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New York City has paid at least $35 million to settle allegations of civil rights violations by police against people protesting the 2020 death of George Floyd. Pasadena, California paid the children of Anthony McLain $7.5 million in a…

Sam Bankman-Fried’s mother urged her son to “avoid” disclosing millions of dollars in FTX donations to her pro-Democrat political action committee, according to a bombshell lawsuit. Barbara Fried, a Stanford…

Joseph Bankman, the father of troubled former crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried, allegedly held an advisory role at a top Democratic dark money network, an arrangement a watchdog says “deserves serious scrutiny.”…

Best-selling authors George R.R. Martin, Jodi Picoult and John Grisham were among nearly 20 writers to join a lawsuit against OpenAI that accuses the company of using their books without permission to help…

Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, MA in 1984.Rick Friedman | Corbis News | Getty ImagesJPMorgan Chase has racked up nearly $14 million in legal fees defending itself against two lawsuits alleging it abetted the sex trafficking by its…

Stanford University reportedly plans to return the millions of dollars it received in charitable contributions from Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto firm FTX before its spectacular collapse. The alleged fraudster’s…

John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and George R.R. Martin are among 17 authors suing OpenAI for “systematic theft on a mass scale,” the latest in a wave of legal action by writers concerned that artificial intelligence programs…

The family of a North Carolina man who died after driving off a collapsed bridge as he followed directions given on Google Maps is suing the tech giant for negligence, saying it failed to update its navigation…

Starbucks did not succeed in a bid to end a consumer lawsuit related to its Refresher drinks.  A U.S. district court judge ruled nine causes of action will remain active and dropped two others that the coffeehouse…

A pharmacist displays boxes of Ozempic, a semaglutide injection drug used for treating type 2 diabetes made by Novo Nordisk, at Rock Canyon Pharmacy in Provo, Utah, March 29, 2023.George Frey | ReutersEli Lilly on Tuesday sued 10 medical…