Articles from the November 21, 2018 edition
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Americans, Canadians are warned: Don't eat romaine lettuce
NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials in the U.S. and Canada told people on Tuesday to stop eating romaine lettuce because of a new E. coli outbreak. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it is working with officials in Canada on the outbreak, w...
US judge: Mississippi 15-week abortion ban unconstitutional
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday struck down a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks, one of the most restrictive in the United States. U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves ruled that the law "unequivocally" v...
Beating breast cancer only to die of opioid use – a sad Appalachian story
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Leer en español. The availability of life-prolonging treatments such as hormonal therapies and other targeted...
Agency reports hepatitis A outbreak in Albuquerque area
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Department of Health is investigating an outbreak of hepatitis A in the Albuquerque area. The department says that since the end of October it has confirmed four acute infections in adults and that the o...
Sound familiar? Past echoes in Ivanka's private email
WASHINGTON (AP) — A public official is said to have conducted government business via private email. Sound familiar? This time, it's Ivanka Trump, President Donald Trump's daughter and White House adviser. Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of emails a...
Shoppers spend freely heading into the holidays
NEW YORK (AP) — Shoppers are spending freely heading into the holidays, but heavy investments and incentives like free shipping by retailers are giving Wall Street pause. Target Inc., Kohl's Corp., Best Buy Co. and TJX Cos. all reported strong s...
Tech giants plunge again, pushing market into red for year
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks dropped again Tuesday as losses mounted for the world's largest technology companies. Retailers also fell, and energy companies plunged with oil prices as the market sank back into the red for the year. Oil prices tumbled a...
'We need hundreds': Fire victims' families urged to give DNA
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities are using a powerful tool in their effort to identify the scores of people killed by the wildfire that ripped through Northern California: rapid DNA testing that produces results in just two hours. The system c...
Dead whale had 115 plastic cups, 2 flip-flops in its stomach
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A dead whale that washed ashore in eastern Indonesia had a large lump of plastic waste in its stomach, including drinking cups, bottles and flip-flops, a park official said Tuesday, causing concern among environmentalists a...
Amur falcons protected where they had been hunted
The 8,000 residents of a remote tribal village in northeastern India are busy hosting millions of migratory Amur falcons from Siberia who roost by a massive reservoir before taking off for their final destinations — Somalia, Kenya and South Africa ...
Mars revisited: NASA spacecraft days away from risky landing
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Mars is about to get its first U.S. visitor in years: a three-legged, one-armed geologist to dig deep and listen for quakes. NASA's InSight makes its grand entrance through the rose-tinted Martian skies on Monday, after a...
Scientists work to save wild Puerto Rican parrot after Maria
EL YUNQUE, Puerto Rico (AP) — Biologists are trying to save the last of the endangered Puerto Rican parrots after more than half the population of the bright green birds with turquoise-tipped wings disappeared when Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico a...
New dates for ancient stone tools in China point to local invention of complex technology
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ben Marwick, University of Washington; Bo Li, University of Wollongong, and Hu Yue, University of Wollongong (THE CONVERSATION) You...
ACLU: Rejecting 'indecent' vanity plates unconstitutional
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties plans to challenge a Rhode Island policy that bars vanity license plate applications deemed indecent. ACLU Rhode Island Executive Director Steven Brown tells the Providence Journal the Division o...
Police: Mom drove with son on car hood over dentist dispute
BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania mom faces criminal charges for allegedly driving with her son on the hood of her car after the boy refused to go to the dentist. Police in Bethlehem Township say the incident began last Wednesday when the 1...
US judge stalls enforcement of Trump asylum restrictions
HOUSTON (AP) — A judge has ordered the U.S. government not to enforce a ban on asylum for people who cross the southern border illegally, another court setback for the Trump administration's efforts to impose new immigration restrictions without c...
Trump provides written responses to Mueller questions
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has provided the special counsel with written answers to questions about his knowledge of Russian interference in the 2016 election, his lawyers said Tuesday, avoiding at least for now a potentially risky s...
Trump arrives at his comfort zone at 'winter White House'
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump is back in his comfort zone at the "winter White House": Mar-a-Lago, where women in furs and men in diamond jewelry and monogrammed slippers mingle with Sylvester Stallone and Fabio at New Year's Eve c...
Caravan migrants weigh options after court blocks Trump ban
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Migrants camped in Tijuana after traveling in a caravan to reach the U.S were weighing their options Tuesday after a California court blocked President Donald Trump's asylum ban for illegal border crossers. Many said they h...
AP Exclusive: Gov't questions unfair student loan practices
NEW YORK (AP) — One of the nation's largest student loan servicing companies may have driven tens of thousands of borrowers struggling with their debts into higher-cost repayment plans. That's the finding of a Department of Education audit of p...
Green Tuesday: Crowds line up at 1st East Coast pot shops
LEICESTER, Mass. (AP) — Customers waited in long lines, sometimes for hours, on a cold and rainy New England day to be among the first people to legally buy recreational marijuana on the U.S. East Coast. More than two years after Massachusetts voters...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's case for Saudi solidarity
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump vastly inflated the value of planned Saudi investments in the U.S. on Tuesday, as he explained why he's "standing with Saudi Arabia" despite the conclusion of his intelligence officials that the kingdom's d...
As Facebook faces fire, heat turns up on No. 2 Sandberg
NEW YORK (AP) — For the past decade, Sheryl Sandberg has been the poised, reliable second-in-command to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, helping steer Facebook's rapid growth around the world, while also cultivating her brand in ways that hint at a...
Smoke rises, sirens wail at Gaza's deadly recurring protests
MALAKA, Gaza Strip (AP) — Atalla Fayoumi hobbles on crutches across the sunbaked plain near Israel's perimeter fence in the Gaza Strip, gazing toward plumes of smoke that have begun rising from a clutch of burning tires in the distance. The 1...
Trump criticizes war hero for not killing bin Laden sooner
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has ignited a firestorm of criticism and charges that he is politicizing the military by faulting a war hero for not killing al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden sooner. Trump took verbal shots at retired Adm. W...
