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If you’re thinking about buying your kids a fidget spinner this holiday season, you may want to think twice. This inexpensive and addictive little toy is already the topic of choking hazard warnings by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. And Thursday morning the US Public Interest Research Group revealed that […]

DELHI — A thick cloud of smog has overwhelmed the Indian capital over the past few days, prompting officials to shut down more than 6,000 schools for nearly a week.  The city’s air quality is off the charts. The Air Quality Index (AQI) was over 999 in some parts of […]

BEIJING — In joint remarks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, President Trump said he gives China “great credit” for “taking advantage” of the U.S. on trade but the two countries will have a “more prosperous future if we can achieve a level economic playing field.” “Right now, unfortunately, it is […]

TripAdvisor has added a badge to the pages about hotels where sexual assaults are reported, the travel website confirmed Wednesday to CBS News. Three hotels in Mexico were badged on Wednesday, a TripAdvisor spokesman said. “These badges will remain on TripAdvisor for up to 3 months; however, if the issues […]

SANAA, Yemen — Hundreds of cars lined the main roads of Yemen’s capital after the rebels who control the city ordered fuel stations to close Wednesday, accusing merchants of taking advantage of a Saudi blockade to hike prices. A Saudi-led military coalition tightened its blockade in Yemen this week after a […]

The opioid crisis that has swept across America continues to be a critical issue, and although there more than 14,000 facilities around the country dedicated to treating addiciton, a group of public health experts say there is a “central flaw” in how addiction is treated and are calling for a […]

The opioid crisis that has swept across America continues to be a critical issue, and although there are more than 14,000 facilities around the country dedicated to treating addiction, a group of public health experts say there is a “central flaw” in how addiction is treated and are calling for […]

It’s the great mystery of this economic cycle: What’s behind the lack of wage growth and, thus, tepid inflation measures. The Federal Reserve is grappling with this, resulting in a relatively slow pace of monetary policy tightening despite soaring financial asset prices, possible bubbles (bitcoin, anyone?) and an ongoing loosening […]

Non-fiction — as in the joy, drama and wonder of the real — is in the spotlight beginning Thursday at the DOC NYC Film Festival, America’s largest documentary festival.   Held in New York City from November 9 to 16, the festival includes more than 250 feature and short films […]

There are new questions about the small plane Roy Halladay was flying when he crashed into the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday near Tampa, Florida.  The new video shows what appears to be Halladay’s final moments — flying close to the water before crashing the ICON A5 he’d owned for […]