Latest World, US & Local News
LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Downey Jr. doesn’t think Marvel executives would ever recreate his portrayal of Tony Stark using artificial intelligence. But if they did, he would lawyer up — even posthumously. On a recent episode of the “On With Kara Swisher” podcast, the Oscar-winning actor said he intends to “sue […]
Continue Reading
RESERVE, La. — A chemical manufacturing plant west of New Orleans has agreed to pay a $480,000 federal fine and install equipment to stop the release of a cancer-causing chemical from a storage tank and pipe. The consent agreement and final order outlining the settlement between DuPont and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was filed […]
Continue Reading
LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Downey Jr. doesn’t think Marvel executives would ever recreate his portrayal of Tony Stark using artificial intelligence. But if they did, he would lawyer up — even posthumously. On a recent episode of the “On With Kara Swisher” podcast, the Oscar-winning actor said he intends to “sue […]
Continue Reading
A 15-year-old high school freshman is hospitalized with severe complications of food poisoning after eating McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers three times in the weeks before a deadly E. coli outbreak was detected. Kamberlyn Bowler, of Grand Junction, Colorado, had to be flown 250 miles to a hospital near Denver in mid-October, where she received dialysis […]
Continue Reading A 15-year-old high school freshman is hospitalized with severe complications of food poisoning after eating McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers three times in the weeks before a deadly E. coli outbreak was detected. Kamberlyn Bowler, of Grand Junction, Colorado, had to be flown 250 miles to a hospital near Denver in mid-October, where she received dialysis […]
Continue Reading
A bone-dry October is pushing nearly half of the United States into a flash drought, leading to fires in the Midwest and hindering shipping on the Mississippi River. More than 100 different long-term weather stations in 26 states, including Alaska, are having their driest October on record, through Sunday, according to records by the Southern […]
Continue Reading LAS VEGAS — Federal investigators say an electrical system malfunctioned, the autopilot quit and some radio communications were disrupted aboard a Frontier Airlines plane shortly before the pilots made a fiery but safe emergency landing in Las Vegas earlier this month. No one among the 190 passengers and seven crew members was injured Oct. 5 […]
Continue Reading
LONDON — More than 8 million people were diagnosed with tuberculosis last year, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, the highest number recorded since the U.N. health agency began keeping track. About 1.25 million people died of TB last year, the new report said, adding that TB likely returned to being the world’s top infectious […]
Continue Reading
TIRANA, Albania — Albanian opposition on Tuesday blocked crossroads around the country in a nationwide rally demanding that the government be replaced by a technocratic caretaker Cabinet before next year’s parliamentary election. Lawmakers led hundreds of opposition supporters in rallies at the main entrance to the capital, Tirana, and at five other main crossroads around […]
Continue Reading MONT-TREMBLANT, Quebec — A Quebec nationalist party said Tuesday it will work with other opposition parties in Canada’s Parliament to topple Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’ s minority government. Trudeau’s Liberals have only 153 seats in the 338-seat House of Commons and must rely on an opposition party to pass legislation. With the parliamentary election approaching […]
Continue Reading