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Paula Abdul and former American Idol producer Nigel Lythgoe have agreed to settle a lawsuit in which she alleged he sexually assaulted her in the early 2000s when she was a judge on the show.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the lawsuit against a New York doctor who prescribed abortion pills for a client near Dallas, pitting an abortion ban against laws that protect physicians.
The powerful consulting firm McKinsey will "accept responsibility" and pay $650 million for helping to fuel the opioid crisis, but executives will once again dodge prosecution.