Meta beat investor expectations for third-quarter revenue in 2026, but its profits took a hit from billions of dollars in legal costs. The Facebook and Instagram owner is facing major penalties in the US. Meta beat revenue estimates in the third quarter, but profit fell after a big legal settlement. Revenue beats expectations, profit takes … Read more
Instacart has agreed to pay $5 million to settle allegations that it discriminated against American workers by favoring temporary visa holders during recruitment for jobs linked to green-card sponsorship, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced on October 20, 2026. US secures $5 million Instacart deal over alleged … Read more
Jeanne Kay Whitefeather and Donald Lantz were sentenced to decades in prison for abusing the children. (Photo: WCHS TV) Five children who were subjected to years of abuse and neglect by their adoptive parents in West Virginia have been awarded a $4.4 million settlement from the state Department of Human Services following failures by Child … Read more
DoorDash has admitted it “screwed up” and has agreed to pay $131.5 million to settle a New York City investigation that found the company underpaid or delayed payments to more than 264,000 delivery workers. The settlement, announced Tuesday, includes nearly $115 million in worker relief, a $16.7 million civil penalty, and three years of city … Read more
Amazon Prime subscribers could receive up to $200 automatically under an expanded settlement tied to a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) case against Amazon. The FTC announced on September 17, 2026, that it would “accelerate and expand payments” under the $2.5 billion settlement with Amazon. Amazon Prime subscribers could receive up to $200 in automatic settlement … Read more
PC: Anadolu Agency of Turkey A 66-million-year-old gastropod fossil has been discovered at an archaeological site in Ankara, Turkey. Excavators uncovered the fossil during work at Kulhoyuk in the Oyaca neighbourhood of Ankara’s Golbasi district. Researchers believe it dates to one of the final phases of the Tethys Sea, an ancient body of water that … Read more
More than five decades ago, civil engineers in northern Illinois carried out a major engineering experiment by using 246,000 cubic yards of coal fly ash beneath 7,500 feet of a major expressway embankment. The pioneering project, completed in 1972 near Waukegan along the US Route 41 corridor, was one of the earliest large-scale examples of … Read more
TikTok and parent company ByteDance have agreed to pay $400 million to settle a lawsuit with the US Department of Justice over claims that the video-sharing platform violated federal children’s privacy laws, the department announced on Friday. This photograph shows a man holding a smartphone displaying the logo of Chinese social media platform Tiktok in … Read more
Indian student Sai Teja fights for life after serious traffic accident in Alabama. Sai Teja, a 27-year-old Indian student, has been fighting for his life after being seriously injured in a car accident in Montgomery, Alabama. Teja was reportedly returning from a friend’s graduation when an underage driver crashed into his car. His friend Aguirre, … Read more
Convicted sex offender dies in jail years after death Jeffrey EpsteinThe victims’ estates have agreed to pay up to $35 million in damages to resolve claims from victims who accused him of abuse or trafficking for more than two decades.The proposed court ruling, filed Thursday, covers alleged attacks from Jan. 1, 1995, to Epstein’s death … Read more