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A Louisiana contractor was arrested last week on charges of fraud, filing false public records and forgery. The contractor, Jon Andersen, also received a cease-and-desist letter from Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple. Andersen was arrested on Feb. 25 in Jefferson …

In the days since the US Supreme Court declared most of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs illegal, more than 100 companies filed new lawsuits, underscoring widespread concerns that the administration won’t readily refund the billions of dollars it’s already collected. …

Greenpeace is fighting for its life in North Dakota’s court system, where a judge has decided to order the environmental group to pay an expected $345 million to an energy company whose Dakota Access oil pipeline construction drew protests nearly …

Anthropic PBC’s artificial intelligence chatbot Claude and related consumer-facing applications went down on Monday, with the startup saying it has been grappling with “unprecedented demand” for its services over the past week. Nearly 2,000 users had reported Claude AI service …

NASCAR racing star Kyle Busch and his wife have settled an $8.5 million lawsuit they brought against Pacific Life Insurance and an insurance agent that alleged the insurer and agent misled the couple and caused them to lose millions of …

Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and reproduced in labs to enable major medical …

Amid a worldwide resurgence of interest in nuclear energy, cracks are showing in California’s 50-year-old moratorium on the technology as artificial intelligence spikes electricity demand and the state struggles to meet its climate goals. New state legislation introduced last month …

Firefighters in southwest Florida on Friday continued battling an expansive blaze on a federal nature preserve as an unusually intense winter drought grips the state. The National Fire has burned more than 25,700 acres — an area larger than Manhattan …

A new federal approach giving U.S. companies more say over which proposals shareholders can vote on at their annual meetings is creating regulatory uncertainty and leading to litigation, activists said. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in November changed its …

Amazon’s cloud-computing facilities in the Middle East faced power and connectivity issues on Monday after unidentified “objects” struck its data center in the United Arab Emirates. The objects had triggered a fire on Sunday that forced authorities to eventually cut …