Abnormally hot and dry weather is set to return to Alberta on Thursday after a couple of cooler days helped calm wildfires that have forced thousands of evacuations and disrupted production in Canada’s main oil-rich province. Record-high temperatures and tinder-dry …
Drivers are kicking the tires and trading up for new auto insurance policies. In the first quarter, new policy growth rate was up 17% over the same period in 2022, and a record-breaking shopping growth rate was up 10.2% compared …
Peloton Interactive Inc. and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a long-awaited fix for the fitness company’s recalled Tread+ machine, which was pulled off the market two years ago following dozens of injuries and one death. The repair involves …
Driven by a “personal vendetta” against a toll bridge company, Alabama’s transportation director planned to build an unnecessary bridge across the Intracoastal Waterway at a cost of more than $100 million to the state, according to a judge who ordered …
A construction worker was killed and another was missing Friday morning after a massive fire broke out in an upscale business and residential area of Charlotte, North Carolina. News outlets reported that the five-alarm fire began early Thursday in or …
Google on Friday defeated a lawsuit brought on behalf of 1.6 million people over medical records provided to the U.S. tech giant by a British hospital trust. The Royal Free London NHS Trust transferred patient data to Google’s artificial intelligence …
Three employees of the largest agricultural research facility in the U.S. have filed federal whistleblower complaints alleging that the facility’s conditions are hazardous to workers and undermine their research, even as farmers are facing pressing issues like climate change, according …
The US Supreme Court handed social media companies a new line of defense as they face an increasing number of lawsuits alleging their algorithms have harmed users — whether by addicting children or selling suicide kits. In a unanimous ruling, …
GEICO must defend itself against a class-action lawsuit that alleges it failed to include the cost of sales taxes and purchasing fees when it paid total loss auto collision claims in Texas, depriving policyholders of actual cash value. A panel …
Even though they have been suspended from the practice of law, attorneys with McClenny Moseley & Associates continue to rack up penalties as federal judges clean up a mess created by the law firm’s mass filing of hundreds of hurricane-damage …