Johnson & Johnson will pay $72 million in damages after a jury found it failed to warn consumers that its baby powder could cause cancer.
The Media Can Legally Lie. In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an assertion by FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States.
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Prince has died aged 57 at his estate in Minnesota, just days after he was rushed to hospital from his private plane with severe flu.
Paramedics were called out to the music icon's Paisley Park estate at 9.43am and Carver County Sheriff's Department confirmed that there had been a fatality.
A forensics team and a medical examiner are at the scene.
Prince - full name Prince Rogers Nelson - was rushed to hospital six days ago with flu symptoms after his private plane made an emergency landing.
He was aboard his private flight when he fell ill, forcing it to make an unscheduled landing in Illinois on Friday morning.
TMZ reported that the seven-time Grammy award winning singer's plane diverted to Quad City International Airport in Moline, Illinois, to make the emergency landing.
He had had been suffering from flu for a number of weeks and was believed to be recovering, but took a turn for the worse in the early hours of Friday.
He was treated for three hours before being released.
The EPA plans to reevaluate standards for tritium in water. So how much are you getting? Well add the Solar, environmental and contaminated water, food processing and other sources
The agency’s recent announcement in the Federal Register notes that tritium levels as high as 3.2 million picocuries per liter (pCi/L) in ground water have been reported to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) at some nuclear facilities. (A curie is a unit of radiation emission; a picocurie is one trillionth of a curie.) That is 160 times higher than the standard set back in 1977 by the fledgling EPA—and the NRC has made measurements even higher at some nuclear facilities. "Because of these releases to groundwater at these sites, and related investigations, the agency considers it prudent to reexamine its initial assumption in 1977 that the water pathway is not a pathway of concern," the EPA stated in its filing.
Just one week ago, it looked like we were set to enter the first spotless stretch of 2016, as the Earthward face of Sol presented one lonely sunspot group going ’round the limb, headed towards the solar far side.
Ah, but a few days can make all the difference when it comes to solar astronomy. Late Sunday night we were flooded with new solar images taken by observers worldwide, showing the emergence of sunspot active region AR 2529. This monster spot is easily already number one with a bullet for 2016.
And as Gadi Eidelheit based in Israel notes, you can already see AR 2529 without magnification, using solar filter glasses:
“Tremors have been felt from Peshawar, parts of North Punjab, Balochistan and Khyber-Pankhtuwa region,” local journalist Yusra Akari told India.com.
According to scientist Pallava Bagla, casualties are expected.
An earthquake has struck Afghanistan, according to seismological centers and witnesses. The quake is said to have been felt in India, Pakistan and Tajikistan, and was initially measured as magnitude 7.1, although the US Geological Survey later put it at 6.6.
The quake had a depth of 210km and took pace 39km from the town of Ashkasham, Afghanistan, the USGS reported. The China Earthquake Networks Center first measured it at 7.3 magnitude, with various centers then putting the magnitude anywhere between that and the USGS’ measurement of 6.6.
At least 2 people were killed and 10 injured in Pakistan as a result of the quake, according to Xinhua
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| Location | 36.492N 71.156E |
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Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama provides the full spectrum of Air Force education, from pre-commissioning to the highest levels of professional military education, including degree granting and professional continuing education for officers, enlisted and civilian personnel throughout their careers. AU’s PME programs educate Airmen on the capabilities of air and space power and its role in national security. AU conducts research in air, space and cyberspace power, education, leadership and management. AU also provides citizenship programs and contributes to the development and testing of Air Force doctrine, concepts and strategy. (Read the full fact sheet on the AU Web site: http://www.maxwell.af.mil/shared/AFImages/AUshield.gif
An ICIJ probe finds that Panama-based Mossack Fonseca has helped many politicians and their families operate businesses in secrecy, offshore.
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/1.712425Panama Papers: Hundreds of Israeli companies, shareholders listed in leaked documents detailing offshore holdings
The Putin connection: Cronies of Russian president used shady companies to funnel $2 billion
Panama Papers: The prime ministers, presidents and kings who benefited from tax shelters
These findings are being disclosed on Sunday and over the next several days with the publication of the results of an investigation conducted by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and more than 100 other media organizations, among them Haaretz. The database of 11.5 million documents and correspondences that has come into the hands of the ICIJ reveals how a global industry of law firms and large banks sell financial secrecy services to politicians, crooks and drug dealers as well as billionaires, celebrities and sports stars.
