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A U.S. watchdog is suing Capital One for allegedly misleading consumers about its offerings for high-interest savings accounts — and “cheating” customers out of more than $2 billion in lost interest payments as a result

TikTok plans to keep paying U.S. employees even if the Supreme Court does not overturn a law that would force the sale of the short-video app in the U.S. or ban it, the company's leadership said in an internal memo reviewed by Reuters on Tuesday.

liquor scam case: The home ministry has granted permission to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to prosecute former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), ToI reported. The move comes in connection with alleged money laundering linked to the controversial liquor scam case.

Yoon Suk Yeol over his brief imposition of martial law last month. In a video message recorded before he was escorted to the headquarters of an anti-corruption agency, Yoon lamented that the «rule of law has completely collapsed in this country» but said he was complying with the detention warrant to prevent clashes between law enforcement officials and the presidential security service.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for having failed to timely disclose purchasing more than 5% of Twitter's common stock in March 2022. In a complaint filed in Washington, D.C., federal court, the SEC said the delay allowed Musk to continue buying Twitter shares at artificially low prices, allowing him to underpay by at least $150 million.

Joao Fonseca definitively introduced himself to the world as the latest teen sensation in men's tennis on Tuesday night, upsetting No. 9 seed Andrey Rublev 7-6 (1), 6-3, 7-6 (5) in the first round of the Australian Open. It was quite a debut in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament for the 18-year-old Brazilian, who is currently ranked 112th and made it into the bracket at Melbourne Park by winning three matches in qualifying rounds last week.

A federal appeals court says the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission needs to better explain why it turned down a request from Coinbase to develop regulations to cover the booming crypto asset sector

joint parliamentary committee (JPC), is progressing at a good pace and «positive results» will come out soon, Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said on Tuesday. Speaking at an event organised by "Panchjanya", a magazine associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Meghwal, while refusing to comment on the «sub-judice» Places of Worship Act, said if the Supreme Court asks the Centre to file an affidavit, it will submit one that is in «national interest».

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. SINGAPORE—Chinese officials, facing a looming U.S. TikTok ban, have internally discussed options including the possibility of allowing a trusted non-Chinese party such as Elon Musk to invest in or take control of TikTok’s U.S.

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US Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by Meta Platforms to avoid a multi-billion dollar class action by advertisers that accused the Facebook and Instagram parent company of overcharging them by inflating the number of people their ads might reach. The justices turned away Meta's appeal of a lower court's decision that let advertisers seek damages as a group over Meta's claims about the «potential reach» of their ads.

Elon Musk acquiring the US operations of TikTok if the company fails to fend off a controversial ban on the short-video app, according to people familiar with the matter.

Johnson & Johnson will spend more than $14 billion to move deeper into treating central nervous system disorders by purchasing Intra-Cellular Therapies

US Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by Meta Platforms to avoid a multi-billion dollar class action by advertisers that accused the Facebook and Instagram parent company of overcharging them by inflating the number of people their ads might reach. The justices turned away Meta's appeal of a lower court's decision that let advertisers seek damages as a group over Meta's claims about the «potential reach» of their ads.

student loan forgiveness, President Joe Biden has now overseen the cancellation of student loans for more than 5 million Americans — more than any other president in US history. In a last-minute action on Monday, the Education Department cancelled loans for 150,000 borrowers through programmes that existed before Biden took office. His administration expanded those programmes and used them to their fullest extent, pressing on with cancellation even after the Supreme Court rejected Biden's plan for a new forgiveness policy.

Bombay High Court on Monday said the trial in the last year's Badlapur school sexual assault case should be fast-tracked and conducted expeditiously as the victim girls are very young. In August last year, a male attendant sexually assaulted the two girls — aged four and five — inside the toilet of their school located in Badlapur area of Maharashtra's Thane district.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The keenly fought 2000 US presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore was decided by the US Supreme Court, which stopped a manual count of votes initiated by Florida’s top court, terming it a violation of the country’s constitutional framework.

AIIMS to arrange hip replacement surgery for jailed British national Christian Michel James, the alleged middleman arrested in 2018 in a money laundering case connected to the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland chopper case. Special Judge Sanjeev Aggarwal passed the order on an application filed by James who has claimed that his total hip replacement surgery could not be avoided, considering that he was suffering from «excruciating pain» in day-to-day activities. James, who was extradited in 2018, claimed that the doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) had advised the surgery. «The Director, AIIMS is requested to arrange for the total hip surgery, as advised by the doctors of AIIMS as per the medical prescription dated December 30, 2024, and to fix the surgery i.e. total hip replacement, as stated in the report, preferably, in the first/second week of February, 2025 as per the convenience of the operating surgeon,» the judge said in an order passed on January 9.

With over 170 million American users, the app’s uncertain future has sparked widespread concern. As the Supreme Court weighs in on the matter, here’s a detailed guide on what the potential TikTok ban could mean for users and creators, and what they can do to navigate the situation.