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A company affiliated with Alex Jones asked a federal judge this week to disqualify a bid by the satirical news outlet The Onion to buy Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, alleging fraud and collusion. The company, First United American Companies, which is affiliated with a Jones website that sells dietary supplements, was the only [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in Texas has blocked a new rule from the Biden administration that would have expanded access to overtime pay to millions more salaried workers across the country. U.S. District Judge Sean Jordan late last week sided with the state of Texas and a group of business organizations that [...]
Government officials would allow increased logging on federal lands across the Pacific Northwest in the name of fighting wildfires and boosting rural economies under proposed changes to a sweeping forest management plan that’s been in place for three decades. The U.S. Forest Service proposal, released late last week, would overhaul the Northwest Forest Plan that [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed legislation that would provide full Social Security benefits to millions of people, pushing it one step closer to becoming law. The Social Security bill won bipartisan support in the House, 327-75, in what is now the lame-duck period for Congress. The bill now heads to the Senate, where [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — A commercial affiliate of the Major League Baseball Players Association settled a lawsuit with FanDuel over the alleged unauthorized use of the names and images of MLB players on its sports betting platform. The settlement obtained by The Associated Press said MLB Players Inc. and FanDuel agreed to a voluntary dismissal [...]
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The United States and the Philippines signed an agreement to secure the exchange of highly confidential military intelligence and technology in key weapons the U.S. would provide to Manila. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Philippine counterpart, Gilberto Teodoro, signed the legally binding General Security of Military Information Agreement in Manila [...]
HONOLULU (AP) — Navy officials “lacked sufficient understanding” of the risks of maintaining massive fuel storage tanks on top of a drinking water well at Pearl Harbor where spilled jet fuel poisoned more than 6,000 people in 2021, an American military watchdog said last week. That lack of awareness came even though officials had engineering [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A computer analyst who stole bitcoin worth billions of dollars at current prices — and then spent years laundering some of the hacked cryptocurrency with help from his wife — was sentenced last week to five years in prison. Ilya Lichtenstein masterminded one of the largest thefts from a virtual currency exchange [...]
Franklin County Municipal Court Clerk Lori Tyack said she is optimistic about the court’s decision to offer FedEx commercial-carrier service for civil cases filed in the local court. The “additional tool,” as she calls it, already has resulted in service being perfected at a far greater rate than service by certified mail in recent years. [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Those ever-present TV drug ads showing patients hiking, biking or enjoying a day at the beach could soon have a different look: New rules require drugmakers to be more clear and more direct when explaining their medications’ risks and side effects. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration spent more than 15 years [...]