The Senate on Thursday confirmed Eugene Scalia, a longtime lawyer representing corporations, to be labor secretary. Mr. Scalia, the son of the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, was chosen by President Trump in July,days after Mr. Trump’s first labor secretary, R. Alexander Acosta, announced that he would resign. The Senate confirmed Mr. Scalia by […]
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Shares of connected exercise machine company Peloton are drifting lower in their first day of public trading. The New York company’s stock opened at $27. In afternoon trading shares changed hands at $26.55 as the broader markets edged lower. Peloton offered 40 million shares at an initial public offering price of $29 per share, the
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Hundreds more Americans have been reported to have a vaping-related breathing illness, and the death toll has risen to 12, health officials said Thursday. Interested in Vaping? Add Vaping as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Vaping news, video, and analysis from ABC News. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Kim Kardashian wasn’t going to take this segment of “Mean Tweets.” On “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Wednesday (watch above), the reality star read a doozy from someone who is clearly not a fan: “I’d rather plant poison ivy plants in my anus before hearing another word about Kim Kardashian.” Kardashian got mean back at the tweeter:
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General Motors has decided to fund health care benefits for thousands of striking workers after the company initially moved to cut them off early in the nationwide work stoppage. The automaker said in a statement Thursday that it was “very concerned about the significant confusion” surrounding employee health insurance and that it had “chosen to
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Weeks of dry, hot weather have plunged the Deep South further into a drought that’s affecting more than 11 million people and threatening crops across the region, a new assessment showed Thursday. The latest report from U.S. Drought Monitor showed arid conditions worsening across a five-state area from Louisiana to South Carolina . Conditions are
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Georgia Tech’s basketball team was banned from postseason play for the upcoming season and slapped Thursday with four years of probation for major recruiting violations committed by a former assistant coach and an ex-friend of head coach Josh Pastner. The sanctions handed down by the NCAA also included a reduction in scholarships, limits on recruiting
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WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday morning told a crowd of staff from the United States Mission to the United Nations that he wants to know who provided information to a whistle-blower about his phone call with the president of Ukraine, saying that whoever did so was “close to a spy” and that “in the
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If you’ve ever been to therapy or live with anxiety or stress, you probably understand the importance of mindful breathing. Deep breathing can slow and help control your heart rate as well as quiet your mind. But just because breathing exercises can help some, that doesn’t mean it’s the go-to strategy for everyone in every
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Image copyright Getty Images A 36-year-old man has been arrested in relation to the death of Mac Miller. Ryan Reavis was arrested on drug and weapons charges, but police haven’t said exactly how he was linked to the rapper. Police said they found marijuana, drug paraphernalia, pills, a doctor’s prescription pad, three guns and large
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