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Starbucks Coffee Co. will bring its Mobile Order & Pay to 300 stores in the Toronto area on Oct. 13, the coffee brewing firm announced on Tuesday. Following successful launches in company-owned stores across the U.S., mobile ordering is emerging as the fastest and easiest way for Starbucks customers to order ahead, then pay and pick up their purchases – …

Getting a flu shot may protect you not only from flu, but also from pneumonia, the leading cause of flu-related hospitalizations and deaths, a new study suggests. Scientists took data from the Etiology of Pneumonia in the Community, or EPIC, a study conducted at academic medical centers in Chicago, Memphis, Nashville and Salt Lake City in collaboration with the Centers …

Chloe Goins, a model who has accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault at the Playboy Mansion in 2008, filed a civil lawsuit in a Los Angeles federal court on Tuesday. In the lawsuit, Goins said Cosby brought her a drink. She said she felt sick and dizzy after drinking the cocktail.

Man Fired for Making Racist Jokes About His Coworker’s 3-Year-Old Son “Cayden”. The Root reports that last month, Polaris Marketing Group employee Gerod Roth, who goes by Geris Hilton online, uploaded a photo with Cayden, his Black co-worker’s 3-year-old son. Soon after he uploaded the photo to social media, it was flooded with racist comments from his friends.

A Kentucky man is in critical condition after being attacked by a large python at a reptile shop. Kentucky police tell local news outlets that owner Terry Wilkens was feeding the snake Monday morning when the 125-pound (56.7-kilogram) python attacked.

8-year-old girl shot and killed by 11-year-old boy over argument about puppy. WATE reports the boy has been charged with first-degree murder. The unidentified boy was talking to three girls who were outside his mobile home on Saturday evening and asked one of them if he could see her two new puppies, but the girl refused, according to Jefferson County …

Al Roker is apologizing for taking a smiling selfie amid the South Carolina floods that have ravaged parts of the state and left multiple people dead. “Absolutely correct,” Roker, 61, tweeted in response to social media posts taking him to task for the since-deleted image, which he had captioned, “My crew and I getting ready to report on East Coast …

Jenelle Evans reportedly took a nasty fall in her driveway and wound up having to get rushed to the hospital. “Jenelle was going out to dinner with her boyfriend David [Eason] and friend Tori, and when she got home, everything was flooded on her street and she slipped and fell on the driveway getting out of the car,” a source …

Textbook publisher McGraw-Hill said they will rewrite a textbook after a Texas mom made a complaint saying slaves were considered as “immigrant workers” in her son’s text book. Roni Dean-Burren took to social media last week after her son made her aware of the wording of a passage in his 9th-grade “World Geography” textbook that refers to African slaves as …

A significant number of men on the verge of becoming fathers get depressed during their partner’s pregnancy, a new study from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre suggests. A team from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) sheds light on fathers’ mental health by releasing the first study to report the prevalence of …

Ohio toddler rescued in field 2 days after she was reported missing. After disappearing for two days, 2-year-old Rainn Peterson was found Sunday evening unharmed in a field off Peck-Leach Road, less than a half mile south of the North Bloomfield home where she had been staying.