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In an emotional interview, Stevie Wonder revealed some of his last words to his longtime friend and fellow music legend Aretha Franklin before her death on Thursday. "She wasn't able to speak back, but her family felt that she could hear me, and so I just said all the things that I've always said and told her to say hello to my sister – that I lost this year as well," Wonder said on "CBS This Morning" while choking up about his visit to Franklin's home in Detroit on Tuesday. "But, you know, she did incredible music, incredible singer. She touched every genre. Every singer was influenced in some way by the way she sang, and they will forever be influenced by her because of her voice, her emotion, her sincerity is unforgettable." Wonder said he and Franklin were talking about collaborating as recently as two months ago. "We'd been talking about it. There was a song that I had written called 'The Future,' and we were going to sing it together. And so," Franklin said, pausing as he … [Read more...] about Stevie Wonder reveals his last words to Aretha Franklin before she died

Mylan's EpiPen, the life-saving and costly allergy treatment, will soon face a generic rival, a first in more than two decades on the market. The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday cleared Teva Pharmaceutical Industries to start selling generic versions EpiPen and EpiPen Jr., years after the Israeli drugmaker requested it.  The products are the first generic treatments that compete directly with EpiPen, whose price has soared more than 400 percent in the past decade, and that can be used to replace the brand-name version. Since acquiring the rights to EpiPen in 2007, when a dose cost about $57, Mylan sparked public furor two years ago by hiking the cost of EpiPen to $600 for a two-pack of the auto-injecting pens. After drawing fire from patients and politicians, Mylan offered a generic version of its device for about half the price.  "This approval means patients living with severe allergies who require constant access to life-saving epinephrine should have a lower-cost … [Read more...] about Generic EpiPen cleared by FDA as Teva challenges Mylan

U.S. broadband service, already slower and more expensive than in many other countries, could get even pricier. That's because major internet providers such as AT&T and Verizon want the Federal Communications Commission to scrap a key provision that some say helps keep broadband costs low for small businesses and consumers. Under the rule, large telecom companies must allow smaller rivals to piggy-back on their networks at rates set by the government. Those smaller rivals then sell internet service to consumers and businesses.  Now, a trade group that represents ISPs has made a formal request to the FCC to waive the rule. Some industry participants say that could result in higher prices for consumers. "Without the threat of upstart rivals, incumbent players will invest less in their networks and charge more to consumers," according to Dave Jasper,  CEO of Sonic, an ISP which benefits from the rule, told Wired.  Since then, various organizations have filed public … [Read more...] about High-speed internet service may be poised for a price hike

In an interview to air Sunday on "Face the Nation," Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand responded to President Trump's latest attack on the New York Democrat, accusing the president of renewing "a sexist smear" against her. "I think it was a very weak attack, and frankly I was surprised it was the best he could do," Gillibrand told Margaret Brennan, moderator of "Face the Nation." The president's broadside this week came at a fundraising event for Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney, who is running for re-election in New York's 22nd Congressional District. "She's been up to my office looking for campaign contributions. And she's very aggressive on contributions. But she's not aggressive on getting things done," the president said Monday of Gillibrand, to broad laughter from the Utica, N.Y. crowd. In December, the president was roundly criticized for tweeting that Gillibrand would "do anything" in "begging" for campaign contributions from Trump. Democrats slammed the remark as inappropriate and … [Read more...] about Gillibrand: Trump attack “clearly a sexist smear”

SAN FRANCISCO — More than a thousand Google employees have signed a letter protesting the company's secretive plan to build a search engine that would comply with Chinese censorship. The letter calls on executives to review ethics and transparency at the company. "Currently we do not have the information required to make ethically-informed decisions about our work, our projects, and our employment," the letter states, according to the New York Times. The letter's contents were confirmed by a Google employee who helped organize it but who requested anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the debate. The letter says employees lack the information required "to make ethically informed decisions about our work" and complains that most employees only found out about the project — nicknamed Dragonfly — through media reports. The letter is similar to one thousands of employees had signed in protest of Project Maven, a U.S. military contract that Google decided in June … [Read more...] about Google workers protest censored China search