Woman survives two cancers after surprising diagnosis: "I feel so lucky"

Two Philadelphia police officers were rushed to hospitals Saturday morning after a gunman shot them multiple times, officials said. The shooting happened around 1 a.m. on the 100 block of North 52nd Street in West Philadelphia. Officers received a call for a man armed with a gun on the porch of a home. When officers arrived, they approached and came under heavy gunfire, Commissioner Kevin Bethel said.

Regulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing to expand a controversial loophole to allow some of the world’s most toxic chemicals to be added directly to food without a safety review. The “threshold of regulation” (TOR) exemption currently allows dangerous compounds to be used without review in food contact materials, such as packaging or processing equipment, if they are not carcinogenic, and are added at levels below 0.5 parts per…

While most of the crowd at a Stop Sexual Violence rally in New York City was mostly women, men of all ages were in attendance too Tens of thousands of protesters gathered at city halls and college campuses across the country on Thursday to demand an end to sexual violence. The nationwide rallies followed weeks of public outcry over the mishandling of campus sexual assault cases at Cornell University and Louisiana State University. The protest organizers – including Women’s March, Feminist Generation and Me Too International – demanded justice for Jane…

Nearly 900,000 people were without power after Isaias made landfall as a hurricane on the northern Gulf coast near Destin, Florida, on Friday night.