• Associated Press

    Missouri House backs legal shield for weedkiller maker facing thousands of cancer-related lawsuits

    The manufacturer of a popular weedkiller won support Wednesday from the Missouri House for a proposal that could shield it from costly lawsuits alleging it failed to warn customers its product could cause cancer. The House vote marked an important but incremental victory for chemical giant Bayer, which acquired an avalanche of legal claims involving the weedkiller Roundup when it bought the product's original St. Louis-area-based producer, Monsanto. The legislation now heads to the Missouri Senate with several weeks remaining in the annual legislative session.

  • CBC

    This trash robot is cleaning up Michigan's shores, keeping plastic out of the Detroit River

    Picture a Roomba, but for the beach: BeBot is a new roving trash collector that will soon hit the shores of Belle Isle State Park. It's all part of a bid not just to keep beaches clean for residents, but to prevent harmful trash from ending up in the waterways in the Great Lakes region.LISTEN: Robot being used to pick up trash on Belle Isle"I operate it on the Belle Isle beach and it really sifts into the sand to get a lot of that litter, pollution that you can't see with your eye because it's b

  • Associated Press

    Hamas releases video showing well-known Israeli-American hostage

    Hamas released a hostage video on Wednesday showing a well-known Israeli-American man who was among scores of people abducted by the militants in the attack that ignited the war in Gaza. The video was the first sign of life of Hersh Goldberg-Polin since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, and its release ignited new protests in Jerusalem calling on the government to do more to secure the captives' release. In the video, Goldberg-Polin accused Israel’s government of abandoning the people who are being held hostage by Hamas. He also claimed that some 70 captives have been killed in Israel’s bombing campaign.