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More bad news for Johnson & Johnson’s McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit after they recalled more Tylenol as well as Motrin and Benadryl. According to the company, the new recall is tied to an ongoing recall stemming from the January 15 recall of over 53 million bottles of their products. The recall began after consumers noticed a musty or moldy odor in their pain reliever medications. The odor was linked to the chemical TBA, which was present in the pallets used in the shipment and storage of their products....

What began as an effort to skirt U.S. emissions standards has exploded into a global crisis for Volkswagen. Initial reports indicated VW rigged 500,000 vehicles to emit lower harmful chemicals during testing, and now the auto manufacturer has admitted that the emissions scandal could affect 11 million vehicles worldwide. So what exactly happened? And could your Jetta wagon or Rabbit convertible be recalled? (Not So) Clean Diesel For years, VW has been touting its Turbocharged Direct Injection (TDI) engines as “Clean Diesel” – more fuel efficient and with fewer harmful emissions than other engines – and the TDI had won multiple “Green Car of the Year” awards....

Bill Cosby’s first criminal trial on sexual assault charges ended last week in a mistrial. Cosby was not acquitted, but a “hopelessly deadlocked” jury could not reach a verdict. While speculation on why the jury couldn’t come to consensus on Cosby’s guilt ranged from pretrial rulings on evidence to jury instructions from the judge – all while taking Cosby’s fame and the litany of assault allegations into account – many are wondering what happens next in the case....

The word “immunity” gets tossed around quite a bit, from smoothies designed to keep you from getting sick to a supposed Get Out of Jail Free card for foreign diplomats. It’s being tossed around today because President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor Michael Flynn has told Congress he is willing to testify regarding the Trump campaign’s alleged ties to Russia. Flynn made the offer through his attorney, on the condition that he be granted immunity from future prosecution in exchange....

An Oakland, California jury has awarded the largest ever copyright award in a suit between Oracle and SAP. The $1.3 billion verdict against SAP was just shy of the $1.7 billion Oracle experts asked for. The sizeable sum also represents the 23rd largest jury verdict of all time. For an intellectual property case, the issue was fairly straightforward: Oracle sued SAP claiming SAP’s U.S.-based “Tomorrownow” unit was illegally downloading their software in order to avoid paying licensing fees and steal customers from Oracle....

As the school year begins anew, parents may recall some of the more nefarious teachers they had to deal with in grades K-12. But probably few, if any, were bad enough to be criminal. Not so with these egregious educators, who may exemplify the Pink Floyd cry of “Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone!” Here are 10 terrible teachers we’ve covered in recent years: Sarah Jane Lindsay. This South Carolina teacher should have helped herself to some Common Sense 101 before she allegedly invited more than 10 teenagers to her drunken ragers, where in some cases she had sexual contact with minors....

In this season of giving, Facebook is setting up a $9.5 million fund for a nonprofit foundation that will support online privacy, safety and security. No, not out of the goodness of its warm little collective heart, because it had to under a settlement agreement. On December 8th it was reported that Facebook settled a class action suit over its Beacon program. Other corporate defendants in this suit included Blockbuster, Fandango, Hotwire, STA Travel, Overstock....

Why don’t singer Beyonce Knowles’s neighbors love her? Because her Los Angeles neighbor, Phillip Markowitz, claimed that Knowles “shattered his privacy” with the lights and noise from her music video shoot for the song, “Why Don’t You Love Me.” According to Fox, Markowitz sought over $25,000 damages stemming from the all-day shoot. In addition to noise, Markowitz also claimed that the production crew blocked his Hollywood Hills driveway until 11 p....

It seems like one of the biggest feuds over late night television may finally be settled this week. ABC News reports that the end of negotiations for a contract buyout of The Tonight Show With Conan ‘O Brien is near. ABC News reports that the television networks wants to oust Conan O’Brien from The Tonight Show in order to reinstate Jay Leno in his old television time slot. In order to do that, they need to reach a severance package with Mr....

Hollywood would have you believe that people with diplomatic immunity can break the law with impunity. They have a license to kill or steal, is how movies often portray it. Alas, reality can be much more sobering, as a Philippine diplomat’s son recently discovered. Nigel Salmingo was charged with a laundry list of white collar crimes: theft, forgery and money laundering. The thirty seven counts arose after Salmingo reportedly stole $300,000 while working as an office manager for a Honolulu law firm....

