Fox News on Tuesday disposed of one legal threat with its $787.5 million defamation settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, but the network still faces a $2.7 billion lawsuit from another voting technology company, Smartmatic USA, over its coverage of debunked election-rigging claims.
(CORRECTION: An version of this story published October 2021 reported incorrectly that legal sector jobs peaked in February 2020. It has been corrected based on U.S. Labor Department data showing an historical peak of about 1.18 million jobs in May 2007.) Employment in the legal industry continued to climb in September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, moving closer to pre-pandemic levels even as the country's overall job growth fell significantly.
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The U.S. Justice Department has secured a settlement with United Parcel Service Inc to resolve immigration-related discrimination claims in a civil action against the package delivery company, the agency said on Monday.
The White House on Monday called a federal judge's ruling overturning a mask mandate for U.S. transportation systems "disappointing," and said it is continuing to review information related to the order
Paramount Global has agreed to pay $14.75 million to shareholders of the former CBS Corp in a proposed class action claiming the company's failure to disclose sexual misconduct allegations against former CBS chief executive Leslie Moonves artificially inflated the value of its stock.
Amazon.com Inc workers at a small facility in New Jersey have shown enough interest to hold a vote on unionizing, the U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) said on Monday.
The family of an African refugee killed by a Michigan police officer during a traffic stop demanded on Thursday that authorities dismiss the officer from the force and file criminal charges against him, a day after a video of the fatal shooting was released.
A jury on Thursday convicted an Ohio man who claimed he was following former President Donald Trump's orders when he looted items from U.S. Capitol during last year's riot, handing another notable win to prosecutors.
Abortion providers including Planned Parenthood on Thursday sued to block a sweeping new Kentucky law that forces them to stop offering the procedure until they can meet certain requirements, saying it amounted to an unconstitutional ban on abortions.
In remarks announcing his U.S. presidential bid on Wednesday (June 7), former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said then-president Donald Trump had asked him to choose between him and the U.S. Constitution following their 2020 election loss and that anyone who put themselves above the founding document should not be president.
(Reuters) -Former Vice President Mike Pence, who once served Donald Trump loyally, on Wednesday blasted his former boss for his role in the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol and said he would challenge Trump for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.