After 329 years — and thanks to an eighth-grade civics class — a Salem-era woman has been officially exonerated of devil worship. | Continue reading
Joshua Schulte was convicted on all counts in connection with the biggest disclosure of confidential CIA files in the agency’s history. | Continue reading
This one over earth's tropical region is detectable all year and is seven times larger than the better-known hole over Antarctica. | Continue reading
Nestle and Cargill must face claims they approved the use of child slaves on Ivory Coast plantations and bribed slave masters to get cheap cocoa, a panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday. | Continue reading
Google will delay by nearly two years the phaseout of Chrome web browser technology that tracks users for ad purposes, saying that it needs more time to develop a replacement system. | Continue reading
Defending a first-in-the-nation law that would force cable operators to go à la carte, a lawyer for the state of Maine assured the First Circuit on Wednesday that bundled channels is not a free-spe… | Continue reading
Imposters and inmates in California filed unemployment claims using fake names like “Poopy Britches” and in one case assuming the identity of a sitting U.S. senator. | Continue reading
The Trump administration blacklisted China’s top chipmaker Friday, limiting the Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp.’s access to advanced U.S. technology because of its alleg… | Continue reading
“Victory is life” not for Star Trek, but for Dr. Seuss, whose publisher emerged victorious Friday in a copyright fight at the Ninth Circuit over the children’s classic “Oh, the Places You’ll Go.”… | Continue reading
The Trump administration cannot use the Covid-19 pandemic to justify sudden and sweeping visa restrictions affecting thousands of professionals working in the United States on H-1B visas, a federal… | Continue reading
Swiss politicians have voiced outrage and demanded an investigation after revelations that a second Swiss encryption company was allegedly used by the CIA and its German counterpart to spy on gover… | Continue reading
The European Commission said Friday it is appealing a court decision that Apple doesn’t have to repay $15 billion in back taxes to Ireland. | Continue reading
African immigrants have become one of the fastest-growing immigration segments in America, and female African immigrants’ income growth rate has outpaced that of U.S.-born men and women, Michigan State University reported this week. | Continue reading
Seeking to rescue a landmark data privacy deal from the brink of failure, Facebook agreed to add $100 million to a $550 million settlement over its use of facial recognition technology that a federal judge previously shot down as woefully inadequate. | Continue reading
A federal court in Kentucky granted a preliminary injunction to the Online Merchant’s Guild to halt investigations into alleged price-gouging by Amazon retailers. The state attorney general’s investigations and threats of enforcement have an “impermissible extraterritorial effect … | Continue reading
As Minneapolis underwent a fourth night of protests over the death of George Floyd, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said Saturday that most rioters arrested are from outside of the city and sought to take advantage of the chaos. | Continue reading
Germany’s defense ministry and Federal Intelligence Service (BND) have privately cast doubt on U.S. claims that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a Chinese lab, media reported Friday. | Continue reading
Rejecting claims that the legal process it forced on workers is unfair, a federal judge Monday ordered food-delivery service DoorDash to pay $9.5 million in arbitration fees for 5,010 delivery drivers’ labor demands against the company. | Continue reading
Netflix must face a lawsuit from the publisher of the “Choose Your Own Adventure” children’s books over a plot device in one of the streaming company’s “Black Mirror” films, a federal court in Vermont ruled Tuesday. | Continue reading
Nearly 400 people who were either wounded while serving in the U.S. military in Afghanistan or family members of service members who died in the conflict sued a group of companies on Friday they say helped fund attacks against Americans by making protection payments to the Taliba … | Continue reading
The FBI cannot hide whether it uses powerful surveillance tools to monitor the social media activity of millions of Americans and noncitizens, a federal judge ruled Monday. | Continue reading
A Ninth Circuit panel on Thursday affirmed dismissal of a lawsuit claiming a beach city’s ordinance banning short-term rentals unlawfully disrupts the flow of interstate commerce. | Continue reading
Settling a years-long dispute, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that denying the Holocaust happened is not protected expression under Europe’s human rights convention. | Continue reading
The European Union’s highest court ruled Thursday that nations can order Facebook to remove content from its platform worldwide. | Continue reading
Hoping to eliminate the unconscious bias that influences criminal charging decisions, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon unveiled new open-source technology that promises to “take race out of the equation” for prosecutors. | Continue reading
Taking a second shot at legislation that could ignite a burst of new apartments and condos, a San Francisco lawmaker pushed for more state control over local housing decisions Tuesday to fix the state’s housing crisis. | Continue reading
A federal judge on Friday rejected Facebook's argument that it cannot be sued for letting third parties, such as Cambridge Analytica, access users' private data because no "real world" harm has resulted from the conduct. | Continue reading
There's only one Big Mac, right? Not so fast. In a supersized trademark controversy, a European regulator has ruled in favor of an Irish fast-food restaurant chain and stripped McDonald’s of its exclusive use of the name Big Mac in the European Union. | Continue reading
Domino’s Pizza must make its website and mobile app accessible to blind people using screen-reading software, the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday. | Continue reading
Tech giant Qualcomm says Apple is violating a Chinese court order by selling iPhones and other devices in China after the San Diego-based chip maker won a patent infringement lawsuit. | Continue reading
The Environmental Protection Agency has named David Dunlap, a former chemical engineer with Koch Industries, as its deputy chief of research and development, according to the EPA’s chief of staff.… | Continue reading
New York’s highest court on Thursday reinstated former Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov’s conviction for illegally using his employer’s source code. | Continue reading