Category: Daily news

The European Medicines Agency warns against medicines for the treatment of dry cough that contain the active ingredient pholcodine. Here’s why. The European Medicines Agency (Ema) is recommending that the EU approval for cough medicines containing pholcodine be revoked. This active ingredient has not been approved in Germany since February 2001, according to the Federal […]

As educators, community members and parents work to help kids catch up from pandemic-related learning loss through accelerated learning and high dosage tutoring , national test scores published Monday prove a loss already felt in America’s schools. Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress show dramatic and sobering declines in math and reading scores […]

Ethan Crumbley, 16, is due in court for a pretrial hearing on Monday and faces a total of 24 charges Ethan Crumbley, the Michigan 16-year-old accused of gunning down four Oxford High School students and injuring seven others in a November 2021 shooting, is expected to plead guilty, according to Oakland County prosecutors. Crumbley, who […]

David DeLapa first connected with his teacher and Boy Scout master over World War II memorabilia. The teacher brought different items into the classroom for show and tell, catching the attention of a young boy who played Army games and watched television shows about war. DeLapa would go up to his teacher’s desk and ask […]

After devastating Florida, Ian regained strength off the US Atlantic coast on Thursday, September 29, 2022. It is again classified as a Category 1 hurricane as it approaches Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. As it approached the southeast coast of the United States Thursday evening, Sept. 29, 2022, Storm Ian strengthened back into a […]

A judge has given tentative approval to a $54 million settlement involving 3M Co. , a shoe manufacturer and property owners in western Michigan who said their land and wells were contaminated by toxic “forever chemicals.” The deal involves approximately 1,700 properties north of Grand Rapids. The compounds are in a category known as perfluoroalkyl […]

Most of the guys who walk into schools to shoot kids have said or done extremely troubling things leading up to the massacre.

A coalition of civil rights groups has filed the first lawsuit in Florida against the recently passed congressional map put forward by GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis that eliminates two districts represented by Black Democrats while giving Republicans the advantage in as many as 20 of 28 seats.

Four states moved to curtail abortion access this week, with two of them advancing their own versions of a ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy — similar to the controversial Mississippi law before the US Supreme Court that’s set up a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade.