FILE - This Monday, June 17, 2019, file photo shows 5-mg pills of Oxycodone. While the nation's attorneys general debate a legal settlement with Purdue Pharma, the opioid epidemic associated with the company's blockbuster painkiller OxyContin rages on. The drugs still kill tens of thousands …
Updates settlement responses; map shows state party and decision over Purdue settlement terms; 2c x 3 inches; 96.3 mm x 76 mm;
The proposed settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma would raise money to clean up the opioid mess by ... selling more opioids.
A model wears a creation as part of the Benetton Spring-Summer 2020 collection, unveiled during the fashion week, in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019.
A model wears a creation as part of the Benetton Spring-Summer 2020 collection, unveiled during the fashion week, in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019.
A model wears a creation as part of the Benetton Spring-Summer 2020 collection, unveiled during the fashion week, in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019.
A model wears a creation as part of the Benetton Spring-Summer 2020 collection, unveiled during the fashion week, in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019.
A model wears a creation as part of the Benetton Spring-Summer 2020 collection, unveiled during the fashion week, in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019.
A model wears a creation as part of the Benetton Spring-Summer 2020 collection, unveiled during the fashion week, in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019.
Designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, left, and Luciano Benetton, co founder of the Benetton group, pose for photographers at the conclusion of the Benetton Spring-Summer 2020 collection, unveiled during the fashion week, in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019.
Designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, centre left, and Luciano Benetton, centre right, co founder of the Benetton group, pose with models at the conclusion of the Benetton Spring-Summer 2020 collection unveiled during the fashion week, in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019.
A model wears a creation as part of the Benetton Spring-Summer 2020 collection, unveiled during the fashion week, in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019.
A model wears a creation as part of the Benetton Spring-Summer 2020 collection, unveiled during the fashion week, in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019.
MILAN (AP) — Benetton has long made waves off the runway with its provocative advertising campaigns. But the storied family-owned knitwear brand is seeking to make waves inside the world of Italian fashion under the artistic guidance of French designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac.
FILE - In this Aug. 7, 2018 file photo, a doctor performs an ultrasound scan on a pregnant woman at a hospital in Chicago. A new study released Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019, suggests when a pregnant woman breathes in air pollution, it can travel beyond her lungs to the placenta that guards her fe…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new study suggests when a pregnant woman breathes in air pollution, it can travel beyond her lungs to the placenta that guards her fetus.
NEW YORK (AP) — Authors from Asia, Europe and South America are among those on the National Book Awards longlist for translated literature, a category started last year.
NEW YORK (AP) — Cokie Roberts, longtime political reporter and analyst at ABC News and NPR, has died at age 75.
NEW YORK (AP) — Comcast's NBCUniversal says its upcoming streaming service will be called Peacock, in an homage to NBC's logo, and will be the home for some of the company's most popular shows, including "Parks and Recreation," ''The Office" and "30 Rock."
NEW YORK (AP) — "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek says he's had a setback in his battle with pancreatic cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy again.
NEW YORK (AP) — A new venture backed by many of video gaming's biggest publishers is unveiling a network that hopes to be to esports what ESPN has been to traditional sports.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Carrie Underwood, Kane Brown, Luke Combs, Dan + Shay and Thomas Rhett will be honored as country's top stars at the 10th annual CMT Artists of the Year television special.
NEW YORK (AP) — An attorney for Harvey Weinstein says her client is not without sin — but he's also not "a rapist."
NEW YORK (AP) — Colson Whitehead's novel "The Nickel Boys" and Kwame Alexander's picture story "The Undefeated" are among the finalists for the Kirkus Prize, a $50,000 honor given for the year's outstanding fiction, nonfiction and young readers' books.
This combination photo shows Will Smith at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards in Los Angeles on March 23, 2019, left, and Helen Mirren at a special screening of "Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw," in London on July 23, 2019. Smith and Mirren will read a bedtime story during a one-night …
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Will Smith and Dame Helen Mirren will read a bedtime story during a one-night fundraising event to help fight global homelessness.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on a new allegation of sexual impropriety against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh (all times local):
En esta foto del 14 de abril de 2018, Ric Ocasek, de The Cars, toca en la ceremonia de incorporación al Salón de la Fama del Rock and Roll en Cleveland. Ocasek, el afamado vocalista de la banda The Cars, fue hallado muerto en su apartamento en Nueva York el domingo 15 de septiembre del 2019.…
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City medical examiner says Ric Ocasek , the 75-year-old frontman for The Cars, died of heart disease, worsened by emphysema.
