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Home Depot plans to phase out selling rugs and carpets containing PFAS

The Home Depot announced Tuesday that it will stop buying from its suppliers any rugs and carpets that contain PFAS chemicals."Excluding PFAS from the…

One health insurance startup charges patients extra for procedures not covered by their basic health plan. The out-of-pocket cost for a tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy might range from $900 to $3,000 extra, while a lumbar spine fusion could range from $5,000 to $10,000.

Some 'Cheaper' Health Plans Have Surprising Costs

Well-known insurers are selling new sorts of health plans outside the Affordable Care Act exchanges that may sound cheaper but aren't necessarily. Some, for example, charge extra for common surgeries.

"I am very conscious of the fact that these things that I've internalized are these kind of middle, upper middle-class white American milestones," says author Doree Shafrir about the societal pressures of the perfect job, marriage, and homeownership, "but that didn't make them any less real to me."

A late bloomer makes the case for rejecting life's typical timeline

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Doree Shafrir about her book Thanks for Waiting and the obstacles and victories of postponing the usual milestones of success for women like marriage, kids and a career.

Around 218,000 customers lost power in Monday's storms.

Michigan utilities: Power restored to more than 1M; more than 40,000 still in the dark Monday

Michigan’s major utilities have restored power to the vast majority of those who lost it after last Wednesday’s unprecedented windstorm.But there are…

Bernadette Peters leans forward to discuss the recording of the "Sunday in the Park with George" album with Stephen Sondheim and producer Thomas Z. Shepard in June 1984.

10 Stephen Sondheim songs we'll never stop listening to

Stephen Sondheim has died at 91. Pop Culture Happy Hour's Linda Holmes looks back on her favorite Sondheim tunes.

Photos captured by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration aircraft Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021 and reviewed by The Associated Press show a miles long black slick floating in the Gulf of Mexico near a large rig marked with the name Enterprise Offshore Drilling.

Aerial Photos Show A Miles-Long Black Slick In Water Near A Gulf Oil Rig After Ida

Imagery from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows what appears to be a large oil slick near an offshore rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

Care for survivors of catastrophic car accidents in other states is typically very poor. Michigan could soon be among the worst.

Michigan's new auto no fault law is destroying its best-in-the nation system of care for survivors of catastrophic auto accidents. Many could soon get the same "awful" level of care as those in other states.

Advertisements in a theater in London's Leicester Square show Daniel Craig as James Bond in <em>No Time to Die.</em> Ahead of its opening in the U.S. this weekend, the film had taken in more than $120 million in 54 foreign markets.

'No Time to Die' shows how the Bond franchise can stay relevant — and profitable

In the 25th Bond film, 007's fellow spies include strong female characters, part of an evolution aimed at attracting new audiences and brands as the franchise makes some big transitions.

Detroit automakers feeling the bite of COVID-19

Financial rating services are eyeing Detroit automakers as the COVID-19 outbreak slams auto sales.On Wednesday, Moody's placed General Motors on negative…

Marcus Baskerville, second from the right, at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/blackbrewculture/?hl=en">Black Brew Culture</a>'s Fresh Fest, August 11, 2019.

'Black Is Beautiful' Beer By Black Brewer Helps Pour Money Into Social Justice Reform

Last year a Black-owned Texas brewery asked the craft industry to take their beer, Black is Beautiful, and use the proceeds to support equality, inclusion and social justice reform. It worked.

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