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The Justice Department is suing Ticketmaster and Live Nation. What does that mean for concertgoers?

May. 24, 2024 16:12 PM EDT

Will the Justice Department's lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation give concertgoers, sports fan and theater patrons some relief from surging ticket prices? The lawsuit could potentially lead to a breakup of Live Nation Entertainment, a company that resulted from...

Government sues Ticketmaster owner and asks court to break up company's monopoly on live events

May. 23, 2024 21:35 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department sued Ticketmaster and its parent company Thursday, accusing them of running an illegal monopoly over live events in America and asking a court to break up the system that squelches competition and drives up prices for fans. Filed in federal...

Norfolk Southern will pay $15 million fine as part of federal settlement over Ohio derailment

May. 23, 2024 19:32 PM EDT

The federal government agreed to a $15 million fine for Norfolk Southern over last year's disastrous derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, and the railroad promised to pay more than $500 million to complete the efforts to improve safety that it announced after the crash and address community health...

Ticketmaster Timeline: A running list of clashes between the event organizer, fans and artists

May. 23, 2024 12:54 PM EDT

The Justice Department filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nation Entertainment on Thursday, accusing them of running an illegal monopoly over live events in America — squelching competition and driving up prices for fans. Here’s a...

FACT FOCUS: Trump distorts use of 'deadly force' language in FBI document for Mar-a-Lago search

May. 23, 2024 11:14 AM EDT

Former President Donald Trump pointed to standard language in an unsealed FBI document to baselessly claim that the Biden administration wanted to kill him during a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, nearly two years ago. “WOW! I just came out of the Biden...

Justice Department sues Ticketmaster and Live Nation, alleging illegal monopoly on live events drives up prices for fans

May. 23, 2024 10:32 AM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department sues Ticketmaster and Live Nation, alleging illegal monopoly on live events drives up prices for fans.

A Minnesota city will rewrite an anti-crime law seen as harming mentally ill residents

May. 21, 2024 18:33 PM EDT

A Minnesota city has agreed not to disclose private medical information about renters with mental health issues and to pay $175,000 to resolve a complaint from the federal government that the city discriminated against mentally ill residents in enforcing an anti-crime law. The U.S....

DOJ adds Oklahoma to the list of states it's suing to block their immigration laws

May. 21, 2024 17:49 PM EDT

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice sued Oklahoma on Tuesday seeking to block a law that seeks to impose criminal penalties on those living in the state illegally. The lawsuit in federal court in Oklahoma City challenges a law that makes it a state crime —...

Department of Justice sues Oklahoma over new law imposing state criminal penalties against those in the US illegally

May. 21, 2024 16:51 PM EDT
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Department of Justice sues Oklahoma over new law imposing state criminal penalties against those in the US illegally.

Top US drug agency a notable holdout in Biden's push to loosen federal marijuana restrictions

May. 20, 2024 20:58 PM EDT

In an isolated part of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters known as the 12th-floor “bubble,” chief Anne Milgram made an unusual request of top deputies summoned in March for what she called the “Marijuana Meeting”: Nobody could take notes. Over the next half...