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Juul Will Pay North Carolina $40 Million To Settle A Landmark Suit Over Teen Vaping

The settlement follows years of accusations that the electronic cigarette giant had fueled a surge in teen vaping. As part of the agreement, Juul will not advertise to anyone under 21 in the state. (Image credit: Brynn Anderson/AP)

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Facebook Gets Reprieve As Court Throws Out Major Antitrust Complaints

The decision is a blow to the Federal Trade Commission and 48 state attorneys general, who were pushing for the federal court to break up the social media giant. (Image credit: Pool/Getty Images)

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Ethiopia Declares An Immediate, Unilateral Cease-fire In Tigray

The region has suffered nearly eight months of deadly conflict, as hundreds of thousands of people face the world’s worst famine crisis in a decade. (Image credit: Ben Curtis/AP)

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Facing 40% Inflation, Iranians Wonder If And When Their Economy Will Rebound

As Iranians face 40% inflation, they hope their economy has bottomed out and can’t get much worse.

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Militias fire rockets at US forces in Syria following airstrikes – Fox News

Militias fire rockets at US forces in Syria following airstrikes  Fox News US carries out airstrikes on Iran-backed facilities  CNN Rescuers hopeful about finding survivors in rubble; US airstrikes target militias; BET Awards recap  STLtoday.com Biden orders airstrikes on Iran-backed militants in Iraq

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Ethiopia Declares An Immediate, Unilateral Cease-fire In Tigray – NPR

Ethiopia Declares An Immediate, Unilateral Cease-fire In Tigray  NPR Ethiopian forces withdraw from Tigray regional capital Mekelle  CNN Ethiopian Forces Retreat in Tigray, and Rebels Enter the Capital  The New York Times Rebel forces in Tigray claim to have regained control of the

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Trump in financial and political danger as company faces possible criminal charges – The Guardian

Trump in financial and political danger as company faces possible criminal charges  The Guardian Donald Trump’s Legal Troubles: A Guide  Rolling Stone Report: The Trump Organization Has Until Today to Beg Not to Be Hit With Criminal Charges  Vanity Fair Trump blasts prosecutors

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McConnell warns Democratic tactics to push Biden priorities could sink bipartisan infrastructure deal – CNN

McConnell warns Democratic tactics to push Biden priorities could sink bipartisan infrastructure deal  CNN The White House stumbles on its delicate infrastructure dance  The Washington Post Arizona US senators among those to watch as Democrats ponder filibuster  KTAR.com Opinion | Three things that

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Facebook Antitrust Cases Brought By FTC and States Are Thrown Out

The decisions were a major blow to attempts to rein in Big Tech. The judge said one of the complaints, from the Federal Trade Commission, lacked facts and gave the agency 30 days to refile it.

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Freed From COVID Restrictions, Big U.S. Banks Hike Dividends

NEW YORK — Recently freed from regulators’ coronavirus restrictions, the largest U.S. banks on Monday announced plans to return tens of billions of dollars to their shareholders over the next year in the form of dividends and stock buybacks. It’s

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