July 2019

Latest: Oklahoma prosecutor calls drugmaker opioid ‘kingpin’

The Latest on Oklahoma’s lawsuit against consumer products giant Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries over the opioid crisis (all times local): 9:25 a.m. Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter has described consumer products giant Johnson & Johnson as the “kingpin” company that helped fuel the state’s opioid crisis during closing arguments in the state’s case

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Codebreaker Alan Turing to be face of new British banknote

Codebreaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing has been chosen as the face of Britain’s new 50 pound note, the Bank of England announced Monday. Governor Mark Carney said Turing, who did ground-breaking work on computers and artificial intelligence, was “a giant on whose shoulders so many now stand.” During World War II Turing worked at

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Trump Accuses 4 Democratic Congresswomen of Spewing ‘Racist Hatred’

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday increased his attacks on four freshman Democratic congresswomen and warned the party about uniting “around the foul language & racist hatred spewed” from the four American women whom he recently told to “go back” to their own countries. Fellow Republicans have been reluctant to publicly respond to Mr. Trump’s

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