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A $7 billion Ponzi scheme that busted 14 years ago just settled for $1.6 billion the day a trial was set to begin

By Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Bloomberg

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 02: Elon Musk attends The 2022 Met Gala Celebrating “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 02, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/WireImage)

Elon Musk’s Twitter says it has good reason not to pay for $200,000 private jet trip: The company overbilled

By Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Bloomberg

WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT – SEPTEMBER 21: InfoWars founder Alex Jones speaks to the media outside Waterbury Superior Court during his trial on September 21, 2022 in Waterbury, Connecticut. Jones is being sued by several victims’ families for causing emotional and psychological harm after they lost their children in the Sandy Hook massacre. A Texas jury last month ordered Jones to pay $49.3 million to the parents of 6-year-old Jesse Lewis, one of 26 students and teachers killed in the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. (Photo by Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images)

Alex Jones must pay another $472 million for his ‘depravity, and cruel, persistent course of conduct’ in spreading lies about Sandy Hook shooting

By Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Bloomberg

WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT – SEPTEMBER 21: InfoWars founder Alex Jones speaks to the media outside Waterbury Superior Court during his trial on September 21, 2022 in Waterbury, Connecticut. Jones is being sued by several victims’ families for causing emotional and psychological harm after they lost their children in the Sandy Hook massacre. A Texas jury last month ordered Jones to pay $49.3 million to the parents of 6-year-old Jesse Lewis, one of 26 students and teachers killed in the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. (Photo by Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images)

Sandy Hook families push for Alex Jones penalty of up to $2.75 trillion: ‘Highest possible punitive damages’

By Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Bloomberg

WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 02: Women rights activists hold up signs as they gather at Freedom Plaza for a pre-march rally of the annual Womens March October 2, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Women’s March and other groups organized marches across the country to protest the new abortion law in Texas. (Photo by Joshua Roberts/Getty Images)

Texas abortion ban to stay in place until December hearing

By Laurel Brubaker Calkins, Erik Larson, and others

HOUSTON, TEXAS – AUGUST 23: An instructor leads a classroom discussion at the Xavier Academy on August 23, 2021 in Houston, Texas. In-person classroom sessions are resuming and schools around Houston are requiring mask mandates, keeping in accordance with CDC guidelines. Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo has gone against Gov. Greg Abbott’s statewide ban on mask mandates and has issued an order that requires face coverings to be worn in schools. All staff and faculty at Xavier Academy have been vaccinated and 90% of students in attendance have also been vaccinated. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

One Texas town is suing to require school masks on ‘pro-life’ grounds

By Laurel Brubaker Calkins, Chris Dolmetsch, and others

Americans will start to receive coronavirus stimulus checks by direct deposit this week.

Is a $1,200 stimulus check enough? For many, it’s ‘chump change in the long run’

By Anita Sharpe, Tom Maloney, and others