Just less than five months after Michael K. Williams was discovered dead in his Brooklyn home, four men have been arrested and charged with narcotics conspiracy in The Wire star's death.
“Today, along with our law enforcement partners at the NYPD, we announce the arrests of members of a drug crew, including Irvin…
The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice are launching plans to update and modernize merger enforcement guidelines, something that could mean more rigorous scrutiny of major tech and media transactions.
Lina Khan, the chairwoman of the FTC, and Jonathan Kanter, the chief of the DOJ’s antitrust…
With a flurry of exiting pardons expected from Donald Trump any moment, incarcerated Tiger King star Joe Exotic has taken the Justice Department to court in the hopes of joining Michael Flynn, Roger Stone and other similar upstanding citizens in getting a Presidential act of clemency.
“Joe Exotic seeks to require the…
The Justice Department and the attorneys general of 11 states filed an antitrust lawsuit on Tuesday against Google, claiming that the internet giant abused its market power in search and advertising.
“Google has maintained its monopoly power through exclusionary practices that are harmful to competition,” Deputy…
UPDATED with closing stock prices. The Department of Justice revelation Monday of its plan to roll back decades-old regulations governing studios and movie theaters pushed beleaguered exhibition stocks higher Tuesday as investors saw the upside of the move.
On Wall Street, shares in AMC Entertainment, the No. 1…
New York Attorney General Letitia James said 46 other attorneys general have joined her antitrust investigation into Facebook, adding more legal firepower to a potential lawsuit.
The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice have already opened antitrust investigations. At a Wall Street Journal…
Already under investigation and review by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, tech giants like Facebook, Amazon and Alphabet could soon face similar probes in more than a dozen states.
Appearing Tuesday at the the Technology Policy Institute's Aspen Forum (see full video above), DOJ antitrust…
Makan Delrahim, the Donald Trump appointee at the U.S. Department of Justice, who heads the antitrust division and led the lawsuit seeking to block AT&T’s Time Warner acquisition, has a new target: tech giants.
Delrahim’s boss, Attorney General William Barr, has increased rhetoric questioning tech company methods in…
Shares in Sprint and T-Mobile ticked up late in Friday’s trading day after The New York Times reported that Department of Justice regulators are close to blessing the companies’ $26 billion merger.
T-Mobile closed at $74.90, up less than 1%, while Sprint jumped 3% to close at $7.01. The stocks have see-sawed in recent…
UPDATED with news of House committee probe. The Democrat-controlled House Judiciary Committee plans to investigate giant tech companies, a development that follows reports over the weekend that Google and Amazon are about to get closer regulatory scrutiny.
The committee promises a “bipartisan look at competition in…
UPDATE with closing stock price.Sinclair Broadcast Group stock hit the stratosphere on Monday — bucking the day’s downward trend on Wall Street to gain nearly 35% — as the company’s CEO touted the company’s deal to acquire the former Fox regional sports networks.
Shares in Sinclair rocketed to an all-time high of…