Google agreed to pay $1.4 billion to the State of Texas on Friday to settle two lawsuits accusing it of violating the privacy of state residents by tracking their locations and searches, as well as collecting their facial recognition information. The state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, who secured the settlement, brought the suits in 2022…
Somewhere along a roughly 7,500-mile journey that begins in Shenzhen, China, there are 19 shipments bound for Rick Woldenberg, the chief executive of Learning Resources, an educational toy company in Vernon Hills, Ill. Eventually, the containers of puzzle cards, child binoculars and other products will reach a port in the United States, and Mr. Woldenberg…
During intense questioning Thursday by members of the Senate health committee about his plan to keep a financial stake in major vaccine litigation, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he would give away his rights to fees that might flow from it. It appears to be a reversal from the details of the government ethics…
McKenzie Johnson, a Cibola High School student who is Navajo, speaks at an Albuquerque Public Schools Native American Open Community Forum in 2019 in Albuquerque, N.M. (AP File Photo) In a groundbreaking decision, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that public schools and universities in the state can be sued for discriminatory conduct….
People walk through Harvard Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (The New York Times) One day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Harvard University reached a settlement with Jewish student organizations over allegations of antisemitism on its campus. The lawsuits, filed by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, Jewish Americans for…
US President Donald Trump has officially announced the creation of an advisory group aimed at carrying out dramatic cuts to the US government, attracting immediate lawsuits challenging its operations. The group — dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency, or “DOGE” — is being co-run by Tesla TSLA.O CEO Elon Musk and has grandiose goals of…
NAGPUR: Bombay HC’s Nagpur bench has ordered retrial in a rape case while highlighting “alarming state of affairs” in most criminal trials due to non-compliance of Section 309 of CrPC that mandates day-to-day trials.The court emphasised in its recent order that rape is a crime not only against the survivor, but also against womanhood. It…
American rapper Sean Combs, also known as Diddy, has been accused of sexual assault and rape by three men in separate lawsuits filed in New York. The lawsuits allege that Combs drugged and raped the men on different occasions between 2019 and 2020. The lawsuits were filed anonymously. The first complainant alleges that Combs drugged…