Specifically, the petition seeks information on issues, including: “We’re puzzled by the Attorney General’s sudden rush to court because we’ve been working cooperatively for months and their claims of noncompliance with their demands don’t line up with the facts,” it said. State officials fined the company about $1,500 in October over coronavirus safety violations at two warehouses in California, following complaints from staff, The LA Times reported at the time....

The Aquaman star’s legal team said that her due process was violated and called on the judge to declare a mistrial after they claimed that one of the jurors was not actually the person summoned to be on the jury. In response, Depp’s team submitted a 36-page memorandum to the court arguing that everything about the trial was legitimate. Both parties were found liable for defamation in their lawsuits against each other in June in the high-profile, six-week-long trial that captured the internet’s attention....

While minimally invasive surgery is technically laparoscopic surgery, the term is often used interchangeably with ambulatory surgery. Minimally invasive procedures are surgeries that are performed using the smallest incisions possible so that the body is able to heal more quickly. These procedures are often called “keyhole” or laparoscopic surgeries. While they are designed to decrease healing times, these procedures are not necessarily same-day procedures, in fact, many require at least an overnight hospital stay....

Fly from Frankfurt to Miami on Lufthansa for just 432 euros. Frankfurt to San Francisco is just 525 euros on United. www.travelocity.de £279 will buy you two nights at New York’s Hotel Pennsylvania, including airfare from London. travelocity.co.uk Once in the States, the weak dollar brings lots of other opportunities for pricey indulgences. How about a ticket to the U.S. Open in New York? Last year: 100 euros; this year: 80 euros....

The home of the original chicken sandwich, the fast-food restaurant scored higher than all the 17 limited-service companies analyzed, except on menu item availability. It was followed by Arby’s and Culver’s in second and third places respectively. The study was conducted by FoodserviceResults and was published by QCR Magazine and used a range of participants to ensure that the respondent base was reflective of the U.S. drive-thru market. Just over 1,000 consumers completed the survey created by FoodserviceResults who had visited a drive-thru at least once in the previous 30 days....

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A composer himself, Swafford proves to be an astute and sympathetic interpreter in the first-rate Charles Ives: A Life With Music (525 pages. Norton. $30). Equally important, he knows his way around American culture–an indispensable trait when it comes to explaining Ives, who was after nothing less than a musical equivalent of that culture in his compositions. For example, much of the chapter on Ives’s father, a Danbury bandleader, is spent discussing the role that marching bands played in small-town New England life in the late 19th century....

Court documents obtained by NJ.com show Howard Rubinsky, an X-ray technician from Florida who helped high-stakes gamblers get hooked up with offshore books that would take large wagers on sports, sued Zayat for breach of contract in March 2014. MORE: Vegas wants your action on American Pharoah | Mayweather claims another crazy betting streak Rubinsky claims he advanced Zayat a line of credit at Costa Rican casino Tradewinds, and Zayat lost $2 million betting on sports....

Team USA has yet to medal in the sport, either in the traditional course or now in short track. There was good news for Canada. Denny Morrison won bronze in the men's 1,500 meters, his second medal of the Sochi Games. Shani Davis? He wasn't even close. Davis faded badly over the final lap, finishing 11th in what could be the final individual event of his brilliant Olympic career. Davis and the Americans were caught up in a debate over the high-tech suits they had never worn in competition, leading the team to switch back to the suits they had worn before at the Olympic trials and on the World Cup circuit....

David Fox, who runs a marketing firm in Kabul, told ABC News on Thursday that he recently tried to travel back to the U.S. but was unable to do so because of the massive crowds of people at Kabul’s airport following the Taliban’s takeover of the country. Fox said that on Thursday morning he received an email from the U.S. Embassy’s consular services department that included a document to assist American citizens and Afghan citizens eligible for Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) in leaving the country....

