Becton Dickinson has been sued by a rival medical device manufacturer for allegedly thwarting competition in the U.S. market for surgical hernia mesh and causing patients and care providers to pay higher prices @mikescarcella.bsky.social reut.rs/3L4hLyO

An investigative reporter best known for exposing fraud at Silicon Valley blood-testing startup Theranos sued Elon Musk's xAI, Anthropic, Google , OpenAI, Meta Platforms and Perplexity on Monday for using copyrighted books without permission to train their artificial intelligence systems.

Mexico's antitrust commission will revise a planned tie-up between low-cost airlines Viva Aerobus and Volaris , the country's President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday, adding she considered the deal good news for Mexico's airline sector.

Uniform retail firm Cintas said on Monday it has made a fresh $5.2 billion offer to buy smaller rival UniFirst , its third attempt to clinch a deal, as it seeks to expand scale and improve service efficiency.

U.S. defense contractor CACI International will acquire space technology provider ARKA Group from funds managed by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities for $2.6 billion, expanding its footprint in national security and space-based intelligence.

Kilmar Abrego, the Salvadoran migrant whose wrongful deportation became a flashpoint, appeared in court on Monday as a federal judge extended an order temporarily barring U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from taking him back into immigration custody.

The Trump administration has tripled its stipend for migrants voluntarily 'self-deporting' from the US to $3,000, offering the payment and a free flight home to those in the country illegally who agree to leave by year-end, the DHS said reut.rs/4b2SIql

US Justice Department handling of Epstein file release sparks backlash

An investor class action, filed last week in California federal court, claims South Korean e-commerce company Coupang, its CEO and Chairman Bom Kim and its CFO Gaurav Anand misled investors about the company’s data security practices and failed to disclose the breach in a timely way reut.rs/3Lge8FY

The Trump administration on Monday rolled back protections for the greater sage-grouse in eight western U.S. states, opening up more federal land for energy and mineral development.

The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said that popular 'earned wage' advances on worker paychecks do not qualify as consumer loans, reversing guidance issued last year under President Biden reut.rs/451t1D1

More than 20,300 employees left the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the first five months of the administration of President Donald Trump, about a fifth of staff, according to a report from the agency's inspector general.

The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 ambassadors and other senior career diplomats to ensure embassies reflect its “America First” priorities, a move critics said would weaken U.S. credibility abroad.

A coalition of Democratic-led states filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to prevent President Donald Trump's administration from defunding the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by refusing to request money from the Federal Reserve.

JUST IN: Democratic-led states sue to block US consumer watchdog's defunding under Trump reut.rs/4b0NUlg

Medical device maker Tela Bio sued rival Becton Dickinson over alleged hernia mesh monopoly. Tela Bio claims Becton Dickinson leveraged its dominance in two key product categories — permanent hernia mesh and resorbable hernia mesh — to exclude Tela Bio’s OviTex product reut.rs/3L4hLyO

Two senior Democratic lawmakers on Monday asked the U.S. Commerce Department to disclose details and any approvals of ongoing license reviews for potential sales to Chinese firms of Nvidia's second-most powerful AI chips.

Mercedes-Benz said it will pay $120 million to several US states over emissions-cheating software in its vehicles, resolving the remaining Dieselgate-related proceedings against the German automaker in the US reut.rs/4jdAuVg

Baltimore detectives reviewing footage last summer saw a convenience store argument escalate into parking lot gunfire. One shooter was identified — he'd been shot two days earlier. Read Reuters' exclusive on how immigration has diverted federal gun crime efforts reut.rs/4qkp1FJ

South Korean e-commerce company Coupang has been sued in a U.S. court in an investor class action alleging violations of securities laws after a cybersecurity breach exposed personal information of more than 33 million customers.

The DOJ restored a photo of President Trump to the public database of Epstein files. The photo showing a desk with an open drawer containing a photo of Trump with various women was flagged by the Southern District of New York for review to protect potential victims reut.rs/4s71n16

US District Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall overturned the conviction of Karl Jordan, one of two men found guilty of murdering pioneering rap star Jam Master Jay in 2002 as part of a drug-dealing dispute. DeArcy Hall ruled that prosecutors had failed to satisfactorily prove their case reut.rs/4j9gwuA

Becton Dickinson has been sued by a rival medical device manufacturer for allegedly thwarting competition in the U.S. market for surgical hernia mesh and causing patients and care providers to pay higher prices.

The US Transportation Department said on December 19 it would impose restrictions on Mexican train crews operating in the US, after inspectors found crew members had difficulty interpreting bulletins and communicating safety requirements in English with inspectors reut.rs/4j6ivQD

A U.S. consumer finance agency said on Monday that popular "earned wage" advances on worker paychecks do not resemble consumer loans, reversing course from guidance the regulator put out last year under then President Joe Biden.

