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NEW YORK (AP) - When Mykail James was 19 and working a holiday job at Victoria's Secret, she took out a store credit card with a $2,000 credit line. When her school break was over, she realized she could no longer afford the payments. After missing a few, she paid off the card only to find that her credit score had decreased dramatically, affecting her ability to access other types

Reckitt*, a global leader in health, hygiene and nutrition, will establish a major production plant in Wilson County to produce the over-the-counter medicine Mucinex, creating 289 jobs, Governor Roy Cooper announced today. The company will invest $145.59 million in Wilson. "North Carolina continues to attract the world's most well-known life science companies that are working to keep people healthy," said Governor Cooper. "Communities like Wilson and all across our state

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The father of a teenager accused in a 2022 mass shooting in North Carolina's capital city that left five people dead pleaded guilty Wednesday to storing improperly a handgun that authorities said was found with his son after the shootings. Alan Thompson, 61, appeared to cry as he entered the plea to the misdemeanor charge in Wake County court, news outlets reported. District Court Judge Mark

The Conversation-Traffic stops by Chicago police have more than doubled over the past nine years in what the American Civil Liberties Union, a civil rights group, is calling the "new stop-and-frisk." Stop and frisk is when officers stop and search people based on "reasonable suspicion" that they are involved in criminal activity. The practice has been documented to disproportionately target Black and Latino people - not only in Chicago but

NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. ports from Maine to Texas shut down Tuesday when the union representing about 45,000 dockworkers went on strike for the first time since 1977. Workers began walking picket lines early Tuesday, picketing near ports all along the East Coast. Workers outside the Port of Philadelphia walked in a circle and chanted, "No work without a fair contract." A lengthy shutdown could raise prices on goods

NC Newsline-Postal workers rallied in Raleigh on Tuesday as part of a nationwide "Day of Action" to protest recent and upcoming changes that have caused delays in mail delivery times. Tonya Freeman, local president of the American Postal Workers Union, criticized Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's policies and plans to consolidate mail processing facilities. She warned that these changes would lead to slower mail deliveries, especially in rural areas where residents

By Megha Bahree Aljazeera The bigger-than-expected cut in interest rates by the United States Federal Reserve may have sent the stock market cheering, but its impact on the economy, and the upcoming presidential election, is mixed, experts say. The US Fed on Wednesday cut the benchmark federal funds rate by half a percentage point to the 4.75 percent to 5 percent range "in light of the progress on inflation and

By Serena Patel OMS IV In 2012, Novo Nordisk synthesized a compound called semaglutide in an effort to increase the half-life of its counterpart drug liraglutide. These glucagon-like-peptide-1 receptor agonists, originally formulated for patients with Type 2 diabetes, work by promoting the release of insulin to decrease glucose levels. Liraglutide is a daily injectable, while semaglutide is a weekly injectable. The diabetes community had been waiting for a drug like

By Phenix S Halley The Root When ex-cop Amber Guyger was sentenced to prison for the 2018 killing of Botham Jean, his sister, Allisa Charles-Findley, said 10 years was "a light sentence for murder." Now, only halfway into the sentence, her brother's killer is up for parole following years of unsuccessful attempts by Guyger to gain back her freedom. Jean's family wants his killer to serve out her full sentence,