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US judge casts doubt on 69,000 cases alleging J&J talc caused cancer
A federal judge cast doubt on Wednesday on claims by approximately 69,000 people alleging that Johnson & Johnson's baby powder and other talc products caused ovarian cancer, sayin...
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Trump administration seizes on New Jersey voting error to demand noncitizen data
The Justice Department is demanding data from New Jersey on non-U.S.-citizens the state says were accidentally registered to vote, as the Trump administration seeks to use the er...
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American Bar Association says government lawyers must report colleagues' unlawful conduct
U.S. government lawyers have an ethical obligation to report violations of the law committed by fellow employees when those actions may cause “substantial injury” to government org...
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ChatGPT's advice kept man from seeking medical treatment for dangerous condition, lawsuit claims
A Florida pastor sued OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, on Wednesday claiming ChatGPT's inaccurate medical advice kept him from seeking treatment for recurrent dizzy spe...
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Swiss court orders fresh ruling for whistleblowers in multi-billion fraud case
Switzerland's highest court has ordered a fresh ruling in the case of three men accused of breaching bank secrecy laws over leaked data that helped expose the cum-ex tax fraud sca...
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US court says OSHA can't force companies to track workplace mental health issues
A U.S. appeals court has ruled in a case involving Exxon Mobil that the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration cannot require businesses to document work-related mental...
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Senate confirms Trump pick for 6th Circuit US appeals court
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed a former top appellate lawyer for Ohio’s attorney general, who once clerked for the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to a se...
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DLA Piper seeks to end Palestinian law grad's suit over rescinded job offer
International law firm DLA Piper has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a former summer associate and Palestinian whose full-time associate job offer it rescinde...
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Uber, Lyft win court block on NYC law requiring notice before firing drivers
A federal judge has ruled that New York City cannot prohibit Uber Technologies and Lyft from deactivating drivers from their apps without advance notice, ruling that the novel law...
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US SEC settles FOIA lawsuit with Coinbase over lost messages, WSJ op-ed says
Coinbase has settled a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over records it sought from the agency, the cryptocurrency exchange'...
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Venezuela's Maduro due back in US court in drug trafficking case
Venezuela's ousted President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores are due back in a U.S. court on Wednesday for a hearing over the upcoming schedule in their drug trafficking ...
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US to spend $5 billion on health, construction research powered by AI
The U.S. will spend $5 billion to tackle long-standing scientific problems across multiple fields using AI, the Trump administration said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Anthropic to donate $20 million to US political group that supports AI regulation
AI giant Anthropic will donate $20 million to a lobbying organization that supports AI regulation, according to a company statement released on Wednesday, its latest move to influ...
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Illinois man sentenced for hacking Snapchat accounts to steal nude photos
An Illinois man was sentenced on Tuesday to more than six years in prison after admitting he hacked the Snapchat accounts of hundreds of women in order to steal any nude or semi-n...
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White House lawyer confirmed to judgeship after bashing Republican senators
A White House lawyer nominated by President Donald Trump to serve on a court that hears litigation regarding trade laws and tariff policies was confirmed to the bench on Tuesday af...
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US court says longstanding NLRB rule on post-merger union bargaining is invalid
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday said a decades-old National Labor Relations Board policy requiring companies that acquire other employers to bargain with their workers' unions is ...
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Democratic lawmakers press Skadden on Trump agreement, citing work on Intel equity stake sale
A group of Democratic U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday demanded law firm Skadden Arps provide additional details related to its deal with President Donald Trump to provide $100 million in...
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US Treasury flags Wall Street tax strategies as potentially abusive, Bloomberg News reports
The U.S. Treasury Department has raised concerns about several Wall Street tax strategies, saying it may be "too good to be true", Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday.
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