Utah sues opioid maker Purdue Pharma after settlement talks stall

(Reuters) - Utah's attorney general on Thursday sued OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP to hold it responsible for its role in the opioid epidemic after he said talks to reach a settlement between various states and the drugmaker stopped being productive.

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Breakingviews TV: Marchionnderci

May 31 - Fiat Chrysler’s CEO unveils a new five-year plan this week, his last before retiring next year. Rob Cox and Antony Currie discuss his successes – and how he has to leave overhauling its European unit and investing in electric and self-driving cars to his successor.

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Apple cuts smartphone power chip orders from Dialog Semiconductor

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Dialog Semiconductor said Apple now planned to source the main power management chips (PMICs) for one of its three new iPhone models from two suppliers instead of just from the German chipmaker.

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Trump pardons pundit D'Souza, lifestyle maven Stewart may be next

WASHINGTON/ON AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Thursday granted a pardon to conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to U.S. campaign finance law violations, and said he was considering pardoning lifestyle maven Martha Stewart.

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Goldman Sachs vice president charged with insider trading

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors charged a vice president at Goldman Sachs Group Inc on Thursday with making more than $130,000 through illegal trades using inside information about companies advised by the investment bank.

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Dialog says Apple to source fewer main smartphone power chips from it

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Dialog Semiconductor said Apple now planned to source fewer of the main power management chips (PMICs) it needs for its smartphones this year from the German chipmaker than it had previously planned.

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Trump to pardon pundit D'Souza for breaking campaign laws

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said he will grant a full pardon on Thursday to conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to federal campaign finance law violations.

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Waymo to get more than 60,000 cars from Fiat Chrysler for robotaxis

(Reuters) - Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV will add up to 62,000 more cars to Alphabet Inc's autonomous driving unit Waymo, the companies said on Thursday, as part of Waymo's plan to roll out a robotaxi service in the U.S. later this year.

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Scientists hunt down genes behind humankind's big brain

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have pinpointed three genes that may have played a pivotal role in an important milestone in human evolution: the striking increase in brain size that facilitated cognitive advances that helped define what it means to be human.

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U.S. spelling bee champ to win crown from field of 41 finalists

OXON HILL, Md. (Reuters) - For one young spelling ace aiming for the $40,000 top prize in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Thursday will be a day of winning. For 40 others, it will mean losing and learning to move on.

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Original Winnie-the-Pooh map to be auctioned in London

LONDON (Reuters) - The original map of the Hundred Acre Wood from the Winnie-the-Pooh children's stories is set to go under the hammer, with an estimate price tag of up to $200,000.

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Trump says will pardon conservative commentator D'Souza

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said he will grant a full pardon on Thursday to conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza, who was sentenced in 2014 to five years of probation for federal campaign law violations.

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Exclusive: U.S. EPA grants refiners biofuel credits to remedy Obama-era waiver denials

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded tens of millions of dollars worth of biofuel blending credits for this year to refiners HollyFrontier and Sinclair Oil after they argued the agency had wrongly denied them waivers from the country's biofuels law as far back as 2014, according to two sources and public filings.

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