This photo released by NBC shows Shane Gillis who was to join the cast of "Saturday Night Live," premiering its 45th season on Sept. 28. "Saturday Night Live" rescinded its invitation to Gillis who posted a video last year in which he used a racial slur for Chinese people and derided Asians …
NEW YORK (AP) — "Saturday Night Live" has rescinded its invitation to a cast member who posted a video last year in which he used a racial slur for Chinese people and derided Asians trying to learn English.
Over 100 first- and second-graders from Northeast and Northwest Elementary Schools participated in Come Alive Outside Vermont’s annual Fall Harvest at Rutland Regional Medical Center on Friday. RRMC thanks its partners GE, Wonderfeet Kids’ Museum, Rutland Recreation and Parks, Rutland Region…
FILE - In this April 11, 2018, file photo, a high school student uses a vaping device near a school campus in Cambridge, Mass. California Gov. Gavin Newsom will announce an executive action Monday, Sept. 16, 2019, to confront youth heath concerns related to vaping.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will spend $20 million on a public awareness campaign about the dangers of vaping nicotine and cannabis products and step up efforts to halt the sale of illicit products amid a rise in vaping-related illnesses.
LOS GATOS, Calif. (AP) — Netflix says it will start streaming all 180 episodes of "Seinfeld" in 2021, gaining a hugely popular addition to its library as the battle for viewers heats up.
In this image taken from NASA video actor Brad Pitt, left, star of the new space movie “Ad Astra,” speaks from NASA headquarters in Washington, to astronaut Nick Hague abroad the International Space Station, on Monday, Sept. 16, 2019.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Brad Pitt, star of the new space movie "Ad Astra," had a burning question for a real-life astronaut.
FILE - In this Sept. 4, 2013 file photo, Christie Brinkley and her daughter Sailor Brinkley Cook arrive at the 2013 Style Awards in New York. ABC says in a written statement that Brinkley is unable to continue this season of "Dancing With the Stars," following surgery to her wrist and arm. T…
FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2019, file photo, model Christie Brinkley participates in the BUILD Speaker Series to discuss the "Milestones of Me" campaign in New York. ABC says in a written statement that Brinkley is unable to continue this season of "Dancing With the Stars," following surgery to…
NEW YORK (AP) — Christie Brinkley has been sidelined for Monday's season premiere of "Dancing with the Stars."
This 2018 photo provided by Katie Workman shows a dish of cod, cabbage and edamame taken in New York. Cabbage, that taken-for-granted vegetable, that sturdy, dense staple of many a poor, ancestral homeland, is finally getting respect.
This 2018 photo provided by Katie Workman shows a dish of cod, cabbage and edamame taken in New York. Cabbage, that taken-for-granted vegetable, that sturdy, dense staple of many a poor, ancestral homeland, is finally getting respect.
Here's a sentence that might come as a surprise: Cabbage is cool.
FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2018 file photo, a marcher carries a sign with the popular Twitter hashtag #MeToo used by people speaking out against sexual harassment as she takes part in a Women's March in Seattle. According to a study published Monday, Sept. 16, 2019, the first sexual experience …
CHICAGO (AP) — The first sexual experience for 1 in 16 U.S. women was forced or coerced intercourse in their early teens, encounters that for some may have had lasting health repercussions, a study suggests.
FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2015 file photo, Morgan Spurlock attends the 11th Annual New York Television Festival "CNN Presents: An Original Take on the Stories of Now" at the SVA Theatre in New York. Spurlock has gone from being an avid Big Mac consumer in “Super Size Me” to serving his own chi…
In "Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!" filmmaker Morgan Spurlock explores fast food from the corporate side by opening his own restaurant and reveals his conclusion.
NEW YORK (AP) — Last time out, documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock ate only fast food for a month. This time, he's the one dishing out the fried stuff.
BRANDON — “The Magic Flute” is Mozart’s fairytale opera — though it has some subtly serious undertones — and fledgling Barn Opera’s production turned it into a bedtime story for children and adults. In fact, all the characters were dressed in pajamas.
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The U.S. health and human services secretary is urging Tanzanian authorities to show transparency in the case of a patient who recently died after suffering Ebola-like symptoms.