During Powell’s tenure as chair, he oversaw a Federal Reserve that encouraged banks to lend during the pandemic, provided lending to corporations, and supported loan offerings to medium size businesses, among other actions. Bouncing back from a recession triggered in March by economic shutdowns, the U.S. economy grew over the course of 2021, and the year ended with Americans seeing an increase in their wealth as the country built an extra $2....

He’s right. Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris has promised to use executive orders to ban guns, and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has promised to make former Congressman Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) his gun czar. O’Rourke made a name for himself when he yelled, “Hell yeah, we’re going to take your AR-15.” He called them,“weapons of war, designed to kill people efficiently on a battlefield.” If Democrats win control of both the Senate and the presidency, the legislation they will pass and the judges that they will appoint will eventually lead to guns being banned in the United States....

Pulisic picked up an assist in a substitute appearance in the first leg Europa League defeat to Red Bull Salzburg, and then got another in a start against Eintracht Frankfurt. He missed the second leg with Salzburg due to the flu but got the start again this weekend in a 1-0 victory over Hannover, going 70 minutes. The competition for places for Dortmund is again heating up, as Mario Gotze and Marco Reus lasted just the first half in the second leg against Salzburg, with Reus picking up a muscle injury that kept him out of the Hannover match....

The teenager turned 19 on Monday. He was named to Tuttosport’s shortlist for its Golden Boy award, given to Europe’s best player under the age of 21, on Tuesday. Wednesday, he scored his second goal of the Bundesliga season — and Borussia Dortmund’s 3,000th — in a 3-0 victory over Hamburg. Friday, his head coach Peter Bosz declared Pulisic “must win” the Golden Boy. And on Saturday, he was active in a Dortmund 6-1 rout of Borussia Monchengladbach....

Those numbers have raised the stakes in the nation’s epidemic of diet-related disease and added to the growing alarm of politicians and nutrition experts, some of whom are starting to call upon regulators to rein in food companies. They’re pushing measures similar to those used to curb the influence of tobacco companies in the 1990s, such as limiting the marketing of certain kinds of food to children and actively discouraging the consumption of key ingredients—chief among them, sugar....

Sign-stealing has always been part of the game. It all falls under that “gamesmanship” umbrella that’s more prevalent in baseball than other sports. Sign-stealing is no different than letting the grass grow a bit longer in front of the plate or leaving the basepaths a little more muddy. But technology is where we should draw the line, right? There’s just something inherently unfair about an unknown camera set-up — as is reported in Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich’s piece for The Athletic — which gives the home team a clear leg up during the game....

Public health officials were aghast at talk of ending restrictions just as the first wave of COVID-19 cases was hitting New York City, threatening to overwhelm its hospitals. But the fundamental question of when and how to lift the nation’s shelter-in-place strategy is legitimate. Deaths in the U.S. are expected to peak in about 3 weeks, a consultant to the Centers for Disease Control said Wednesday. What happens then? What’s the plan?...

While these legal challenges will be mounted under the pretense of preserving voting integrity and ensuring illegal ballots have not been cast, those bases will thinly veil their true, nefarious purpose—to deprive minority and urban voters of having their votes counted. To underscore the voluminous number of legal actions planned, the chief counsel of the Republican National Committee said legal work is “going to be on steroids this year.”...

History to us is a wallflower. She sits neglected in the corner, drab and demure, uninvited to the dance. What does it take to get us to notice her? A suitor, of course. The most popular boy in the class, say, who suddenly sees her there and proclaims her beautiful. Someone like . . . Steven Spielberg. Having unleashed his prodigious talent upon the Holocaust in ““Schindler’s List,’’ Spielberg now casts his eyes on an extraordinary event that neither he, nor most of us, was ever taught in school....

“I’m running for governor because I’m sick and tired of all of this political garbage just like you are. I’m tired of our freedoms being taken from us and I’m tired of the corruption that is rampant in our state government,” he says in a campaign video. Bundy filed as a conservative on Friday, but did not announce his campaign publicly until Saturday, local news station KTVB 7 reported....