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(Reuters) – In an attempt to avoid further claims, Bayer AG is riskingly betting that an independent scientific review will finally prove that its widely used herbicide Roundup does not cause cancer, legal experts said. The company agreed on Wednesday to pay up to $ 10.9 billion to end litigation …

The Independent employs journalists from around the world to bring you truly independent journalism. To support us, consider a contribution. The United States House passed a comprehensive legislative package to reform police surveillance that includes a nationwide ban on strangling arrests and no-hit orders, along with provisions that would facilitate …

Brad Daugherty, co-owner of JTG Daugherty Racing, said NASCAR is going in the right direction in its battle against racial bias and systemic inequality, but there is still a lot of work to do. “It is up to us in NASCAR to do better,” Daugherty said in a media conference …

Retired Wall Street analyst Ron Glantz is a heavy traveler, and this year’s agenda was to include trips to Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan in May; as well as an excursion to Rwanda and Tanzania at the end of the summer. Now, it turns out, all those trips have been canceled …

Who would be the first to receive a COVID-19 vaccine? Probably people in the country where the first effective vaccine is developed. About a dozen different vaccines are in various stages of testing worldwide, including in Britain, China, and the US This week, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the leading US infectious …