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A Google spokesperson said the judgement "fails to recognise" the firm's "significant investment to ensure Android remains open."
Moody’s Germany fined EUR 2,145,000 for misreporting to ESMA 02 July 2026 Press Releases Securities Financing Transactions Supervision Trade Repositories The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, has fined Moody’s Deutschland GmbH (Moody’s Germany) a total of EUR 2,145,000, for committing four breaches of the Cred
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill (R) was indicted by a grand jury in connection with an investigation over alleged threats she made against New Orleans officials, former Judge Laurie White confirmed Thursday. “The grand jury has returned an indictment, it is now a criminal matter,” White, who was appointed as a special prosecutor in the...
Justice Department Sues California Over Glock Ban, Handgun Roster Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times , The Justice Department (DOJ) on July 1 sued California over its ban on "machinegun convertible pistols" and its "handgun roster." A Glock handgun and two magazines in a file photograph. Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo The law bans the purchase of Glock pistols and guns
Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan Sues Trump, Admin Officials Over Allegedly Vindictive Investigations Authored by Timothy Frudd via The Epoch Times , Former CIA Director John Brennan is seeking a court order requiring the Trump administration to retain records related to allegedly vindictive investigations into him and his involvement in probing alleged Russian interference in the 201
Alibaba Group Holding Limited and its U.S.-based payment processor AUS Merchant Services Inc., formerly known as Alipay US, entered a non-prosecution agreement to pay $600 million to resolve the Justice Department's allegations that they violated the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, per the DOJ's July 1 press release. Per the release, the department alleges the companies f
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against California to halt the state's newly enacted Glock ban, per the DOJ's July 1 press release. Per the release, the suit also seeks to prevent enforcement of the state's "Handgun Roster," a list limiting the legal firearms individuals may purchase, and the United States challenges both measures as unlawful under the Second Amendment.
EagleBank, a community bank operating in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, and its parent Eagle Bancorp Inc. entered into a non-prosecution agreement and agreed to pay over $9.7 million to resolve the Justice Department's investigation into violations of the Bank Secrecy Act, per the DOJ's June 30 press release. As a non-prosecution agreement, the resolution does
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a joint request for public comment on potential approaches to further harmonize the regulatory frameworks that apply to portfolio margining across securities and related markets, per the SEC's June 26 announcement. The CFTC published a companion release the same day.
The Department of Justice filed lawsuits against Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Minnesota, seeking injunctions requiring their state SNAP agencies to turn over the last five years of SNAP applicant data, per the DOJ's June 26 press release. Per the release, the suits follow the four states' refusal to hand the data to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which says it need
A bill before the UK Parliament would require public authorities to exercise their statutory powers to investigate and take enforcement action for breaches of the law, and would make provision for sanctions against authorities that fail to act, per the bill's long title as listed by Parliament on June 25, 2026.
Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan V. Gould issued a statement on his Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation board votes concerning resolution planning, assessments, and the disclosure of confidential supervisory information, per the OCC's June 25 news release.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has appointed Kathleen M. Hutchinson as director of its Office of International Affairs, per the agency's June 24 press release. Per the release, OIA advises the Commission on international policy matters and coordinates with foreign authorities.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said it is correcting flaws in its consumer complaint system to restore the portal's integrity and utility, per a June 24 bureau newsroom post. Per the bureau, credit reporting complaints rose from over 150,000 in 2019 to more than five million in 2025 — an increase it put at more than 3,700% — driven in part by credit repair organizatio
The Federal Trade Commission filed an amicus brief in an antitrust case in which drug manufacturer Johnson & Johnson is alleged to have illegally maintained a monopoly through anticompetitive conduct, per the FTC's June 23 press release. The agency framed the filing as an effort to protect consumers from pharmaceutical monopolies, per the release. The allegations against Johnso
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed a lawsuit against Kentucky to block the state's efforts to shut down CFTC-registered contract markets using state laws, per the commission's June 23 press release. Per the release, Kentucky had filed civil enforcement actions in state court against CFTC-regulated designated contract markets seeking monetary penalties and created a
The Federal Trade Commission finalized a consent order requiring Rollins Inc. — described by the agency as one of the largest pest-control companies in the United States — to stop enforcing noncompete agreements against more than 18,000 employees nationwide, per the FTC's June 22 press release.
