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US Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaks about the sending of warning letters to companies for illegally marketing products containing 7-hydroxymitragynine, also known as 7-OH, as part of their actions combatting opioids, during a press conference at HHS headquarters in Washington, DC, on July 29, 2025. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty ImagesA group of Democratic state governors has launched a new alliance aimed at coordinating their public health efforts.They’re framing it as a way to share data, messages about threats, emergency preparedness and public health policy — and as a rebuke to President Donald…

The European Commission has fined Gucci, Chloé, and Loewe over 157 million euros for anti-competitive pricing practicesMILAN — MILAN (AP) — The European Commission has fined luxury fashion houses Gucci, Chloé and Loewe over 157 million euros (nearly $183 million) for anti-competitive practices restricting independent retailers’ ability to set prices for their luxury goods.The commission said the companies’ fixing of resale prices breached the bloc’s competition rules, and harmed consumers.“The decision sends a strong signal to the fashion industry and beyond that we will not tolerate this kind of practice in Europe, and that fair competition and consumer protection apply…

The Government has vowed to pursue a company linked to Baroness Michelle Mone for millions of pounds paid for defective PPE at the height of the COVID pandemic after a High Court deadline passed without repayment.Earlier this month, the High Court ruled that PPE Medpro, a company founded by Baroness Mone’s husband Doug Barrowman and promoted in government by the Tory peer, was in breach of contract and gave it two weeks to repay the £122m plus interest of £23m. In a statement, the Health Secretary Wes Streeting said: “At a time of national crisis, PPE Medpro sold the previous…

WASHINGTON :U.S. government officials said on Wednesday that federal networks are being targeted by an unidentified “nation-state cyber threat actor” that’s trying to exploit vulnerabilities in products made by the cybersecurity company F5.In a statement, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said exploitation of the devices “could allow the threat actor to move laterally within an organization’s network, exfiltrate sensitive data, and establish persistent system access, potentially leading to a full compromise of targeted information systems.”Earlier, F5 said it had detected unauthorized access to certain company systems by a threat actor, but the breach had no impact on its operations.The company…

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, left, and US House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, during a news conference at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Oct. 10, 2025. Valerie Plesch | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe government shutdown stretched into its third week on Wednesday as Republican and Democratic senators continued to dig in their heels on dueling stopgap funding proposals.The Senate is set Wednesday afternoon to vote for the ninth time on competing short-term funding resolutions that have failed in eight previous votes.Republicans insist on a “clean” continuing resolution that…

The U.S. government has seized $15 billion in bitcoin from a Cambodian business conglomerate charged with running a global cryptocurrency scam.Federal prosecutors claim Chen Zhi, the founder and chairman of Prince Holding Group, oversaw a vast criminal network in Cambodia built on forced labor that extracted billions from victims in the U.S. and around the world. The indictment, which was unsealed in a federal court in Brooklyn on Tuesday, charges the 37-year-old Cambodian national with wire fraud and money laundering. “By dismantling a criminal empire built on forced labor and deception, we are sending a clear message that the United States will use…

Healthcare executive with 20+ years of leadership experience joins to drive growth and operational excellence across Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Boca Raton practices. TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — AnswersMD, the concierge medical group redefining primary care for Florida’s high-performance families and professionals, today announced the appointment of Jamie Barber, MBA, as its new Director of Operations. Barber will oversee operational strategy and clinic growth across AnswersMD’s expanding Florida footprint, supporting the company’s mission of delivering personalized, preventative, and patient-centered care. Jamie Barber, Director of Operations AnswersMD With…

NEW YORK :Meta Platforms said on Wednesday it would invest $1.5 billion in a data center in Texas, breaking ground at its 29th such facility globally, as the social media giant expands infrastructure to support artificial intelligence workloads.The data center in El Paso, Meta’s third in Texas, is expected to come online in 2028, and can scale to a 1-gigawatt site – enough energy to power a city the size of San Francisco for a day – making it one of the largest planned data center campuses in the U.S.Large-scale cloud service providers, called hyperscalers, have been racing to build…

[NEW DELHI] India’s trade deficit widened in September, the first full month of data since the US imposed its highest tariffs in Asia on Indian goods.The gap between exports and imports stood at US$32.15 billion last month, data released by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry showed on Wednesday (Oct 15). That compares with a US$27.5 billion gap projected by economists in a Bloomberg survey. Exports rose 6.7 per cent in September to US$36.38 billion from a year earlier, while imports climbed 16.7 per cent to US$68.53 billion.  The White House imposed crushing 50 per cent tariffs on Indian goods from Aug…

MINEOLA, N.Y. — MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A person living in New York has tested positive for the chikungunya virus in what state health officials say is the first reported transmission of the mosquito-borne illness within the United States in six yearsThe state Department of Health said Tuesday that the virus, which has been spreading in China and elsewhere, was identified in a person living in Nassau County on Long Island.The county’s health department, in a separate statement, said the person began experiencing symptoms in August after having traveled outside of the region, but not out of the country. It’s…