Ex-Security Chief To Lam is Vietnam’s new president

Vietnam’s rubber-stamp parliament has approved public security minister To Lam as the country’s new president after a major anticorruption campaign forced his predecessor to resign. The National Assembly unanimously approved the 66-year-old Lam’s election after a secret ballot in which he was the only candidate for the job.

Lam’s rise has not been without controversy, and the parliament decided that he would not continue as minister for public security, which deals with the monitoring of dissent and surveillance of activists in the dictatorship. Lam once put a 'noodle-seller' away for 5 years after he joked him in an online video.

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A group of cancer victims sued Johnson & Johnson over 'fraudulent' bankruptcies

They are accusing the healthcare company of committing fraud through repeated efforts to use a shell company's bankruptcy to resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits over their talc products allegedly causing cancer. They allege that J&J's bankruptcy strategy put billions of dollars out of the reach of plaintiffs in an attempt to "hinder, delay, and defraud these women."

Five plaintiffs who seek to represent over 50,000 people who have sued J&J, most of the talc lawsuits have been brought by women with ovarian cancer, while other cases involve people with mesothelioma.

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❗️President Gaffe-den: ‘We cannot win this re-election, excuse me, we can only re-elect Trump’

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