- Associated Press
Georgia governor signs law adding regulations for production and sale of herbal supplement kratom
Georgia's governor on Thursday signed a bill putting new regulations on the production and sale of products containing kratom, a plant-based supplement. It also limits the concentration of kratom's main chemical components in products sold in Georgia, imposes new labeling requirements and adds penalties for violations. It's often sold in gas stations or smoke shops, marketed as an aid for pain, anxiety and drug dependence.
- Associated Press
Today's campus protests aren't nearly as big or violent as those last century -- at least, not yet
In a way, the black-and-white Palestinian scarf draped over Hannah Sattler’s shoulders this week and the tie-dyed T-shirts of 1968 are woven from a common thread. Like so many college students across the country protesting the Israel-Hamas war, Sattler feels the historic weight of the anti-Vietnam war demonstrations of the 1960s and 70s. “They always talked about the ’68 protest as sort of a North Star,” Sattler, 27, a graduate student of international human rights policy at Columbia University, said of the campus organizers there.
- CBC
3-month-old, grandparents visiting from India killed in 401 crash: SIU
Ontario's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has released more information about Monday's crash that killed four people, including a three-month-old boy, after police chased a suspect through oncoming traffic on Highway 401 east of Toronto.
