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Airbnb will prohibit one-night rentals over Halloween weekend as part of its ongoing effort to crack down on party houses.

Retail giant Amazon can’t be held responsible under current Ohio product liability law in the death of a high school senior who ingested powdered caffeine, the state Supreme Court said Thursday.

Prosecutors said that in 2012, Nikulin, working from Moscow, hacked the computers of the San Francisco Bay Area companies, installed malware, stole login credentials for employees and used them to obtain customer data such as usernames and passwords that he offered for sale on a Russian-speaking cybercrime forum.

Nonprofit One Fair Wage has filed an EEOC complaint against Darden Restaurants, Inc., over its sub-minimum wage for tipped employees.

JPMorgan will pay $436.4 million in fines, $311.7 million in restitution and more than $172 million in disgorgement, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said on Tuesday, the biggest-ever settlement imposed by the derivatives regulator.

With the Supreme Court at the forefront of widespread political discussion ahead of Tuesday's presidential debate, partisan ad wars are shifting away from coronavirus and social justice. 

LVMH announced earlier in September it was backing out of what was expected to be a historic $16.2 billion deal.

A federal judge in Philadelphia joined others Monday in ordering a halt to recent Postal Service cuts that critics say are causing mail delays and threatening the integrity of the presidential election.

A couple who accused a sperm bank of misrepresenting its process for screening donors and providing incorrect medical and educational history of the donor they selected can proceed with a lawsuit against the sperm bank, Georgia’s highest court ruled Monday.

The Commerce Department will comply with a judge's decision to delay the administration's TikTok download ban for now.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden wants voters to see Republicans’ push for a speedy Supreme Court confirmation as an end-run of Congress and the 2010 health care law.

The Supreme Court has been on a rightward trajectory particularly since the conservative Justice Samuel Alito succeeded center-right Reagan appointee Sandra Day O’Connor in 2006.

Barrett has long been considered a front-runner for the seat after she was closely examined to potentially replace former Justice Anthony Kennedy on the high court.

St. Louis-based restaurant Lona’s Lil Eats filed a lawsuit against DoorDash this week, saying the delivery company has been incorrectly listing non-partner restaurants as “too far away.”

Critics say Apple wields monopoly power over the gateway that connects users to mobile apps, which the tech giant disputes.

A judge will hold a hearing on Sunday on whether to allow a Commerce Department ban on new TikTok downloads from Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc Google app stores from taking effect.

The insurance giant is accused of practices that allegedly limited competition.

Madoff customers who received millions of dollars more than their original investments fought in court to hang on to their profits

The employee reportedly says she was let go from the company after a white customer threatened to call Whataburger’s corporate office about her Black Lives Matter mask, which after a series of events led her managers to fire her and call the police on her. 

In a unanimous vote Tuesday night, the Berkeley City Council passed the “healthy checkout” ordinance, which will prohibit large grocery stores from selling food and beverages deemed unhealthy in a 3-foot radius from the checkout.