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U.S. appeals court allows thousands of lawsuits against social media companies over user addiction claims to proceed

The companies are facing hundreds of additional lawsuits over similar claims in state court, with approximately 3,300 of them in a consolidated proceeding in California state court

U.S. appeals court allows thousands of lawsuits against social media companies over user addiction claims to proceed

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Burnham should go on a ‘cost of doing business’ tour

An alarming note from one of the City’s top economists warns that October’s Budget could see taxes rise by almost the same amount as they did last year when Rachel Reeves cooked up £26bn worth of fresh hikes. Ruth Gregory, Deputy Chief UK Economist at Capital Economics, suggests that higher taxes “perhaps worth up to [...]

The Ceuta crisis is about more than migration

FEZ — The sight of 72,000 people rushing into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from neighboring Morocco was a blunt reminder that one of the European Union’s most sensitive land borders is in North Africa. The status of Ceuta and Melilla, another Spanish enclave within Morocco, has been a simmering political dispute between the Moroccan and…

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