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The Put up additionally reported on one other incident immediately. It quoted the daddy of a soldier killed in Afghanistan as saying the president supplied $25,000 from his private account, however by no means adopted by means of.
We’ll get extra element on all of this after the information abstract.
The demise toll in Northern California’s wildfires rose to 42 immediately. Officers in Sonoma County discovered the stays of the most recent sufferer, as they searched a whole bunch of burned properties. In the meantime, fireplace crews made new positive aspects in a single day with the assistance of cooler climate and low winds.
A two-time Olympic medalist says the previous staff physician for U.S. girls’s gymnastics sexually abused her for years. McKayla Maroney is the very best profile athlete to return ahead within the scandal. In an announcement immediately, she mentioned Dr. Larry Nassar started molesting her when she was simply 13. He is awaiting sentencing on a baby pornography cost, however has denied any sexual abuse.
Extra questions tonight about drug pricing. A brand new examine finds the prices of injectable most cancers medicine, accepted since 1996, rose a mean of 25 % over eight years. That is far larger than the speed of inflation. The examine was based mostly at Emory College and revealed in “The Journal of Medical Oncology.”
And on Wall Road, well being insurers and IBM fueled a surge in shares immediately. The Dow Jones industrial common gained 160 factors, greater than half-a-percent, to shut above 23000 for the primary time. The Nasdaq rose only a fraction, and the S&P 500 was up two factors.
