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Major cases before the Supreme Court deal with transgender rights, guns, nuclear waste and vapes

Oct. 05, 2024 08:40 AM EDT

The Supreme Court's new term begins Monday with a handful of important cases set to be heard and the possibility that the justices will be asked to get involved in election disputes. Here are some of the top cases that will be argued in the coming months: Transgender...

Battery-powered devices are overheating more often on planes and raising alarm

Sep. 09, 2024 15:17 PM EDT

Devices powered by lithium-ion batteries are overheating more often during airline flights and passengers often put them in checked bags that go into the cargo hold, where a fire might not be detected as quickly. Overheating incidents rose 28% from 2019 to 2023, although such events...

Teen vaping hits 10-year low in the US

Sep. 05, 2024 13:26 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer adolescents are vaping this year than at any point in the last decade, government officials reported Thursday, pointing to a shrinking number of high school students who are using Elf Bar and other fruity, unauthorized e-cigarettes. The latest survey numbers...

What to know about delta-8 and other common vape shop drugs

Sep. 03, 2024 10:36 AM EDT

They're sold in gas stations, vape shops, online and in other stores around the country in seemingly countless enticing forms: gummies, chocolate bars, chips. Their packaging lists things like delta-8 THC, micro- and macrodoses of “psychedelics” and “nootropics." These...

EPA takes charge of Detroit-area cleanup of vaping supplies warehouse destroyed by explosions

Aug. 27, 2024 15:38 PM EDT

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The federal government is leading a cleanup of the hazardous remains of a Detroit-area storage site for vaping supplies, five months after explosions destroyed the building, sent debris flying for miles and killed a man. Goo Smoke Shop in Macomb...

Ex-council member sentenced for selling vapes with illegal drugs in Mississippi and North Carolina

Aug. 13, 2024 18:55 PM EDT

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A former city council member from south Mississippi was sentenced Tuesday to six years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a federal conspiracy charge related to running a business that sold illegal drugs. Robert Leon Deming III, 47, pleaded guilty May...

Judge keeps alive Vermont lawsuit that accuses police of force, discrimination against Black teen

Aug. 06, 2024 16:57 PM EDT

A Vermont judge has denied the city of Burlington’s request to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that police used excessive force and discriminated against a Black teenager whose mother had called law enforcement to teach him a lesson about stealing. When the 14-year-old, who has...