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An Alabama mayor says the last train car full of New York City sewage sludge that has stunk up her town has finally been emptied.

The engine's manufacturer recommended the additional inspections a year ago.

(The Hill) The state of Kentucky is suing Johnson & Johnson and two of its subsidiaries over what the state’s attorney general alleges was a deceptive marketing campaign that caused widespread addiction to opioid-based prescription painkillers.

In the lawsuit, Kentucky’s Attorney General Andy Beshear (D) argued that Johnson & Johnson, as well as Janssen Pharmaceuticals and Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, sought to deceive doctors and patients to increase prescriptions of opioid-based medications, including Duragesic, Nucynta and Nucynta ER.

“To make that happen, Janssen and other opioid makers had to turn the standard of care on its head – persuading doctors that drugs they had been unwilling to prescribe because of their risk of addiction were more effective and safe enough to use widely and long-term for relatively minor pain conditions,” the lawsuit, filed in McCracken County Circuit Court, reads. “Patients were exposed to the same reassuring messages.”

A guest was removed from Fox News host Laura Ingraham's show Wednesday night after he pointed out that she lost sponsors over her comments mocking a Parkland, Fla. shooting survivor for his college rejections.Enriq...

The 'Kilopower' project could be used to generate clean energy on the moon, Mars and further into the universe

'We should not be forced to accept reciprocity with places where any buffoon gets a gun'

She brought up Bush's statements about the mostly black evacuees taking refuge in Houston's Astrodome during Hurricane Katrina.

The naked stranger was taking a bath.

A judge has ordered a Florida sheriff to release additional video from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the February shooting that killed 17 people.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated during a Thursday press conference that containers filled with chlorine from Germany and smoke bombs manufactured in the United Kingdom city of Salisbury were found in the East Ghouta region of Damascus, the location of the alleged chemical attack by Assad which resulted in the launch of 105 Tomahawks on 3 Syrian targets by US, UK and French forces last Friday.

“In the liberated areas of Eastern Ghouta, Syrian government troops have found containers with chlorine – the most horrible kind of chemical weapons – from Germany, and also smoke grenades produced – please pay attention [to this] – in the city of Salisbury, the UK,” Zakharova told a news conference in Moscow on Thursday.

"In the liberated areas of Eastern Ghouta, Syrian government troops have found containers with chlorine – the most horrible kind of chemical weapons – from Germany, and also smoke grenades produced – please pay attention to this – in the city of Salisbury, the UK," Zakharova told a news conference in Moscow on Thursday.

The findings undermine "the faith in humaneness” of some states’ leadership, who “give such orders and make such decisions," Zakharova added. No further details were released regarding this finding.

Of course, western leaders’ have alleged, if without demonstrating proof, that the Syrian government was behind the Douma attack based on “open sources”, YouTube video clips and other information on social media, including the reports of the so-called civil defense group, the White Helmets. The group is believed to be linked to militants and operates in the areas under their control.

Last week's airstrike occurred just ahead of the arrival of an Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) fact-finding mission tasked with establishing whether any chemical attack had taken place. The team of chemical-watchdog experts still can’t reach the site of the purported attack, as militants have hampered their work, according to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov.

Crude oil prices continued their rally to test multi-year highs Thursday amid signs of higher demand, despite concerns about future economic growth.

A Bogalusa man pleaded guilty to a series of arsons, according to the district attorney's office.  

New Orleans City Council members will discuss boosting the number of overdue tickets needed for a car to get booted.  

The CDC is advising consumers to throw away any salads or salad mixes containing chopped romaine lettuce.

(Washington Examiner) Rep. Mark Meadows said Thursday there’s a growing body of evidence to suggest that former FBI Director James Comey lied when he told Congress that the FBI and the Justice Department were not coordinating on the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.

Meadows, R-N.C., said on Fox News that his staff has more texts between FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page that show signs of coordination.

“We know because we have a number of documents, a growing body of evidence,” to suggest Comey may have lied about that coordination. “Not only was that false, but we know that over and over again now, we have emails that would suggest that that testimony was false and at best misled the American public, at worst was lying to Congress,” he said.

'The loss of these units poses a significant risk'

'I’m not going to chase you because I have other things to talk about'

New research suggests Hurricane Harvey was deadlier outside the 100- and 500-year floodplains drawn by the federal government.

The British government on Thursday announced a ban on the sale of plastic straws, drink stirrers and plastic-stemmed cotton swabs.

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract by the Air Force for development, engineering, testing and integration of the hypersonic conventional strike weapon.

Officers will march from the Save on Foods Memorial Arena, along Quadra Street to the church starting at 12:30 p.m.

'Standing up to government ... a necessary aspect of citizenship'

'We are doing our very best. As you know, they've been there a long time. And it's harsh treatment,' president says

Thankfully, no one was seriously hurt

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's new president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, began his term on Thursday with a promise to defend the socialist revolution led by the Castro brothers since 1959, giving a strident speech that also emphasized the need to modernize the island's economy.