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Thanksgiving No. 1 Day of the Year for Cooking Fires in U.S.
Thanksgiving is the No. 1 day of the year for home cooking fires in the U.S., and leaving food unattended is the leading cause, the Red Cross reported. According to the National Fire Protection ...
Starbucks to Face Shareholder Lawsuit Over Surprise Sales Decline
Starbucks must face a lawsuit claiming it defrauded shareholders by concealing declining sales in the United States and China, its two largest markets, which led to a 16 percent drop in its stock ...
New Female Crash Test Dummy Gets Key Government Endorsement
The U.S. government announced major design changes it wants to implement to make the female version of the vehicle crash test dummy more lifelike, potentially replacing a model used for decades that ...
Sea-Level Rise Threatens Thousands of Hazardous Sites With Flood Risk
If heat-trapping pollution from burning coal, oil, and gas continues unchecked, thousands of hazardous sites across the United States risk being flooded from sea level rise by the turn of the ...
U.S. Insurers Targeted by TPLF’s Digital Marketing Tactics: NICB
There is a strong connection between third-party litigation funding (TPLF) and excessive litigation instigated by fraudulent digital tactics, according to new joint analysis by the National Insurance ...
Safety Risk Exposed: Almost Half of All Drivers in the U.S. Behind on Critical Maintenance
Though millions are set to travel by car over the Thanksgiving holiday, a new report has found that nearly half of all drivers are behind on at least one major service, posing a risk during peak ...
Fatigue Crack Caused Keystone Pipeline Oil Spill in North Dakota
A fatigue crack in the Keystone Pipeline led to an oil spill in North Dakota earlier this year that released thousands of barrels of oil onto farmland, according to the pipeline operator. In a ...
Toyota Rav4 Tops List of Most Stolen Vehicles in Canada
The Toyota RAV4 now tops the annual list of the top ten most stolen cars in Canada, according to the country's national authority on insurance crime and fraud prevention Équité Association. The SUV ...