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Attorneys for customers suing General Motors Co over faulty ignition switches urged a U.S. appeals court on Tuesday to throw out bankruptcy court rulings that they say shield the company from lawsuits potentially worth billions of dollars.

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Members of a congressional oversight committee excoriated a former Environmental Protection Agency official on Tuesday for not responding more forcefully when she learned last year that Flint, Mich., was not adding a chemical to its new water supply that would have prevented the city’s pipes from corroding and leaching lead.

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General Motors has ordered dealers to stop selling 1,579 pickups and cars in the U.S. because the driver's side air bag may not deploy correctly in a crash.

A recall of those new Chevrolet Colorado, GMC Canyon and Chevrolet Malibu is in the works to replace to replace driver-side front airbags. Until the fix comes through, though, GM doesn't want any of them to be sold.

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Auto safety experts are demanding action on what they call a serious safety defect. The move comes days after a Texas jury awarded more than a $124.5 million verdict against one automaker for a problem car companies admit would only cost a couple of dollars to fix.

Crash test videos obtained during the course of our CBS News investigation show how when cars are hit from behind, the front driver and passenger seats of many vehicles can collapse backwards, launching the occupants into the backseat area.

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Home Depot has agreed to pay at least $19.5 million to settle consumer lawsuits brought over a massive 2014 data breach that exposed more than 50 million customers’ data, according to multiple reports.

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CVS Pharmacy Inc. was named Feb. 1 in a lawsuit that contends the retailer has engaged in unfair and deceptive practices through the marketing and sale of a dietary supplement known as Algal-900 DHA.

At the heart of the proposed class-action case is whether the consumption of omega-3 fatty acids contained in CVS’s product is capable of bolstering one’s memory.

The Algal-900 DHA product package features in capital letters, “CLINICALLY SHOWN MEMORY IMPROVEMENT." The package also touts the product as the “only DHA form & dosage clinically shown to improve memory."

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After receiving 35 complaints, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation to see if brake fluid is leaking from the master cylinders on 2013 and 2014 Ford F-150 pickup trucks, the nation's most popular vehicle.

The complaints involve about 420,000 pickups, all with the 3.5-liter six-cylinder engine. Four accidents have been reported.

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The decision about whether to investigate Exxon Mobil Corporation’s advocacy on climate change is now in the FBI’s hands.

The Department of Justice (DOJ), which received multiple requests to probe Exxon for potential legal action, has sent the case to the FBI for its consideration, it told a pair of Democratic lawmakers.

“As a courtesy, we have forwarded your correspondence to the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” DOJ wrote to Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Mark DeSaulnier (D-Calif.), who asked for the probe.

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(Reuters Health) - The risk of ovarian cancer was one-third higher among women who regularly powdered their genitals with talc, a recent study found.

Researchers asked 2,041 women with ovarian cancer and 2,100 similar women without ovarian cancer about their talcum powder use. Those who said they routinely applied talc to their crotches, sanitary napkins, tampons and underwear had a 33 percent higher risk of ovarian cancer, according to a report in Epidemiology.

Lead author Dr. Daniel W. Cramer, who heads the Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, has unsuccessfully called for warning labels on talcum powder.

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Johnson & Johnson must pay $72 million to the family of a woman who blamed her fatal ovarian cancer on the company’s talcum powder in the first state-court case over the claims to go to trial.

Jurors in St. Louis on Monday concluded J&J should pay $10 million in compensatory damages and $62 million in a punishment award to the family of Jackie Fox, who died of ovarian cancer last year after using Johnson’s baby powder and another talc-based product for years.

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Honda Motor Co. is preparing a recall for the 2016 Civic compact in the U.S. and has ordered dealers to stop selling some versions of the car, months after beginning sales of the crucial new model.

The automaker issued a stop-sale notice to dealers in late January, spokesman Chris Martin said in an e-mail, declining to give specific details including the number of vehicles before the official recall statement. Blogs including Jalopnik and Autoblog earlier this month cited a dealer service bulletin posted on the enthusiast site CivicX.com that said about 34,000 Civics were involved and the fault was with missing or mis-set piston rings that could cause engines to stall or fail.

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