Snap has settled the claims of a plaintiff whose social media addiction case will soon be the first to reach a jury in LA state court, Maia Spoto reports.

Gov. Gavin Newsom is complicating the GOP’s agenda, after he delayed until August a special election to fill a vacant US House seat that favors a Republican.

Verizon had to make several concessions to get the green light on its deal to acquire Frontier Communications’ California operations.

Bloomberg Law identified 41 incidents where law enforcement used The Wrap on someone who died. The analysis included an examination of US court records, in-custody death investigations, and videos obtained through public records requests.

Two decades ago, Kunal Bahl almost achieved the American dream. The India-born engineer earned an MBA at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, then an internship at Microsoft Corp. That position led to an invitation to have dinner with Bill Gates at his house, and later to a full-time job at the tech giant. But the dream unraveled in 2007, when Bahl’s H-1B visa application was rejected. At 23 he packed his bags and returned to his home country. “My heart sank when I got word,” he says. “Such decisions are one-sided and irreversible.”

TikTok and its Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd. have closed a long-awaited deal to transfer parts of their US operations to American investors, securing the popular video app’s future in the US and avoiding a nationwide ban.