Bayer has agreed to a $7.25 billion deal to settle tens of thousands of lawsuits that its weedkiller Roundup caused cancer.
The big picture: Bayer — which acquired Roundup when it bought Monsanto in 2018 — announced Tuesday that it'll compensate people who allegedly suffered non-Hodgkin lymphoma due to exposure to Roundup.
A dizzying range of factors led to last year's deadly collision between an Army helicopter and a regional jet over the Potomac River, per the final National Transportation Safety Board report out Tuesday.
Why it matters: As is often the case with major aviation disasters, many smaller issues — each perhaps benign on their own — added up to a tragedy of the grandest scale, leaving 67 people dead.
Nearly half of Americans would describe President Trump as "corrupt," "racist" and "cruel" in new polling full of midterm warning signs for Republicans.
Why it matters: Trump's approval numbers are falling across the board.
The euro —its future in disarray barely a dozen years ago — is back.
Why it matters: European leaders are trying to carve out a bigger global role for their currency in a Trump-shaped world order. If they are successful, it could chip away at America's biggest economic advantage: the outsize demand for dollars and U.S. debt.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is launching a legal campaign to defend its regulatory turf on prediction markets, setting up a clash with states that have sought to block them.
Why it matters: Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket have been surging in popularity, raising questions about the legality of sports event contracts and other trading opportunities in a growing gambling culture.
Two teachers unions this morning sent a letter to the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, requesting that it investigate what they believe were "misleading" statements made by Apollo Global Management to its investors, regarding the firm's relationship to Jeffrey Epstein.
Why it matters: Apollo hasn't put this to bed, five years after severing ties with firm founder and former Epstein pal Leon Black.
Tide is introducing one of the biggest changes to laundry detergent in more than a decade with the national rollout of Tide evo, a dry, tile-based alternative to liquids and pods.
Why it matters: The U.S. laundry care market is worth nearly $25 billion, and even small shifts in format can move billions in retail sales.
President Trump said he is going to be "involved indirectly" in the second round of nuclear talks between the U.S. and Iran that will take place in Geneva on Tuesday.
Why it matters: The meeting tomorrow between Trump's envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi could be a make or break moment that will signal whether the two countries are moving towards an new nuclear deal or towards a war.
The Trump administration will respond to a citizen petition calling for a regulatory overhaul of ultra-processed foods, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told CBS' "60 Minutes" in an interview broadcast Sunday evening.
The big picture: "We will act on David Kessler's petition," Kennedy told CBS' Bill Whitaker of the petition that the former FDA chief is spearheading, which calls on the agency to no longer classify sweeteners including corn syrup as "Generally Recognized as Safe" (GRAS).
