Children have picked ingredients used by suppliers to two major beauty companies, the BBC can reveal. A BBC investigation into last summer’s perfume supply chains found jasmine used by Lancôme and Aerin Beauty’s suppliers was picked by minors. All the luxury perfume brands claim to have zero tolerance on child labour. L’Oréal, Lancôme’s owner, said […]
A dramatic photo of a destroyed highway surfaced in social media posts that falsely claimed it showed the aftermath of a deadly road collapse in China’s southern Guangdong province on May 1, 2024. The picture in fact shows a road in Zhejiang province in eastern China that was swept away in a landslide in 2011. […]
A suspect was taken into custody on suspicion of stabbing four girls – ranging from 9 to 17 years old – at a movie theater in Massachusetts before another apparently connected stabbing at a fast food restaurant, authorities said Saturday. The two attacks happened about an hour apart in different towns and it “appears as […]
Fact checked by Nick BlackmerFact checked by Nick Blackmer A new study found that people who ate high amounts of ultra-processed foods had 4% higher risk of all-cause mortality and a 9% higher risk of death from causes other than cancer and heart disease. Ultra-processed foods go through multiple steps of processing, typically including added […]
A British woman and three children linked to the militant so-called Islamic State group in Syria were handed over to a UK delegation that visited the region this week, Syrian Kurdish-led authorities said on Friday. The handover, which took place on Wednesday, is the latest in a push to repatriate people from al-Hol and Roj […]
A Chemung County man who was seriously injured in a March house explosion that was linked to a meth lab operation now faces felony drug charges. The Chemung County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday arrested Bryon J. Schwartz, 42, of the Town of Veteran, on an outstanding superior court warrant charging him with second-degree criminal possession […]
As deadly protests rocked Pakistan-administered Kashmir, footage of crowds packed onto a street circulated in social media posts falsely linking it to the unrest. The video in fact shows an election rally in India led by opposition politician Priyanka Gandhi. “Muzaffarabad Revolution,” reads an Urdu-language post on X, formerly Twitter, referring to the capital of Pakistan-administered […]
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As deadly protests against rising living costs rocked Pakistan-administered Kashmir, a video surfaced in social media posts that falsely linked it to the unrest. The footage, which shows a crowd chanting in the street, has in fact circulated online since at least August 2022 in posts about rallies against government plans to transfer more power […]
An honorary member of the Ku Klux Klan can stay on the GOP primary ballot for Missouri governor, a judge ruled Friday. Longshot candidate Darrell McClanahan III survived a legal challenge by the Missouri Republican Party to shunt him from the ballot, which was denied Friday by Cole County Circuit Court Judge Cotton Walker. The […]
STORY: DR. LEONARDO RIELLA: “So at this time, there’s no indication that the kidney transplant had any influence on his death….” :: Massachusetts General Hospital Doctors say they don’t believe the man who received the world’s first pig kidney transplant died because of the transplanted organ. Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital announced 62-year-old Rick Slayman’s death […]
Two former California high school students were awarded $1 million and tuition reimbursement after they said they were forced to withdraw from the school in 2020 for wearing acne masks, which were interpreted by officials and community members as “blackface.” The two former Saint Francis High School (SFHS) students, now 21 years of age, became […]