The number of open U.S. jobs was largely unchanged in June and hiring slipped, suggesting the job market has cooled a bit. The Labor Department said Tuesday that the number of available jobs fell by just 0.5%, to 7.35 million. That’s down from a record high last November of 7.63 million, but still a healthy […]
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Prescriptions of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone are soaring, and experts say that could be a reason overdose deaths have stopped rising for the first time in nearly three decades. The number of naloxone prescriptions dispensed by U.S. retail pharmacies doubled from 2017 to last year, rising from 271,000 to 557,000, health officials reported Tuesday. The
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The Nobel Prize-winning US author Toni Morrison has died at the age of 88. The author of 11 novels, she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, having published her first novel, The Bluest Eye, in 1970. She spoke to Razia Iqbal at the Hay Festival in 2014, covering issues ranging from the way
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Amazon’s self-driving robots will be roaming the streets of another neighborhood. The online shopping giant says the six-wheeled robots, about the size of a Labrador, will begin delivering packages to customers in Irvine, California. It comes after Amazon began testing them in a suburb of Seattle at the beginning of the year. Amazon says the
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Seattle Mariners infielder Tim Beckham has been suspended 80 games as part of baseball‘s joint drug agreement after testing positive for stanozolol, a banned performance enhancer, Major League Baseball announced Tuesday. Beckham’s suspension is effective immediately and ends his season. In a statement released through the players’ association, Beckham says he took a product from
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The project to build a new children’s hospital in Edinburgh will cost a further £90m. A new Audit Scotland report shows that £80m has been spent on “enabling and equipment works” at the site – beyond the deal with consortium IHSL. A further £11.6m was given to IHSL to end a contract dispute over construction
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If you play it right, losing on a reality TV show can mean winning in real life (see: Jennifer Hudson, Katherine McPhee and — shudder — Omarosa), and so the story goes for “Bachelorette” contestant Tyler Cameron. The 26-year-old model and general contractor was the runner-up on the most recent season of the “Bachelorette,” which
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Walmart boss Doug McMillon is being urged to use his power to help gun control Walmart, scene of two recent gun horrors, is under pressure to use its corporate power to help crack down on the sale of weapons in the US. The country’s biggest retailer, often cited as
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Arike Ogunbowale hasn’t let losing shake her confidence. She was the fifth pick in the draft by the Dallas Wings and like many talented first-year players, Ogunbowale has already lost more games than she did in her college career at Notre Dame. Bu Ogunbowale said she was mentally prepared for the transition to the WNBA.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump and the Republican National Committee filed a pair of lawsuits on Tuesday against officials in California, challenging a new law requiring presidential candidates to release five years of tax returns in order to be placed on the state primary ballot in 2020. The R.N.C. suit, which was filed in the Eastern
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