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WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States announced new sanctions against a commercial spyware company headed by a former Israeli military officer whose program allowed easy access to almost any information stored on a smartphone. American officials and private researchers say Intellexa Consortium’s products have been used for mass surveillance campaigns around the world, allowing unscrupulous [...]
The Supreme Court of Ohio accepted the state’s appeal of the Cuyahoga County appellate court ruling in favor of three chiropractic practices and a referral company that challenged the enactment of legislation that disregarded the Ohio Constitution’s one-subject rule. Solicitor General T. Elliott Gaiser, on behalf of the state, argued that the Eighth District Court [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court earlier this week let stand ballot language that will describe this fall’s Issue 1 as requiring gerrymandering, when the proposal is intended to do the opposite. In a 4-3 ruling, the high court ordered two of eight disputed sections of the ballot description rewritten, while upholding the other [...]
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is shutting down two of its offices in China, The Associated Press has learned, a move that comes even as the agency struggles to disrupt the flow of precursor chemicals from the country that have fueled a fentanyl epidemic blamed for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans. "These [...]
Oral arguments began this week in a legal case that will determine if — or how — a popular social media platform used by nearly half of all Americans will continue to operate in the country. TikTok and its China-based parent company, ByteDance, are challenging an American law that requires them to break ties or [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Walgreens has agreed to pay $106 million to settle lawsuits that alleged the pharmacy chain submitted false payment claims with government health-care programs for prescriptions that were never dispensed. The settlement resolves lawsuits filed in New Mexico, Texas and Florida on behalf of three people who had worked in Walgreens’ pharmacy operation. [...]
From the looks of it, the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert hasn’t done too much with the $24 million it received in federal pandemic aid. The site on which it plans to spend most of the money for a crime victims center remains an empty plot of dirt. Just one-quarter of its funds are obligated for [...]
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — It happens in milliseconds, ideally, as users browse the web. Networks of computers and software analyze who they are, what they are looking at and buy and sell the advertisements they see on web pages. The company that most likely determines which ads they see, and how much an advertiser paid [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is cracking down on cheap products sold out of China by companies such as Temu and Shein by saying that companies are no longer exempt from tariffs simply by shipping goods that they claim to be worth less than $800. President Joe Biden would no longer exclude these “de [...]
A three-judge appellate panel affirmed the murder conviction of a Columbus man who shot and killed another man during a fist fight that erupted from a disagreement over a pot transaction in August 2018. Judges seated on the Tenth District Court of Appeals panel were not persuaded by 29-year-old Daquan Lee, who argued the jury’s [...]