Power plants, factories, and other businesses that produce high levels of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide would be required to track and report their emissions, under a new registry system proposed Tuesday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). “Greenhouse” gases trap heat in Earth’s atmosphere and can contribute to global warming. The majority of greenhouse gas emissions occur through the burning of fossil fuels by manufacturing facilities, refineries, and utility companies....

After decades in decline, overall violent crime rose by almost 4 percent last year and much of the increase was spurred by a rise in gun violence and murder rates in large cities. One of the cities struggling with gun violence is Washington, D.C., which saw homicides in one ward triple in the first half of 2016 compared to the same time period in 2015. The District has a history of having some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the country....

Harper Lee, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” has agreed to settle her lawsuit against an Alabama museum that she accused of infringing on her trademark by selling “Mockingbird”-themed merchandise without a license. According to Reuters, the two sides reached an undisclosed agreement to end the lawsuit, with both parties agreeing to pay their own legal fees. What had Lee’s feathers so ruffled? The lawsuit, filed in 2010, alleged that the Monroe County Heritage Museum in Lee’s hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, used “protected names and trademarks” from Lee’s classic book and the Academy Award-winning film of the same name without Lee’s permission....

A federal judge has approved a settlement agreement in which Anadarko Petroleum Corp will reportedly pay $5.15 billion to clean up pollution at nearly 2,000 sites across the country. The United States Department of Justice is calling the settlement the largest-ever recovery for environmental cleanup, reports Reuters. The settlement resolves a lawsuit brought by creditors of Tronox, a spin-off of energy company Kerr-McGee, against Anadarko, which acquired Kerr-McGee in 2006....

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Massachusetts abortion clinic “buffer zone” law that kept protesters more than 11 yards away from patients. In McCullen v. Coakley, the High Court found that the state’s Reproductive Health Care Facilities Act, which made it a crime for protesters to knowingly stand within 35 feet of an abortion clinic, violated the First Amendment. The abortion clinic “buffer zone” effectively cut off free speech efforts on sidewalks and other public thoroughfares, which are traditional forums for speech activities....

Before John Oliver skewered the practice of civil forfeiture last year, many people didn’t know it existed. And many still may not. But for the first time, the dollar value of assets seized by law enforcement has surpassed the amount of property lost to burglaries. So how does civil forfeiture work and how did it become more costly than home robbery? Here’s some insight in to the police practice and the most recent numbers....

Real Housewives husband Russell Armstrong’s suicide has cast a dark cloud over the reality TV series as well as the entire reality TV industry. Russell Armstrong is survived by his estranged wife, Taylor Armstrong, and their young daughter. It is an apparent suicide, with no suicide note found, and no signs of foul play, according to ABC News. Russell Armstrong, 47, was a venture capitalist and financier. He faced domestic problems with his wife, Taylor Armstrong, who has told the press their marriage was abusive....

A registered sex offender arrested after three women’s bodies were found in East Cleveland will be charged with three counts of aggravated murder, authorities announced Monday. Police arrested Michael Madison, 35, on Friday night after a two-hour standoff at his mother’s home. Cadaver dogs discovered the bodies of the three women behind abandoned homes. All three were wrapped in several layers of plastic. A medical examiner has yet to determine a cause of death because the bodies have started to decompose, according to The Plain Dealer....

Homeless sex offender Charles Mader was arrested in Albuquerque, New Mexico recently after failing to notify authorities that he had moved from a neighborhood dumpster bin to an abandoned house nearby. Mader was convicted in 2000 for trying to rape a 6-year-old boy. After his release, he had nowhere to go. His official address is listed as a dumpster on the corner of 8th and Central in Albuquerque. As a registered sex offender, Mader is required to notify authorities whenever he moves....

Ex-Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, author of “American Sniper,” was an expert military shot who tried to help fellow servicemembers adjust to postwar life. But all his skills couldn’t save him in a shooting at a Texas gun range. On Saturday morning, Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield picked up a young Iraq war veteran named Eddie Ray Routh. Routh’s mother had allegedly asked Kyle to help her son deal with returning to civilian life....