Hazardous spill
SAN FRANCISCO – A hazardous material spill at Tesla Inc’s battery plant in Nevada on Monday was being investigated by emergency workers but there were no serious injuries, the company said.
Tesla spokesman Dave Arnold said a drum of “standard construction cleaning solvent” was spilled at a loading dock and a small area of the building was evacuated.
“Out of an abundance of caution, a couple of employees who may have been exposed are being transferred to the local hospital,” said Mr Arnold.
Trump to decide
WASHINGTON – Advisers to President Donald Trump will meet on today to discuss whether to recommend that he withdraw the US from the Paris climate accord, a White House official said on Monday.
The accord, agreed on by nearly 200 countries in Paris in 2015, aims to limit planetary warming in part by slashing carbon dioxide and other emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. Under the pact, the US committed to reducing its emissions by 26 to 28 per cent from 2005 levels by 2025.
Up and high
ADOLESCENT girls are more than twice as likely to smoke marijuana if they’re pregnant, a US study suggests.
While previous research has tied teen drug and alcohol use to higher odds of multiple sex partners and pregnancy, the current study offers fresh insight into marijuana use among young women. About 14 per cent of pregnant girls ages 12 to 17 smoke marijuana, compared with about 6 per cent of their non-pregnant peers, the study found.
Bladder cancer
GENENTECH, a unit of Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG, said on Monday it got approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for its already approved immunotherapy drug, Tecentriq, to treat advanced bladder cancer.
Tecentriq, also known as atezolizumab, received the go-ahead under the FDA’s accelerated approval program as a first-line treatment for patients with advanced bladder cancer who are not eligible for standard cisplatin chemotherapy.
Egg tradition
HORHAUSEN, Germany – While many Germans spent Easter Sunday engaged in a fun-filled hunts for chocolate eggs, residents of the western town of Horhausen passed their time throwing real eggs in a tradition that goes back several decades.
Local people braved the rain to stand in a field lobbing the brightly painted eggs as far as possible, without breaking them, to try to win a popular annual competition. Each contestant was only allowed to throw one egg.
THE manhunt widened on Monday for a murder suspect who police said posted a video of himself on Facebook shooting an elderly man in Cleveland, where authorities appealed to the public for help in the case after urging the killer to turn himself in.
Police said they have received “dozens and dozens” of tips for possible sightings of the suspect, Steve Stephens, and tried to persuade him to surrender when they spoke with him via his cellphone on Sunday after the shooting.
