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The maker of EzriCare Artificial Tears said it was recalling the eye drops after U.S. health authorities linked the product to a drug-resistant bacteria strain.

The revelation comes days before Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Beijing, where he is expected to meet with President Xi Jinping.

They feigned friendship, moving into the ailing doctor’s beachfront home and giving him drugs, while they spent his money, according to the federal indictment. Both face a range of charges.

John Michael Musbach, 31, of Haddonfield, N.J., tried to hire a hit man to kill a child with whom he had exchanged sexually explicit photos, federal prosecutors said.

Manhattan prosecutors warned that they might charge Allen H. Weisselberg with insurance fraud to pressure him to cooperate in an investigation of the former president.

Eunice K. Dwumfour, 30, was found dead in her car with multiple gunshot wounds on Wednesday night. She was serving her first term on the Sayreville Borough Council.

The average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to 6.09 percent this week, the lowest in five months. Buyers are returning, but experts say the state of the economy will drive the market’s next moves.

The old aircraft carrier, once the navy’s flagship, is packed with asbestos. No country, including Brazil, will let it dock to be dismantled.

Bobbi Wilson, 9, was hunting for spotted lanternflies, an invasive species, in New Jersey. A neighbor called the police, but her effort has since earned recognition “from far and wide,” her mother said.

The total was driven up by a small group of very expensive cases, including a settlement with a man wrongly accused of assassinating Malcolm X.

The official course looks different from a previous draft: No more critical race theory, and the study of contemporary topics — like Black Lives Matter — is optional.

More than 300,000 customers in the state were without electricity on Wednesday, as wintry conditions continued across the South. Thousands of flights had been canceled early Wednesday.

Joshua Sills, 25, was indicted in Ohio in the rape of a woman in December 2019, prosecutors announced on Wednesday.

Savers will benefit and borrowers can expect to pay more on credit cards, student loans and other forms of debt.

A spate of incidents, including protests among taxi drivers in Cancún and a stray bullet at an airport in Culiacán, has tourists asking the question.

Stuck in a mental loop of worries and problems that seem to have no end? Here’s what you can do.

In the course of offering financial advice, a mother shared a personal story about her marriage with her adult daughter, who later forwarded the entire exchange to her father.

The authorities had feared it would take weeks to scour hundreds of miles of an Australian desert for the pea-sized device.

Hot flashes, sleeplessness, pain during sex: For some of menopause’s worst symptoms, there’s an established treatment. Why aren’t more women offered it?

There has long been an effective, F.D.A.-approved treatment for some menopausal symptoms, but too few women have a clear picture of its risks and benefits.