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The U.S. crypto exchange will pay a $50 million fine for letting customers open accounts with few background checks and spend $50 million to improve compliance. Coinbase, a publicly traded [...]

Byline: Tory Newmyer Coinbase, the largest U.S.-based cryptocurrency trading exchange, will pay a $50 million fine to settle allegations from New York regulators that it broke the law by failing [...]

Byline: GRANT ROBERTSON; Staff Hockey Canada paid out nearly $2.9-million in legal settlements in the past year, according to newly released audited financial statements. That number includes the amount paid [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE; Staff Canada's most populous Indigenous reserve says countless residents have been left out of the $1.47-billion federal Indian day school settlement, and has applied to extend the [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski and Julian Mark Epic Games, the maker of the popular video game 'Fortnite,' has agreed to pay a record $520 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations [...]

The e-commerce giant avoided a fine, but will make a variety of changes regulators believe will help independent merchants who had raised alarms about Amazon's tactics. Amazon has agreed to [...]

Byline: Kelsey Ables Juul Labs, the e-cigarette manufacturer, announced Tuesday it has reached settlements covering more than 5,000 cases with nearly 10,000 plaintiffs. The sweeping resolutions, which litigators say will [...]

Byline: Bryan Pietsch Hertz said Monday it will pay $168 million to settle hundreds of claims by customers who were falsely reported by the rental car company as having stolen [...]

SOCIAL MEDIA E.U. Official Warns Musk To Beef Up Twitter Controls A top European Union official warned Elon Musk on Wednesday that Twitter needs to beef up measures to protect [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA -- OTTAWA The federal government is asking a judge to review some aspects of the $40billion settlement agreement over discrimination in the Indigenous child-welfare system, [...]

Byline: Nicki Jhabvala, Mark Maske and Liz Clarke Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh (D) announced Friday that his office's consumer protection division reached a settlement with the Washington Commanders [...]

Byline: Bryan Pietsch Google agreed to pay $391.5 million to 40 states to settle an investigation into its location tracking practices, a coalition of state attorneys general announced Monday. The [...]

Under the agreement, which state attorneys general said was the largest U.S. internet privacy settlement, Google must also make its location-tracking practices clearer to users. WASHINGTON -- Google agreed to [...]

Virginia Giuffre, who was trafficked as a girl by Jeffrey E. Epstein, had accused Alan Dershowitz of abusing her. Now she says she is no longer certain. Virginia Giuffre, a [...]

Byline: Rachel Lerman CVS Health, one of the nation's largest retail pharmacies, has agreed to pay nearly $5 billion to states, cities and Native American tribes to settle all opioid [...]

Byline: Marisa Iati A man exonerated in the assassination of civil rights leader Malcolm X and the estate of another man whose conviction was thrown out will receive $26 million [...]

Byline: Jonathan Edwards Brenda Lawson tried to reconcile her Christian faith with the 'rainbow' heart on Kroger's new uniform by covering it with her employee name tag. Co-worker Trudy Rickerd [...]

Byline: Jenna Portnoy Johns Hopkins and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield health insurance announced Wednesday they have settled a contract dispute, ensuring coverage will not be interrupted for nearly 300,000 patients that [...]

He said passengers killed on two 737 Max flights were crime victims, siding with relatives who objected to a deal that spared Boeing from a criminal charge. A federal judge [...]

Byline: Hannah Sampson A handful of American Airlines passengers who said they were improperly forced to pay bag fees filed a class-action lawsuit - and the airline has agreed to [...]

Byline: David Porter, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK - Two New York hospitals have agreed to pay more than $165 million to 147 former patients who have accused a former gynecologist [...]

Byline: MARSHA LEDERMAN; Staff Long before the sun is up, they're awake, blearily gathering together gear and snacks. They pack it into automobiles that they've bought specifically to fit it [...]

Byline: Jonathan Edwards Daniel Prude's son said that when his dad was lying naked on the streets of Rochester, N.Y., on a snowy night in March 2020, what he needed [...]

