West News After Years of Fiery Hell, California Gets Less of a Scorching in 2019 Mother Nature has given a bit of a break to California during the 2019 wildfire season, but firefighters say the... Read More
News Vaping-Lung Deaths Rise Again as Culprit Remains Elusive The number of people killed or sickened by lung injuries linked to vaping increased again in the past week, with... Read More
News J&J to Pay $117 Million in Nationwide Pact Over Vaginal Mesh Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay $117 million to settle 41 states’ claims that it misrepresented the risks of vaginal-mesh... Read More
News Intel Says It Will Share Pay Data Most Companies Keep Secret Intel Corp. says it will publicly release employee pay data, broken down by race and gender later this year. For... Read More
West News SmileDirect Claims California Dentist Conspiracy Harmed Business SmileDirectClub Inc., which sells clear orthodontic aligners, alleges dentists who serve on a regulatory board in California conspired to hurt... Read More
News J&J Recalls Lot of Baby Powder After Asbestos Trace Found Johnson & Johnson is recalling one lot of its Johnson’s Baby Powder after tiny amounts of asbestos contamination were found... Read More
West News Western Governors Want Nuclear Testing Compensation Expanded BOISE, Idaho — Atmospheric nuclear weapons testing exposed more states and more people to radiation fallout and resulting cancers and... Read More
West News Earthquake Probed As Possible Cause of California Fuel Fire CROCKETT, Calif. — Officials were trying to determine Wednesday if a 4.5 magnitude earthquake triggered an explosion at a fuel... Read More
News Boeing 737 Max Victims’ Lawyers to Subpoena Southwest, American Airlines CHICAGO — Lawyers representing families of passengers killed in a Boeing 737 MAX crash in Ethiopia in March are set... Read More
International News New Pratt Engine Checks After Swiss A220 Diverts To Paris PARIS/VIENNA — Pratt & Whitney recommended checks on engines on Airbus A220 aircraft and some Embraer jets after a Geneva-bound... Read More