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8 Texas Chemical Plant Workers Treated for Toxic Gas Exposure

Eight people were taken to a hospital for treatment on Monday after a toxic gas leak at Altivia Chemicals’ plant in La Porte, Texas, local officials said. An update on their condition was not immediately available. The city canceled a shelter-in-place order in the afternoon that had affected several nearby industrial plants, officials said. The […]

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New Treatments Extend Lives of Advanced Bladder Cancer Patients

Patients who received a combination of immunotherapy drugs lived longer than those who received standard chemotherapy treatment.

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US Intelligence Community Wasn’t Aware of Oct. 7 Hamas Attack Plans: White House

A senior White House official has stressed that the United States intelligence community did not know anything about Hamas’s plans to target Israel.

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Supreme Court to Consider Deal Removing Liability From Family Behind Oxycontin Manufacturer

Victims have clashed over the deal, with some arguing that it is a necessary means of providing relief to opioid crisis victims.

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Are University’s Still Universities When ‘Diversity’ Trumps Merit?

Queensland University of Technology has removed the word ‘merit’ from its hiring process.

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IRS Warns Taxpayers That Hiring of Tax Enforcers Will ‘Ramp Up’ Soon

Internal Revenue Service is looking to tap into billions of extra federal funding to rebuild its capacities, including the expansion of “enforcement work”.

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Doctors Could Face Criminal Charges for Online Euthanasia Consultations

The judge ruled that euthanasia was the same a suicide under the natural meaning of the law.

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Watchdog to Probe FBI Headquarters Selection Process Amid Claims of Political Bias

The General Services Administration has been accused of allowing politics to influence its decision on where the new FBI headquarters will be located.

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DeSantis, Newsom Set to Face Off in Debate Tonight

‘This is going to be a debate for the future of this country,’ DeSantis campaign spokesperson tells The Epoch Times.

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US Navy Warship Shoots Down ‘Iranian-Made’ Drone Launched from Yemen: Pentagon

There were no injuries to U.S. personnel and no damage to U.S. vessels reported following the incident.

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Trump Surprises BLM Leader With Thank-You Phone Call

The former president expressed gratitude for the controversial, attention-getting endorsement of Mark Fisher, a Black Lives Matter activist in two states.

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New York Drivers Could Face License Suspensions Over Vision Tests

ALBANY, N.Y.—New York drivers who renewed their licenses during part of the coronavirus pandemic face license suspensions on Friday if they don’t submit vision tests, the state Department of Motor Vehicles warned.

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Thick Fog Likely Caused a Roughly 30-vehicle Collision on an Idaho Interstate, Police Say

POCATELLO, Idaho—A thick layer of fog is believed to have caused a roughly 30-vehicle collision on an Idaho interstate, state police said.

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Biden Sends Emails to 813,000 Borrowers Celebrating Student Loan Forgiveness

The administration has canceled $127 billion in student debt with hopes to expand those efforts via regulation.

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Addressing Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: The Potential of Korean Herbal Medicine in Cleansing the Lung

In traditional Chinese and Korean medicine natural substances are considered to be like food—they harness the power of the immune system.

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Google Will Start Deleting ‘Inactive’ Accounts in December—Here’s What You Need to Know

NEW YORK—Have a Google account you haven’t used in a while? If you want to keep it from disappearing, you should sign in before the end of the week. Under Google’s updated inactive-account policy, which the tech giant announced back in May, accounts that haven’t been used in at least two years could be deleted.