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Some Power Stick deodorants manufactured by A.P. Deauville are under recall for manufacturing defects, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The recall impacts more than 67,000 cases of roll-on deodorants that were sold nationally, a notice posted by the agency shows. The issue is related to deviations with “current good manufacturing practices,” a set…
Meta (META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg is no longer the second-richest person in the world. That title now belongs to Oracle (ORCL) founder Larry Ellison. According to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index, gains of over $60 billion this year brought Ellison’s net worth up to $257 billion, surpassing Zuckerberg’s $247 billion, as of July 17. The switch…
A collision involving a Citybus double-decker and a road maintenance truck on the North Lantau Highway in Hong Kong has left 22 people injured. The incident occurred at about 9.20pm on Thursday night on a Kowloon-bound lane near Sunny Bay MTR station. The bus struck the stationary maintenance vehicle, injuring 21 passengers – 12 women…
Washington — President Trump has been diagnosed with a “benign and common” vein condition known as chronic venous insufficiency after he noticed swelling in his legs, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Thursday. According to Johns Hopkins and the Cleveland Clinic, chronic venous insufficiency occurs when veins in the legs struggle to allow blood…
Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email The White House acknowledged President Donald Trump’s bizarre hand bruising and swollen legs — sharing that the commander in chief received a diagnosis of chronic…
Newly released legal documents are renewing the focus on Jeffrey Epstein, with public scrutiny of the court papers reigniting interest in the late sex offender’s wealth and how he amassed it. Accused of abusing dozens of teenage girls before dying by suicide in a federal prison in 2019, the politically connected multimillionaire never graduated from college,…
Usually people in Taipei walk quite slowly. Notoriously so. But at 1.27pm on Thursday some were almost sprinting through the busy shopping district of Ximen. They knew they had three minutes to get where they needed to be or they would be stuck in the nearest underground bunker for half an hour. At 1.30pm exactly,…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday defended its policy of having Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrest people at their immigration court hearings after a class-action lawsuit was filed that seeks to stop the practice. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the agency and ICE…
New World chairman Henry Cheng has tabbed a mega-mall for sale (Image: New World Development) New World Development is seeking a buyer for its flagship mall at Hong Kong’s international airport, with that report leading today’s headline roundup. Also making the list, ESR nears the sale of a Sydney data centre site and China Vanke…
Older Americans are kicking the can down the road on retirement over concerns about the economy and their own financial readiness to step back from work. That’s according to a new survey from F&G Annuities & Life, which polled 2,000 U.S. adults over 50 years old. The life insurance and annuities company found that 23%…