As all eyes are on the conservative-majority Supreme Court as they ponder the fate of the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that made abortion legal in the US, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Thursday they are permanently lifting restriction to abortion medication, including mifepristone, which is... Read More »
To the many millions of viewers who eagerly watched the first two episodes of HBO’s follow up to its long-time hit series ‘Sex in the City,' the savagery of time brought some sobering moments to this New York City-centric plotline. One of the four main characters, Samantha, was absent, explained... Read More »
In a creative re-usage of the controversial new Texas Abortion law, SB 8, where anyone, anywhere can sue doctors who perform abortions in the state, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced new legislation that would allow residents to sue firearm manufacturers and sellers. Newsom announced the new proposed gun measures on... Read More »
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Tuesday that a firm once owned by “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli must pay a $40 million settlement due to bumping the price of medicine by about 4,000 percent. The life-saving drug, Daraprim, was owned exclusively by Shkreli’s formerly owned firm Vyera Pharmaceuticals LLC and... Read More »
During the 2 1/2 hour closing arguments in an ongoing opioid trial, brought by New York State and counties alleging the drugmaker Allergan flooded the state with opioids, the firm agreed to a $200 million settlement. The lawsuit was specifically against AbbVie Inc, a company that is part of Allergan,... Read More »
The House Oversight and Reform Committee investigation delving into the firing of NFL Las Vegas Raider’s coach Jon Gruden just took a turn for the slow lane, as members requested emails pertaining to the ongoing, prior NFL investigation. As history has shown clearly with the Hillary Clinton email investigation, gathering... Read More »
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and pharmaceutical company Moderna are fighting over who should get the official credit for the innovative component of the ground-breaking COVID-19 vaccine. When first working together to battle COVID-19, the NIH called it the “NIH-Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.” Now, both companies are locked in... Read More »
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Louisiana on Saturday stopped the new Biden vaccination mandate for large businesses, citing “grave issues.” The new Biden vaccine order requires any American company with 100 or more employees to mandate vaccinations and would impact about 84 million workers. It... Read More »
It’s a long way to fall from grace when you are former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who emerged during the early days of the pandemic as a hero to the nation. On the heels of numerous charges of sexual harassment from eleven women, Governor Cuomo resigned in disgrace in August and... Read More »
The fatal shooting of a young cinematographer and secondary shooting of the director by actor and producer Alec Baldwin quickly morphed from a hit movie in the making to a supernova legal case, destined to become its own chart-topping film. The prop gun used by Baldwin in the death of... Read More »
The U.S. House’s January 6 Executive Select Committee on Tuesday voted 9 to 0 to recommend that Steve Bannon, a former close advisor to President Donald Trump, be charged with criminal contempt. Steven Bannon, facing a congressional subpoena, defied the order to cooperate. This high-profile case raises a legal conundrum... Read More »
VNUE, Inc. (OTC: VNUE), a Microcap national music tech innovator, filed a lawsuit in the United States Federal District Court for the Eastern District of New York last week against Power Up Lending Group, LTD and founder Curt Kramer. VNUE accuses the plaintiffs of breaking Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)... Read More »
A Facebook former product manager, Frances Haugen, an insider-turned whistleblower, spoke at the Senate hearing created to “protect kids online.” The discussion focused on social media and its impact upon everyday teenagers, who have been exposed to hateful posts and misinformation on numerous platforms, on Facebook, Instagram, and more. Haugen... Read More »
Three Florida residents have been charged with allegedly breaking Iran sanction rules after they exported scientific equipment to the country and received large sums of money from international wire transfers. Mohammad Faghihi, 52, his wife Farzeneh Modarresi, 53, and his sister Faezeh Faghihi, 50, were the perpetrators in the scheme.... Read More »
After a federal judge threw out an original Federal Trade Commission (F.T.C.) case against Facebook in June, brought by forty states, that accused the platform of being a monopoly, the F.T.C. came out swinging on Thursday. Led by the new F.T.C. chair Lina Khan, the refiled federal suit now contains... Read More »
