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Fox News has agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems a $787 million settlement, avoiding a trial in the $1.6 billion defamation case the electronic voting company brought against the cable news company. 

The University of Michigan agreed to a $490 million settlement with attorneys of some 1,050 claimants accusing a late doctor of sexual abuse.

A poll shows that a majority of likely voters are opposed to giving $450,000 payments to illegal aliens and want the southern border sealed.

A Minnesota Muslim woman who was forced to strip and remove her hijab while being arrested for a traffic violation in 2013 received a $120,000 settlement.

Online retail giant Amazon, owned by Jeff Bezos who also owns the Washington Post, has settled with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for $1.2 million after an agency investigation revealed the company was selling illegal pesticides.

Rep. Pat Meehan (R-PA) announced that he will not seek re-election after news surfaced that he used taxpayer funding to pay a settlement to a former staffer he called his “soul mate.”

Rep. Pat Meehan (R-PA) says he will seek another term despite his confession that he considered a former staffer a “soul mate” and used taxpayer funds for what he called a severance payment after she complained about his behavior.

A South Carolina police officer fired for wearing underwear bearing the Confederate flag will receive $55,000 as part of a settlement with the city of North Charleston, a city attorney announced Friday.

An Oklahoma school district settled a lawsuit with a student’s family after an English teacher went to prison for raping the student.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday that construction of the first new Jewish settlement in the West Bank in 25 years has begun.

Honest Company — a household goods and cleaning products company co-founded by actress Jessica Alba — has agreed to pay $1.55 million in a class-action lawsuit settlement for failing to inform consumers that its soaps and cleaning products contain a toxic chemical.

Retail giant Target will reportedly pay $18.5 million to 47 states in order to bring a close to the investigation into their 2013 data breach.

Melania Trump has won a “substantial” amount of money in a settlement with a Maryland blogger who published claims that Melania once worked as an escort, the New York Post reported.

Following the Israeli government’s announcement of plans to approve nearly 800 apartments in Jewish communities located in contested eastern sections of Jerusalem, residents, experts and government officials say the new housing projects will not hinder Israel’s ability to resolve the longstanding Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

TEL AVIV – President-elect Donald Trump said the Palestinians were “given so much” in last month’s UN Security Council resolution that the prospects of a peace deal under his watch have been made that much more difficult.  

TEL AVIV – President-elect Donald Trump confirmed that his Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner will work to “broker a Middle East peace deal.”

TEL AVIV – Former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren urged Israelis to “think twice” before buying French products in reprisal for Paris’ “shameful” decision to label Israeli goods manufactured in West Bank settlements.

A $400 million cash delivery to Iran to repay a decades-old arbitration claim may be unprecedented in recent U.S. history, according to legal experts and diplomatic historians, raising further questions about a payment timed to help free four American prisoners in Iran.

A $200,000 settlement between the Daughters of the Republic of Texas and George P. Bush’s Texas General Land Office has apparently rubbed the Lone Star State’s governor the wrong way. The deal also relinquishes thousands of Alamo artifacts.

Now that Florida State University has settled a federal Title IX lawsuit with a woman who claimed she was raped by then Seminoles star quarterback Jameis Winston in 2012, her attorneys can rejoice. According to FSU, the woman reportedly won $250,000 in the settlement while her lawyers will divvy up $700,000.

The U.S. Department of Justice has offered BP a $20.8 billion settlement over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill that will allow it a $5.35 billion tax windfall.

A league source confirmed that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Tom Brady discussed a settlement to avert Brady’s attorneys from challenging his Deflategate suspension in federal court.

The amount of the settlement former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice will be compensated after settling his wrongful termination grievance against the team has been divulged.

A federal judge has ruled that the city of Oakland and Alameda County must pay a combined $1.36 million to 360 Occupy Oakland protesters who were jailed and held, en masse, for between 12 and 85 hours on January 28, 2012. Many Occupy Oakland demonstrators will receive $3,000 each.

AUSTIN, Texas — T-Mobile has settled a nationwide investigation of illegal billing practices with Texas, 49 states, and various federal agencies this month, agreeing to fully refund customers any unauthorized charges. T-Mobile was accused of allowing “cramming,” an illegal practice where customers are enrolled in and charged for third-party services that they never authorized, such as ringtones or text message trivia subscriptions.