In a statement the agency said this week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration suspended operations at a New Mexico food producer linked to salmonella-tainted peanut butter that has sickened at least 41 people this year. The FDA said it had suspended Sunland Inc’s food facility registration “in the interest of public health,” following the national outbreak and a history of food […]
Tourists will soon have a new way to see the lights of Las Vegas -by being spit out of the mouth of an 11-storyslot machine and zinged down a five-block zip line past some of the city’s oldest casinos. Last Tuesday, officials unveiled plans for a permanent zip line on the downtown Las Vegas promenade known as the Fremont Street Experience. The […]
Angus T. Jones, the teenage actor who stars in “Two and a Half Men” and called the CBS comedy “filth” may have some time before he faces the show’s producers. Jones wasn’t expected at rehearsal Tuesday because he is not going to be in the episode they are filming, according to a person close to […]
A 20-year-old state beauty queen died in a gun battle between soldiers and the alleged gang of drug traffickers she was traveling with in a scene befitting the hit movie “Miss Bala,” or “Miss Bullet,” about Mexico’s not uncommon ties between narcos and beautiful pageant contestants. The body of Maria Susana Flores Gamez was found Saturday lying near an assault […]
Nicki Minaj is not too pleased with one of her fellow American Idol judges. This time, however, her complain isn’t with Mariah Carey; it’s with former judge Steven Tyler, who didn’t hold back when asked by MTV News for his opinion on how the new crop of judges are doing. “I know that they’ve got something going on […]
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) shares fell over of about 12% to a 10-year low Tuesday after the company announced a shocking $8.8 billion write-down and dismal quarterly results. HP acquired London’s Autonomy for $11 billion in a bid to move deeper into software and services in 2011. HP now says it was duped, citing “serious accounting improprieties” […]
On Monday, thousands of Bangladeshi workers blocked the streets of a Dhaka community, throwing stones at factories and smashing vehicles, as they demanded justice for 112 people killed in a garment-factory fire that highlighted unsafe conditions in an industry rushing to produce for major retailers around the world. After the protest erupted in Savar, the […]
For the last two minutes, LeBron James’ current team was in big trouble against his former team, as they are still down by seven points. That is, until the Miami Heat saved their very best for the very end. James found Ray Allen for the go-ahead 3-pointer with 18.2 seconds left, highlighting a nine-point run […]
European banks have asked the European Commission to postpone the introduction of tougher global bank capital rules by a year to 2014 after U.S. regulators delayed application of the new requirements. The new rules, known as Basel III, are the world’s regulatory response to the 2007-09 financial crisis and would force banks to triple the […]
In a California senior care facility, a third person has died from eating poisonous mushrooms where a caretaker found in the backyard and used it to make soup, authorities said Wednesday. On Saturday, the 90-year-old man died as told by the state Department of Social Services spokesman Oscar Ramirez to the Associated Press. The Placer […]
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