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Impax Laboratories Inc has agreed to pay $35 million to resolve part of litigation over claims it entered into an anticompetitive deal in a patent case to delay releasing a generic version of the acne medication Solodyn. The settlement was disclosed in papers filed in federal court in Boston on Saturday. It resolved part of the antitrust litigation Impax faces over Solodyn related to sales of the drug to direct purchasers such as retailers and wholesalers. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2DhHg6G via Latest News

We received a very robust response to our Jan. 26 review of “Armed in America,” by Patrick J. Charles, that appeared in the Books section of CSMonitor.com. From the more than 100 reader responses that arrived within a few days of publishing it, we have chosen a few that give some idea of the range of opinion represented.  from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2GdEDWy via Latest News

Senators voted with Republicans to cripple banking oversight. The Senate is not on the side of those who elected its members. In an economy hollowed out by the Great Recession, legacy Democrats lurch, occasionally, in a populist direction before retreating to where they are most comfortable: doing favors for the rich in exchange for campaign donations. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2Il8KMn via Latest News

“We have to defeat [House Minority Leader] Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters ― a very low I.Q. individual,” Trump said. As the crowd booed the targets of his derision, Trump continued to attack Waters, mimicking her calls for his impeachment. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2GfEguI via Latest News

Patent Shows Apple's Ideas For A Dust And Crumb-Free MacBook Keyboard    Tech Times MacBook Pro 2018 Rumors: Major Design Overhaul in the Pipeline?    Christian Post Apple's Keyboard Patent Might Eliminate MacBook's Crumby Problem Permanently    The Inquisitr Full coverage from Technology - Google News http://ift.tt/2GdbOcN via Technology

A January report revealed Trump administration members discussed interfering with a young woman of color’s abortion while she was in federal custody. According to VICE News, officials in the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) considered delaying a 17-year-old refugee’s abortion procedure and instead engaging in an experimental method to “reverse” the abortion ― a controversial practice that some anti-abortion advocates have campaigned for. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2FDexyp via Latest News

Monmouth University poll also shows some respondents believe students pushing for gun reform are ‘being manipulated by outside groups’ Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school student Emma Gonzalez and classmates at a CNN town hall in Sunrise, Florida, on 21 February 2018. Photograph: Michael Laughlin/Sun-Sentinel via ZUMA Wire/Rex/Shutterstock from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2oXyerd via Latest News

The National Rifle Association filed a lawsuit in federal court on Friday to block a new gun law in Florida just over an hour after it was signed by Republican Gov. Rick Scott, who is an NRA member. The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act — passed three weeks after a mass shooting at the school killed 17 people — raises the minimum legal age for buying any guns in Florida from 18 to 21 and would allow some teachers and other staff in the Florida school system to be armed after training. SB 7026 also prohibits gun ownership by people mental health problems and expands the three-day waiting period that had applied only to handguns to now include long gun purchases. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2tErlQD via Latest News

The policy at Hasta Muerte Coffee has received both criticism and support. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2IfgfV8 via Latest News

President Donald Trump predicted "tremendous success" Saturday in upcoming groundbreaking talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and suggested the reclusive state wants to "make peace" despite a years-long nuclear standoff. The comments came after the American leader said he has received encouragement from the leaders of China and Japan, and assurance that North Korea had promised not to shoot missiles in the interim, as he moves toward the high stakes summit, announced suddenly this week. "I think North Korea is going to go very well, I think we will have tremendous success... We have a lot of support," Trump told reporters before boarding his Marine One helicopter to travel to a rally in Pennsylvania. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2oZD3QW via Latest News

WASHINGTON ― White House officials are refusing to turn over information to congressional leaders on their handling of domestic abuse allegations against former top aide Rob Porter, further raising questions about the Trump administration’s already muddled explanations. House Oversight Committee chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) launched an investigation into the White House’s handling of the matter on Feb. 14, giving chief of staff John Kelly a deadline of Feb. 28 to submit information, particularly on why Porter worked under an interim security clearance to handle sensitive information. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2HlpEJy via Latest News

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson canceled scheduled events on Saturday on the second day of a visit to Kenya because he had been feeling unwell, a State Department spokesman said, adding that he would resume his program on Sunday. "The secretary is not feeling well after a long couple days working on major issues back home such as North Korea and has canceled his events for the day," spokesman Steve Goldstein told reporters traveling with Tillerson. "Some events will go ahead without him, while they are looking at the possibility of rescheduling others," said Goldstein, under-secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs at the State Department. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2oZTHjr via Latest News

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday vowed to expand Turkey's offensive in Syria against Kurdish militia to key border towns controlled by the group right up to the Iraqi frontier. Turkey launched its operation seeking to oust Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia from the Afrin region of northern Syria on January 20 and Erdogan said Thursday its forces could now enter Afrin town at "any moment". from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2FvYCi8 via Latest News

Maligned "pharma bro" Marin Shkreli shed tears as he made a final plea to the judge who handed down his 7-year prison sentence in a New York courtroom on Friday afternoon for securities and wire fraud charges. SEE ALSO: Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli trolls journalists in the most menacing way Reporters for Vice, Bloomberg , and WCBS reported Shkreli's remorse for his many, many actions that have led to one of the biggest examples of schadenfreude we've seen in quite some time.  shkreli is crying at his sentencing right now — allie conti (@allie_conti) March 9, 2018 #Shkreli: "There is so much more I want to do, and I will do it, the right way." Shkreli breaking down in tears as he says Brafman has mentored and advised him. — Meg Tirrell (@megtirrell) March 9, 2018 Shkreli now sobbing: "Those who looked up to me... reassess my position. This is my fault." #PharmaBro #Shkreli @wcbs880 — Ethan Harp (@EthanHarpNews) March 9, 2018 The Associated Press also

The probe by Mueller into whether Russia interfered in the U.S. presidential election and possible collusion by the Trump campaign is “warranted,” Nunberg told ABC News. He made the comments after testifying for close to six hours before a grand jury on the Mueller probe. “I don’t think it’s a witch hunt,” Nunberg said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2Fw1gEM via Latest News

Law enforcement authorities from multiple agencies responded to a report in the morning of shots being fired at the Yountville Veterans Home in Napa County, working to clear buildings and establish a perimeter. A sheriff’s deputy exchanged gunfire with the assailant, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said. In the early evening, California Highway Patrol spokesman Sgt Robert Nacke said he knows of no contact on Friday with the gunman or the people who were holed up with him at the veterans home. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2txX7i6 via Latest News

Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige confirmed to Entertainment Weekly in an interview published Friday that ― SHOCK! ― a “Black Panther” sequel is certain. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2Fqpfcz via Latest News

Paris (AFP) - French rail giant Alstom on Saturday said it had inked a deal to supply three Indian companies running metro train services in Mumbai, Jaipur and Chennai. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2FxyOCk via Latest News

What led a decorated Army rifleman to attack at a safe haven for fellow veterans? Investigators say 36-year-old Albert Wong, a former patient at nation's largest home for elderly and disabled veterans, killed two executives and a psychologist before killing himself. Carter Evans reports from Yountville, California. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2DiU50B via Latest News