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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — One month after a judge declared Google’s search engine an illegal monopoly, the tech firm faces another antitrust lawsuit that threatens to break up the company, this time over its advertising technology. The Justice Department and a coalition of states contend that Google built and maintains a monopoly over the technology [...]
U.S. auto safety regulators are investigating reports that the engines can catch fire on some Jeep SUVs and pickup trucks even with the ignition turned off. The probe covers more than 781,000 Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator vehicles from the 2021 through 2023 model years. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents posted Monday [...]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Casino company Wynn Resorts Ltd. has agreed to pay $130 million to federal authorities and admit that it let unlicensed money transfer businesses around the world funnel funds to gamblers at its flagship Las Vegas Strip property. The publicly traded company said a non-prosecution settlement reached last week represented a monetary [...]
The Biden administration is examining the four largest airline frequent-flyer programs in the country and how they devalue points that consumers have earned and frequently change the number of points or miles needed to book flights. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg last week wrote to the CEOs of American, Delta, Southwest and United, asking each for [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators responsible for the safety of the nation’s drug supply are still struggling to get back to where they were in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic upended factory inspections in the United States and across the world, The Associated Press has found. An AP analysis of Food and Drug Administration data [...]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Supreme Court has ended a defamation lawsuit brought by casino mogul Steve Wynn against The Associated Press in 2018, rejecting his bid for a jury to hear his claim that he was defamed by an AP story about two women who alleged Wynn committed sexual misconduct. The seven-member court [...]
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey gambling regulators say Atlantic City’s top-performing casino, the Borgata, underpaid some of its internet gambling taxes twice by taking almost $15 million more in credits than it was entitled to. That led the casino to pay $1.1 million less in taxes than it should have. The state Division [...]
The Supreme Court of Ohio reversed a decision upholding a trial court’s evidentiary ruling to disallow the testimony of a former federal prosecutor in proceedings of a Cincinnati man indicted on charges that included attempted murder and felonious assault. The justices’ consideration of the issue, which resulted from the indictment of 30-year-old Sontez Sheckles, centered [...]
Federal regulators are attempting to determine if artificial intelligence systems that are so powerful that they pose a security danger should be unleashed without oversight. For regulators trying to put guardrails on AI, it’s mostly about the arithmetic. Specifically, an AI model trained on 10 to the 26th floating-point operations per second must now be [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Two more Ohio laws restricting abortions have been blocked by the courts as the legal impacts of a 2023 constitutional amendment guaranteeing access to the procedure continue to be felt. Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Alison Hatheway issued a preliminary injunction Aug. 29 that extends an existing order temporarily halting enforcement of [...]