Society/Community

SYDNEY—Fox Corp. Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Lachlan Murdochended a defamation lawsuit against an Australian media firm, just days after his company settled a separate high-profile dispute with Dominion Voting Systems in the…

The U.S. has mounted an aggressive crackdown on imports over concerns about Chinese forced labor, but the campaign is an opaque one, with little detailed data on which companies or sectors are being targeted.U.S. Customs and Border…

Canada could require that companies report on their efforts to stop goods made with forced labor from entering their supply chains, adding to momentum among Western governments to tackle the practice.Pending legislation would compel many…

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has barred imports from three companies, including a supplier to Western apparel companies, that the agency says could be using North Korean forced labor. As part of a…

A new campaign from the Ad Council and Meta Platforms Inc. is encouraging parents of teen and young-adult children to speak to them about the dangers of fentanyl. Drug…

A newly operative U.S. law is imposing major hurdles on the importation of goods from China’s Xinjiang region, the home of China’s Uyghur people and other minority groups. The new law, though criticized by China as being based on “vicious…

Businesses and their service providers are grappling with how to comply with New York City’s mandate for audits of artificial intelligence systems used in hiring.A New York City law that comes into effect in January will require companies…

Visa Inc., Mastercard Inc. and American Express Co. should begin tracking gun sales and flagging suspicious purchases to law enforcement, similar to how financial…

U.S. District Judge Mark Walker in Tallahassee on Thursday issued a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the “Stop Woke Act” championed by Florida’s Republican governor, Ron…

In one vision of classrooms of the near future, young children will put on headsets and read sentences aloud as they navigate computer programs powered by speech-recognition technology.Behind the scenes, that technology will listen to each…