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Drug maker Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Inc (TEVA.TA) and the three biggest U.S. drug distributors reached a settlement on Monday to avoid a trial over their role in the opioid addiction crisis, a source said on Monday. Distributors Mckesson Corp (MCK.N), Cardinal Health Inc (CAH.N) and AmerisourceBergen Corp (ABC.N) were set …

Caltech researchers say there is an elevated risk that a long-overdue earthquake, dubbed the ‘Big One,’ is on the way after recent seismic activity shifted a previously-dormant fault line for the first time in 500 years. California was rocked by several major earthquakes in July and August. The Ridgecrest earthquake …

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper says all of the American troops pulling out of northeastern Syria will move to western Iraq. “The US withdrawal continues apace from northeastern Syria… we’re talking weeks not days,” Esper told reporters en route to the Middle East late on Saturday, noting that the process …

Suicides and homicides are on the rise among children, teens and young adults in the United States, according to a new study by the government that underscores what US experts say is a disturbing trend among the young. The report, published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …

Donald Trump lashed out at Europe after hundreds of Isis prisoners escaped during the Turkish offensive in northern Syria. The US president said that the UK and other EU countries “should have taken back” the captured fighters and their families instead of leaving them in camps guarded by Kurdish forces. …

In a scarcely believable display of extreme incompetence or bald-faced lying, ABC News has broadcast footage from a Kentucky gun show, claiming it shows a Turkish assault on Kurdish civilians in northern Syria. The news organization made the humiliating fumble on its World News Tonight show on Sunday and then …

Donald Trump has made the apparent suggestion that Kurdish forces have deliberately been releasing Isis prisoners who are reported to have escaped during Turkey’s offensive in Syria. As part of his latest in a string of attacks on Fox News – a network that has consistently been supportive of the …

A violent and disturbing video of a fake President Donald Trump shooting, assaulting and stabbing his critics and the media was played at a conference held by a pro-Trump group at his Miami resort last week.

US President Donald Trump has promised to work with both parties in Congress to hit Turkey with “powerful sanctions,” after Ankara’s military launched a much-criticized operation against Kurdish militias in northern Syria. Dealing with @LindseyGrahamSC and many members of Congress, including Democrats, about imposing powerful Sanctions on Turkey. Treasury is …

Something went terribly wrong during the construction of the Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans after a huge section of the unfinished building collapsed on the adjacent street causing injuries, destruction and one death. A video from a car, which stopped on a crossing nearby, caught the building falling apart, …

U.S. President Donald Trump defended his attorney Rudy Giuliani on Saturday as a “legendary crime buster” and “wonderful lawyer” after a media report that prosecutors are investigating whether the former New York mayor broke lobbying laws in his dealings in Ukraine. “So now they are after the legendary ‘crime buster’ …

Four people were killed and five seriously injured in a shooting in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood. The incident took place at a private club on Utica Avenue. Gunfire broke out shortly after 7 am at the club, according to the New York Fire Department. The venue, which bills itself as …

US President Donald Trump responded to the Democrats-led impeachment inquiry by posting an ominous quote from a church leader who warned that removing him from office would inflict “Civil War-like” wounds on the nation. Known for regularly watching shows on Fox News, Trump apparently liked how the Southern Baptist minister …

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says that a successful impeachment of President Donald Trump would be worth losing the Democrats’ House majority in 2020. Pelosi’s latest remarks come days after she announced the launch of a formal impeachment inquiry into the president. Nearly all House Democrats have publicly backed the …

US President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine, Kurt Volker, has resigned following disclosures that he had connected Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani with Ukrainian officials to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his family over allegedly corrupt business dealings. Volker resigned on Friday; sources familiar with the situation …

Former Republican US Senator Jeff Flake said that he thinks at least 35 Republican senators would vote to impeach President Donald Trump and remove him from office if they could vote privately. Speaking at a political event in Austin, Texas, on Thursday, Flake a frequent critic of Trump, predicted that …

The Trump administration said on Thursday it plans to allow only 18,000 refugees to resettle in the United States in the 2020 fiscal year, the lowest number in the history of the modern refugee program. In a move immediately decried by immigrant advocates as an affront to the nation’s humanitarian …

  The whistleblower at the center of Congress’ impeachment inquiry alleges that President Donald Trump abused the power of his office to “solicit interference from a foreign country” in next year’s U.S. election. The White House then tried to “lock down” the information to cover it up, the official’s complaint …

A vaping-related illness has claimed two more lives in the US, bringing the total number of fatalities to 11. More than 500 people are known to have fallen ill with mysterious lung disease after smoking e-cigarettes in the US, but officials said hundreds of additional cases had been reported in …

A whistleblower report released by a congressional panel on Thursday said President Donald Trump used his office to solicit Ukraine’s interference in the 2020 election to advance his personal political interests, risking U.S. national security. The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee released a declassified version of the report …