Byline: María Luisa Paúl In the 1996 movie 'Space Jam,' basketball great Michael Jordan had his blue water bottle of 'Michael's Secret Stuff,' a placebo used to motivate his cartoon [...]

Byline: Tory Newmyer and Steven Zeitchik The Securities and Exchange Commission charged reality star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian with promoting a cryptocurrency on her Instagram account without disclosing how much [...]

Byline: Tory Newmyer The Securities and Exchange Commission is charging reality star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian with allegedly promoting a cryptocurrency on her Instagram account without disclosing how much she [...]

Companies Disney Calls a Truce With an Activist Investor The Walt Disney Company will name Carolyn Everson, a technology and media veteran, to its board, the company said on Friday, [...]

Byline: Jenn Abelson The family of a Mississippi man killed by Monroe County sheriff's deputies during a no-knock raid has agreed to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit for $690,000. The settlement [...]

Lakeland Bank in New Jersey admitted no wrongdoing, but agreed to set up a $12 million homeownership fund and open two new branches in minority neighborhoods. A New Jersey-based bank [...]

Byline: Steve Thompson A property management company owned by the family of former president Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has agreed to pay a $3,250,000 civil penalty along with restitution [...]

The S.E.C. said Boeing had misled investors by suggesting that human error was to blame for two deadly crashes, and omitting the company's concerns about the plane. Boeing reached a [...]

Byline: Derek Hawkins Lester Machado was driving his Honda Civic through Hialeah, Fla., early one morning when police tried to pull him over for what they said was a traffic [...]

Byline: Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY Los Angeles County has agreed to pay a $19.95 million settlement to one of the two plaintiffs in a recent trial over gruesome photos from [...]

New Jersey demanded back taxes from the ride-hailing company, claiming it misclassified drivers as independent contractors. Uber has agreed to pay New Jersey $100 million in back taxes after the [...]

The fictional series had named Nona Gaprindashvili, a pioneering real-life chess champion, and falsely claimed she had ''never faced men.'' She sued for defamation. Lawyers for the pioneering chess champion [...]

The tentative deal would close an investigation by nearly three dozen states into the company's marketing and sales practices. Juul Labs, fighting for its survival in the United States, on [...]

Byline: Lateshia Beachum E-cigarette company Juul has agreed to pay more than $438.5 million in a settlement with 34 states and territories over marketing its product to teens. Connecticut Attorney [...]

Byline: Andrea Salcedo A Christian math teacher who sued Kansas school officials this year alleging she was unfairly reprimanded and suspended for refusing to use a student's pronouns is receiving [...]

Byline: Josh Peter, USA TODAY Texas Tech agreed to pay former women's basketball coach Marlene Stollings a little more than $740,000 as part of a settlement of a lawsuit in [...]

Byline: Paul Schwartzman The son of a deceased Georgetown socialite has settled a lawsuit he filed against his mother's romantic partner, whom he accused of stealing tens of thousands of [...]

Byline: Mark Maske Under a settlement reached between the league and the NFL Players Association, Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson has been suspended for 11 games and fined $5 million [...]

Byline: Emily Giambalvo INDIANAPOLIS - When Li Li Leung stepped into her role at the top of USA Gymnastics in 2019, many offered congratulations. Some then followed with condolences, alluding [...]

Byline: GRANT ROBERTSON; Staff Before Hockey Canada became engulfed in controversy this year over its handling of sexual-assault allegations, the government had concerns about its board of directors, including aspects [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES -- LOS ANGELES The proposed US$24-million settlement between U.S. women soccer players and the sport's American governing body was given preliminary approval Thursday by [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHILADELPHIA -- PHILADELPHIA Two years after a pair of former players sued the NFL over the treatment of Black retirees in the league's US$1billion concussion settlement, [...]

Byline: Holly Bailey MINNEAPOLIS - A Minnesota county agreed to pay $1.5 million to eight minority correctional officers who sued after they said only white employees were allowed to guard [...]