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WASHINGTON (AP) — The hottest tool in biology has scientists using words like revolutionary as they describe the long-term potential: wiping out certain mosquitoes that carry malaria, treating genetic diseases like sickle cell, preventing babies from inheriting a life-threatening disorder. Laboratories worldwide are embracing a technology to precisely edit genes inside living cells — turning them off or on, repairing or modifying them — like a biological version of cut-and-paste software. Researchers are building stronger immune cells... Читать дальше...

Biggs will take over on Dec. 31, though Charles Holley, 59, who is retiring, will remain with Wal-Mart for a month to help with the transition. Biggs, 47, has been CFO and executive vice president of Wal-Mart's international business since 2014.

Now you don’t need to pay for Photoshop to use some of its most popular features. Adobe released a new app called Photoshop Fix this week that brings some of the program’s image-retouching features to an app for the iPhone and iPad. Instead of packing the app full of features, Adobe opted to include just

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Budget Committee approved Republican legislation Friday that would scuttle President Barack Obama's health care law and block federal payments to Planned Parenthood. Republicans are aware of the bill's ultimate fate but are pushing it anyway as a way to highlight their views to conservatives ahead of next year's presidential and congressional elections. The legislation would repeal the law's requirements that individuals buy health insurance and that many employers provide it to workers.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Responding to criticism from civil liberties advocates, the Obama administration said Friday it has strengthened consumer privacy protections on the government's health insurance website as a new sign-up season nears. [...] The Associated Press reported earlier this year that the links could also result in personal information — including age, income, ZIP code, whether a person smokes and if a woman is pregnant— being sent to technology firms involved in marketing and advertising. Читать дальше...

Sarah Feinberg said Friday that a CSX contractor's equipment picked up a potential flaw during inspections from a truck riding along the tracks in Mount Carbon in December 2014 and last January. Feinberg says that if the operator had left the vehicle to inspect the location more closely or used a hand-held device, investigators believe the defect would have been discovered before February's derailment. Federal investigators say a broken rail that wasn't found on two previous inspections led to... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — A voting member of the Federal Reserve's policy committee said Friday that he still thinks an interest-rate increase will be appropriate by year's end. Dennis Lockhart, president of the Fed's Atlanta regional bank, noted that the most recent economic figures have sent mixed signals, with higher risks than he had earlier forecast. Lockhart is one of five regional bank presidents with a vote this year on the Federal Open Market Committee, the panel of Fed bank presidents and board... Читать дальше...

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said in a statement Friday that people should be careful when making donations for flood victims. Koskinen says scam artists often try to impersonate charities to get money or private information after disasters occur. Legitimate charities are also listed on the Federal Emergency Management Agency website at fema.gov. Koskinen also warned against giving personal information such as Social Security numbers or credit card or bank account numbers to anyone soliciting a contribution. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The hottest tool in biology has scientists using words like revolutionary as they describe the long-term potential: wiping out certain mosquitoes that carry malaria, treating genetic diseases like sickle-cell, preventing babies from inheriting a life-threatening disorder. Laboratories worldwide are embracing a technology to precisely edit genes inside living cells — turning them off or on, repairing or modifying them — like a biological version of cut-and-paste software. Researchers are building stronger immune cells... Читать дальше...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Friday approved a $338 million settlement fund for victims of the fiery 2013 oil train derailment that claimed 47 lives in Quebec, clearing the way for payments to victims by year's end. The disaster led to greater regulatory scrutiny of the use of trains to transport crude oil amid a production surge thanks to new technologies including hydraulic fracturing. In addition to settling wrongful death claims, money will be used to compensate government... Читать дальше...

Medical authorities say the risk of Cafferkey transmitting the virus is low, but public health officials in Scotland are monitoring people with whom she had close contact. The prime minister tweeted that he wished Cafferkey "a quick recovery." Since Ebola broke out in Guinea's forest region last year, it has killed more than 11,200 people in West Africa.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cheaper oil and less demand for autos and machinery weighed on wholesalers in August, as their inventories edged up just slightly while sales dropped. Falling oil prices account for much of the declining sales. The slowing Chinese economy triggered alarms about corporate profits, resulting in a stock market sell-off. Cheap oil and natural gas have led energy firms to cut back on their drilling activities and orders for pipeline and equipment.

Jobs' supporters probably won't be happy with Sorkin's posthumous interpretation of Jobs either, even though previously released movies have drawn similar portraits depicting him as an acid-dropping hippie turned megalomaniacal genius who berated and betrayed people. The film, based loosely on a best-selling book by Jobs' hand-picked biographer Walter Isaacson, unfolds in three acts that take place before three presentations orchestrated by Jobs: the 1984 debut of the Macintosh computer; a 1988... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — US wholesale stockpiles increase 0.1 percent in August; sales drop 1 percent.

(AP) — A broken rail that wasn't found on two previous inspections led to a fiery oil train derailment in southern West Virginia in February, federal investigators said Friday. The administration also will look into the need for rail-head wear standards and possibly requiring railroads to slow trains or replace rails where certain conditions pose safety risks. Oil from the tank cars caused a sludge deposit in the Kanawha River and an adjoining creek, as well as a sheen along the shorelines, according... Читать дальше...

Gap sank 7 percent in early trading after the struggling retailer posted disappointing September sales. Alcoa dropped 3 percent after its results fell short of forecasts as lower aluminum prices continued to hurt its business.

MONTGOMERY, W.Va. (AP) — Officials: Broken rail missed on 2 inspections caused fiery West Virginia oil train derailment.

SANDPOINT, Idaho (AP) — Authorities in northern Idaho say there are no survivors following a small plane crash in a mountainous area north of the town of Hope. The sheriff's office says it received a report of a possible missing aircraft at 9:35 a.m. and that an emergency transmitter beacon was detected in a remote area on the eastern side of Bonner County.

The sheriff's department says the man took off Thursday evening from a private air strip in Kimball Township, about 50 miles northeast of Detroit. The sheriff's department says the plane nose-dived, landed wing first, flipped and came to rest upright.

Francis McDonald, president of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, said the El Faro disaster served as a "sobering reminder" of the inherent risks of the industry and reinforced the school's strict attention to safety procedures, including in the simulation lab and on a live training vessel that goes to sea two months a year. A seventh school, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York, differs from the state schools because it is a federal service academy operated by the U.S. Maritime... Читать дальше...

The Beaver Dam Daily Citizen reports (http://bit.ly/1WR5FF0 ) that the initial investigation shows the man was on the tracks when he was hit. The incident is being investigated by the sheriff's office, the medical examiner and authorities from the railroad company.

The U.S. Postal Service will use temporary centralized mailboxes outside the Thurman Post Office. [...] the mailboxes are installed, Thurman Post Office box customers will need to pick up their mail at the Sidney Post Office.

In 1995, a radio show devoted to helping users with computer problems first went on the air at KPFT 90.1FM. Technology Bytes, launched by Jay Lee and Peter Hughes, has turned 20. And there's a party to celebrate!

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis' mayor is making his latest push to lure a federal spy agency's new 3,100-employee regional headquarters, insisting that losing the agency "would be a devastating blow to our city's economy."