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Bayer AG has reached verbal agreements to resolve a substantial portion of an estimated 125,000 U.S. cancer lawsuits over use of its Roundup weedkiller, according to people familiar with the negotiations.

The deals, which...Read more

The European Union's budget hard-liners outlined elements of a deal for collectively financing the bloc's response to the coronavirus recession, signaling they may be open to concessions.

In a joint paper, the leaders of ...Read more

ST. LOUIS -- The coronavirus shutdown scrubbed Tom St. John's blowout birthday party -- and the surprise visit from his son, flying in from Korea -- weeks before April 8, when St. John turned 80. So daughter Gina Woodard, ...Read more

Hertz Global Holdings Inc. filed for bankruptcy in Delaware after sweeping travel restrictions and the global economic collapse destroyed demand for its rental cars.

The Chapter 11 filing allows Hertz to keep operating ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- A drug company may have violated the privacy of thousands of people who are taking a medicine to prevent them from coming down with HIV.

Gilead Sciences, the biopharmaceutical giant, sent out a mass ...Read more

SEATTLE -- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) will cut hundreds of jobs in Washington state as it "consolidates all activities back to Japan" and close its U.S. operations for the troubled SpaceJet project, the company said...Read more

No more open calls for casting, clear barriers between actors and an end to self-service fruit platters.

Those are among the recommendations to film crews that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp released Friday in the first ...Read more

House Democrats proposed a roughly $3 trillion bill recently to battle the health and economic effects of COVID-19.

Some Republican lawmakers, and a top White House economic adviser, have cautioned against another round ...Read more

The idea of a universal basic income -- a regular stipend paid to every American adult to meet minimum life needs -- has been bubbling around the edges of American politics for decades.

With the coming of the coronavirus ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Corn farmers are throwing another government-backed Hail Mary this year, planting more of the crop than in 2019 even though prices are near the bottom of a six-year slump.

"They call it plant and pray," ...Read more

Pairing Tony Soprano with Elmo and Chandler Bing was always going to be tricky.

Would the murderous mob boss befriend a red Muppet? Forget about it. Nor would Tony Soprano have much patience for the wiseguy antics of ...Read more

If you have found yourself furloughed or are facing a reduced paycheck, and need some new wheels, you'll want a new ride at the lowest possible cost. Enter the frugal finds, the 10 least expensive new vehicles you can buy,...Read more