred people.
GM is accused in lawsuit of cheating on diesel truck emissions
(Reuters) – General Motors Co was accused in a lawsuit on Thursday of rigging hundreds of thousands of diesel trucks with devices similar to those used by Volkswagen AG , to ensure they pass emissions tests.
U.S. auto sales seen up 0.5 percent in May: JD Power and LMC
(Reuters) – U.S. auto sales in May will edge up 0.5 percent from a year earlier, despite consumer discounts remaining at record levels, industry consultants J.D. Power and LMC Automotive said on Thursday.
Some Uber and Lyft riders are giving up their own cars: Reuters/Ipsos poll
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Wally Nowinski got his first car when he turned 16 in Michigan, the home of the U.S. auto industry. But after two years of living in New York City, he sold his wheels, using ride services, carsharing and bike sharing to get ar…
Facebook’s Zuckerberg urges Harvard grads to contemplate risk
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Reuters) – Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg returned on Thursday to Harvard University, the school he dropped out of to start the pioneering social network, to urge its graduating class to help create a new social safety net to allow …
Alabama executes 75-year-old inmate convicted of 1982 murder
(Reuters) – Alabama executed on Friday a 75-year-old inmate who had spent more than three decades on death row and faced seven previous execution dates after he was convicted of killing his girlfriend’s husband in 1982.
Playboy model sentenced for posting photo of unsuspecting nude
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Dani Mathers, the 2015 Playboy Playmate of the year, pleaded no contest on Wednesday to a criminal charge of invasion of privacy for secretly photographing a 70-year-old nude woman and was sentenced to 30 days of graffiti remova…
Eight guards, seven inmates injured in California prison melee
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Corrections officers at a maximum-security prison in Northern California opened fire with live ammunition on inmates to quell a melee on Wednesday that ended with eight guards and seven inmates sent to hospitals, prison official…
Forget Trump White House, Belgium shows Melania the surreal
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – As her reality TV star husband meets many of his Western allies for the first time as U.S. president on Thursday, Melania Trump will be offered a different take on the surreal by her hosts in Brussels.
