VP Biden gives new push on ‘Cancer Moonshot’ clinical trials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden on Friday announced new measures to help cancer patients navigate the clinical trials process as part of the administration’s “Cancer Moonshot” initiative to speed new treatments to market.
In Pennsylvania Senate race, unfamiliar battle lines on gun rights
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – As he seeks re-election to his U.S. Senate seat this November, Pennsylvania’s Pat Toomey can make an unusual claim. He is the sole Republican nationwide running with the endorsement of top U.S. gun control advocates Gabby Giffo…
Dressed in white, thousands attend Parisian-inspired picnic in New York
(Reuters) – An estimated 5,000 people, dressed in all white, showed up at a Parisian-inspired picnic in lower Manhattan’s Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park on Thursday evening wearing masks and Marie Antoinette wigs.
Texas mattress store to reopen after 9/11 ad ignites criticism
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – The Texas mattress store that shut its doors after being pilloried for a social media ad where staff used bedding to stage a mock collapse of New York City’s Twin Towers to promote a Sept. 11 sale has decided to reopen.
Polling places become battleground in U.S. voting rights fight
LINCOLN PARK, Ga. (Reuters) – Louis Brooks, 87, has walked to cast a vote at his neighborhood polling place in Georgia’s predominantly black Lincoln Park neighborhood for five decades. But not this year.
NYC police commissioner touts falling crime on his way out
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton sought on Friday to counter fears that lawlessness is on the rise in the largest U.S. city, writing in his resignation letter that crime has continued to fall this year.
U.S. motorist miles traveled in July is most for month: government
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Motorists logged 287.5 billion miles on U.S. roads in July, the most ever for the month and a 2 percent increase over last year, according to data released Friday by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
U.S. Justice Dept to push prosecutors on opioid crisis -USA Today
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department will enlist federal prosecutors to help fight the nation’s opioid crisis by sharing information on overprescribing doctors and coordinating with public health officials to address addiction, USA Today …
Soccer helps young refugees take a shot at new life in the U.S.
BALTIMORE, Md. (Reuters) – On a muggy day in late July, dozens of student refugees ran relentlessly after a soccer ball, stopping only to help up a fellow player who had slipped.
Deutsche Bank to fight $14 billion demand from U.S. authorities
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Deutsche Bank said it would fight a $14 billion demand from the U.S. Department of Justice to settle claims it missold mortgage-backed securities, a shock bill that raises questions about the future of Germany’s largest lender.
