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New York officials are demanding that banks and other companies with connections to the family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma hand over financial records as the state tries to trace where money from opioid sales ended up. The state attorney general’s office this week began issuing subpoenas this week. New York is among states…

Democratic presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson on Friday said she is “pro medicine” and “pro science,” after she had defended her past comments about antidepressants and said there’s a difference between “normal” human despair and going through grief. “So let’s state it again. I’m pro medicine. I’m pro science. I’ve never told anyone not to take…

Similarly, while science generates much of our prosperity, scientists and researchers themselves do not sufficiently obsess over how it should be organized. In a recent paper, Pierre Azoulay and co-authors concluded that Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s long-term grants to high-potential scientists made those scientists percent more likely to produce breakthrough work. If this finding is…

The Costume Designers Guild Local  is gearing up to fight for pay equity in its contract negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, establishing a pay-equity committee to raise awareness of the scale disparity between the mostly female CDG membership and the mostly male membership of the Art Directors Guild Local ….

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design UCLA AUD and the Los Angeles Unified School District LAUSD are proud to announce a pioneering collaboration that will enable twenty th grade LAUSD students from design-focused STEM high schools to attend UCLA AUD s Teen ArchStudio Summer Institute on full scholarships. The residential program is an intensive, full-time summer…

Nintendo Switch Online, the online subscription service for the Nintendo Switch, may soon add more titles to its collection of retro games. The service currently offers access to a library of classic NES games, among other benefits such as online multiplayer and cloud saves. More NES titles are being regularly added to the collection, with…

The architecture firm that designed the Arizona Diamondbacks’ spring-training facility, Salt River Fields, is reportedly the team’s choice to design a possible replacement for Chase Field.  Rob SchumacherThe Republic The Arizona Diamondbacks have chosen an international architecture firm to design a possible replacement for Chase Field as the team decides whether to leave the 21-year-old downtown…

A finance major will study areas such as investments, corporate financing issues, financial institutions and a variety of related topics. Depending on your university’s curriculum, your studies will likely have a level of overlap into areas like accounting and economics. In short you will gain insights into how money works. As someone who holds an…

In this edition: Democrats have some ideas, the non-Bidens avoid talking about him, and a few elections end in predictable but important fashion. If you’re looking for a very stable newsletter, you’re in luck: This is the Trailer. Stacey Abrams speaks at the Center for American Progress conference on Wednesday. Kevin LamarqueReuters On Wednesday morning,…

Two men have been charged in connection with a Livonia pharmacy scheme in which $48 million worth of health care claims were made for patients after their dates of death, according to court records. Hossam Tanana, 53, of Dearborn, and Mahmoud Makki 36, of Dearborn, are accused of conspiracy to launder monetary instruments after an investigation…