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Patrick Soon-Shiong hugs Kobe Bryant before a Lakers game against the Toronto Raptors in 2013. Soon-Shiong owns a minority stake in the team.

Is billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong Tribune Publishing’s white knight?

June 10, 2018 at 2:48 p.m.

Patrick Soon-Shiong has developed a reputation for big ideas. His boldest mission is to fix the healthcare system and turn cancer into a treatable condition using super computers, genomics and...

An Olympus duodenoscope is cleaned at Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center on Nov. 9, 2015.

Olympus to recall and redesign medical scope linked to superbug outbreaks

June 12, 2018 at 3:03 a.m.

Olympus Corp. said Friday that it would voluntarily recall and redesign a troubled medical scope that has been linked to deadly patient infections around the world.The company, which sells about...

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft breaks apart shortly after liftoff from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on June 28, 2015.

SpaceX’s next launch delayed longer than expected

June 21, 2019 at 9:02 p.m.

SpaceX said its next launch will be delayed longer than expected after the June 28 accident that destroyed its unmanned ship carrying cargo to the International Space Station. The Hawthorne-based...

Wreckage from Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo was scattered over 33 miles of desert after the rocket's Oct. 31, 2014, crash.

Debris from Virgin spaceship came close to moving trucks, high school

June 24, 2019 at 8:41 p.m.

Newly released evidence in the investigation of last fall's crash of an experimental spaceship over the Mojave Desert is raising questions about whether federal aviation regulators are protecting the public...

Virgin Galactic pilot defied the odds to survive crash

June 22, 2019 at 6:48 a.m.

The Virgin Galactic rocket plane had just broken the sound barrier and was shooting toward the heavens when it began disintegrating, battered by powerful aerodynamic forces. The pilots were strapped...

2ND DRUGMAKER YIELDS ON HIV

August 20, 2021 at 10:51 a.m.

Bristol-Myers Squibb said Wednesday that it no longer would try to stop makers of generic drugs from selling low-cost versions of one of its HIV drugs in Africa, making it...

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