Biotechnology

Hawaii tapping outside investigator as wildfire response scrutiny grows

Hawaii will hire an independent investigator to look into how state and local agencies responded to catastrophic wildfires that have…

Hawaii wildfires: Biden vows immediate aid, deploys military to assist victims

President Joe Biden on Thursday vowed immediate assistance for Maui residents who have lost loved ones and their homes in…

White House unveils plan to eliminate threat of fentanyl laced with xylazine

The Biden administration unveiled a plan Tuesday to eliminate the growing threat of fentanyl laced with xylazine, an illegal street…

Watch live: President Biden and India Prime Minister Modi speak at the White House

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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Lululemon, SentinelOne, T-Mobile, MongoDB and more

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Lululemon — The athleisure apparel company rallied 11.3% on strong fiscal…

Big drug company CEOs to testify at Senate Health committee on insulin prices

The top executives of the three drug companies that control 90% of the global insulin market will testify May 10…

U.S. bankruptcy judge halts 40,000 Johnson & Johnson talc and cancer lawsuits

A federal bankruptcy judge on Thursday halted roughly 40,000 lawsuits that allege Johnson & Johnson‘s baby powder and other talc…

DOJ charges 18 people — including doctors — in massive Covid health-care fraud takedowns

Eighteen people, some of them doctors, were criminally charged with Covid-19 health-care fraud schemes that netted hundreds of millions of…

Supreme Court maintains full access to abortion pill mifepristone until at least Friday

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday issued an order allowing the abortion pill mifepristone to remain available by mail…

Texas mifepristone ruling threatens abortion access in states where procedure is legal, attorneys general say

Attorneys general for nearly half of U.S. states in a new court filing warn that a federal judge’s decision to…