Why a trade war could wipe out US economy
Imposing tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese products — that equals the annual exports of Brazil, or Saudi Arabia — will cost the American economy $88 billion in the first year, according to…
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A CURE for declining grades of immunotherapies?
The Pharmaceutical Data Corporation, which analyzes health-care trade publications, has developed an analytical tool called the DCOMs. DCOMs assign a letter grade to every new and old drug approved and on the market. (A…
Lagos toll-gate attack: Judicial panel condemns killing
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Police in Ogun State confirmed 16 dead and 74 injured in Thursday’s attack A judicial panel has condemned an attack on a toll-gate facility in Lagos, where gunmen…
Is Trump’s proposal to build three new icebreakers too expensive?
Icebreakers costing more than $7 billion are “a significant risk to the U.S.’ ability to meet future maritime requirements” in Alaska, the chief of Naval Operations’ Fleet Forces, Adm. John Richardson, said this week….
The last moment Phillip Adams spent with his kids after a school shooting
Written by Lisa Hession, CNN In the days after the most recent school shooting, a man who knew Phillip Adams took to Facebook to call for better gun control. The post was memorialized in…
Profile: Ismail Haniyeh, leader of Hamas
Born in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on 11 March 1953, Ismail Haniyeh grew up in a village near where Israel captured the area from Syria in the 1967 war. The 52-year-old says his mother…
Philadelphia joins a list of big cities that require new hepatitis A vaccinations for workers
Philadelphia will join a growing group of major American cities that require customers to prove they have had the hepatitis A virus vaccine before being allowed in food service establishments, starting in January 2020….
Tornado in Kentucky: ‘We’ve got trees and things and broken glass everywhere’
Image copyright Reuters Image caption One church was destroyed after Friday’s powerful EF-4 twister A resident who was at the scene of a tornado in Kentucky says the scale of the disaster has still…
Toronto real estate listings offered up for sale and last sale date
Written by: S. Mayank Khemka Despite the rainy weekend, many of the Toronto real estate realtors we spoke to weren’t bracing for an uptick in demand this month. They’re looking forward to the GTA…
Dangerous blizzards to hit Europe, US in next week
Forecasters are warning extreme winds ripped by powerful snowstorms from the Middle East could spread to western Europe and the United States over the next week. Six people have died in southeast Turkey from…