FDA Warns Medline Electric Hospital Beds Can Catch Fire After Two Deaths
Sixteen more users were seriously injured. The Illinois supplier tells customers to stop using the beds unless modified, but says they can still be used per its instructions.
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Sixteen more users were seriously injured. The Illinois supplier tells customers to stop using the beds unless modified, but says they can still be used per its instructions.

A flight instructor, a British student pilot and the sole pilot of a second aircraft died when both helicopters fell into a farm field southwest of Portland. The NTSB is leading the investigation.
In her first statement since the Sept. 30 attempt, the 50-year-old says she did not expect to survive and is 'trying to heal, one day at a time.' Tennessee has paused executions through year's end.
Blockchain analysts say the TraderTraitor unit drained roughly $6.36 billion across ten blockchains in about 20 minutes. Binance says it froze about $3 billion and will cover all losses.

The Commerce Department's report lands days before the midterms, as the Fed holds rates and economists call the growth 'very, very fragile.'

The Central Arizona Project's designers warned in the 1960s that its place at the back of the line would mean lower flows. Now the river's two biggest reservoirs sit at record lows.
WatchGoogle's parent posted its first top-and-bottom-line miss in nearly four years, with free cash flow turning negative as AI spending balloons toward $300 billion.

A hacker calling itself 'Department of Peace' says it pulled the records from DHS's Okta login system in August. The department says it is working to address a 'potential breach.'
Mohamed Soliman, already serving life without parole on state charges, admitted to the 2025 attack on a march for Israeli hostages that killed Karen Sorin Diamond.
The Shakespearean stage actor died at home Wednesday after a brief battle with Alzheimer's and Lewy body dementia, his spokesperson said.
The sanctions hit a Russia-based, North Korean-controlled group that places operatives in U.S. companies under stolen identities and sends the pay home to fund weapons programs.
A Pentagon official says the three-star failed three polygraph tests on sharing classified information with the press. Others say the accusation is false, and the case is now with the Justice Department.
The $65-a-share deal would combine the nation's leading food-delivery app with a top grocery platform. The Federal Trade Commission announced the same day that it is examining how both companies set prices.
Special Agent David Howell, still on active duty, told CBS News he warned managers for three years. New Mexico's attorney general is suing, and the Justice Department inspector general is investigating.
WatchThe smallest media market in baseball ends a 57-year wait with a 103-win team that went 11-2 in October.
The Manhattan federal judge, who handled 9/11 lawsuits and repeatedly ruled against Trump, was overseeing the criminal case of former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro.
Villa Vie Residences suspended the MV Odyssey's round-the-world voyage and told residents to pack within hours. Its CEO says the company will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Boston University researchers found signs of the brain disease in 94% of 387 donated brains, then adjusted for who donates. Outside doctors say the figure shouldn't be applied to today's players.
The co-founder of the United Farm Workers died at home Wednesday, her family said, closing a life that ran from the Delano grape strike to the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Two high-speed trains carrying 544 passengers collided near Toledo on Wednesday, derailing two cars in Spain's second deadly rail disaster this year.
A federal judge called the conduct 'monstrous' as the Miami real estate brothers, convicted of drugging and raping dozens of women, were sentenced in New York.
The Claude maker's S-1 shows revenue growing more than tenfold in a year, a ticker of ANT on the Nasdaq, and a warning that AI could slip out of human control.
An F-16 flew close in front of a civilian aircraft that strayed into restricted airspace while the president was in West Palm Beach to cast his early ballot.
Two federal agents near a western U.S. national security site reported a dark delta-wing craft that climbed without a sound, stopped for 20 seconds and then vanished at fighter-jet speed.

The CDC says 96% of this year's cases were unvaccinated or of unknown status, and New York's governor has declared a disaster emergency.
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton says Tehran has 'substantially increased efforts to target U.S. personnel' as the White House weighs resuming strikes after the midterms.
Tallahassee police say a fight in a crowded area after the football game preceded the shooting. No arrests have been made, and one victim remains in critical condition.
Experts say the Korean War-era law is unlikely to bring prices down quickly, with U.S. refineries already running flat out and crude oil at its highest level since May.

Colorado's governor declared disasters in 12 counties and Utah and New Mexico communities issued emergencies after storms fueled by a strong El Niño dropped historic rainfall on the Southwest.
WatchThe settlement, one of the largest in the history of the U.S. Catholic Church, still awaits signatures, but a lawyer for the survivors says every plaintiff has agreed to it.