Bloomberg Hurricane Irma smashed into Florida as a powerful Category 4 storm, driving a wall of water and violent winds ashore and marking the first time since 1964 the U.S. was hit by back-to-back major hurricanes. The eye of the storm moved over the lower Florida Keys at about 9 a.m. on Sunday with top winds of 130 miles (209 ...

Bloomberg You don’t need to tell UK nurses what this week’s inflation and wage data will show. They say their living standards have been squeezed for seven years, and now it’s reached crisis point. With reports from the Office for National Statistics set to show pay continuing to lag price growth in Britain, nurses are just the latest group of ...

Bloomberg The state of Ohio’s lawsuit against opioid maker Purdue Pharma should be thrown out because it runs afoul of federal drug regulations and doesn’t show the company’s Oxycontin painkiller marketing caused specific harm, according to a court filing. Stamford, Connecticut-based Purdue filed its response in state court in Ohio to Attorney General Mike DeWine’s May suit, accusing the pharmaceutical ...