December 2019

Uber, Postmates sue to challenge California’s new labor law

Ride-share company Uber and on-demand meal delivery service Postmates are suing to block a broad new California law aimed at giving wage and benefit protections to people who work as independent contractors By DON THOMPSON Associated Press December 31, 2019, 3:28 AM 3 min read SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Ride-share company Uber and on-demand meal delivery

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Want OxyContin in China? Pain pill addicts get drugs online

SHANGHAI — China has some of the strictest regulation of opioids in the world, but OxyContin and other pain pills are sold illegally online by vendors that take advantage of China’s major e-commerce and social media sites, including platforms run by tech giants Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu, the Associated Press found. These black markets supply,

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2019 Was So Weird Jimmy Kimmel Made News Up And People Still Bought It

Most people could agree that 2019 was a pretty eventful year ― so eventful, it seems, that people could believe just about anything happened. To mark the end of what’s been a strange decade, “Jimmy Kimmel Live” aired an end-of-2019 edition of “Lie Witness News” on Monday. Kimmel’s team hit the streets to ask people

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Scrap ‘quick-fix diets and tea-toxes’ this New Year

Image copyright Getty Images If your New Year resolution is to lose some weight, avoid fad diets, because they don’t work and can be harmful, says NHS England’s top doctor. Diet pills, ‘tea-toxes’ and appetite suppressant products are no ‘quick fix’, says Prof Stephen Powis, NHS medical director. Products making this claim can have side-effects,

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China investigates respiratory illness outbreak sickening 27

Chinese experts are investigating an outbreak of respiratory illness that some have likened to the 2002-2003 SARS epidemic December 31, 2019, 6:52 AM 1 min read BEIJING — Chinese experts are investigating an outbreak of respiratory illness in the central city of Wuhan that some have likened to the 2002-2003 SARS epidemic. The city’s health

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