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The offense caused more than $6 million in losses, prosecutors allege.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
Prosecutors also allege that slogans including "Free Gaza", "Free Palestine" and "Gaza is not for sale" were daubed on the course and buildings, along with offensive messages directed at Trump.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
While no one died in the immediate aftermath of the derailment, residents allege ongoing health problems from the accident.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
He travelled in 2025 to Ukraine, where he enlisted in the country's armed forces and "gained access to information relating to their military personnel, units and locations", police allege.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Lyons did not allege race discrimination, but if he had, that claim would almost certainly have been a loser too.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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But in practice, the complaint alleges, Amazon has charged its Sponsored Products advertisers their own winning bid close to 80% of the time.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
“The complaint alleges that Amazon’s scheme has likely extracted tens of billions of dollars from its unwitting advertising customers,” the FTC said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
The lawsuit alleges the former executives concealed risky trades from the board in an effort to trigger their own bonuses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Bolleau alleges that her role in a forthcoming Disney production “Web Girl” was canceled because “she was not performing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
An unsubstantiated report alleges that a Ridgeback carried off a whale calf off the coast of Norway in 1802.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
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It’s common for lawmakers and advocacy groups to fire off outraged letters about a company’s alleged wrongdoing.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
The FTC and states say in their lawsuit filed Monday that the alleged scheme has likely netted the company $20bn from advertising customers since 2019.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
In addition to the antitrust case against Amazon's alleged online retail monopoly, federal US regulators have launched four additional competition lawsuits against tech giants since 2020.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Professor Inger Brodey alleged that the school’s hiring was marred by “improprieties, slander, vindictiveness and manipulation” and accused Mr. Atkins of hiring “candidates who conform to unspoken, homogenous, ideological criteria.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
And in racial issues, wrote Du Bois, “Mr. Washington’s programme practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro races.”
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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Three winemakers earlier this month filed suit against the owner of Hundred Acre Wines, Jayson Woodbridge, and his company alleging that smoke from the wildfire ruined their harvests, the Press Democrat reported.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
The lawsuit was originally filed in 2023 by 29 US states, alleging Meta deliberately designed its platforms to be addictive and lied about risks.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Meta Platforms stock was reacting to news of its settlement over a trial alleging its platforms harmed children.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
The company is still facing thousands of lawsuits that have been filed by school districts and individual plaintiffs alleging social-media harms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
A Ministry official emerged some time after the appearance of the Dark Mark alleging that nobody had been hurt, but refusing to give any more information.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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