The Laundress is recalling more than eight million laundry and cleaning products sold online and at stores nationwide because they may be contaminated with bacteria.  The pricey and environmentally conscious brand found different types of bacteria in testing some of its products, the Unilever subsidiary said Thursday in a recall …

Claire Foy, the British actress best known for her role in “The Crown,” stars in a new film that had a therapist on set as actors and crew grappled with material she said was “very triggering.” The film, “Women Talking,” follows a group of women inside an ultra-religious Mennonite colony …

A Missouri inmate convicted of ambushing and killing a St. Louis area police officer he blamed in the death of his younger brother was executed Tuesday night. Kevin Johnson, 37, died after an injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Bonne Terre. It was the state’s second execution this …

Washington — A panel of three judges on the federal appeals court in Atlanta appeared skeptical Tuesday of former President Donald Trump’s arguments for continuing the review by an independent arbiter of documents seized at his Mar-a-Lago resort. They raised concerns about the precedent it would set if a lower …

A New Jersey woman convicted of murder in the death of her 17-month-old son 4 1/2 years ago has been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole, authorities said. Judge Gwendolyn Blue also sentenced Heather Reynolds, 45, of Sicklervile last week to concurrent terms on child endangerment and …

Walking barefoot along Hollywood’s iconic Walk of Fame on Monday, award-winning actor Christina Applegate was beaming as she accepted her own mark among the stars. It was Applegate’s first public appearance in more than a year, since she disclosed in August 2021 that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.  …

A woman was arrested last week in New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport after customs officers discovered nearly half a million dollars worth of cocaine in her wheelchair. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Monday that the woman, Emelinda Paulino De Rivas, was arrested on Nov. 10. She arrived …

The Biden Administration’s plan to provide up to $20,000 in loan relief for student borrowers is now halted after a federal judge in Texas blocked the program and declared it “unlawful,” raising questions and financial uncertainty for the roughly 40 million Americans who qualify for debt forgiveness.  Already, 26 million …

A judge threw out a lawsuit Monday that challenged voting by absentee ballot in Detroit, saying a Republican candidate for secretary of state failed to produce any evidence of violations. “Plaintiffs have raised a red flag of election law violations and corruption concerning Detroit’s procedures for the November 8th election. This …

Two former leaders of the company MoviePass and its parent entity, Helios and Matheson Analytics, are facing federal charges for allegedly defrauding investors amid the once-defunct ticketing service‘s dramatic public downfall several years ago. An indictment unsealed on Friday criminally charged Theodore Farnsworth, the former CEO of Helios and Matheson, …