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Blue Cross Blue Shield will soon begin issuing settlements from a $2.67 billion class-action lawsuit that accuses the health insurance giant of violating antitrust laws. The lawsuit began in 2013, when a class-action lawsuit was filed against more than 35 Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance plans. The lawsuit claims the company violated antitrust laws…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California regulators this week apologized to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and settled a lawsuit that said a state agency displayed political bias against the rocket company and its CEO. As part of the settlement, the California Coastal Commission acknowledged that its members made “inappropriate” comments about Musk’s political beliefs during a…
January 1, 1990, Miami, Florida There was no tremor in his voice, nor any hint of anxiety. His steps were slow and cautious as he paced before the assembled troops, outlining a battle plan for how to win the war. This is a man in all his MacArthur glory. This is not the Lou Holtz…
JPMorgan Chase has hired former Goldman Sachs cryptocurrency executive Oliver Harris to lead its blockchain unit Kinexys, marking a return to the bank as it expands its digital asset strategy. Harris previously worked on early-stage blockchain and tokenization at JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs before founding Arda, a startup aiming to make real estate assets programmable….
Gujarat Titans host Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 42nd match of IPL 2026 on Thursday, April 30, at the Narendra Modi Stadium. GT currently sit fifth in the IPL standings after suffering some early losses. advertise They defeated Chennai Super Kings by 8 wickets in their last match at Chepauk, in which Sai Sudarshan scored…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that $400 million in support for Ukraine has been released after Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) published an angry op-ed criticizing the stagnant funding. “The department acknowledges that it has allocated $400 million for European capacity building, and as of yesterday, that funding had been released,” Hegseth said in response…
Meta (META), the social media giant behind Facebook and Instagram, has begun offering stablecoin payments to creators, marking a return to cryptocurrency payments after years of shelving the Libra project. According to the Meta website, the feature is currently only available to a small number of creators in Colombia and the Philippines. Eligible users can…
Cam York buried the winner with 17:32 left in overtime and threw his bat into the crowd amid wild celebrations, and the Philadelphia Flyers advanced to the second round for the first time in six years with a 1-0 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 6 on Wednesday night. The Flyers will face Carolina…
Current Fed Chairman Jerome Powell will remain on the Fed’s board as governor after his term ends in May. At a news conference on Wednesday after the central bank decided to hold interest rates steady at 3.5%-3.75%, Powell expressed concerns about legal action against the central bank, saying this led him to stay despite his…
Russia remains open to removing highly enriched uranium, a key component in the development of nuclear weapons, from Iran, the head of the United Nations nuclear agency said on Tuesday. In an interview with The Associated Press, Rafael Grossi stressed the importance of ensuring that Iran loses this supply or that enriched uranium is diluted….