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NEW YORK (AP) — A drop in oil prices and discouraging news about retail sales are sending stocks plunging. The Dow Jones industrial average has been down by more than 500 points in midday trading. Financial and energy companies are leading the declines, with the price of oil falling below $30 a barrel.
WASHINGTON (AP) — An Army report says a one-star general and 11 other people associated with an Army biodefense laboratory face potential punishment for failures that contributed to the mistaken shipment of live anthrax to other labs. Today's report names Brig. Gen. William E. King, who commanded the lab at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah between 2009 and 2011. The lab came under scrutiny when it was disclosed last May that live anthrax had been shipped by mistake to 194 other labs.
PARIS (AP) — The French Health Ministry says one man is brain dead and three others are facing possible permanent brain damage after volunteering to take part in a botched drug test in western France. Officials say 90 healthy volunteers were given the experimental drug in varying doses beginning on Jan. 7. Six male volunteers between 28 and 49 years old have since been hospitalized. The drug trial was testing a new painkiller compound.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Two spacewalking astronauts — including Britain's first — have successfully restored full power to the International Space Station after replacing a broken electronic box. But they had to cut short their spacewalk after NASA astronaut Timothy Kopra reported a small water bubble inside his helmet, and a few minutes later, a film of water.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Lawyers for Bill Cosby's wife are appealing a judge's decision allowing her to be questioned under oath in a Massachusetts defamation lawsuit. Camille Cosby's lawyers say a Massachusetts rule prohibits a spouse from testifying about private marital conversations in any court proceeding. A judge last month ruled that the marital disqualification rule doesn't apply to deposition testimony. The defamation suit was filed by seven women who allege Bill Cosby sexually abused them decades ago.
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