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COLUMBUS (AP) — Transgender students from kindergarten through college at Ohio public and private schools will be banned from using multiperson bathrooms that fit their gender identities under a measure signed last week by Gov. Mike DeWine. DeWine signed the bill over the objections of Democrats, teachers’ unions and civil rights groups, which had hoped [...]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has been taking a bashing lately for allegedly serving as a conduit for Chinese parts and products into North America, and officials here are afraid a re-elected Donald Trump or politically struggling Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could try to leave their country out of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement. [...]
UPS will pay $45 million to settle charges that it improperly valued its freight division, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced last week. The regulator agency said that UPS materially misrepresented its earnings because it failed to follow generally accepted accounting principles in valuing its freight unit. The SEC order said that in 2019 UPS [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oil company Phillips 66 has been federally indicted in connection with alleged violations of the Clean Water Act in California, authorities said last week. The Texas-based company is accused of discharging hundreds of thousands of gallons of industrial wastewater containing excessive amounts of oil and grease, the U.S. Department of Justice [...]
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — Penn State has won a closely watched trademark fight over an online retailer’s use of its vintage sports logos and images. A Pennsylvania jury awarded Penn State $28,000 in damages last week over products made and sold by Vintage Brand and Sportswear Inc., two firms co-founded by former minor league baseball [...]
Federal regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its search engine after a court found it had maintained a monopoly during the past decade. The proposed breakup floated in a 23-page document filed last week by the U.S. Department of Justice calls for [...]
A federal judge last week approved a settlement with a company behind an algorithm designed to score rental applicants, which became the subject of a class action lawsuit alleging that the algorithm discriminated on the basis of race and income. The company, SafeRent Solutions, agreed to pay more than $2.2 million and roll back certain [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two companies have agreed to pay the federal government $2 million each to settle a lawsuit that alleged the businesses fraudulently inflated the price of computers and other hardware sold to the U.S. Army, the Department of Justice announced. Iron Bow — a company that resells technology products to the government — [...]
DETROIT (AP) — The federal government’s automobile safety ratings will get an update starting with the 2026 model year when regulators add new driver-assistance technologies and tests for protecting pedestrians. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration earlier this week said that it has finalized the changes, which were required by Congress under the 2021 bipartisan [...]
Attorneys for Amazon and Elon Musk’s SpaceX argued in a federal appeals court this week that the National Labor Relations Board’s structure is unconstitutional. A panel of three judges at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans heard separate oral arguments in the SpaceX and Amazon lawsuits, which the two companies initiated [...]