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Four Democratic lawmakers want the Justice Department to investigate Warner Bros Discovery, claiming that the merged company has harmed workers and reduced consumer choice. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-CA), Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) wrote in a…

UPDATE: Film producer Dillon Jordan was sentenced in New York City today to the maximum of five years in prison for running a high-end prostitution ring. He was sentenced in New York for providing women to clients and organizing sex parties in the US and abroad. Jordan, of Lake Arrowhead, California, ran…

A major publishing deal is officially dead in the water as Paramount Global scrapped its sale of Simon & Schuster to Bertelsmann's Penguin Random House, declining to pursue an appeal after the Department of Justice sued to block the merger and a federal judge upheld the government’s position. The…

A little over a month after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued two former top execs at MoviePass and its parent company, Helios + Matheson, for fraud, the Justice Department today unsealed an indictment charging those same executives, Theodore Farnsworth and J. Mitchell Lowe, each with one…

Wildly popular social media app TikTok is said to have a draft agreement in place with the U.S. government that would allow it to continue operating in the country while retaining Chinese ownership. The deal was hashed out in recent months, according to a report in the New York Times, and resolves national security…

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…