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New York City’s black population had the most drug overdose fatalities, with most of the deaths occurring in the Bronx, a where fentanyl epidemic was to blame, officials said. Eleven years have passed since the number of African American overdose deaths surpassed the number of fatal drug overdoses among whites or Hispanics, according to a […]
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Aurora Cannabis Inc. led pot stocks higher after Coca-Cola Co. said it’s eyeing the cannabis drinks market, becoming the latest beverage company to tap into surging demand for marijuana products as traditional sales slow. Coca-Cola says it’s monitoring the nascent industry and is interested in drinks infused with CBD — the non-psychoactive ingredient in marijuana […]
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Before Hurricane Florence made landfall, evacuation advisories were issued to over a million residents. Though the 400 mile-wide storm, which hit the Carolinas early Friday morning but brought storms and flooding the day before, has been downgraded to a Category 1 storm, it has still caused widespread flooding and damages. Wind speeds hit 105 mph […]
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A Missouri man caught a life-threatening disease from a furry friend that left him with humongous bulges on his face and neck, according to a new report. The horrifying case published in the New England Journal of Medicine this month detailed how a sick cat infected its owner with a rare illness called Francisella tularensis, […]
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WASHINGTON—Canadians will be barred from entering the United States for smoking marijuana legally, for working in Canada’s legal marijuana industry and for investing in legal Canadian marijuana companies, a senior U.S. Customs and Border Protection official says. Todd Owen, who spoke to the U.S. website Politico, said the U.S. does not plan to change its […]
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An injection of “new blood” is a phrase long used as a metaphor for the revitalizing effect of fresh minds on a stagnant organization. But research now suggests it also applies in a literal sense. In a development that calls to mind both vampire lore and stories of bathing in blood, young blood appears to […]
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A patent Amazon has received would pair humans and machines. In this case, the humans would be in a cage. Illustrations that accompany the patent, which was granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark office in 2016, show a cage-like enclosure around a small work space sitting atop the kind of robotic trolleys that now […]
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Apple has permanently banned Infowars’s app from its app store, just weeks after the tech giant announced it was monitoring the right-wing conspiracy newscast for possible content policy violations. The company confirmed the app’s permanent removal from the digital store to BuzzFeed News on Friday, declining to issue a statement but referring reporters to the […]
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Mehmet Barlas, a veteran Turkish journalist has claimed that the United States has developed a bomb which is capable of changing sexual preferences of people. In a recent column written for Turkish newspaper ‘Sabah’, Barlas alleged that this gay bomb could change the sexual preference of the victim country’s population, or sometimes may kill them […]
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Florida is currently experiencing a skilled-worker shortage Marker Construction Group President Peggy Marker on the skilled-worker shortage in Florida and whether the negative perception around trade jobs will change. Employers in southern Florida are having a difficult time finding enough skilled labor to fill the influx of construction jobs in the area. Local contractors are […]
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