California is suing Juul for allegedly targeting minors

California is suing e-cigarette maker Juul. The lawsuit alleges that Juul targeted underage Californians with its marketing and sales practices, failed to warn consumers of their exposure to chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects, failed to pro...

Nearly every state AG has joined NY’s Facebook antitrust investigation

Dozens of attorneys general have joined an antitrust investigation into Facebook. The New York Attorney General's office is leading the investigation, which it opened last month with AGs from seven other states and the District of Columbia.

Congress is asking vape manufacturers if they used social media bots

Congress wants to know if the largest vaping companies used bot-generated social-media messages to market their products. The House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Massachusetts attorney general have asked each of the five largest manufacturers...

T-Mobile’s Sprint merger is opposed by 18 state attorneys general

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro is the latest state attorney general to oppose T-Mobile's Sprint merger. Today, Shapiro announced that he'll join a lawsuit to block the "megamerger" of the telecom giants, making him the 18th attorney gener...

Google could soon face another antitrust investigation

Next week, more than half of the nation's attorneys general are expected to announce an antitrust investigation into Google, The Washington Post reports. Details on the investigation are limited, but it's yet another probe into fears that big tech ha...

Phone companies and state attorneys general join forces to fight robocalls

US consumers receive as many as 350,000 unwanted calls every three minutes, according to the FCC. Despite multiple efforts to end the onslaught, an estimated 4.7 billion robocalls hit American phones in July alone. Now, attorneys general from all 50...

Here’s how AG Barr is going to get encryption “backdoors”

If you heard the reverberation of a few thousand heads exploding last week, it was the sound of information security professionals reacting to US Attorney General Barr saying that Big Tech "can and must" put backdoors into encryption. In his speech...

Charter will expand broadband network so it can stay in New York

Charter Communications has agreed to a settlement with the New York's Department of Public Service that will allow the internet service provider to continue operating within the state. As a part of the agreement, Charter will have to kick back $12 mi...

President Barack Obama praises Beau Biden in Eulogy


United States’ President Barack Obama delivered Beau Biden’s eulogy on Saturday, June 6, to crowd of thousands at St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church in Wilmington, Delaware. Family, friends,...

President Barack Obama praises Beau Biden in Eulogy


United States’ President Barack Obama delivered Beau Biden’s eulogy on Saturday, June 6, to crowd of thousands at St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church in Wilmington, Delaware. Family, friends,...