Month: January 2020

Johnson & Johnson resolved a woman’s claims that asbestos-laced baby powder caused her cancer before a California jury got a chance to consider the allegations in one of dozens of cases to go to trial. Jurors in state court in Oakland heard more than two weeks’ worth of testimony in Linda O’Hagan’s case before Superior…

SACRAMENTO —  A federal judge will not temporarily exempt freelance journalists and photographers from a broad new California labor law, saying they waited too long to challenge restrictions that they fear could put some of them out of business. U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez in Los Angeles denied the temporary restraining order sought by two freelancers’…

LAS VEGAS —  After a big year for its plant-based burger, Impossible Foods has something new on its plate. The California-based company unveiled Impossible Pork and Impossible Sausage on Monday evening at the CES gadget show in Las Vegas. It’s Impossible Foods’ first foray beyond fake beef. The Impossible Burger, which went on sale in 2016,…

Toward the end of the Golden Globes telecast on Sunday, Michelle Williams, her statuette in hand, headed into the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.’s viewing and after-party in the Wilshire Garden at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. The evening’s outstanding actress winner in the limited series or TV movie category for “Fosse/Verdon” stopped into…

Farewell finger waves and long voluminous pageant curls. So long spider lashes, intense smokey eye makeup and cakey crimson lips (or a combination of all of these). Old Hollywood hair and makeup proved rightfully to be a thing of the past at the 77th Golden Globe Awards on Sunday. This year, red-carpet beauty followed suit…

Netflix just unveiled the poster for Gwyneth Paltrow’s new Goop documentary, and it looks a lot like a certain female body part. Yes, that female body part. And as if a giant pink vagina weren’t already enough to send Twitter over the edge, it also features a provocative tagline: “Reach new depths.” You know, just…

If the traditional trappings of men’s formalwear — specifically the black-and-white color combination and silhouette of the tuxedo — were the biggest trend takeaways of the 2020 Golden Globes for women (and they were), what Sunday night’s most memorable menswear had in common was an emphasis on color (the sole exception being Billy Porter’s custom…

SAO PAULO, Brazil —  Bertrand Maria José Pio Januário Miguel Gabriel Rafael Gonzaga de Orleans e Bragança e Wittelsbach has a regal name but no crown — which is what he craves. “A return to monarchic rule is the only way to rule Brazil,” said the man more simply known as Dom Bertrand or, as he…

NEW DELHI —  The masked mob tore through dormitories inside one of India’s leading universities, beating students and teachers with sticks and rods, as horrified students captured the rampage on their cellphones. When the violence ended with more than 30 people wounded, the questions only deepened: Who were the assailants and why didn’t police — who…

WASHINGTON —  The Pentagon moved Monday to send an additional 2,500 U.S. Marines to the Middle East, the latest fallout from President Trump’s order to kill a powerful Iranian general last week, but one that could increase the risk of the kind of grinding conflict that the president has vowed to avoid. The reinforcements, now aboard…