Pacific Gas and Electric has reworked a $13.5 billion settlement with victims of deadly wildfires blamed on the utility to try to prevent it from unraveling after California Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected the company’s financial rehabilitation plan By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Business Writer December 17, 2019, 10:10 PM 3 min read SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific […]
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Michigan is suing four companies over the deadly painkiller epidemic By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press December 17, 2019, 10:04 PM 4 min read LANSING, Mich. — Michigan on Tuesday sued four companies over the deadly painkiller epidemic, becoming what state Attorney General Dana Nessel said is the first state to sue major opioid distributors under
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Image copyright Peter Thompson Associates Image caption Les Miserables debuted in the UK in 1985 Actors manning the barricades in a performance of Les Miserables came closer to reality than usual when the scenery was set on fire by accident. The show at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff was paused for about 10 minutes
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A fifth former Google worker has filed a complaint with federal regulators accusing the company of improperly firing employees for labor organizing activity By RACHEL LERMAN AP Technology Writer December 17, 2019, 9:25 PM 3 min read SAN FRANCISCO — A fifth former Google worker has filed a complaint with federal regulators accusing the company
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ESPN has reached a settlement with a former on-air personality who sued the cable sports giant alleging sexual harassment December 17, 2019, 9:05 PM 2 min read HARTFORD, Conn. — ESPN has reached a settlement with a former on-air personality who sued the cable sports giant alleging sexual harassment. In an agreement filed Dec. 12
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Former MP Mary Creagh has said she confronted Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in Portcullis House after seeing him pose for photos with young people. Ms Creagh lost her long-held Labour seat of Wakefield in the 2019 general election. She told the BBC: “I saw Jeremy taking selfies with these young people, and I thought rather
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Image caption Kettering General Hospital admitted it made mistakes in the care of an 86-year-old woman A hospital failed to spot an 86-year-old woman had a broken neck following a fall at a nursing home, a review has revealed. The woman, referred to as Mrs Webster in the Northamptonshire Safeguarding Adults Review, was admitted to
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Demi Lovato wants everyone to know that she’s a survivor. Images of the pop star sporting some new ink circulated Monday on Instagram, where tattoo artist Dr. Woo showed off the word “survivor” written in cursive on Lovato’s neck. “On a real one 💪🏼🙏🏼 @ddlovato,” Woo wrote, adding with the hashtags #hideawayatsuitex and #slimneedle. Photographer Angelo
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Image copyright Reuters Image caption The Sackler family, which owns Purdue Pharma, is accused of fuelling the US’s opioid crisis The billionaire Sackler family started to take far more money out of Oxycontin-producer Purdue Pharma after the firm pleaded guilty to misleading marketing in 2007. The family transferred about $10.7bn (£8bn) out of Purdue Pharma
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In a summary of the case in a search warrant, a Ministry of Interior investigator, E.A. Spirenkova, said Nginx’s popular software belonged to Rambler, a Russian internet and media holding company controlled by a state bank and a well-connected billionaire. Both Mr. Sysoyev and Mr. Konovalov worked previously at Rambler, which, according to the investigator,
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