A former senior Boeing test pilot told a co-worker that he unknowingly misled safety regulators about problems with a flight-control system that would later be implicated in two deadly crashes of the company’s 737 Max.
Read moreThe Interior Department is reviewing recommendations to modernize campgrounds at national parks. The recommendations posted online this week come from an advisory committee created under former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke that has been looking at ways for private businesses to operate on public lands.
Read moreNegotiations aimed at reaching a major settlement in the nation’s opioid litigation reached an impasse Friday.
Read moreCalifornia regulators lambasted Pacific Gas and Electric’s top executives and board members over its botched handling of planned power blackouts during a 4.5-hour meeting Friday.
Read moreA dispute between two beer giants took an unexpected turn after Anheuser-Busch filed a counterclaim accusing a MillerCoors employee of stealing its recipes, brewing processes and other trade secrets using contacts and inside information gathered when he worked for Anheuser-Busch.
Read moreTaking up a case that will give its conservative majority another opportunity to press their vision of administrative agency power, the Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear an existential challenge to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Read moreFrench vintners are begging for government aid. Italian farmers are scrambling for new export markets. And American shoppers are about to face supermarket sticker shock on European products.
Read moreAt least 17 states sued Johnson & Johnson and Ethicon this week to confirm a $116 million settlement alleging consumer fraud in the sale of their woven surgical mesh implant for urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse.
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Pushing back on claims that Viagra and Cialis accelerate the progression of skin cancer, an oncologist testified Thursday that she studied the data and found no plausible link between the erectile dysfunction drugs and melanoma.
Read moreJury selection will begin Wednesday in a major bellwether trial testing the first of thousands of claims filed by local governments against pharmaceutical companies over the nation’s opioid epidemic.
Read moreThe Czech Republic’s constitutional court on Tuesday canceled a law slapping income tax on the billions the state will pay churches for assets seized by the Communists during their Cold War rule.
Read moreTourists are being ripped off at Amsterdam’s famous flower market, with just one 1% of all bulbs sold at the floating bazaar ever producing a blossom, investigators said Tuesday.
Read moreA class action claims that HP falsely advertises that its Pavilion desktop computers and others can transfer data at up to 5 gigabits per second, in Santa Clara County Court.
Read moreA diet heavy on cheap, modern food like instant noodles that fills bellies but lacks key nutrients has left millions of children unhealthily thin or overweight in southeast Asia, experts say.
Read moreJapan manages a rare feat for a developed country when it comes to feeding its children — high scores for nutrition but very low obesity rates. One major key? School lunches.
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