There’s a reason Kamala Harris keeps visiting North Carolina, why it was her first post-debate stop and why campaign money is now flooding into the state. Victory here would change everything. And it's attainable.
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14 million Americans owe at least $1,000 in medical debt, with South Dakota, Mississippi and North Carolina as the top three states. Collectively, Americans owe $220 billion in medical debt, turning medical emergencies into financial crises across the country. NBC News' Christine Romans has a closer look in our series, "The Cost of Living."
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The genes you inherit from your parents may not only influence if you develop Alzheimer’s disease but also when. Although a family history of dementia does not guarantee that you will develop symptoms later in life, new research suggests that the risk may be higher depending on which parent is affected. This begs the question: is Alzheimer’s disease more likely to be inherited from mom or dad?
To answer this question, investigators at Harvard Medical School recruited over 4,000 cognitively normal adults between the ages of 65 and 85 across the US, Canada, Japan, and Australia. Participants were asked to report if and at what age either parent developed Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia. The findings indicated that the risk was more prevalent when mom, rather than dad, was affected.
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Testimony has begun in a civil trial against a Virginia hospital that treats vulnerable children, its owner and its former medical director in a lawsuit filed by three former patients who allege that they were touched inappropriately during physical exams
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta cautioned executives at social media and other tech companies to work harder to protect voters from "deception, intimidation, and dissuasion," ahead of the November election.
"Millions of Californians rely on social media and artificial intelligence services to obtain news and information about upcoming elections, and it is paramount that the platforms, products, and services offered by your companies not be misused to deceive voters about their constitutional right to vote," Bonta wrote in a letter Wednesday to the CEOs of Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Reddit, TikTok, X and YouTube.
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Robyn Beck | Afp | Getty Images Shares of Trump Media shot up by more than 25% on Friday, minutes after majority owner Donald Trump said he is not selling his stake.
"I have absolutely no intention of selling," said the Republican presidential nominee, who will be free to start cashing in his nearly 57% stake in less than a week when a lockup agreement expires.
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The U.K. government says it will ban junk food adverts online and on television before 9 p.m. in a bid to tackle obesity.
Public health minister Andrew Gwynne told members of parliament on Thursday the new rules would come into play from October next year.
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Republican vice presidential nominee Ohio Sen. JD Vance on Thursday took a shot at Apple on CNBC's "Squawk Box," stating he thinks the company benefits from "slave labor" in China. His comment was part of a broader conversation about taxing companies that rely on manufacturing in China.
"Do I think Apple is an evil company? No. Do I think that sometimes they benefit from Chinese slave labor? yeah, and that's pretty sick," Vance said. "I think that a company that wants to benefit from American markets should also have to pay American workers a fair wage." Apple raised the starting wage for retail employees in May 2022 to $22 an hour.
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Italy didn't allow field trials for genetically modified crops for twenty years — until this year. But anti-GMO activists destroyed it, repeating echoes of history.
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A billionaire stepped out for the first private spacewalk Thursday, teaming up with SpaceX on the daring endeavour hundreds of miles above Earth.
Tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman and his crew waited until their capsule was depressurized before popping open the hatch. Isaacman was to be the first one out, aiming to join a small elite group of spacewalkers who until now had represented countries.
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Eli Lilly on Thursday said it will invest $1.8 billion to boost manufacturing for its newly approved Alzheimer's drug and highly popular weight loss and diabetes treatments, among other medicines, in Ireland.
The pharmaceutical giant is spending $1 billion to expand an existing site in Limerick, Ireland, to increase the production of certain active ingredients in drugs, including those used in its Alzheimer's treatment Kisunla. That drug, which works by slowing the progression of the disease in people at the early stages of it, won approval in the U.S. in July.
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Mat Auryn has been fighting for two years to stop the sale of books by mysterious authors he says blatantly plagiarized his work. He's one of many writers in the realm of spirituality and occult literature who has noticed a recent proliferation of self-published books on Amazon by authors who don't appear to actually exist.
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The markets may be getting too ahead of themselves that the U.S. Federal Reserve will pull an aggressive rate cut, said the CEO of Swiss banking giant UBS.
