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SAN ANSELMO, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 05: In this photo illustration, a container of Johnson and Johnson baby powder is displayed on April 05, 2023 in San Anselmo, California. Johnson & Johnson announced an agreement on Tuesday to pay $8.9 billion to tens of thousands of people who say the company’s talcum powder products caused cancer. (Photo Illustration by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Johnson & Johnson hit by 11,000 more lawsuits linking Baby Powder to cancer after judge throws $9 billion settlement case

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DETROIT, MICHIGAN – AUGUST 19: Trevor Lawrence #16 of the Jacksonville Jaguars warms up before the preseason game against the Detroit Lions at Ford Field on August 19, 2023 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Nic Antaya/Getty Images)

NFL quarterback Trevor Lawrence to settle allegations he helped failed FTX crypto exchange dupe customers out of billions

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Maplewood, Minnesota, 3M company global headquarters. 3M produces the N95 respirator masks for the coronavirus. (Photo by: Michael Siluk/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

3M agrees to pay $5.5 billion over defective military earplugs—about half what financial analysts expected

By Jef Feeley, Ryan Beene, and others

PARIS, FRANCE – JUNE 16: Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, Elon Musk attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre on June 16, 2023 in Paris, France. Elon Musk is visiting Paris for the VivaTech show where he gives a conference in front of 4,000 technology enthusiasts. He also took the opportunity to meet Bernard Arnaud, CEO of LVMH and the French President. Emmanuel Macron, who has already met Elon Musk twice in recent months, hopes to convince him to set up a Tesla battery factory in France, his pioneer company in electric cars. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)

Tesla’s board will return $735 million in stock and cash to settle claims directors were grossly overpaid

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Rupert Murdoch

With Rupert Murdoch likely to be first called to testify about Fox News lies, settlement talks are suddenly getting serious, sources say

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a person uses Johnson & Johnson baby powder.

Johnson & Johnson offers $8.9 billion settlement to roughly 60,000 people who claim its talc products gave them cancer

By Jef Feeley, Steven Church, and others

An oily film covers Leslie Run creek in East Palestine, Ohio, US, on Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. Three weeks after a Norfolk Southern Corp. train crashed and caught fire in East Palestine, Ohio, releasing hazardous chemicals into the air and water, the towns residents have more questions than answers. Photographer: Matthew Hatcher/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Norfolk Southern is accused of plans to destroy evidence by moving Ohio train wreck that caused a toxic plume

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FUERSTENWALDE, GERMANY – SEPTEMBER 03: Tesla head Elon Musk talks to the press as he arrives to have a look at the construction site of the new Tesla Gigafactory near Berlin on September 03, 2020 near Gruenheide, Germany. Musk is currently in Germany where he met with vaccine maker CureVac on Tuesday, with which Tesla has a cooperation to build devices for producing RNA vaccines, as well as German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier yesterday. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

What if Tesla loses Elon Musk? The company’s board faces growing pressure to prepare for the possibility

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A CVS Pharmacy is shown in Mount Lebanon, Pa., on Monday May 3, 2021. On Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022, CVS Health said it has agreed to pay about $5 billion to state, local and Native American tribal governments to settle lawsuits over the toll of opioids. CVS is not admitting wrongdoing and the company would make the payments over a decade. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

CVS, Walgreens and Walmart agree to pay $12 billion to settle opioid epidemic lawsuits

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SWITZERLAND – JANUARY 30: Daniel S. Och, chairman and chief executive officer of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC, speaks during a session on day three of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Friday, Jan. 30, 2009. This year’s meeting, which is titled “Shaping the Post-Crisis World,” runs until Feb. 1. (Photo by Adrian Moser/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Inside the ugly dispute between a hedge fund and its founder, who elevated his kids’ former camp counselor to CEO

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Photo of Elon Musk

A judge halted the Twitter trial for Elon Musk to close the deal. He has until Oct. 28

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Elon Musk

Elon Musk says Twitter ‘will not take yes for an answer’ as he asks judge to halt lawsuit over $44B deal

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk looks up as he addresses guests at the Offshore Northern Seas 2022 (ONS) meeting in Stavanger, Norway on August 29, 2022. – The meeting, held in Stavanger from August 29 to September 1, 2022, presents the latest developments in Norway and internationally related to the energy, oil and gas sector. – Norway OUT (Photo by Carina Johansen / NTB / AFP) / Norway OUT (Photo by CARINA JOHANSEN/NTB/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Glaring deficiencies’. Judge slams Elon Musk for failing to hand over texts about Twitter buy

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Elon Musk during a T-Mobile and SpaceX joint event on August 25, 2022 in Boca Chica Beach, Texas. The two companies announced plans to work together to provide T-Mobile cellular service using Starlink satellites.

Musk and Twitter both subpoena whistle-blower in acquisition dispute

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David Sacks

A member of Elon Musk’s ‘PayPal Mafia’ says in court that Twitter is harassing his companies

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