Members of the family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion in a new settlement to lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller, the attorneys general from several states announced Thursday. The deal, agreed to by Purdue Pharma, the Sackler family members who…
Nuclear fusion, which is the source of the energy released from the Sun is considered the ultimate energy source even on Earth. The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) – also called ‘artificial sun’ – has achieved the milestone of 1,006 seconds of operations for sustained plasma temperature above 180 million degrees Fahrenheit (100 million degrees…
Prince Harry today accepted a ‘substantial’ payout from The Sun’s publisher which said sorry to him and his mother Princess Diana for intruding into their private lives. News Group Newspapers (NGN) offered an ‘unreserved apology’ to the Duke of Sussex for using private investigators to snoop on him. It is understood Harry’s payout is in…
Jan. 22 (UPI) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened Moscow with sanctions and called on President Vladimir Putin to make a deal to end Russia’s war with Ukrainefor the sake of his economy. Trump, who promised on the campaign trail that he could end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine quickly, said he and Putin always…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will begin deploying as many as 1,500 active duty troops to help secure the southern border in the coming days, U.S. officials said Wednesday, putting in motion plans President Donald Trump laid out in executive orders shortly after he took office to crack down on immigration. Acting Defense Secretary Robert…
The global elite in Davos woke up Tuesday breathing a sigh of relief after President Donald Trump concluded his first day in office only talking about trade wars rather than starting any. Bloomberg) — The global elite in Davos woke up Tuesday breathing a sigh of relief after President Donald Trump concluded his first day…
Despite losing more than 17,000 fighters in a relentless 15-month-long war campaign, Hamas rallied dozens of armed and masked terrorists to present an intimidating front for TV cameras during Sunday’s release of three Israeli hostages. The men — wearing green headbands, military fatigues and sunglasses — were supported by a braying mob of Palestinians in…
At least 76 people have been killed in a fire that engulfed a popular Turkish ski resort hotel, leaving some to jump out of windows. The fire broke out at the wooden-clad 12-storey Grand Kartal Hotel in Bolu at 03:27 local time (00:27 GMT) during a busy holiday period when 234 people were staying there….
President Donald J. Trump began his second term with a dramatic pledge to sweep away the liberal gains made by Democrats under Joe Biden, saying in his inaugural address Monday that he planned to sign a historic number of executive orders right away to begin reshaping American society in his image while ushering in a…
“You’re not gonna see in our administration that kind of approach to pardons” Joe Biden, when he took office on President Donald Trump’s departure in 2021, said he wouldn’t use pardons like Trump. Trump did, in fact, pardon a couple of dozen people, mostly during his last few days in office. They included Stephen Bannon,…