By Edith M. Lederer The Associated Press Next month’s three-day U.N. climate summit will highlight the urgency of taking immediate actions to reduce global warming and focus on innovations that work not wordy statements, the U.N. special envoy for the event said Tuesday. Luis Alfonso de Alba told a news […]
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By Andrew Welsh-Huggins The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — Purdue Pharma and the thousands of state and local governments suing the maker of OxyContin over the nation’s deadly opioid crisis are negotiating a $10 billion to $12 billion settlement under which the Sackler family would give up ownership of the […]
By Bernard Condon And Adriana Gomez Licon The Associated Press MIAMI — President Donald Trump was in full sales mode Monday, doing everything but pass out brochures as he touted the features that would make the Doral golf resort the ideal place for the next G-7 Summit close to the […]
By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher The Associated Press HONOLULU — A Spanish man spent his summer vacation paddling his way from the west coast of the U.S. across the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii. It took Antonio de la Rosa 76 days to paddle some 2,500 miles (4,023 kilometres) while standing on […]
By Brady McCombs The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — Most members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints already knew they were discouraged from taking their guns to church on Sunday, but it is making sure that message is crystal clear by tweaking the policy to prohibit […]
By Sean Murphy The Associated Press NORMAN, Okla. — An Oklahoma judge on Monday found Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries helped fuel the state’s opioid crisis and ordered the consumer products giant to pay $572 million, more than twice the amount another drug manufacturer agreed to pay in a […]
Jane Snow passed away on Friday, Aug. 23, 2019 at La Verendrye Hospital. Funeral services are pending and a complete obituary will follow.
By Carla K. Johnson The Associated Press How much marijuana is really in that pot brownie? Chocolate can throw off potency tests so labels aren’t always accurate, and now scientists are trying to figure out why. In states where marijuana is legal, pot comes in cookies, mints, gummies, protein bars […]
By Armina Ligaya The Canadian Press TORONTO — Chewy, colourful cannabis-infused gummies in bright colours and in the shape of animals or creatures are among the best-selling edible pot products on the black market but Canadians shouldn’t expect them on legal shelves. Regulations that will make edibles legal come into […]
