UNITED NATIONS—The United States is urging U.N. Security Council members to respond to Iran for its recent ballistic missile launch. U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power said Monday Tehran’s missile launches last week were “dangerous, destabilizing and provocative” and “undermine the prospect for peace” in the region. Washington says the launches violate language of a U.N. resolution […]
If deemed safe, an experimental Ebola vaccine will be administered in a trial program in West Africa where tens of thousands of doses will be administered says the World Health Organization. This new news coming from WHO comes as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that all passengers arriving from three west African countries, […]
The son of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has been discharged from the military, reportedly after testing positive for cocaine. Media reports on Thursday quoted people familiar with the situation as saying Hunter Biden failed a drug test in June last year. The Navy Reserve, where Biden was a public affairs officer, confirmed the discharge […]
Social work researchers from the University of Washington have found that among a group of active-duty Army personnel who use illicit drugs, the most abused substance is synthetic marijuana, which is harder to detect than other drugs through standard drug tests. The research will be published in the July 2014 issue of Addictive Behaviors, but is already […]