By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The Kroger Co. has agreed to pay up to $1.4 billion to settle lawsuits over the toll of opioids. The supermarket chain announced the plan on Friday. State and local governments would get the bulk of the money, though pieces are carved out for Native American tribes and to pay
Continue ReadingPITTSBURGH (AP) — A retired pediatrician from Pittsburgh who helped create the ‘Mr. Yuk’ poison warning for kids has died. Dr. Richard W. Moriarty was 83. The funeral home handling arrangements says he died Thursday. Moriarty was involved in establishing and developing the Pittsburgh Poison Center, where he served as director. He has said children
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Lee rapidly intensified at a historic pace into a Category 5 storm Thursday night, adding to a spate of extremely intense hurricanes this year and in recent decades which experts say is a symptom of the climate crisis. Lee is now the eighth Category 5 storm in the
Continue ReadingOpinion by Amy Bass (CNN) — With a global box office that saw $1 billion and kept on going, Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” has dominated just about every space of summer 2023, but like any good money-maker, Barbie isn’t quite done yet. (CNN and the distributors of “Barbie” share a parent company, Warner Brothers Discovery.) Mattel is now sending her into the
Continue ReadingBy Kristina Sgueglia and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — New York City officials have identified two more victims of the September 11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center, just days before the 22nd memorial anniversary of the attacks. The man and woman identified are the 1,648th and 1,649th victims identified by the Office of
Continue ReadingUNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations has doubled down on its pledge to revive stalled negotiations over the disputed Western Sahara in a visit to the region this week in which its top negotiator met with officials on all sides. U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura made his first visit to the disputed territory this
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By Jessica DuLong, CNN (CNN) — Worried that perfectionism is holding you back? No wonder, given all the messaging out there that demonizes the tendency, advising us to give it up in favor of finding balance. Psychotherapist Katherine Morgan Schafler rejects that approach, upending the whole notion that perfectionism is something to overcome. Getting rid of it
Continue ReadingBy KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A mother has filed a lawsuit against Peloton over the death of her son, who was killed when his exercise bike fell on his neck during a workout in his New York City apartment. Johanna Furtado’s lawsuit alleges that her 32-year-old son, Ryan, was doing a
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE and KEVIN McGILL Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that incarcerated youths be removed from a temporary lockup at a former death row building in Louisiana’s adult maximum-security prison by Sept. 15. Juvenile detainees and advocates allege that youths have been held in harmful conditions, suffering through
Continue Reading By Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline will now be available to the millions of people across the US who use American Sign Language (ASL), according to the US Department of Health and Human Services. The ASL services launched Friday and will be available for callers who are deaf, deaf-blind or hard of
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By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter (CNN) — The Supreme Court is once again being asked to make a major ruling on abortion in an election year. The Department of Justice and a manufacturer of the widely used abortion drug mifepristone asked the Supreme Court on Friday to reverse a lower court ruling
Continue ReadingBy DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Two Kentucky men exonerated for a decades-old killing have settled with the city of Louisville for $20.5 million after spending more than 20 years in prison, lawyers for the men said Friday. A judge dismissed murder charges against Garr Keith Hardin and Jeffrey Dewayne Clark in
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By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — CPAP sleep apnea machine maker Philips Respironics agreed to pay at least $479 million in a settlement over alleged health risks from toxic sound reducing foam, lawyers for the plaintiff announced Thursday. The settlement will go toward users who bought or rented the recalled devices and those
Continue ReadingINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indianapolis police officer who pleaded guilty to kicking a handcuffed man in the face during a 2021 arrest has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison. A federal judge also ordered Sgt. Eric Huxley on Friday to two years of supervised release after he completes his prison
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer TORONTO (AP) — The loudest applause on opening night at the Toronto International Film Festival was for Totoro. When the Studio Ghibli logo of the magical creature from Hayao Miyazaki’s “My Neighbor Totoro” appeared on the screen Thursday night, it meant to the audience the premiere of Miyazaki’s latest
Continue Reading By Shania Shelton, CNN Washington (CNN) — Nearly every presidential center released a joint statement on Thursday emphasizing the principles of democracy and deeming civil political discourse essential, the first known time that presidential foundations and centers have joined to release a statement calling to protect democracy. “Americans have a strong interest in supporting democratic
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Migración Colombia informó de la detención del exsenador Arturo Char, contra quien la Suprema Corte de Justicia había dictado orden de captura internacional “por los presuntos delitos de corrupción electoral y compra de votos”, según un comunicado publicado por el máximo tribunal del país. La medida surge de la investigación
Continue Reading By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — The Fulton County special purpose grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia recommended charges against 39 people, the unredacted grand jury report made public Friday shows. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who had the ultimate charging authority, indicted 19
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The Federal Aviation Administration is considering requiring that all planes be equipped with technology designed to prevent close calls around airports. The FAA said Friday that it asked an internal rulemaking panel how to go about requiring technology to tell pilots, for example, when they are lined up to land on the wrong
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — In the eight years since the landmark Paris Climate Agreement, the world’s nations have not done enough to cut pollution and avert catastrophic levels of warming, according to the first United Nations scorecard since Paris, released on Friday. As the world’s nations gather for COP28 in Dubai in late
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