In antitrust suit, DOJ says Visa tried to squeeze Apple, Square out of debit...
MANHATTAN (CN) — The Justice Department on Tuesday filed an antitrust suit against Visa claiming the payment services giant monopolizes the U.S. market by stomping out its competitors and penalizing...
View ArticleMan who staked out Trump at Florida golf course charged with attempting an...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who authorities say staked out Donald Trump for 12 hours on his golf course in Florida and wrote of his desire to kill him was indicted Tuesday on an attempted assassination...
View ArticleMissouri man executed after Supreme Court denies bid for delay
WASHINGTON (CN) — The state of Missouri executed Marcellus Williams Tuesday night, after the U.S. Supreme Court, the Missouri Supreme Court and the Missouri governor rejected a plea for an execution...
View ArticleJury takes case in felony murder trial over Houston Police raid
(CN) — Both sides presented their closing arguments Tuesday morning in the trial of former Houston Police officer Gerald Goines, the leader of the team on the botched “Harding Street raid” that left...
View ArticleJudge finds NYC’s data-sharing demand on food delivery apps unconstitutional
MANHATTAN (CN) — A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that a Covid-era New York City law, which required food delivery services to share enhanced customer data with city restaurants, is unconstitutional....
View ArticleCognizant goes on trial again over claims it discriminates against non-Indian...
LOS ANGELES (CN) — Cognizant Technology Solutions was on trial again Tuesday over claims brought by a class of about 2,000 former employees who say the information technology consulting giant has a...
View ArticleTexas challenges Biden administration rule requiring LGBTQ foster youth to be...
TYLER, Texas (CN) — The state of Texas sued Tuesday to block the Biden administration from enforcing new federal guidance directing foster care providers to place LGBTQI+ children with caretakers that...
View ArticleGoogle shareholder attorneys in data privacy case ask for $66 million in...
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — An attorney representing shareholders who sued Google after a glitch on Google+ exposed users’ privacy data told a federal judge Tuesday afternoon that he was seeking $66 million...
View ArticleCalifornia governor signs bills targeting farm worker housing
FRESNO, Calif. (CN) — California Governor Gavin Newsom signed three bills on Tuesday focused on expanding housing and benefits for farm workers in the Golden State. Two of the bills are intended to...
View ArticleFederal judge dismisses malicious prosecution claims brought by Colorado man...
DENVER (CN) — A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a widower’s claims against a local sheriff’s department and prosecutors who pursued murder charges against him after his wife disappeared in 2020....
View ArticleBroadband coalition pushes 8th Circuit to toss FCC anti-discrimination rule
ST. LOUIS (CN) — A coalition of broadband-related industry entities argued before the Eighth Circuit on Wednesday that the Federal Communications Commission overstepped its authority with a rule...
View ArticleSenate Democrats aim to streamline congressional response to Supreme Court...
WASHINGTON (CN) — One of the Senate’s foremost advocates for Supreme Court reform introduced a measure Wednesday which he said would give lawmakers a streamlined mechanism for checking the high...
View ArticleJudge directs New York City to flesh out plans for Rikers Island federal...
MANHATTAN (CN) — Civil rights lawyers joined the Department of Justice on Wednesday in asking a federal judge to hold New York City in contempt for failing to comply with a court-ordered monitor’s...
View ArticleWitness questions research in Google antitrust case
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (CN) — A Yale professor Wednesday challenged the accuracy of an analysis undergirding the U.S. Department of Justice case charging Google with antitrust violations and monopolistic...
View ArticleEight Epstein victims sue FBI over failure to investigate sex abuse tips as...
WASHINGTON (CN) — A group of eight women who were sexually abused and trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the federal government over the FBI’s failure to act on reports...
View ArticleMormon church asks en banc Ninth Circuit panel to throw out fraud claims over...
(CN) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon Church, asked an en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to throw out fraud claims brought by a...
View ArticleCalifornia governor vetoes bill addressing racially motivated seizures of...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — California Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday vetoed a bill that would have enabled people to apply for the return of property taken through eminent domain that was racially...
View ArticleNew York City Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted, sources say
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted by a grand jury on federal criminal charges, according to two people familiar with the matter, an extraordinary culmination to weeks of...
View ArticleAstronomers find planet showing what could happen to Earth in eight billion...
(CN) — Astronomers have finally discovered a planet that resembles Earth — only it shows what our planet might look like eight billion years in the future. Scientists estimate that in around five...
View Article[EMBARGOED 9/26 5 AM ET] Biden plans task force to tackle new gun tech and...
WASHINGTON (CN) — President Joe Biden will sign an executive order targeting gun violence Thursday, launching government task forces focused on threats from emerging firearms technology and improving...
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