3M has agreed to pay $6 billion to settle about 260,000 lawsuits claiming that earplugs that US troops were issued between 2003 and 2015 were defective. (Kyle Gunn/Task & Purpose.Roughly 260,000 lawsuits have been filed over the earplugs.

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