The Justice Department on Thursday accused three of the nation’s largest health insurers of paying hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks over several years to insurance brokers that steered people into private Medicare plans. Federal prosecutors also accused two of the insurers of colluding with brokers to discriminate against people with disabilities, by…
Harvard protest links Zionism to Trump’s fascism, claims university suppresses academic freedom. (AI Image) More than 100 protesters gathered at Cambridge Common on April 19, 2024, for a demonstration accusing Harvard University of suppressing pro-Palestine speech and scholarship, even as it resists certain demands from the Trump administration. The protest was organized by several unrecognized…
Russia and Ukraine accused each other of thousands of attacks that violated the one-day Easter ceasefire declared by President Vladimir Putin, with the Kremlin saying there was no order to extend the pause in frontline fighting. Washington said it would welcome an extension of the truce, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reiterated several times Ukraine’s willingness…
Russia and Ukraine blamed each other on Sunday for breaking a one-day Easter ceasefire declared by President Vladimir Putin, with both sides accusing the other of carrying out hundreds of attacks. Putin, who sent thousands of Russian troops into Ukraine in February 2022, ordered Russian forces to “stop all military activity” along the front line…
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is investigating dozens of allegations that Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest IT outsourcer, discriminated against its American workers based on age, race, and national origin. The claims primarily come from professionals over the age of 40, many of whom say they were targeted in layoffs while Indian…
French publishers and authors said Wednesday they’re taking Meta to court, accusing the social media company of using their works without permission to train its artificial intelligence model. Three trade groups said they were launching legal action against Meta in a Paris court over what they said was the company’s “massive use of copyrighted works…
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro plotted a coup to overturn the 2022 election along with dozens of ex-ministers and senior aides, federal police said in a formal accusation filed on Thursday with the country’s Supreme Court. The final police report caps a nearly two-year investigation into Bolsonaro’s role in the election-denying movement that culminated in…