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@lemmy.worldhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gdpzqp15eo
Philip Morris International bought Vectura Group just three years ago in a deal worth more than £1bn.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyl3wzl3gpo
District Judge Kevin Mullins was shot and killed in his chambers after an argument, police say.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/social-media-companies-engaged-vast-surveillance-ftc-finds-calling-sta-rcna171814
The FTC report looked at Amazon, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Snap, ByteDance, Discord, Reddit and WhatsApp.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/mark-robinson-north-carolina-porn-forum-comments
The Republican candidate also attacked Martin Luther King Jr., calling the civil rights icon “worse than a maggot.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/27-year-old-nebraska-man-posed-high-schooler-sentenced-least-85-years-rcna171752
Zachary Scheich, who prosecutors said identified himself as 17-year-old "Zak Hess," pleaded guilty to sexual assault and other crimes.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/19/delta-airlines-faa-investigation
FAA looking into incident in which Boeing 737-900 had to make emergency landing due to cabin pressure issues
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/19/brazil-twitter-ban-fine-musk-alexandre-de-moraes
Justice Alexandre de Moraes imposes $900,000 daily fine on banned social media platform in dispute with Elon Musk
https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2024-09-18/economic-policy-justice/study-increasing-minimum-wage-does-not-reduce-jobs/a92455-1
A new report shows minimum wage increases have had little effect on the number of jobs in Maryland and nationwide. While the rhetoric around increasing the minimum wage often comes with the caution it will reduce low-wage employment, a new review of decades of research showed most studies found no job losses after the state or local minimum wage is raised. Ben Zipperer, senior economist for the Economic Policy Institute and the review's co-author, said raising the minimum wage has unquestionably benefited workers. ...
https://newrepublic.com/post/186047/jd-vance-detail-preexisting-conditions-trump-health-care-plan
After Donald Trump struggled to explain what Republicans’ health care plan is on the debate stage, Vance has finally shared the grim details.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/sweden-charges-a-woman-with-war-crimes-for-allegedly-torturing-yazidi-women-and-children-in-syria-1.7043982
Swedish authorities on Thursday charged a 52-year-old woman associated with the Islamic State group with genocide, crimes against humanity and serious war crimes against Yazidi women and children in Syria — in the first such case of a person to be tried in the Scandinavian country.