WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Lawyers for Anthony Fauci have launched a legal defense fund for the former top U.S. infectious disease expert, saying that the need to respond to a growing number of state and federal investigations related to his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic will require substantial resources.
In January 2025, then-President Joe Biden issued a preemptive pardon to Fauci, amid accusations from Republican lawmakers that he played a... (continue reading...)
By Jonathan Stempel
Aug 21 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court threw out on Friday a lawsuit by California and the Giffords gun control advocacy group claiming that a Biden administration-era rule to curtail the production of illegal, largely untraceable "ghost guns" was not strict enough.
Reversing a lower court ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco voted 3-0 that California and Giffords did not show the rule's... (continue reading...)
By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK, Aug 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday charged a former senior Bank of America investment banker with insider trading, alleging he tipped a longtime friend and former colleague about a pending merger, allowing the friend to make $18.5 million of illegal profit.
Jason Satsky, who was Bank of America’s co-head of Americas power and renewable energy banking, allegedly tipped... (continue reading...)
MEXICO CITY, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Mexican Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Friday he expects Mexico to reach trade understandings with the United States that are "similar in many aspects" to those being discussed between Washington and Ottawa, adding that Mexico does not see Canada's parallel negotiations as a competitive process.
He said Mexico is pursuing its own track with the United States and would need to see the final published terms of... (continue reading...)
By Dietrich Knauth
NEW YORK, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones won an appeal in one family's defamation lawsuit over his false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting was a hoax, reducing the judgment against him from $50 million to about $5.5 million.
Jones, who filed for bankruptcy after being sued by parents of children slain in the shooting, must still pay $1.4 billion in related judgments from a Connecticut... (continue reading...)
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