Southern California woman admits to $150 million postal fraud
LOS ANGELES (CN) — A Southern California woman pleaded guilty Friday to charges she defrauded the U.S. Postal Service out of more than $150 million by using counterfeit postage to ship tens of...
View ArticleIowa athletes caught in gambling sting claim unlawful tracking
(CN) —A group of former Iowa student athletes, including former NFL player Eyioma Uwazurike, sued state officials Friday, claiming that law enforcement illegally collected location data from their...
View ArticleHomes, businesses damaged as tornadoes pummel Midwest
OMAHA, Neb. (CN) — Tornadoes swept through eastern Nebraska and western Iowa on Friday afternoon, wrecking multiple homes, businesses and farmsteads in the Omaha and Lincoln areas. The Nebraska...
View ArticleCalifornia elections watchdog investigating Alameda district attorney recall...
OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — California’s Fair Political Practices Commission is investigating a political action committee organizing the campaign underway to recall Alameda County’s district attorney. The...
View ArticleVictims of Navy jet fuel contamination in Hawaii seek justice
HONOLULU (CN) — Over two years after hundreds of families near Pearl Harbor-Hickam base in Honolulu reported jet fuel in their tap water back in 2021, the victims of the Red Hill contamination will...
View ArticleEx-FDIC attorney sentenced to 20 years on child porn charges
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (CN) — A former Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation attorney was sentenced on Tuesday to 20 years in prison for child pornography charges. Mark Alan Black, 50, had earlier pleaded...
View ArticleJudge dismisses Meta shareholder lawsuit claiming that directors’ obligations...
DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge on Tuesday dismissed a shareholder lawsuit asserting novel claims about the roles of corporate leaders and arguing that the loyalties of Meta directors and company...
View ArticleACLU sues Chula Vista Police over handling of public records
SAN DIEGO (CN) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California claims in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in San Diego County Superior Court that the Chula Vista Police Department has a history of...
View ArticleFifth Circuit reverses $1.6 billion judgment in IBM case
(CN) — A Fifth Circuit panel ruled Tuesday that a federal court improperly awarded $1.6 billion to BMC Software, a Houston-based software company, over a licensing and competition dispute with tech...
View ArticleUS House votes to remove wolves from endangered list in 48 states
(AP) — The U.S. House voted Tuesday to end federal protection for gray wolves, approving a bill that would remove them from the endangered species list across the lower 48 states. A handful of...
View ArticleEPA bans consumer use of a toxic chemical widely used as a paint stripper but...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday it has finalized a ban on consumer uses of methylene chloride, a chemical that is widely used as a paint stripper but is known to...
View ArticleFederal judge slams DC for refusing outside help on mental health crisis
WASHINGTON (CN) — U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes grew increasingly frustrated during a three-hour hearing on Tuesday over a motion to dismiss a discrimination lawsuit relating to the city’s practice of...
View ArticleGuenther Steiner sues former Formula One team Haas
RALEIGH, N.C. (CN) — Former Formula One team Haas principal Guenther Steiner sued the team in Charlotte court Tuesday claiming unpaid commissions from 2021 to 2023 and the use of his likeness in...
View ArticleImmigration authorities unreasonably delayed U visa applications, judge says
SAN DIEGO (CN) — Some undocumented immigrants who say U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services passed over their U Visa applications have standing to sue, a federal judge in the Southern District of...
View ArticleLouisiana’s congressional map blocked, again
MONROE, La. (CN) — A federal appeals court panel ruled that Louisiana cannot use its new congressional map for 2024 elections, following a three-day trial earlier this month in a redistricting battle...
View ArticleRollout of transgender bathroom law sows confusion among Utah public school...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah public schools have been rushing to prepare students and teachers as the state starts cracking down Wednesday on any school found not enforcing new bathroom restrictions for...
View ArticleTennis legend Boris Becker discharged from bankruptcy court in England
LONDON (AP) — German tennis legend Boris Becker was discharged from bankruptcy court in London after a judge found Wednesday he had done “all that he reasonably could do” to repay creditors tens of...
View Article‘I Saw the TV Glow’ is one of 2024’s buzziest films. It took Jane Schoenbrun...
NEW YORK (AP) — The filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun is walking down a path in Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, looking for the pond they sat beside while working on the script for the film “I Saw the TV...
View ArticleGeorgian lawmakers move closer to passing ‘Russian law’ targeting the media....
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia’s Parliament moved a step closer Wednesday to passing a law that critics fear will stifle media freedom and endanger the country’s European Union membership bid, as...
View ArticleFeds sue San Francisco over shoddy stormwater-sewage system
(CN) — The federal government sued the city and county of San Francisco on Wednesday over “its repeated and widespread failures to operate its two combined stormwater-sewer systems and sewage...
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