Ford and Mazda are adding more than 35,000 pickup trucks in North America to a list of vehicles that should not be driven because they have Takata air bag inflators with a high risk of exploding. The warning includes 33,428 Ranger and 1,955 Mazda B-Series small pickups from 2006 model...
Federal Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor rolled out proposals Friday for new packaging labels for foods high in saturated fat, sugar or sodium — proposals that exempt some products, including milk. The proposed new labels are meant to encourage consumers to avoid binging on foods linked to chronic health problems...
The launch by SpaceX of the massive Falcon Heavy rocket has one Flat Earther claiming that it is all an elaborate hoax. You would think that Justin Harvey would be a believer in space travel and a round Earth by now, considering he lives in Orlando and was able to...
"Demography is destiny." It's a popular phrase, but it's incorrect. Tokyo, where gray-haired individuals far outnumbered children in the streets. But the hustle and bustle also revealed that Japan does not accept that its aging population means its economic prospects must diminish. On the contrary, Japan is harnessing two of its...
The tumble in U.S. stock prices has inflicted psychological pain and financial losses — at least on paper — for people with a meaningful stake in the market. Their anxiety conjures another fear, too: That consumers and businesses might slash their spending in response. Consumers are the engine of U.S....
The Coca-Cola Co.'s biggest rival is shaking up the competition in the sparkling water wars. PepsiCo Inc. (NASDAQ: PEP) has launched "bubly," a new flavored sparkling water that the company said has an "upbeat and playful sense of humor to shake up the sparkling water category" while not including artificial...
The Equifax data breach exposed more of consumers’ personal information than the company first disclosed last year, according to documents given to lawmakers. The credit reporting company announced in September that the personal information of 145.5 million consumers had been compromised in a data breach. It originally said that the...
DHOFAR DESERT, Oman — Two scientists in spacesuits, stark white against the auburn terrain of desolate plains and dunes, test a geo-radar built to map Mars by dragging the flat box across the rocky sand. When the geo-radar stops working, the two walk back to their all-terrain vehicles and radio...
The maker of the painkiller OxyContin will stop actively marketing its opioid products to doctors. Purdue Pharmaceuticals announced that it would cut its sales staff by more than half and would stop sending sales representatives to doctor's offices to discuss opioid products. "We have restructured and significantly reduced our commercial operation...
Several scientists working at a nuclear weapons facility in Russia were arrested this week on the suspicion that they used one of the country’s most powerful supercomputers to mine bitcoins, the BBC reported. The alleged infraction took place at the Federal Nuclear Center in Sarov, a top-secret area surrounded by...
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