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison has stepped in to personally guarantee $40.4 billion in Paramount Skydance's latest effort to pry Warner Bros Discovery away from selling its prized Hollywood assets to streaming giant Netflix .

Videogame console sales were already under pressure owing to tariff turmoil and weak consumer spending. Now a surge in the prices of memory chips is threatening to make the devices costlier in what could be another blow to the industry.

US District Judge Mary McElroy on December 19 blocked President Trump's administration from imposing new restrictions on more than $3 billion in grant funding used to provide permanent housing and other services to homeless people reut.rs/44FJVH4

Mercedes Benz has reached a $149.6 million settlement with U.S. states to resolve a long-running investigation into allegations of diesel emissions cheating by the German automaker, New York Attorney General Letitia James said Monday.

The DOJ will appeal court rulings tossing out criminal cases against New York AG Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey. A judge tossed both cases last month, ruling prosecutor Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully appointed as interim US Attorney reut.rs/4s4tQEM

Mercedes-Benz said on Monday it will pay out $120 million to multiple U.S. states over emissions-rigging software in its vehicles, which the German carmaker says resolves the remaining Dieselgate proceedings against it in the U.S.

Elon Musk's 2018 pay package from Tesla was restored by the Delaware Supreme Court on December 19, nearly two years after a lower court struck down the compensation deal as ‘unfathomable.’ The 2018 pay package is now worth about $139 billion reut.rs/48Zl3g5

U.S. President Donald Trump named Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry on Sunday as his special envoy to Greenland, drawing renewed criticism from Denmark and Greenland over Washington's interest in the mineral-rich Arctic island.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on December 19 announced two Medicare pilot programs to start in 2026 and 2027 that are aimed at reducing out-of-pocket drug costs under the Medicare healthcare program for older and disabled Americans reut.rs/4s2pxtL

A rail workers' union on Monday opposed Union Pacific's proposed $85 billion acquisition of Norfolk Southern , warning that the deal could undermine safety and impact the workforce.

Nelson Peltz's Trian and VC firm General Catalyst have agreed to buy asset manager Janus Henderson for $7.4 billion, the companies said on Monday, bringing to close a more than five-year activist campaign by the billionaire's hedge fund.

Google on December 19 sued SerpApi, a Texas company that ‘scrapes’ data from online search results, alleging it uses hundreds of millions of fake Google search requests to access copyrighted material and ‘take it for free at an astonishing scale’ reut.rs/4aX3j66

Wall Street banks strengthened their lead in European investment banking in 2025, as clients stayed loyal despite global market turmoil and President Donald Trump's trade tariffs.

Coty on Monday named Procter & Gamble veteran Markus Strobel as chairman and interim CEO, handing him the reins from outgoing CEO Sue Nabi as the CoverGirl owner battles pressure on its mass-market business and a steep share-price slide.

Italy regulator fines Apple $115 million for alleged App Store privacy violations reut.rs/4qjQbwl

US District Judge Beryl Howell on December 19 said President Trump's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly-skilled foreign workers seems to fall under his broad powers to regulate immigration, casting doubt on a challenge by the largest US business lobby reut.rs/4qimKuA

The Trump administration has tripled its stipend offer to migrants who choose to voluntarily "self-deport" from the United States to $3,000, the Department of Homeland Security said on Monday.

A retired prosecutor, David O’Keefe, sued New York City and Brookfield Properties in federal court, alleging he was wrongfully arrested while protesting in a public space against law firm Skadden Arps over its deal with President Trump to provide free legal work reut.rs/45ghkbm

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison has agreed to provide a personal guarantee of $40.4 billion in equity financing to back the all-cash bid by Paramount Skydance's bid for Warner Bros Discovery, a regulatory filing showed on Monday.

Netflix has refinanced a part of its $59 billion bridge loan to support its potential acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery's film, TV studios and streaming assets, according to a regulatory filing on Monday.

A U.S. federal judge on Friday overturned the conviction of one of two men found guilty of murdering pioneering rap star Jam Master Jay in 2002 as part of a drug-dealing dispute, ruling that prosecutors had failed to satisfactorily prove their case.

Honeywell on Monday said it expects to record a one-time charge of about $470 million in the fourth quarter related to a potential settlement of Flexjet-linked litigation, sending its shares down 1.3% in premarket trading.

The Republican head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency referred allegations from a conservative news site to his agency’s inspector general for possible criminal investigation of Rep. Eric Swalwell.

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