General Motors agreed to pay $12.75 million in civil penalties for selling driving data of hundreds of thousands of California motorists to data brokers, allegedly without their consent. The settlement, announced Friday, is the largest ever for violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act, a 2018 law that requires companies to tell consumers about how …
WASHINGTON, May 11 (Reuters) – The U.S. government on Monday announced sanctions against three people and nine companies, including four based in Hong Kong and four in the United Arab Emirates, for aiding Iran’s shipment of oil to China. The ninth company is based in Oman. The Treasury move follows sanctions announced on Friday on …
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is leaving women’s access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Thursday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug, mifepristone, to take effect. Justice Samuel Alito’s order Monday allows women seeking abortions to continue obtaining the pill at pharmacies or through the …
Washington — Virginia Democrats asked the Supreme Court on Monday to restore its new voter-approved congressional map that aimed to give Democrats an edge in the upcoming midterm elections, days after it was blocked by the state’s highest court. In a bid for emergency relief, the state Democratic leaders urged the Supreme Court to pause …
May 11 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday extended a pause on a ruling that would curb the abortion pill mifepristone from being prescribed through telemedicine and dispensed through the mail in a challenge by a Republican-led Louisiana lawsuit to a federal rule that had eased access. Justice Samuel Alito kept the matter …
Iowa City officials announced in a news release that U.S. marshals captured Damarian M. Jones, 17, of Cedar Rapids, near Atlanta. He faces multiple charges, including five counts of attempted murder and five counts of assault. He was being held in the Clayton County Jail in Georgia pending a hearing on extradition to Iowa. The …
PORT-AU-PRINCE, May 11 (Reuters) – Hospitals in Haiti’s Cite Soleil evacuated their patients and aid group MSF suspended its activities there on Monday as fighting between armed groups operating in the area that began a fortnight ago deteriorated over the weekend. MSF (Doctors Without Borders in English) said hundreds of residents sought refuge in its …
Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday extended a temporary order maintaining mail access to the widely used abortion pill mifepristone for now. Justice Samuel Alito said in a brief order that an administrative stay that he entered last week will remain in place until at least Thursday at 5 p.m. His move gives the …
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A pair of South Florida wildfires that torched thousands of acres in the Everglades over the weekend spread Monday as fire crews worked to contain them. The Florida Forest Service posted on Facebook that the growing fires were producing smoky conditions with reduced visibility, but containment operations were increasing. No …
Texas sues Netflix for allegedly spying on kids and consumers – CBS News Watch CBS News Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued Netflix for allegedly spying on kids and consumers by illegally collecting data without users’ knowledge. CBS News’ Shanelle Kaul has more.