MacBook Pro risks

SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) announced in a statement Sunday that some of Apple’s older generation 15-inch MacBook Pro laptops won’t be allowed on planes after a recall triggered by batteries that pose a fire safety risk.

That is, unless you’ve got verification proving that the worrisome batteries in question have been replaced.

Most of these older laptops, known as the model “MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid-2015)” were sold by Apple between September 2015 and February 2017, the company said in June when it announced the recall to replace customers’ batteries free of charge.

Owners of 15-inch MacBook Pros are directed to check their laptop’s serial number on the Apple website to determine if it is affected by the recall.

J&J opioid fine

AN Oklahoma judge Monday ordered U.S. health care giant Johnson & Johnson to pay US$572 million in damages for its role in fostering the state’s opioid addiction crisis.

In the first civil trial of a drugmaker over an epidemic that has caused hundreds of thousands of overdose deaths, Judge Thad Balkman said prosecutors had demonstrated that J&J contributed to a “public nuisance” in its deceptive promotion of highly addictive prescription painkillers.

Trump admin. sued

ATTORNEYS general for 19 states and the District of Columbia sued U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration Monday to block a sweeping new rule to indefinitely detain migrant families seeking to settle in the United States.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, was the first in an expected flurry of litigation seeking to stop the rule, officially published Friday, from taking effect in October.