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TD Bank was ordered by a U.S. regulator on Wednesday to pay nearly $28 million US for repeatedly sharing inaccurate, negative information about its customers with credit reporting agencies, potentially tarnishing customers' credit score.
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The Canadian government sought to follow New Zealand's lead in 2020 when it launched a program to force gun owners to surrender military-style firearms. But while New Zealand acted quickly in 2019, Ottawa is still struggling to implement its own plan.
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Doctors call iron deficiency a largely hidden problem that often goes undiagnosed. Now there's a move to raise the bar on on what a "normal" level of iron is to catch and treat iron deficiency earlier.
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Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images BEIJING — China's retail sales, industrial production and urban investment in August all grew slower than expected, according to National Bureau of Statistics data released Saturday.
Retail sales rose by 2.1% in August from a year ago, missing expectations of 2.5% growth among economists polled by Reuters. That was also slower than the 2.7% increase in July.
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Alberta RCMP have arrested a suspect who had been on the run for more than a month after a shooting on a highway east of Calgary.
Elijah Blake Strawberry, 28, was one of the two men RCMP say were involved in the killing of Rocky View County worker Colin Hough on Aug. 6.
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A brand of yogurt sold at Costco has been recalled due to mould, says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).
The federal agency's notification affects 24-packs of Greek yogurt under Costco's Kirkland Signature brand with the best before date of Aug. 10, 2024, marked as "2024 AU 10." The printed UPC code is "0 96619 22215 5."
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CNBC's Jim Cramer on Friday guided investors through next week's top Wall Street action, highlighting a long-awaited interest rate decision from the Federal Reserve and earnings from restaurant chain companies Darden and Cracker Barrel.
Investors are broadly expecting the central bank to issue a rate cut but are unsure whether it will be by 25 or 50 basis points. Cramer said he's betting on the former, saying he thinks the Fed should be measured when making cuts and not risk an inflation flareup. He added that a 50 basis point cut would signal that something is up with the economy and may spur panic on Wall Street.
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Brazil's supreme court announced that it ordered funds be moved from Starlink and X bank accounts to pay for fines levied against Elon Musk's social network.
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If you want a good cardio session but don’t want to brave the elements — whether heat, cold, rain or snow — an indoor exercise bike is a solid way to burn some calories from the comfort of your own home. To help you navigate which ones offer the best ride, we’ve rounded up a list of several highly rated stationary bikes under $500 that align with expert guidance.
Today’s home bikes span a range of styles and price points. While the pros we spoke to recommend a more expensive bike for serious tracking and online connectivity, they were quick to point out that there are plenty of more affordable exercise bikes that provide everything you need.
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CFOTO | Nurphoto | Getty Images MicroStrategy shares jumped more than 8% on Friday after founder Michael Saylor said the company purchased another $1.1 billion worth of bitcoin.
The stock jumped 24% for the week and is now up 124% this year.
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This year’s winners included a study that explores the feasibility of using pigeons to guide missiles, an experiment that saw scientists explode a paper bag next to a cat standing on the back of a cow, and a paper that explores the swimming abilities of dead trout.
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When Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa collided headfirst with Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin during Thursday night’s football game, it was immediately apparent to medical experts that Tagovailoa had suffered a serious concussion.
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A report into a triple stabbing last year in Vancouver says the accused had been let out of custody at a psychiatric care facility 99 times in the year prior without incident.
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MISSOULA, Mont. — In a subdivision near the northern edge of town, a number of condos and duplexes have popped up in the past three years.
It's part of a larger effort, including new zoning laws, to help provide affordable housing to Montanans who have found themselves priced out of the market, said DJ Smith, president of the Montana Association of Realtors.
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In March, a fire ripped through the Olympic Park and its sports complex has been closed since. On Friday, the park announced the sports facilities would remain closed until early 2025.
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It started more than a year ago, took nearly 50 days in a courtroom and may not be decided until next year, but the trial of two leaders of the 2022 "Freedom Convoy" protest in Ottawa finally ended Friday.
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Stranded astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said Friday it was hard to watch their Boeing capsule return to Earth without them.
It was their first public comments since last week's return of the Boeing Starliner capsule that took them to the International Space Station in June.
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Jared Isaacman just made history by completing the first-ever civilian spacewalk. Here's how he went from teenage entrepreneur to billionaire civilian astronaut.
