FDA warns doctors to stop using heart pump tied to deaths
WASHINGTON — U.S. health regulators warned surgeons Thursday to stop implanting a heart pump made by Medtronic due to power failures recently tied to...
Slow to start, China mobilizes to vaccinate at headlong pace
TAIPEI, Taiwan — In the span of just five days last month, China gave out 100 million shots of its COVID-19 vaccines.
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Walmart aims to empower workers with own devices, new app
New York —
Walmart is coming out with a new...
Biden’s AI czar focuses on societal risks, preventing harm
Computer scientist Lynne Parker made breakthroughs in getting robots to work together so they could perform difficult missions, like cleaning up after a nuclear...
Drought ravages California’s reservoirs ahead of hot summer
OROVILLE, Calif. — Each year Lake Oroville helps water a quarter of the nation’s crops, sustain endangered salmon beneath its massive earthen dam and...
Biden tax proposal in focus at Group of 7 ministers’ meeting
FRANKFURT, Germany — U.S. President Joe Biden's proposals for deterring tax avoidance by multinational companies will be a major theme Friday when finance ministers...
‘Next big wave’: Radiation drugs track and kill cancer cells
Doctors are reporting improved survival in men with advanced prostate cancer from an experimental drug that delivers radiation directly to tumor cells.
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Amsterdam tests out electric autonomous boats on its canals
AMSTERDAM — Electric cars, meet your competition. Electric boats are on the way.
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Lebanese leaders exchange barbs as country sinks into crisis
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s president and prime minister-designate traded barbs Wednesday, accusing one another of obstruction, negligence and insolence in a war or words that...
Clippers plan augmented reality ‘Kids Cast’ of playoff game
LOS ANGELES — The LA Clippers game against the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday not only carries big stakes in respect to the Western Conference...
