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A Missouri jury on Friday night ordered Abbott Laboratories to pay $495 million in damages in a lawsuit filed by a premature baby girl who developed severe gastrointestinal illness after consuming Abbott’s formula.The jury awarded the girl $95 million in damages and the company $400 million in punitive damages, half to go to the girl and half to the state of Missouri, lawyers for the family said.The lawsuit is one of hundreds against north suburban companies Abbott and Mead Johnson, which allege that their premature infant formulas cause necrotizing enterocolitis, an intestinal disease in which tissue in the intestinal lining…

PARIS — Arson attacks on France’s high-speed rail network on the eve of the Paris Olympics have rattled nerves and disrupted transport ahead of the opening ceremony.France’s interim Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, said on Friday that the “sabotage” was “prepared and organized,” hitting communication lines running north-east and west of Paris. Attal said the “heartbeat” had been targeted, suggesting “there was some knowledge of the communications network.”It was not immediately clear who was behind the suspected attacks and authorities did not announce any arrests. Prosecutors have opened an investigation within the framework of organized crime rather than a counter-terrorism investigation,…

In the story trailer FunkoThe first home video game console,Funko Fusion” introduces the brand’s signature Freddy Funko to his evil copycat Eddie Funko, the supervillain of the title. Freddy’s “deeply twisted and incredibly powerful shapeshifting sidekick” is voiced by “Invincible” star Clancy Brown, and promises Freddy and characters from “Shaun of the Dead,” “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” “The Umbrella Academy” and other NBCUniversal franchises sprinkled throughout the game: “Your world will fall apart. Your people will suffer. And I will have infinite power!” According to Funko’s description of the AAA game: 10:10 The game states, “Dreaming of total domination, Eddie…

Fascinating new video from the International Space Station shows the aurora borealis, stars and a fleeting meteor shower. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Astronaut Matthew Dominic, SpaceX Crew 8 Astronauts on the mission released new time-lapse photos of Earth just before sunrise, a nighttime scene that shows the aurora borealis dancing through Earth’s atmosphere, twinkling stars, passing satellites, and fleeting meteor trails. Time lapse is Cupola Module A view of the orbital laboratory. The robotic Canadarm2 is visible in the foreground of the video. Dominique shared a new time-lapse video: Post to X (Officially on Twitter) July 21st. Related:…

Image source, Getty ImagesArticle informationThere’s a sense at BBC HQ that friends, colleagues and family are all having a worse year than usual: just when you think you’ve recovered from one cold, you catch another, infection after infection.”The reality is there is a lack of data and a lot of anecdotes,” said Professor Jonathan Ball, from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.So what’s going on?It’s the summer of CoronaWe are currently in the middle of the summer coronavirus outbreak, so if you have a cough or fever, it’s likely due to the virus.Although we haven’t collected the same detailed data…

CNN — Former President Donald Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, the first such meeting between the two since Trump left the White House more than three years ago. The meeting, at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, was at Netanyahu’s request, a source familiar with the planning told CNN. It follows the prime minister’s address to Congress and his meeting with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House. After her meeting with the prime minister, Harris, who is now the presumptive Democratic nominee, offered a strong stance on civilian suffering and an end…

This handout released by the Olympic Broadcasting Service shows singer Celine Dion performing at the Eiffel Tower during the Opening Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on July 26, 2024. Screenshot courtesy of IOC via Getty Images Celine Dion I’m back on stage. Two years after first going public with her stiff person syndrome diagnosis and cancelling all her performances, the singer made her comeback performance at the Olympic Games opening ceremony. After the lighting of the Olympic torch, Dion belted out Edith Piaf’s French ballad “Hymne a l’amour” beneath the illuminated Eiffel Tower and Olympic logo. Wearing a…

Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderJuly 26, 2024 9:24pm ETcloseMike Coppinger has covered boxing since 2010 for USA Today, Ring Magazine and The Athletic before joining ESPN in 2021. You can follow him on Twitter: @MikeCoppingerTwo of the biggest names in mixed martial arts, Canelo Alvarez and Dana White, will go head-to-head in Las Vegas on September 14th, in a rare overlap between two big-name boxing and mixed martial arts events.Mexico’s Alvarez, a top boxing star, will defend the unified super middleweight championship against Edgar Berlanga at the MGM-owned T-Mobile Arena, while UFC 306 will see UFC host its first-ever live…

18 Nearly every rocket that has flown has had some sort of malfunction, and because thousands of parts all need to work in perfect harmony to complete a mission successfully, every once in a while there’s just going to be one part that just doesn’t work. Witnessing an anomaly during a space flight may not seem that unusual, but as flights become more frequent, it is becoming more unusual. It’s almost expected that the first launch of a new rocket will end up failing at some point during flight. But when a rocket that has been flying smoothly at high…

MURRAY — KC Seely and his wife, Dani Seely, were getting ready to go to the gym one morning when they started feeling unwell.”I bent down to pick up my shoes and I got really dizzy so I thought, ‘I better sit down for a second,'” KC Seely said.Dani Seeley noticed her husband’s arms were shaking and thought he was just tired and “having trouble sleeping,” but Dani Seeley was adamant. “I said, ‘Yes, you have to go to the hospital. Something’s wrong.'”She said a stroke hadn’t occurred to her husband because he didn’t have the “classic” symptoms, such as…