November 14, 2024, 9:38am Health
Those ever-present TV drug ads showing patients hiking, biking or enjoying a day at the beach could soon have a different look: New rules require drugmakers to be clearer and more direct when explaining their medications’ risks and side effects. Read story
November 14, 2024, 9:38am Nation & World
The fifth major storm in three weeks slammed into the northeastern Philippines on Thursday, prompting more largescale evacuations and a United Nations call for emergency funds to help the government address the plight of hard-hit rural villagers. Read story
November 14, 2024, 9:38am Nation & World
New Jersey’s governor declared a drought warning. Black Hawk helicopters scooped water from a lake to dump on a burning forest in New York state. A park in Manhattan caught fire. And authorities in two states revealed criminal charges Wednesday against people accused of setting some of the wildfires that… Read story
November 14, 2024, 9:33am Business
A Federal Reserve official gave a lengthy defense of the central bank’s political independence Thursday, just days after former President Donald Trump, an outspoken Fed critic, won re-election. Read story
November 14, 2024, 9:32am Business
The flurry of contract agreements announced early this fall — including two more Wednesday — offer evidence that major railroads and their unions are working to avoid the standoffs that led them to a brink of a national strike two years ago. Read story
November 14, 2024, 9:30am Life
SpaceX kept the launch machine rolling with another Starlink mission from the Space Coast on Thursday morning. Read story
November 14, 2024, 9:30am Nation & World
With a sterling record of busting down doors and arresting armed suspects over her decade in SWAT, Los Angeles police Lt. Jennifer Grasso figured she had a strong case to become the tactical unit’s next leader when the position opened up this year. Grasso — the department’s first woman to… Read story
November 14, 2024, 9:30am Health
Suicides in the U.S. military increased in 2023, continuing a long-term trend that the Pentagon has struggled to abate, senior defense officials said. The increase is a bit of a setback after the deaths dipped slightly the previous year. Read story
November 14, 2024, 9:28am Nation & World
The four drones were designed to carry bombs, but instead the men of Ukraine’s Khartia brigade pack them with food, water and handwarmers and launch them in darkness toward the front line, a 15-minute flight away. Read story
November 14, 2024, 9:27am Life
California has seen its share of bears breaking into cars. But bears caught on camera entering luxury cars tipped off insurers that something wasn’t quite right. Read story
