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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County is taking on Pepsi and Coke for their role in plastic pollution. In a lawsuit filed last week, the county alleged PepsiCo and Coca-Cola have misled the public about the recyclability of their plastic bottles and downplayed the negative environmental and health impacts of plastic disposal. “Coke and [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — An ex-FTX executive who testified against the cryptocurrency firm’s founder at his trial last year was spared a prison sentence last week by a federal judge who credited his substantial cooperation and late arrival in the multibillion dollar fraud. Nishad Singh, the company’s former engineering director, was sentenced in Manhattan by [...]
Nine additional former cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy have formally accused overseers of the service academy of failing to prevent and properly address sexual violence on campus, while also covering it up. The claims, filed last week, come more than a month after 13 former cadets filed similar federal complaints seeking $10 million [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court delivered a blow to Republican Attorney General Dave Yost last week, ruling that he overstepped his authority by rejecting a voting-related amendment’s ballot petition solely because he objected to the title. In a unanimous decision, the court sided with a coalition of civil rights organizations behind the “Ohio [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States earlier this week imposed sanctions on 398 firms across Russia, India, China and more than a dozen other nations — accusing them of providing products and services that enable Russia’s war effort and aid its ability to evade sanctions. The effort spearheaded by the Treasury and State Departments is [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Tapestry Inc. and Capri Holdings Ltd. have filed their notice to jointly appeal the decision by a U.S. district judge to temporarily halt the merger between the makers of Coach and Michael Kors handbags, according to a court filing. In her ruling last week, U.S. District Judge Jennifer Rochon noted that [...]
WASHINGTON — Chinese hackers engaged in a broader espionage operation targeted cellphones used by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, his running mate, JD Vance, and people associated with the Democratic campaign of Kamala Harris, people familiar with the matter said last week. It was not immediately clear what data, if any, may have been accessed. [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The owner and manager of the cargo ship that caused the deadly Baltimore bridge collapse have agreed to pay more than $102 million in cleanup costs to settle a lawsuit brought by the Justice Department, officials said. The settlement does not cover any damages for rebuilding the bridge, officials said in a [...]
  By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press  COLUMBUS — The most far- reaching of Ohio’s laws restricting abortion was struck down last week by a county judge who said last year’s voter-approved amendment ensuring access to abortion and other forms of reproductive health care renders the so-called heartbeat law unconstitutional. Enforcement of the [...]
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is at risk of misallocating nearly $1 billion in lead-pipe replacement funding to the wrong states because it didn’t verify inaccurate data provided by Texas and Florida, an agency watchdog announced. It’s possible that the EPA can avoid much of the misallocation and can recover some funds [...]