Legal

Federal prosecutors dropped criminal charges against an MIT professor accused of hiding his China ties, saying Thursday that the government no longer believed it could prove its case at trial.

The agreement affects 66,000 student borrowers across 36 states and Washington, D.C.

Call it the sisterhood of the delivery pants.

One of Pennsylvania's biggest gas drillers is facing newer allegations of pollution in a rural community where it is already charged with fouling residents’ drinking water wells with high levels of methane.

A U.S. judge on Friday allowed Purdue Pharma to immediately challenge her rejection of legal protections for Sackler family members who own the OxyContin maker, and which were a major component of its bankruptcy reorganization plan.

A Chinese national admitted in federal court Thursday that he stole a trade secret when he worked for Monsanto and one of its subsidiaries in Missouri, federal prosecutors said.

While the first Winnie the Pooh story published by author A.A. Milne in 1926 is free for anyone to use for inspiration for new projects, Disney will continue to maintain copyright protection over its own versions of the characters.

Pacific Gas & Electric power lines sparked last summer's Dixie Fire in Northern California that swept through five counties and burned more than 1,300 homes and other buildings, state fire officials said Tuesday.

President Biden was criticized for adding legitimacy to Theranos in 2015 after he toured the company's Newark, California facility with its former CEO and called the building a “laboratory of the future” before he expressed optimism about the future of blood testing.

Conservationists and tribal leaders are suing the U.S. government to try to block construction of two geothermal plants in northern Nevada’s high desert that they say will destroy a sacred hot springs and could push a rare toad to the brink of extinction.

A TikTok moderator is suing the platform, claiming she has developed PTSD from repeatedly watching "graphic" content.

There is a strong likelihood that Michael Avenatti will testify at a New York trial where the once high-flying California lawyer is accused of swindling porn star Stormy Daniels out of a book deal’s proceeds, his lawyers say.

A New York state judge on Friday ordered the New York Times to return internal documents to the conservative activist group Project Veritas, a restriction the newspaper said violates decades of First Amendment protections.

A Moscow court on Friday slapped Google with a nearly $100 million fine and also fined Facebook’s parent company Meta $27 million over their failure to delete content banned by local law, as Russia seeks to step up pressure on technology giants.

The suit claims that the sandwich chain has recruited immigrants, mostly from Asia, who have been tricked into joining a corporate network rife with corruption.

The suit alleges that Walmart unlawfully disposes of more than one million items, or approximately 159,600 pounds of hazardous waste in the state annually.

A federal appeals court Friday reinstated the Biden administration's vaccine mandate for large companies, dissolving a stay by another court that had suspended the mandate and continuing a battle that will likely be decided by the Supreme Court.

A former State Farm manager—a Black woman who worked at the insurance giant for nearly 30 years—filed a lawsuit alleging that she faced discrimination and retaliation during her time at the company.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland praised a federal court’s decision to invalidate Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy settlement of thousands of lawsuits over the opioid epidemic over a provision that would protect members of the Sackler family from facing litigation of their own

California's regulators approved a settlement Thursday placing more than half a billion dollars in fines and penalties on the utility Southern California Edison for its role in five wildfires in 2017 and 2018.