General Motors is trying to avoid recalling potentially deadly Takata air bag inflators in thousands of full-size pickup trucks and SUVs for the fourth straight year, leaving owners to wonder if vehicles are safe to drive. The automaker petitioned the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to exempt it from recalls that were required under a […]
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Image caption The Acorns hospice in Walsall opened in 1999 Children’s hospices in England will be forced to cut services or shut unless the NHS increases its funding, a charity has warned. Together for Short Lives, which helps terminally ill children, highlighted a “dangerous cocktail” of higher costs and a drop in state funding. Its
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Image copyright Boohoo Image caption Boohoo’s first recycled range will be made with reclaimed plastics “If someone really cared about buying ethically sourced, green clothes then they wouldn’t shop at Boohoo,” shopper Camilla tells the BBC on Oxford Street. She is commenting on the fast fashion retailer’s first recycled clothing range – made with reclaimed
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The Latest on the NHL Awards show (all times local): 6:13 p.m. A full 25 years after he appeared in the first of two Mighty Ducks movies, Kenan Thompson was happy to get another taste of hockey. The “Saturday Night Live” veteran reminisced about his hockey history when he hosted the NHL Awards show at
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Among the 2,000 undocumented immigrants being targeted now are those whose court cases were expedited, having typically missed a court date and been ordered deported from the country in absentia. They were sent letters in February demanding they report to an immigrations and customs office to leave the country, Mr. Morgan said. While Mr. Morgan
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Image copyright Getty Images Scientists say they have identified the earliest signs of Parkinson’s disease in the brain, 15 to 20 years before symptoms appear. Scans of a small number of high-risk patients found malfunctions in the brain’s serotonin system, which controls mood, sleep and movement. The King’s College London researchers say the discovery could
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption All eight films in the Harry Potter series were shot at the facility near Watford A man has been arrested at Warner Brothers Studios in Leavesden after an alleged incident that left another man taken to hospital with a neck injury. A spokesperson for Hertfordshire Constabulary said the unnamed
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionHydrogen trains: Are these the eco-friendly trains of the future? Hydrogen-powered trains are arguably the greenest trains out there. “Mini power stations on wheels”, is how Alex Burrows from the University of Birmingham describes them. He is the project director for the ‘Hydroflex’ train which was showcased
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The US military says one of the oil tankers attacked in the Gulf of Oman last week was damaged by a mine resembling those used by the Iranian security forces. The attack was the second such incident in the strategic shipping lane in a month. Tehran has denied any involvement. The BBC was one of
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Ahead of a Western wildfire season expected to be again worse than average, officials in Seattle announced Wednesday that five city buildings would be outfitted to serve as havens where residents can go to breathe clean air. The move is in response to several years marked by thick smoke hanging over the city from summer
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