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A federal indictment unsealed today charges three North Korean computer programmers with a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy of destructive cyberattacks including of Sony Pictures Entertainment, AMC Theatres and Mammoth Screen. The list of crimes cited by the Department of Justice includes the cyberattack on Sony…

Ruth Porat, CFO of Google, said an antitrust suit the Department of Justice and 11 state attorneys general filed against the search giant last month is meritless. Google dominates search because it's what users want, not because rivals can’t get a foothold, she insisted during a Q&A at The New York Times DealBook…

Christmas is still a couple of weeks away, but Stephen Colbert is already unpacking a “present” from Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz – a 434-page report released Monday that found the FBI was justified when it opened an investigation into ties between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and…

A federal judge has denied the Justice Department's request to participate in Friday's hearing on the WGA's motion to dismiss the Big Three talent agencies' antitrust lawsuits against the guild. It's a major procedural victory for the guild, which said last week that it saw no reason for the DOJ to take part in the…

Nearly two weeks after CNN took heavy flak for hiring Sarah Isgur Flores as political editor, the former top DOJ spokesperson under Attorney General Jeff Sessions tweeted that she is back from vacation and will start at CNN next month – as a political analyst. It's been a great vacation but I am back on twitter! And…

AT&T has defeated President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice in a long-running legal fight over its acquisition of Time Warner. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled unanimously that the $81 billion transaction was not harmful to consumers or competitors…

The pending $3.6 billion merger of Gray TV and Raycom, one of the two mega-deals poised to transform the local TV sector, is facing final regulatory conditions before it can proceed. Antitrust regulators at the Department of Justice today ordered the companies to divest stations in nine markets in order to avoid a…

The head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division said his department plans to take a closer look at Comcast’s involvement in Hulu’s management, now that restrictions tied to its acquisition of NBCUniversal have expired. Assistant Attorney General Markhan Delrahim told a Senate subcommittee today that his office…

AT&T has filed its response to the government’s appeal of its acquisition of Time Warner, a 58-page catalog of what the company says are the failures of the initial case. The response (read it HERE) derides the Department of Justice complaint, filed last November and resoundingly rejected by a federal judge in June…

President Donald Trump kicked off his 9/11 observations attacking the FBI and DOJ. Taking from Fox News, Trump tweeted: "’We have found nothing to show collusion between President Trump & Russia, absolutely zero but every day get more documentation showing collusion between the FBI & DOJ, the Hillary campaign, foreign…

UPDATED to clarify that Alex Jones is not involved in the station. A pirate radio station in Texas that broadcast conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s show has dropped off the air amid an intensifying fight with the FCC. The Department of Justice filed suit against Walter and Rae Olenick, accusing them of operating an…

UPDATED with Sinclair share buyback, comment on merger ending. Tribune Media released details of its lawsuit against Sinclair Broadcast Group. saying it is seeking $1 billion from the local TV station owner due to its “belligerent and unnecessarily protracted negotiations” with regulators, which it says doomed the…