PARIS (AP) — The government of French President Emmanuel Macron covered up decisions over the illegal treatment of mineral water by food industry giant Nestle, including the world-famous Perrier brand, a Senate inquiry commission says. The report focused on Nestle’s years of use of treatments to avoid bacterial or chemical contamination of water labeled as [...]
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has approved a $1.5 billion proposal by the Trump Organization and its Vietnamese partner to build golf courses, hotels and real estate projects in the Southeast Asian country, state-run media reported. The project spanning 2,446 acres in northern Vietnam’s Khoai Chau district will include a golf course the size of [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has issued a long-awaited approval of Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine, but with restrictions. Novavax makes the nation’s only traditional protein-based coronavirus vaccine and, until now, it had emergency authorization from FDA for use in anyone 12 and older. Last week, the FDA granted the company full approval for [...]
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union regulators will seek public comment on proposed changes from Microsoft for Teams, signaling the American company may be nearing the end of a long-running antitrust case targeting its messaging and videoconferencing app. Microsoft previously had offered some modifications, including unbundling Teams from its Office software suite in an attempt to [...]
The city of Columbus’ population has risen 3 percent since 2020, according to new figures from the U. S. Census Bureau. The city’s population is 933,263, according to bureau estimates, up from 906,022 five years ago. Most of that increase occurred from 2022 to 2024 when the city gained 22,036 residents. The city’s population dipped [...]
DALLAS (AP) — Whether it’s a road trip to a nearby lake or jumping on a plane to explore a big city, Americans are expected to get away in record numbers over the long Memorial Day weekend. More than 45 million people — 1.4 million more than last year — are expected to venture at [...]
Researchers at The Ohio State University are investigating West Nile virus and the transmission cycles of the insect-borne disease in an effort to determine the best way to limit its spread. Scientists hope to pin down the process by using mathematical models to analyze how factors such as temperature, light pollution and bird and mosquito [...]
Business travel to the United States was up in the first quarter of the year, but fell 9 percent in April, according to new figures from the National Travel and Tourism Office. The preliminary figures show the number of airline and ship passengers who entered the country last month using business visas. Business travel to [...]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s acting chief said he plans to shift responsibility for disaster recovery to states during the upcoming hurricane season. David Richardson, during a staff town hall last week, said his intention was to “return primacy to the states” as part of an agencywide transformation. In comments that cemented the Trump administration’s [...]
Charter Communications has offered to acquire Cox Communications, a $34.5 billion merger that would combine two of the largest three cable companies in the country. Cox is the third-largest cable television company in the country, with more than 6.5 million digital cable, internet, telephone and home security customers. It has a large foothold in states [...]