The United States has launched a trade investigation into a German plan to cut spending on pharmaceuticals, a move that could result in fresh tariffs, per The Wall Street Journal's June 19 report. Per the Journal, the investigation follows Berlin's announcement that it would require drugmakers to offer bigger discounts on medicines.
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a joint request for public comment on potential opportunities to further update, clarify and harmonize certain derivatives product definitions, per the SEC's June 18 announcement. The CFTC published companion releases the same day. The request forms part of the agencies' broader effort on
The Federal Trade Commission moved to require Aurobindo Pharma Limited to divest four generic drug products in order to complete its $250 million acquisition of Lannett Company Inc., per the FTC's June 18 press release. Per the agency, the proposed consent order is intended to resolve anticompetitive concerns and protect American patients from higher drug costs.
A federal court, at the Federal Trade Commission's request, temporarily halted an enterprise of allegedly deceptive subscription schemes comprising 15 corporations and eight individuals, per the FTC's June 17 press release. The agency alleges the Genesis Tech enterprise and its owners operated misleading internet-based subscription schemes, billed consumers without authorizatio
The European Banking Authority's June 16 news alert flagged two items, per the authority's release: a proposal to simplify the EU bank capital framework in a holistic manner to strengthen its efficiency, and publication of the EBA's 2025 annual report outlining key achievements.
CFTC Chairman Michael S. Selig announced two senior staff appointments, per the commission's June 15 press release: Donald Battle as chief data innovation officer and J Matthew Haws as senior advisor and Chicago regional administrator. Per the release, Battle previously served as a senior advisor on the SEC's Crypto Task Force, and Haws brings more than 13 years of derivatives-
The Securities and Exchange Commission has appointed John Moses as director of its Office of Investor Education and Assistance, per the agency's June 12 press release. Per the release, the office provides services and resources to help investors build their financial futures and protect against investment fraud risks.
President Trump named former SEC Chairman Jay Clayton as his pick for director of national intelligence, per CNBC's June 11 report. Per CNBC, the announcement came after House Democrats' objections to Trump's choice of Bill Pulte as acting chief ensured that a key national security tool would expire that Friday. Fox News, Axios and the South China Morning Post carried the nomin
Super Micro Computer announced a $7.0 billion package of concurrent equity and equity-linked financing transactions on Tuesday, June 9, and the bill came due overnight: SMCI shares slid 13% on Wednesday, June 10, as investors digested the dilution after the deal priced. The package comprises roughly $5.0 billion of underwritten public offerings — approximately $1.25 billion of
Institutional demand for SpaceX's record initial public offering has far outstripped supply, with order books set to close at 4 p.m. New York time on Wednesday, June 10, ahead of pricing on June 11 and a Nasdaq debut on June 12 under ticker SPCX. Bloomberg reported June 8 that the offering is well oversubscribed, with orders totaling around $150 billion — roughly twice the $75
Navitas Semiconductor disclosed in a Form 8-K filed June 9 that director Ranbir Singh resigned from its board effective immediately, relinquishing his post as chair of the board's Executive Steering Committee. The filing, signed by president and CEO Chris Allexandre, said Singh's resignation letter 'did not provide any reason for his resignation,' and pointed investors to Sched
Emad Dlala, Lucid Motors' senior vice president of engineering and digital, has left the electric-vehicle maker, TechCrunch reported June 9, in the first major senior-management departure since Silvio Napoli was named chief executive in April. Lucid confirmed the exit, saying Dlala 'has elected to leave the company to pursue other opportunities' and thanking him 'for his many c
The Justice Department announced June 9 that Broadway Electric Inc., Cornerstone Contracting Inc., chief executive John Oehler and president Christian Blake agreed to pay $21.3 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they improperly obtained federal contracts reserved for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs) and other eligible small firms. From
