These Local Leaders and Historians Wanted to Leave Confederate Statues...
Last week was a watershed moment in the history of Confederate statues. After the deadly protests over the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, pressure mounted across the...
View ArticleBlue Apron Faces a Lawsuit From Angry Investors
Blue Apron is being sued by at least as many law firms as pounds of ice packs it sends in a box. At least a dozen firms have filed class-action suits against the meal-kit company for failing to...
View ArticleThe National Park Service Just Ended Its Bottled Water Ban—After Finding It...
Update, September 27, 2017: In a statement released Tuesday, the International Bottled Water Association rejected the findings of the National Park Service’s May report. IBWA spokeswoman Jill Culora...
View ArticleDogs Can Be Vaccinated Against Lyme Disease. Humans Can’t.
Are you a dog that doesn’t want Lyme disease? Well, you’re in luck! These vaccines will let you run through tall grasses with only a slight risk of catching Lyme. If you’re a human, on the other hand,...
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Fires Engulfed Northern California Cities. Here’s What You Need to Know.
Update, October 15, 8:50 a.m. On Sunday morning, firefighters had made progress in further containing the fires. Officials in the city of Napa told the San Francisco Chronicle that the blazes in the...
View ArticleIndiana Has an HIV Crisis—Yet It Just Closed Another Needle Exchange
An Indiana county shut down its needle exchange program on Tuesday because of moral objections, raising the risk of increasing its number of HIV and Hepatitis C infections. “It came down to morally,...
View Article42 Dead, 8,400 Structures Burned, More Than $1 Billion in Damage: the...
“This is truly one of the greatest if not the greatest tragedy that California has ever faced,” said California Gov. Jerry Brown earlier this month. “The devastation is just unbelievable, it’s a horror...
View ArticleAn Opioid Billionaire Was Just Arrested on Fraud and Bribery Charges
An Arizona billionaire and founder of the pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics, John Kapoor, was arrested today on federal charges of using bribes and fraud to illegally distribute a powerful...
View ArticleWhat the Heck is “Fragrance?” Thanks to California, Companies Now Have to...
Peruse the ingredients list of your air freshener, floor polish, or multi-surface cleaner, and you’ll likely come across an “f” word: fragrance. You know what it means—whatever the manufacturer added...
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There is a Whole Cottage Industry of Doctors Helping Parents Skip Their Kids’...
Gary Taxali In December 2014, an 11-year-old visited a Disney theme park in California and afterward got a rash. It was measles, and over the next several weeks the disease spread to at least 136...
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