Walgreens to Pay Humana $360 Million to Settle Drug-Pricing Dispute

Taxpayers may want to delay filing their returns closer to the April 15 deadline as Congress negotiates a $100 billion bill that could offer breaks to both parents and businesses, experts said. The bipartisan group, led by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.), is wrangling over restoring some…

Ahead of statewide minimum wage increases for fast-food workers, hundreds of California Pizza Hut franchises announced cuts in their delivery services, laying off more than 1,100 drivers, according to federal and state filings. The Pizza Hut locations, run by two different franchise operators, reported the change to their business models for restaurants from Orange to…

For the sixth consecutive year, New Jersey had the most residents leave than any other state in the US, according to fresh data by an interstate moving company. St. Louis, Mo.-based United Van Lines published its 47th annual National Movers Study earlier this month, and found that a staggering 65% of its moves involving New…

Clearview AI, the facial recognition company that claims it’s scraped 3 billion images from the internet to power its face-matching system, has proposed applying its technology to everything from policing to retail to dating, according to a 2020 patent application that became public on Thursday. The patent filing was made in August — three months…

Since late 2016, the Chinese government has imposed a campaign that has included mass detention, digital surveillance, indoctrination, and forced labor on a population of about 13 million Muslim minorities in the far west region of Xinjiang, including ethnic Uighurs, Kazakhs, and others. Non-Chinese people visiting Xinjiang are often heavily monitored or escorted by police…

Despite the delay in the ban, firms will still be forced to meet strict quotas for selling electric cars from January, ensuring that more than one in five cars sold are zero emission models. If not, they will face heavy fines and the target will go up each year until 2030.