Perrigo Company plc announced Monday, June 8 that president and CEO Patrick Lockwood-Taylor has resigned, after the board determined that "certain personal conduct" by him was not consistent with the company's Code of Conduct and core values. The Dublin-headquartered consumer self-care products maker — whose largest U.S. operations sit in West Michigan — emphasized that the con
In an ad-hoc disclosure transmitted via EQS News on June 7, 2026, Frankfurt-listed meal-kit company Marley Spoon Group SE (ISINs LU2380748603 / LU2380748785; General Standard, Frankfurt Regulated Market; headquartered in Luxembourg) announced that CEO Daniel Raab will step down from all offices held with the company by mutual agreement with the Supervisory Board, effective end
Several FBI analysts tied to the creation of a 2023 intelligence memo warning of a potential threat from Catholic "violent extremists" were told Friday, June 5 that they are being fired, with the Associated Press reporting the terminations Friday evening, citing the employees' lawyer and people familiar with the matter; the story broke overnight and spread across wire affiliate
On June 5, 2026 the SEC filed a civil complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York charging JianQing Li, a former analyst at an unnamed Manhattan-based, healthcare-focused registered investment adviser, with insider trading in the securities of at least twelve healthcare companies between February 2024 and October 2025. Through his employment Li ha
Quantinuum, the quantum-computing company majority-owned by Honeywell, began trading on the Nasdaq Global Market on Thursday, June 4 under ticker QNT after pricing an upsized initial public offering of 28,000,000 Class A shares at $60.00 apiece — above its already-raised $53-to-$55 range — to raise $1.68 billion. The final prospectus, Form 424B4, hit SEC EDGAR following Wednesd
On June 3, 2026 the Federal Trade Commission opened a 30-day public comment window — closing July 2, 2026 — on a petition by Elon Musk's X Corp asking the agency to set aside or modify the 2022 consent order imposed on what was then Twitter. That order carried a $150 million civil penalty after the FTC found Twitter had collected users' phone numbers and email addresses ostensi
A leaked internal memo sent at 6:32 p.m. on June 2, 2026 by Star Tribune publisher and CEO Steve Grove announced the elimination of roughly 65 positions — about 15% of the Minneapolis newspaper's 495-person workforce — including 25 roles within the approximately 200-person newsroom. Grove stressed that no news-gathering positions (reporters, photographers, videographers) were a
On June 1, 2026 Anthropic confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering, thrusting the maker of the Claude AI models into a 2026 IPO race alongside SpaceX and OpenAI. The filing came less than a week after Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H round — co-led by Altimete
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announced on June 1, 2026 the appointment of Christopher 'Chris' Hsu, a Partner at activist firm Elliott Investment Management L.P., to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Hsu joined the board's Strategy Committee and its Finance & Investment Committee. At Elliott he serves as Head of Portfolio Operations and Co-Lead of Private
Norfolk Southern disclosed in an 8-K that John Orr, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, notified the company on May 31, 2026 of his intention to resign for 'good reason,' citing proposed changes in the company's operations that would result in a diminution of his duties and responsibilities. The board accepted the good-reason resignation effective May 31, 2026
Google's May 2026 core update delivered its sharpest jolt of the rollout on Saturday, May 30, with rank-tracking tools and webmaster forums lighting up overnight as sites reported sudden ranking and traffic swings, Search Engine Roundtable documented that morning. The Saturday spike was the second of at least three distinct volatility waves recorded during the update — followin
A leaked internal Delta Air Lines memo, surfaced May 29, 2026 by aviation insider 'JonNYC' on X and reported by Paddle Your Own Kanoo (Mateusz Maszczynski), warned pilots that customer satisfaction on Delta's premium transcontinental service between New York JFK and Los Angeles has fallen sharply. Per the memo, Net Promoter Score (NPS) on the JFK-LAX leg is running 9.2 points b
An internal Disney streaming document obtained by Business Insider, reported widely on May 27-28, 2026, outlines a multi-phase plan called 'Project Gemini' to migrate Hulu's content and features into Disney+ and ultimately retire the standalone Hulu app. The leaked memo states that 'the Hulu tech stack and app will be decommissioned after all users have transitioned' to Disney+
