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BBC Click reporter LJ Rich was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. She decided to film a chemotherapy session to show other people what it involves. Chemotherapy is an umbrella term for chemical drug treatments commonly used to treat cancer, and one person’s experience can be very different from another’s LJ shares her experience and explores […]

California marijuana users can now use their smartphones to find out if a dispensary is legit December 20, 2019, 12:33 AM 2 min read SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California marijuana users can now turn to their smartphones to find out if a dispensary is legit. The Bureau of Cannabis Control on Thursday announced a program encouraging licensed

WASHINGTON — As the $26 billion blockbuster merger between T-Mobile and Sprint teetered this summer, Makan Delrahim, the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division, labored to rescue it behind the scenes, according to text messages revealed this week in a lawsuit to block the deal. Mr. Delrahim connected company executives with the F.C.C. and

The majority of commercial facial-recognition systems exhibit bias, according to a study from a federal agency released on Thursday, underscoring questions about a technology increasingly used by police departments and federal agencies to identify suspected criminals. The systems falsely identified African-American and Asian faces 10 times to 100 times more than Caucasian faces, the National

Uber and Lyft say they’ll make good on their threats to stop taking customers to and from the airport in the nation’s fifth-largest city after Phoenix decided to raise fees on ride-hailing companies By ANITA SNOW Associated Press December 19, 2019, 8:14 PM 4 min read PHOENIX — Uber and Lyft said they will make

“Some guy we had never talked to gave us a call and was like, ‘We have changed the rules,’ ” said Charlie Cole, who runs Tumi’s online business. He pushed back, but wasn’t successful. “It was like talking to a brick wall,” he said. “They want to be able to control everything.” Companies struggling to

SAN FRANCISCO — Seven months ago, the Four Seasons in San Francisco sent out a news release announcing the glad tidings that would come soon: New residences for the new money. Builders were hoisting glass and steel into a 43-story tower where residents would have their own on-staff wine concierge, plus Blue de Savoie French

You could walk through “Making Marvels” — the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s show of 16th- to 18th-century mechanical wonders that double as exquisite works of art — and miss the news. “Making Marvels” brings together hundreds of elaborately crafted objects, many never seen in the United States: an ornate silver table decorated with sea nymphs,

Swiss environmental activists have collected enough signatures to force a referendum on setting specific goals for combating climate change in the country’s constitution December 19, 2019, 12:20 PM 1 min read BERLIN — Swiss environmental activists collected enough signatures to force a referendum on setting specific goals for combating climate change in the country’s constitution,

LONDON — The Bank of England said Thursday that an audio feed from its news conferences had been released to some investors before it had been made public, giving them a leg up on the rest of the market. The central bank said it was investigating how a third-party supplier had gotten early access to