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18 years later, America vows to ‘never forget’ 9/11
Sep 11, 2019 by Rick Watts
By KAREN MATTHEWS and JENNIFER PELTZ NEW YORK (AP) — Americans commemorated 9/11 with solemn ceremonies and vows Wednesday to “never forget” 18 years after the deadliest terror attacks on American soil. A crowd of…
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Share of uninsured Americans rises for 1st time in a decade
Sep 10, 2019 by Rick Watts
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans without health insurance edged up in 2018 — the first evidence from the government that coverage gains from President Barack Obama’s health…
Juul warned over claims e-cigarette safer than smoking
Sep 09, 2019 by Rick Watts
By MATTHEW PERRONE (AP) — Federal health authorities on Monday blasted vaping company Juul for illegally pitching its electronic cigarettes as a safer alternative to smoking and ordered the company to stop making unproven claims…
Aid effort picks up momentum as some Bahamians seek way out
Sep 06, 2019 by Rick Watts
By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN ABACO, Bahamas (AP) — A few meager possessions stuffed in plastic bags, some of the haggard Bahamians who lost homes to the ravages of Hurricane Dorian are waiting at a small airport…
Hurricane Dorian rakes Carolinas as it moves up the coast
Sep 05, 2019 by Rick Watts
By: MEG KINNARD CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Hurricane Dorian raked the Carolina coast with howling, window-rattling winds and sideways rain Thursday, spinning off tornadoes and knocking out power to more than 200,000 homes and businesses…
Deadly Hurricane Dorian parks itself over the Bahamas
Sep 03, 2019 by Rick Watts
By RAMON ESPINOSA, DÁNICA COTO and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Practically parking itself over the Bahamas for a day and a half, Hurricane Dorian pounded away at the islands Tuesday in a catastrophic…
Hurricane on track for Florida after strike in Caribbean
Aug 29, 2019 by Rick Watts
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Dorian posed an increasing menace to Florida Thursday as it pushed over open waters after doing limited damage in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The U.S. National…
TS Dorian expected to strengthen, could hit Puerto Rico
Aug 28, 2019 by Rick Watts
By DÁNICA COTO SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Dorian made a last-minute shift in its path on Tuesday, threatening Puerto Rico with a direct hit as forecasters said it could reach near-hurricane…
Judge orders drugmaker to pay $572 million in opioid lawsuit
Aug 27, 2019 by Rick Watts
By SEAN MURPHY NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma judge on Monday found Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries helped fuel the state’s opioid crisis and ordered the consumer products giant to pay $572 million,…
US exports to lobster-loving China go off cliff amid tariffs
Aug 26, 2019 by Rick Watts
By PATRICK WHITTLE PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — U.S. lobster exports to China have fallen off a cliff this year as new retaliatory tariffs shift the seafood business farther north. China, a huge and growing customer…
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