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Air bag maker Takata Corp. confirmed that a truck carrying its inflators and a volatile chemical exploded in a Texas border town, killing a woman.
A drug already on the market to treat worm infections and another being tested against liver diseases may also help treat Zika virus infections.
Two people, including a fire chief, are dead after a bus slammed into a fire truck already responding to a previous crash on Louisiana's Intersta
Each week, we take a look at the biggest friends and foes of labor. We celebrate the workers winning big and small battles, and we shame the companies or people trying to deny working people their rights.
One night at his UPS job, Tefere Gebre's co-worker handed him some union material. “He told me that I’d get health care and vacation and other benefits by filling it out. I said, ‘Are you serious?’ I thought ‘Hmm. Everyone should have that.’”
More than 4.8 million Syrians have fled their homeland since a civil war began tearing their homeland apart.
Kaepernick is famous for his scrambling in football, but he has not dodged the controversy generated by his decision to sit out the national anthem.
A 54-year-old Arizona rancher, Finicum was part of a militia group led by Ammon Bundy that occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
Mylan may actually make more money on the cheaper, generic version of its EpiPen, some experts think.
The Kansas City Federal Reserve Regional Bank held its annual research symposium at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming this week. The focus was on the limits of monetary policy. The challenge faced by central bankers is that since the Great Depression, the world has faced deflationary pressures from overcapacity. Oil prices have plummeted, Chinese steel floods the global markets and workers remained frustrated with low wages and finding full-time work. Central bankers have run into a problem because their primary tool of interest rate policy to stimulate the economy has run into the limit of zero nominal interest rates. At zero, they are essentially giving away money. But investment remains stuck on low. And one way to stir the economy, to prompt inflation that gives the room of rising prices for firms to make profitable investments, isn’t happening.
