Judge Orders FDA to Speed Up Review of E-Cigarettes May 17, 2019 By Matthew Perrone A federal judge is siding with public health groups suing the Food and Drug Administration to begin reviewing thousands of... Read More
West News Alaska Floatplanes Collided at 3,300 Feet Before Crashing May 17, 2019 By Rachel D'Oro and Mark Thiessen About the photo: Emergency responders assist a passenger injured in a crash of a Taquan Air plane in mountainous terrain... Read More
Mississippi River Barge Shipping Resumes After Floods, but Rains to Return May 17, 2019 By Karl Plume and Rod Nickel The upper Mississippi River fully reopened to boat and barge traffic this week for the first time since November as... Read More
International News Loose Lips and FX Tips: How Chats Cost Banks $1.2 Billion May 17, 2019 By Aoife White and Stephanie Bodoni Talk may be cheap, but in currency traders’ chatrooms, at least, improper messages can be very expensive for their companies.... Read More
International News Stay or Go? As Weather Gets Wilder, States Urged to Prepare for Displacement May 17, 2019 By Megan Rowling GENEVA — Warned that Typhoon Haiyan would slam into the coastal part of the Philippine town of Dulag in November... Read More
Bayer Bets on ‘Silver Bullet’ Defense in Roundup Litigation May 17, 2019 By Tina Bellon Bayer AG plans to argue that a $2 billion jury award and thousands of U.S. lawsuits claiming its glyphosate-based weed... Read More
WCRI: States Without Work Comp Fee Schedules Paying the Price May 17, 2019 By Jim Sams The dwindling number of states that have no fee schedule, or that set fees according to a percentage of billed... Read More
West News California Dioceses Create Clergy Abuse Compensation Program May 16, 2019 SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Six Roman Catholic dioceses in California are creating a program to compensate people who were sexually abused... Read More
Tesla Autopilot was Engaged During Fatal Florida Crash May 16, 2019 By David Shepardson WASHINGTON — Tesla Inc’s Autopilot feature was engaged during a fatal March 1 crash of a 2018 Model 3 in... Read More
Purdue Is Sued by Five More States Over OxyContin Marketing May 16, 2019 Purdue Pharma LP and its billionaire owners are being sued by five more states alleging the company’s aggressive marketing of... Read More