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Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images September historically hasn't been kind to stock investors. Since 1926, U.S. large-cap stocks have lost an average 0.9% in September, according to data from Morningstar Direct.
September is the only month during that nearly century-long period in which investors experienced an average loss, according to Morningstar. They saw a profit in all other months.
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Weiquan Lin | Moment | Getty Images The third-quarter estimated tax deadline for 2024 is Sept. 16, and skipping a payment could trigger a penalty, according to the IRS.
Typically, you need estimated payments for any income without tax withholdings, such as earnings from self-employment, contract or gig economy work and investment or retirement income.
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A single-vehicle collision last month involving a Tesla Semi electric truck took 50,000 gallons of water to extinguish and required aircraft to dump fire retardant overhead, according to a preliminary report on Friday from the National Transportation Safety Board.
The crash, which occurred on California's Interstate 80 west of Lake Tahoe, is being investigated by the NTSB. CAL-Fire's efforts put out the flames cooled the vehicle's massive battery to keep it from reigniting and prevented the fire from spreading beyond the crash site, the NTSB said.
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The Court of Appeal for Ontario has denied a bail request from disgraced musician Jacob Hoggard while his lawyers mount another appeal of his sexual assault conviction.
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Even as the Covid wave in Florida continues, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is once again advising against the mRNA vaccines: this time in older adults.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau slammed the NDP and its leader Jagmeet Singh on Friday, saying that while they may care about the environment, they have "no idea what to do in the fight against climate change."
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A Pakistani national accused of planning a terror attack against a Jewish centre in Brooklyn, New York likely will spend several more weeks in Quebec's Bordeaux prison while U.S. authorities present evidence to back up an extradition request.
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Entertainment·New Justin Timberlake pleaded guilty to impaired driving Friday, resolving the criminal case stemming from his June arrest in New York's Hamptons. 'I did not live up to the standards that I try to hold for myself,' singer says
Justin Timberlake pleaded guilty to impaired driving Friday, resolving the criminal case stemming from his June arrest in New York's Hamptons.
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Mortgage rates are falling, but that doesn't guarantee homes will be more affordable in 2025.
The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate dropped to 6.2% as of Thursday, down from a peak of 7.79% in May. For many buyers, that means saving hundreds on mortgage payments.
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Patti Scialfa, Bruce Springsteen’s Wife and E Street Bandmate, has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma. Find out more on this rare cancer and its evolving treatments.
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Brian West said the financial impact of the strike will depend on how long it lasts, but it will affect the company's production of its best-selling planes.
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Tua Tagovailoa will likely be sidelined for the team's next game, coach Mike MdCaniel said, as the Miami Dolphins QB was told to be the "starting quarterback for his family."
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To mark National Celiac Awareness Day, “Gut Renovation” author Dr. Roshini Raj joins TODAY with ways to learn the difference between Celiac disease and a gluten intolerance, and the risk factors for both.
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Whether they're reuniting with a drug they used when they were younger or trying it for the first time, there is a growing trend of older adults using marijuana for medicinal purposes, including treating chronic pain, trouble sleeping or anxiety. NBC’s Joe Fryer reports for TODAY.
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Apple’s latest event highlighted the company’s continued interest in personal health monitoring. In what was termed as the “iPhone 16 event,” the company went far beyond just announcing its new iPhone models, but also showcased key health features that will be available with the newest models of the Apple Watch and AirPods.
Specifically, the company announced that the latest Apple Watch will now be able to help users track sleep apnea, leveraging a new metric called “Breathing Disturbances.” The technology is unprecedented, and will leverage the device’s accelerometer to detect movements that indicate interruptions to normal respiratory patterns of sleep. Armed with this data, users will be able to understand their sleep metrics longitudinally and undertake more informed conversations and ascertain potential interventions with their physicians.
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The CDC said Thursday it has yet to identify “a clear source” of infection in a Missouri patient who tested positive for the bird flu virus despite no animal contact.
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More than a half-million children in Gaza have received a first dose of the polio vaccine, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
“We reached an enormous amount of children in this short time,” Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, the WHO’s representative for the West Bank and Gaza, said during a media briefing.
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