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Wal-Mart to settle U.S. lawsuit over benefits for same-sex spouses
Wal-Mart and lawyers for Jacqueline Cote, the worker who filed the 2015 lawsuit in federal court in Boston, said in a court filing that the money may be split among more than 1,000 people who were
Former sex slave helps women reclaim their branded bodies with new tattoos
By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After escaping years of sexual slavery, Jennifer Kempton could not look in the mirror without being taken back to her dark, traumatic past. It's happening all over the world,"
House to vote on bill aimed at speeding approval of drugs
The House plans to vote Wednesday on a $6.3 billion bill aimed at speeding federal approval of drugs and medical devices and boosting biomedical research. The legislation, a priority for congressional ...
China plans skiing, skating drive for 2022 Winter Games
China wants to get 300 million citizens involved in winter sports by the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and plans to encourage them by building more than 500 ice skating rinks and 240 ski slopes over the
Knife-wielding attacker wounds seven children in China
A knife-wielding man on Friday wounded seven children and two bystanders outside a primary school in northwestern China, state media said, in the latest mass knifing attack. Violent crime is rare in China compared with many other
Roche confident in Alzheimer’s program, despite Lilly flop
Roche said on Wednesday it still believed drugs targeting a protein called beta amyloid had potential to help fight Alzheimer's disease, despite the high-profile failure of such a product from Eli Lilly. As the setback sent shares
Alzheimer’s setback prompts rethink of Lilly, Biogen stock outlooks
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eli Lilly & Co's massive setback for its experimental Alzheimer's disease treatment on Wednesday sent investors scrambling to re-evaluate shares of the U.S. drugmaker and those of companies making competing
NHL-Highlights of Monday’s NHL games
Highlights of Sunday's National Hockey League games: Oilers 5, Blackhawks 0 After years of being tormented by their longtime nemesis from Chicago, the Edmonton Oilers gained a measure of revenge on Monday night with a 5-0 victory
Regulators, railroads target sleep apnea in wake of crash
NEW YORK (AP) — Engineers suffering from sleep apnea must have the fatigue-inducing disorder under control before they will be allowed to operate trains for the New Jersey commuter railroad whose train slammed into a station in
Boeing taps GE exec to head airplanes unit as part of services push
Boeing Co on Monday named a senior General Electric Co executive to head its commercial airplanes division and announced a new services unit, in moves to capture more of the profitable market for parts and repairs