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24 08, 2026

After Alex Jones’ $40 Million Texas Court Win, He Still Faces More Than $1 Billion in Damages

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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is still under orders to pay more than $1 billion over his false claims surrounding the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre despite a Texas court reducing some of the money awarded to families. For the …

24 08, 2026

Paramount and California to Hold Preliminary Talks on Warner Bros Deal

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Paramount and California state officials are set to meet on Monday to discuss a potential settlement path of the state’s lawsuit aimed at stopping Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, the New York Times reported on Saturday citing sources familiar …

24 08, 2026

People Moves: Alliant Adds Johnson as Northwest Employee Benefits Team VP

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Elsje Johnson joined Alliant Insurance Services as vice president within its employee benefits group. The Idaho-based consultant has more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry, including over a decade advising associations, large employers, and national accounts on …

24 08, 2026

New Ways Florida is Adapting to Growing Threats from Sea Level and Storms

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One day there was a roof. The next morning it was gone. Jeffrey Huber still remembers the day some 34 years ago when Hurricane Andrew blew off the roof of his childhood home, one of tens of thousands damaged and …

24 08, 2026

People Moves: Causey Names Myers New Deputy Chief at NCDOI

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North Carolina’s insurance commissioner has named Chuck Myers to be chief deputy commissioner Oct. 1, succeeding Jackie Obusek. For the past three years, Myers has been deputy commissioner for the Louisiana Department of Insurance, over property and casualty insurance. There, …

24 08, 2026

TikTok Agrees to $400 Million Children’s Privacy Settlement

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TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance on Friday agreed to a $400-million settlement to resolve the U.S. Justice Department’s allegations the short-video app violated children’s online privacy. The Justice Department sued TikTok and ByteDance in 2024 for allegedly failing …

24 08, 2026

Trump’s Environmental Rollbacks Are Being Struck Down by Courts

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The Trump administration’s many steps to reshape and shrink the scope of federal environmental protection have been met with a flood of legal challenges from companies, environmental groups and state officials. So far this summer, it’s been losing more than …

24 08, 2026

Londoners Find ‘Horrendous’ Cracks in Homes After Successive Heat Waves

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Londoners are facing historic levels of subsidence risk after five successive heat waves dried out the clay soil on which much of the city is built. Insurance claims tied to subsidence — a phenomenon associated with bouts of hot, dry …

24 08, 2026

KPMG Australia to Fire Hundreds of Workers as Crisis Deepens

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Scandal-plagued KPMG Australia is cutting almost 400 jobs as it grapples with the fallout from allegations it misused confidential client information to win business and as demand for consulting services slows. The consultancy giant will reduce its workforce by about …

23 08, 2026

Judge Narrows Ben & Jerry’s Suit Accusing Unilever of Silencing Social Activism

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A federal judge on Friday dismissed major portions of a Ben & Jerry’s lawsuit accusing its former parent Unilever of trying to silence the ice cream maker’s social activism, dismantle its board and stop funding its namesake foundation. U.S. District …