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Bayer facing possible growing legal costs, consumer backlash after Roundup jury award

Aug 13, 2018
It’s been a rough day for Monsanto, the maker of the weedkiller Roundup. On Friday a jury awarded a California groundskeeper $289.2 million, concluding that exposure to Roundup caused his cancer. On Monday stock in Bayer, the company that acquired Monsanto earlier this year, tumbled 10 percent. Click the audio player above to hear the […]
Bottles of Monsanto's Roundup are seen for sale June 19, 2018 at a retail store in Glendale, California.
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Can Tidal and Jay-Z get Sprint new users?

Jun 19, 2017
The phone carrier is offering its users a 6-month free trial of the streaming service.
Rapper Jay-Z performs onstage at Barclays Center of Brooklyn in 2015.
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