The United States on Friday won the latest round of a legal battle to seize a $325-million Russian-owned superyacht in Fiji, with the case now appearing headed for the Pacific nation’s top court. The case has highlighted the thorny legal ground the U.S. finds itself on as it tries to… Read More
Twitter to pay $150M penalty over privacy scandal
Twitter will pay a $150 million penalty and put in new safeguards to settle federal regulators’ allegations that the social platform failed to protect the privacy of users’ data over a six-year span. The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission announced the settlement with Twitter on Wednesday. The regulators… Read More
West Virginia reaches tentative $1.65M opioid settlement
Attorneys for the state of West Virginia and two remaining pharmaceutical manufacturers have reached a tentative $161.5 million settlement just as closing arguments were set to begin in a seven-week trial over the opioid epidemic, Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said Wednesday. Morrisey announced the development in court in the state’s… Read More
Ancient ring lands back in Greece after Odyssean adventure
A more than 3,000-year-old gold signet ring that was stolen from an Aegean island in World War II, crossed the Atlantic, was bought by a Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian scientist and ended up in a Swedish museum has found its way back to Greece. It was the latest in a series… Read More
Judge pauses the sale of long-lost ‘Wizard of Oz’ dress
The dramatic story of an iconic movie costume from “The Wizard of Oz” thought lost for decades went through another plot twist Monday, when a judge blocked its planned sale at auction. One of the blue-and-white checked gingham dresses that Judy Garland wore in 1939 for her role as Dorothy… Read More
Facebook sees shocking revelation about targeted ads
Facebook parent Meta said it will start publicly providing more details about how advertisers target people with political ads just months ahead of the U.S. midterm elections. The announcement follows years of criticism that the social media platforms withhold too much information about how campaigns, special interest groups and politicians… Read More
Fireproof edition of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ up for auction
Margaret Atwood has imagined apocalyptic disaster, Dystopian government and an author faking her own death. But until recently she had spared herself the nightmare of trying to burn one of her own books. With a flamethrower, no less. She failed, and that was the point. On Monday night, timed for… Read More
In symbolic move, Russia cuts off gas exports to Finland
Russia halted gas exports to neighboring Finland on Saturday, a highly symbolic move that came just days after the Nordic country announced it wanted to join NATO and marked a likely end to Finland’s nearly 50 years of importing natural gas from Russia. The measure taken by the Russian energy… Read More
Businesswoman saves gas money with horse and carriage
Stephanie Kirchner’s journey to work has got longer but, she says, cheaper: she has left her SUV at home and switched to real horse power. Stud farm owner and horse trainer Kirchner, 33, says she decided “it can’t go on like this” after fuel prices jumped following the Russian invasion… Read More
BLM and the missing millions
New questions are being raised over Black Lives Matter – the big-money organization, not the concepts behind the slogan – amid revelations over how the nonprofit group spent tens of millions of dollars in donations. Or as one founder called it: “white guilt money.” A new analysis of the group’s… Read More
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