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KEY POINTS The U.S. Justice Department filed its second antitrust lawsuit against Google in just over two years, this time targeting its advertising business. It’s the first Google lawsuit filed under the Biden administration and seeks to break up Google’s online advertising business. It comes soon after reports that DOJ Antitrust Division chief Jonathan Kanter had been cleared to work on Google matters. The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday filed its second antitrust lawsuit against Google in just over two years. It’s the latest sign that the U.S. government is not backing down from cases against tech firms even in...

The Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former aide to First Lady Melania Trump, alleging that procedures around the publication of tell-all book she wrote violated a nondisclosure agreement. In a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Washington, Justice Department lawyers said Winston Wolkoff failed to submit a draft of her book, “Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady,” to a government review prior to its release. The book, which portrays the first lady in an unflattering light, was published 6 weeks ago. “The United...

The Department of Justice announced Thursday it has filed a lawsuit against a Colorado corporation for allegedly discriminating against U.S. workers. The complaint alleges that in 2016, Crop Production discriminated against at least three United States citizens by refusing to employ them as seasonal technicians in El Campo, Texas, because Crop Production preferred to hire temporary foreign workers under the H-2A visa program. “In the spirit of President Trump’s Executive Order on Buy American and Hire American, the Department of Justice will not tolerate employers who discriminate against U.S. workers because of a desire to hire temporary foreign visa holders,”...

The U.S. Justice Department is suing a suburban Philadelphia town, alleging its denial of a permit for a mosque in 2014 constituted religious discrimination. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports the suit was filed Thursday and seeks to have Bensalem give the Bensalem Masjid approval to build the mosque, provide training for township employees on religious land-use laws and pay unspecified damages. …

The US Justice Department is intervening in a private lawsuit against H&R Block for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. H&R Block is a large provider of American tax services and informational services for tax payers.