The CFTC filed a joint motion with Gemini in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, reported May 27-28, 2026, asking the court to vacate the agency's $5 million settlement with the crypto exchange. Gemini had paid the penalty in January 2025 to resolve a 2022 enforcement action alleging the company made false or misleading statements during the CFTC's re
The European Commission is finalizing the largest fine ever imposed under the Digital Markets Act against Alphabet's Google, a penalty in the "high triple-digit million euro" range targeting self-preferencing in Search, according to a Handelsblatt report picked up by CNBC on May 26. Regulators concluded that Google systematically ranked its own shopping, flight and hotel servic
Multiple outlets reported that OpenAI filed a confidential draft registration statement (Form S-1) with the SEC on or around May 22, 2026, taking the first formal step toward what could be the largest IPO in history. Reporting indicates a targeted public listing as early as September 2026 (with some timelines extending into the fall) at a valuation exceeding $1 trillion, led by
A leaked internal T-Mobile email — reported May 21, 2026 and attributed to COO Jon Freier — lays out a mandatory shift of consumer transactions to the carrier's self-service T-Life app on a tight 2026 timeline. According to the memo, by July 31, 2026 retail-store representatives will lose access to legacy backend sales systems for standard consumer upgrades and add-a-line reque
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) filed a Form S-1 registration statement with the SEC on May 20, 2026, launching one of the largest IPOs ever attempted. The prospectus indicates a planned Nasdaq listing under the ticker SPCX, with reported valuation targets ranging from about $1.75 trillion to as high as $2 trillion and a capital raise reported around $75 billion.
Meta began cutting roughly 8,000 jobs — about 10% of its global workforce — on May 20, 2026, executing reductions first flagged in an internal memo from Chief People Officer Janelle Gale that Bloomberg published on April 23, 2026. Terminations were rolled out in waves, with reports of 4 a.m. local-time emails. Gale framed the cuts as part of an effort 'to run the company more e
The SEC announced on May 18, 2026 that it had rescinded Rule 202.5(e), the 'no-deny' provision of its long-standing 'no-admit, no-deny' settlement framework that, since its adoption in 1972, had required settling defendants to promise not to publicly deny the agency's allegations. SEC Chairman Paul Atkins framed the move in free-speech terms, stating that 'speech critical of th
Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran submitted his resignation on Thursday, May 14, 2026, with the departure to take effect when, or shortly before, incoming Chair Kevin Warsh is sworn in. The move clears a seat on the seven-member Board of Governors for Warsh, whom the Senate confirmed (by a narrow vote, per reporting) as the next Fed chair the prior day, succeeding Jerome P
The SEC announced on May 6, 2026 that it charged 21 individuals over a decade-long insider-trading scheme that allegedly relied on material nonpublic information misappropriated from multiple global law firms, generating millions of dollars in illicit profits between 2018 and 2024. The agency identifies Los Angeles-based mergers-and-acquisitions attorney Nicolo Nourafchan as th
The SEC announced on 6 May 2026 that it charged 21 individuals over their alleged involvement in a decade-long insider trading scheme. According to the Commission's release (2026-44), the scheme allegedly used material nonpublic information misappropriated from multiple global law firms and generated millions of dollars in illicit gains. The charges are allegations; none of the
Fermi Inc. (Nasdaq: FRMI), the nuclear- and gas-powered AI data-center REIT co-founded by former Texas Governor Rick Perry, terminated co-founder and former CEO Toby Neugebauer 'for cause' on April 17, 2026, automatically removing him from the board. According to Fermi's disclosures, an independent-director committee cited conduct including material misrepresentations to and la
The CFTC announced on 1 May 2026 that the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan entered a consent order against Andrew Middlebrooks and his Detroit-area firm EIA All Weather Alpha Fund I Partners LLC. Per the press release, the defendants operated a fraudulent commodity pool from mid-2017 through April 2022, making false statements about profitability despite
The CFTC announced on May 1 that the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan entered a consent order against Andrew Middlebrooks and EIA All Weather Alpha Fund I Partners LLC over a commodity-pool fraud scheme. The judgment closed a civil enforcement action brought by the agency. The order is a court-entered resolution of the CFTC's claims, per the release.
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