By definition, what 14 million viewers watched on TV last Thursday night was not a debate – not even close. Here’s how dictionary.com defines “debate”: “A discussion, as of a public question in an assembly, involving opposing viewpoints ... a formal contest in which the affirmative ...
WASHINGTON – The third Democratic presidential debate Thursday night in Houston was widely billed as a likely war of attrition among front-runners Joe Biden, Elizbeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, and a fight for survival among the others seeking traction under the national television ...
HONG KONG – Physically diminutive, intellectually acerbic and with an eye for the ironic, Margaret Ng – lawyer, writer and former legislator – is, at 71, a member of the generation for which this city’s youthful protesters have scant patience. They say the elders have been too patient ...
Multiple states and local governments have filed lawsuits against health care giant Purdue Pharma over its distribution of opioid pain pills that helped fuel the devastating substance abuse crisis. More than 2,000 separate actions, consolidated into one case under a federal judge, are ...
Three Democratic candidates for president, and perhaps more, are hoping to gain votes by proposing all-out prohibitions on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, used in the oil and natural gas industries. Sens. Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have all proposed the bans. Look ...
Vaping – use of electronic devices rather than burning tobacco to inhale nicotine – at one time seemed to be a good alternative to smoking. But something seems to have gone badly wrong. Federal officials are investigating a spate of serious breathing illnesses linked to vaping in 33 ...