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Facing Possible Cash Crunch, Giant Real Estate Fund Limits Withdrawals
A giant real estate fund managed by the company of the billionaire investor Barry Sternlicht is limiting the amount of money that investors can redeem, in an attempt to...
Everybody Hates Ticketmaster
Live Nation’s market power, the DOJ says, creates “a diminished incentive to innovate” that reduces customer service and product quality. That criticism isn’t new. In a 2010 Wired story,...
Trump Is Suddenly Very Worried About Protesters
The presidential candidate who stood and watched as scores of his supporters rampaged through the U.S. Capitol is being proactive about security for the Republican National Convention in July.The...
Some iPhone Customers Could Get Up to $349 in an Apple Settlement
Some Apple customers who owned an iPhone 7 or 7 Plus and experienced audio issues may be entitled to up to $349 as part of a proposed $35 million...
Senate Republicans Kill Their Own Border Deal to Suck Up to Trump
We allege that Live Nation relies on unlawful, anticompetitive conduct to exercise its monopolistic control over the live events industry in the United States at the cost of fans,...
The Surprising Figure Who Thinks Judge Cannon Is Doing a Terrible Job
On Thursday, former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb accused Judge Aileen Cannon, the federal judge overseeing his ex-boss’s classified documents case, of “incompetence,” insisting that there’s more than...
Louisiana Republicans Pass Most Draconian Law Yet on Abortion Pill
Louisiana Republicans have passed a draconian bill classifying abortion pills as schedule IV “controlled dangerous substances”—and threatening anyone in possession of the pill without a prescription with prison and...
Clarence Thomas Is a Big Fan of Racial Gerrymandering
Thomas argued that the federal courts once recognized greater limits on their own power to provide relief. But the Supreme Court went astray, he claimed, after its ruling in...
Penn State’s Horrifying Treatment of Football Players Is the Norm
Megwa’s case, like Penn State’s and the experiences of the players we spoke to, testifies to the disposable way in which campus athletic workers are treated by a system...
North Carolina Becomes the Latest Victim of a Far-Right Scam
Handing a major win to a manufactured conservative campaign to dismantle safeguards for equality, the governing board of North Carolina’s 17 public university systems on Thursday banned its diversity,...
