Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption‘I felt helpless to stop my son’s addiction’: Kristen wants vaping companies held accountable The US has announced a countrywide ban on some e-cigarette flavours amid concerns about vaping among teens. The ban applies to mint and fruit flavours that are offered in cartridge-based e-cigarettes, like the […]
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LOS ANGELES — On a night when Paul George only played half a game, the Los Angeles Clippers had plenty in reserve. Bench stars Montrezl Harrell scored 23 points and Lou Williams added 22 in a 126-112 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Thursday night that gave the Clippers consecutive wins for the first time
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Image copyright Getty Images Rage Against The Machine, Travis Scott and Frank Ocean will headline Coachella festival this year. It’s the first time since 2016 without a female headliner – Lady Gaga, Beyonce and Ariana Grande have each had a slot in the past three years. The Californian festival is held over two weekends each
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Image copyright Getty Images High Street retailer Next has increased its profit forecast after enjoying better than expected sales over the Christmas trading period. The company’s full-price sales rose by 5.2% from 27 October to 28 December, 1.1% ahead of its own expectations. It said that colder weather this November might have helped its sales
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There are more than 20 million landmines in Iraq, some planted by Islamic State Group, many left by Saddam Hussein’s army during the Iran Iraq war in the 1980s. UK based Mines Advisory Group or MAG, is working to clear them but it will take decades. The BBC’s Carol Lowe visited northern Iraq with one
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LAS VEGAS — Golden Knights defenseman Jon Merrill entered Thursday night’s game against Philadelphia with 343 NHL games under his belt — and he had played every single one of them on the blue line. He certainly made the most of his first appearance at forward. Merrill got his first goal of the season from
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DETROIT — Three crashes involving Teslas that killed three people have increased scrutiny of the company’s Autopilot driving system just months before CEO Elon Musk has planned to put fully self-driving cars on the streets. On Sunday, a Tesla Model S sedan left a freeway in Gardena, California, at a high speed, ran a red
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An actor in “Captain America: The First Avenger” was arrested Tuesday and charged in the stabbing death of her mother, police said. Mollie Fitzgerald, 38, was taken into custody in the Dec. 20 killing of Patricia E. Fitzgerald, 68, of Montgomery, Texas, police in Olathe, Kansas, said in a statement. She was charged with second-degree murder
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Image copyright PA Media Image caption All services in and out of King’s Cross station were suspended after the blackout Three energy firms are to pay a total of £10.5m following August’s power cut that left over a million people without electricity and hit rail services. RWE Generation, which runs Little Barford Power Station, and
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General Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ elite Quds Force, has been killed by US forces in Iraq. Iran’s Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif, called the attack an “act of international terrorism”, tweeting that the US “bears responsibility for all consequences of its rogue adventurism.” The Pentagon said in a statement: “This strike
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