J&J ordered to pay $1.5B in talc cancer lawsuit, vows to appeal

0 Comments

A Baltimore jury ordered Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries to pay over $1.5 billion to a woman who claimed decades of exposure to asbestos in the company’s talc-based products caused her peritoneal mesothelioma, a form of cancer. Jurors in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, Md., on Monday found the company, two of its subsidiaries and spinoff Kenvue liable […]


Trump vows to make US ‘undisputed Bitcoin superpower and crypto capital of the world’

0 Comments

President Donald Trump vowed to make America “the undisputed Bitcoin superpower and the crypto capital of the world” in remarks to the Blockworks Digital Assets Summit on Thursday. A pre-recorded video address by Trump was played at the summit in New York City. The president said his team was ending former President Joe Biden’s administration’s “regulatory war […]


McDonald’s boss vows to improve safety after E. coli outbreak

0 Comments

McDonald’s scrambled on Wednesday to contain the damage from an E. coli outbreak linked to Quarter Pounder burgers that has killed one person and sickened nearly 50 others, as it pulled the menu item from restaurants across a dozen states. The outbreak has sickened people across the US West and Midwest, with 10 hospitalized due to […]