Vince McMahon, co-founder of World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., has resigned, a WWE representative confirmed Friday, a day after a former employee claimed McMahon forced her to have sex, trafficked her to other executives and employees, and then forced her out with a nondisclosure agreement and hush money.
The estate of late comedian George Carlin on Thursday sued the makers of Dudesy, a comedy podcast created and written by artificial intelligence, after it "resurrected" Carlin by using his copyrighted works, creating a script for a fake comedy special and mimicking the sound of his voice to "perform" the script.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Thursday that Northern Star Investment Corp. II, a special-purpose acquisition company whose merger with Apex Fintech Solutions fell apart in 2021, agreed to pay $1.5 million to resolve charges that it made misleading statements in its initial public offering filings.
An aerospace subcontractor accused alongside Raytheon Technologies Corp.'s Pratt & Whitney division and others of conspiring to restrict hiring will pay $7.4 million to resolve the antitrust claims, according to a notice filed Wednesday in Connecticut federal court that indicates three other deals are also on the horizon.
The distributor of Mifeprex, the brand name of the abortion medication mifepristone, urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to reverse the Fifth Circuit's decision upholding an "unprecedented" injunction restricting access to the pill, saying anti-abortion groups and other respondents don't have standing to challenge federal approvals of the medication.