Amazon limits shipments to warehouses for next 3 weeks
Mar 17, 2020
Amazon said Tuesday that it will only accept shipments of cleaning equipment, medical supplies and household goods from suppliers at its warehouses for next three weeks to fill surging demand of those items. The online retailer has been sold out of items like disinfecting wipes and toilet paper as the new coronavrius spreads and more people shop online at home
SEC bans employees from Washington office after virus scare
Mar 10, 2020
Securities and Exchange Commission employees will be working remotely for the foreseeable future after a coronavirus scare at its Washington headquarters
Virus fears will postpone Miami's Ultra music festival
Mar 5, 2020
Fears of the new coronavirus have led to postponement of the three-day Ultra electronic dance music festival in Miami
Cancer-linked chemical found inside Kansas aircraft hangar
Feb 21, 2020
Dangerous levels of a compound linked to cancer were found last year inside an aircraft hangar at McConnell Air Force Base in Kansas, and a memo warns more than 50 personnel may have been exposed to it
Pennsylvania sues Juul over marketing e-cigarettes to teens
Feb 10, 2020
The Pennsylvania attorney general's office is suing electronic cigarette manufacturer Juul over how its products are marketed and sold to teenagers
US to impose visas restrictions for pregnant women
Jan 22, 2020
The Trump administration is coming out with new visa restrictions aimed at restricting a practice known as “birth tourism
Opioid-dependent kids' guardians seek to form class in suit
Jan 10, 2020
Attorneys representing guardians of children born dependent on opioids are asking a federal judge in Cleveland to include them as a group in a class action lawsuit against the pharmaceutical industry
House passes $1.4T government spending bill amid impeachment
Dec 18, 2019
The Democratic-controlled House has passed a $1.4 trillion government spending package, handing President Donald Trump a victory on his U.S.-Mexico border fence
Kansas court considers parental rights of ex-LGBTQ partners
Dec 17, 2019
Some LGBTQ people in Kansas who wanted to raise children born to partners they couldn't legally marry can be denied contact with the children when the couples split up
Abortion ban proposal faces a murky future in South Carolina
Nov 5, 2019
A group of South Carolina senators are expected to take another step toward banning almost all abortions in the state