While still at epidemic levels, the historically bad 2017-2018 season has finally started to subside. After appearing to plateau last week, visits to the doctor and deaths caused by the flu decreased for the second week in a row. A predominant strain with uncommon resilience combined with an ineffective
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A member of a bomb squad inspects a vehicle that crashed into a barricade on the perimeter of the White House grounds on Feb. 23. Photographer: Win McNamee/Getty Images. Washington (AP) — The White House was on lockdown for about an hour Friday after a passenger vehicle struck a security
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Education and cessation campaigns won't push it much lower, though raising the minimum smoking age to 21 by 2021, from 18 now, should make some difference. As Bloomberg View columnist Joe Nocera has noted, the only European country to have brought smoking down to 5 percent is Sweden,
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FILE–In this Aug. 6, 2017, file photo, demonstrators against the Keystone XL pipeline march in Lincoln, Neb. Opponents of the proposed oil pipeline from Canada are asking a federal judge to force the U.S.
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Vox Media Inc., the owner of news and lifestyle websites like SB Nation and Eater, is laying off about 50 employees, a sign that Facebook Inc.'s recent algorithm changes are forcing publishers to shift strategies. The cuts were confined mostly to workers who produce social media video for Vox's Media's
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